Not as cold as last night, but

still nice to be inside checking new data

The dick running Dick's ought to be sued by stockholders

for deliberately damaging their investments.
The CEO of Dick's Sporting Goods told CBS News this weekend that his decisions to stop selling certain guns and hire lobbyists to push for new gun bans have cost his company roughly $250 million.
...
That is consistent with Stack's previous statements on the losses associated with his decision. In the company's 2018 annual report, he wrote that gun sales were a "sizeable part" of Dick's business and that his push for the company to support new gun control laws significantly hurt that business. However, this did not make him reconsider his decision to use company resources to lobby for gun control and to remove certain guns from stores.
"Screw your investments, I have virtue to signal and social engineering to pursue!"

"Racism is bad!

Except when we're doing it!"

From the same asshats who thought it was better to hire illegal aliens than vets.

Damn, it turned a bit cold out there,

making for good conditions to stay in and study

If this is correct, the murderer in Halle, Germany used homemade weapons

Firearms and ammo both.
Looks like all those Bloomberg and Watts-approved anti-gun laws didn't stop him, for some reason.

"...when Charles Martel and his “northern men of robust limbs and iron hands stood like an unmovable wall of ice and cut the Arabs to pieces,”

The Battle of Tours.  Where, I once read, Charles Martel got the name Charles the Hammer.

A critical battle, as much so as the two Sieges of Vienna and the defeat of the Ottomans there.

When I mentioned that .300 Blackout load,

I was referred(thanks Mel) to the Hornady Ballistic Calculator and I've been playing with it.  By what the book says about velocity with that charge, and the ballistic coefficient of the bullet*, looks like at 150 yards it would be 3.2" high, at 250 6.2" low.

Wonderful what tools we have to play with nowadays.


* can't remember if he was using the 110 grain Varmint or V-max bullet

Good grief, Piers Morgan is making sense again

When Morgan then asked her if she had a T.V. at her home and if her children use computers, Rathor said she did not think it was relevant to "the planet emergency."

“Do you see the problem with all this? You go on about ‘My kids can’t get out of bed because they’re all so terrified,’ I’m not surprised they're terrified because your mum’s telling them everyday the planet’s about to end, and yet, I bet your own carbon footprint, for all the stuff I’ve just mentioned is terrible," Morgan said.
Her defense?
Rathor said the problem is not about individual carbon footprints, but it is a "system-wide issue" and said she would not be able to "raise the alarm" about the issue if she did not participate in the system.
Translation: "It's like di Caprio and the superyachts, and the Prince and all those private flights, we HAVE TO!"

The prosecution rests.

"What do I say after a shooting?"

Good piece.  Includes
Most people err in providing TOO MUCH information to the police.  That’s why there are so many experts instructing armed citizens to “say nothing” to responding police officers.  Saying nothing is BETTER than saying too much but it may not be the BEST course of action.

I think Massad Ayoob provides the best advice here.  In his work as a police officer, prosecutor, and expert witness, he has seen it all and knows what works.  His suggestions in The Armed Citizens Legal Network Journal are as follows:

Massad Ayoob’s Five-Point Checklist

1.     Tell responding officers “I’m the victim; he is the perpetrator.”
2.     Tell responding officers, “I will sign a complaint.”
3.     Point out pertinent evidence.
4.     Point out any witnesses who saw what happened.
5.     If there is any hint that you are a suspect, say “Officer, you will have my full cooperation after I have counsel here.

Watched some shots with .300 Blackout the other day

using 110-grain Hornady bullets over 19.0 W296.  He was zeroed 2.5" high at 100, and that put them dead-on at 200.  So for various purposes should need no compensation out to, I'd guess 250.  Probably have dropped a fair bit at 300.

I was trying some black powder loads in .45-70, but light was such I had problems at 200.  I'd really like to figure a way to mount a scope on the thing for load testing without drilling and tapping holes.

Hockey-stick Mann is going to lose his ass

I linked to this before, there are updates at the end, including(from Technology.News)
Penn State climate scientist, Michael 'hockey stick' Mann commits contempt of court in the 'climate science trial of the century.' Prominent alarmist shockingly defies judge and refuses to surrender data for open court examination. Only possible outcome: Mann's humiliation, defeat and likely criminal investigation in the U.S.
...
Michael Mann, who chose to file what many consider to be a cynical SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) libel suit in the British Columbia Supreme Court, Vancouver six long years ago, has astonished legal experts by refusing to comply with the court direction to hand over all his disputed graph's data. Mann's iconic hockey stick has been relied upon by the UN's IPCC and western governments as crucial evidence for the science of 'man-made global warming.' (snip) The negative and unresponsive actions of Dr Mann and his lawyer, Roger McConchie, are expected to infuriate the judge and be the signal for the collapse of Mann's multi-million dollar libel suit against Dr Ball. It will be music to the ears of so-called 'climate deniers' like President Donald Trump and his EPA Chief, Scott Pruitt.
Mann's been trying to spin this as no big deal; he's lying.

