Saturday data

ready for review

If it was in Ohio that early, you can bet

it was pretty much everywhere else.

Further evidence that a bunch of control-freak and/or panicky politicians, listening to experts using crap models built on bad data, have trashed our economy without reason.

Bunch of people need to be out of those public-supplied offices and trying to get on the unemployment line.

Just because

I would like a suppressor to mount on, say, a Sharps or Remington Rolling Block in .45-70.

For those times you don't want to use the can, I'd have a thread protector that matches the barrel profile.  And it would be funny as hell to watch someone's face as you removed it, and then started screwing the can on.

It would have to be a type that can be taken apart for cleaning, but I'm sure there's one out there.

A fine description of far too many governors and mayors

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
Personally, I think this should've concluded with
"And their proper fate should be to become tree ornaments."

Looks like the worst of the storms passed by this area,

so it's a nice, relaxed time to work on your studies

Kevin has some new