Kamala Harris: "Let's have a discussion(aside: 'shut that bitch up')"

Considering her prosecutor and AG record, anyone really surprised?
Harris appeared willing to hear Slone out until she heard the term "ERPOs."

"Mrs. Harris, I'm a domestic violence survivor and I'd like to talk to you about ERPOs," Slone said in the video. Harris nodded in agreement 

"Okay. Let's have that chat," Slone said with a smile as she waited. 

At that point, two of Harris' staffers physically blocked Slone from getting closer to ask her questions or engage with Harris any further.
Hey, you can't have some troublesome bitch commoner causing problems for Her (party-proclaimed) Grace, can you?

"It's registration, but

we won't call it that(or admit to it), so you don't have to worry."
Murphy is a lying bastard.

Yeah, fall is here

Hooray for chilly and damp[/sarc]

So, yeah, good time for inside work

Friday has arrived, right after a cold front

that cooled things down considerably.  Weather-wise, that is; the data, on the other hand...

Among the Democrat control-freak wet dreams they put on display,

First up, Kamala Harris endorsed confiscating "as many as 10 million" (!) guns in the U.S.
...
3/ Elizabeth Warren endorsed a limit on how many guns an American could buy to prevent "people from bulking up in the middle of a crisis" (whatever that means) 

She then suggested these people should be flagged for law enforcement for no other reason than legally purchasing guns
...
4/ Joe Biden said he would set up a federal registry not only for some rifles, but also for individual magazines

Tab clearing

Gamma rays going faster than light.  And other weird effects.


Japanese spacecraft sets a small rover loose on an asteroid.


The NYeffingTimes lied again.  This time trying to rearrange history to suit their ends.


That's one bear that's going to have to be dealt with.  If it doesn't die from the shots.


More Professional Journalism.


In bloody Australia.  Jewish kids treated this way by muslim students, and the school says "No, it's just bullying, and we can't do anything about it."
The school brass and teachers need to be fired.

I'm wondering what the backstory of this is, (Updated)

because the "One day he just snapped, with no warning" line is just about always BS.
A man armed with a knife killed at least four people, including three police officers, and injured several others during an attack Thursday inside Paris police headquarters--where the man was an employee--before being fatally shot, officials said.

Also:
French media reported that a staff member carried out the attack with a ceramic knife in part of the prefecture that is not open to the public.
If true, possibly using a non-metallic blade to get through metal detectors into a secure area?

And expect some Brit politicians/activists to start a cry to ban ceramic knives in 3, 2, 1...

Update: Muslim convert, employee at the agency, had argued with boss about having to work with women.

San Francisco realizes they don't want this to go in front of a judge,

so "It's just noise, it doesn't mean anything."

On the contrary, you lying bastards, it means a lot when you declare a civil rights organization 'domestic terrorists' and tell the city to "assess the financial and contractual relationships our vendors and contractors have" with the NRA and "limit those entities who do business with the City and County of San Francisco from doing business with this domestic terrorist organization."  Oh hell yes, that means something.  And you damn well know it.

"These people are afraid we want to do what we want to do,

and it makes it difficult to talk to them."
First, the group lied to get the venue.  Second,
"Part of the reason why this went the way it did, is because you have a lot of people on the extreme end," said Ann Anderson, a gun control advocate. "The reaction from the people here today was starting out from the assumption you are going to take my guns. And when you start with that, and that fear, it's very hard to have communication."
Lady, when your candidates are saying
... the Democratic lawmakers pushed for more gun control measures like Universal Background Checks, a ban on semi-automatic rifles, and implementing red flag laws...
you DO want to take their guns.  You just want to be allowed to lie about it, and you're mad that they know what you're up to.

Also, going to a range and
"This is why the NRA has got to go," shouted Rep. Haley Stevens (D-11th District). "The NRA has got to go."
you're admitting you hate being opposed, and want the opposition silenced. 

"Nice union we have, be a shame

if something happened to you."

I'd suggest a bunch of EUnuch worshippers could end up on ropes.  For the Children, of course.

You've got a few idiots who actually believe this crap, but the others,

they must want ignorant servants- or slaves- coming out of the schools.

These people, we can skip the flogging and proceed straight to nooses.  Or half helicopter rides.

"You'll have to pay for your free healthcare, but

you'll save money!"
Yeah, and you'll be able to keep your doctor.


The 'epidemic of violent and gun crime' Democrats keep yelling about.  Guess they're mistaking the cities they run for the whole country.


For antifa, keeping a couple of old people from crossing the street, while screaming at them, is fighting fascism.


Force labor costs up, and some people lose money, others lose their jobs, and some places close.  Gee, if only someone had warned them about this...

Yeah, we were told Comey had integrity, and Mueller

was iron-hard on that; until Horowitz shows otherwise, he's just another swamp denizen protecting his kind.

"But I'm a caring socialist and terminally PC,

so this doesn't matter."
And all the other woke morons are going with that.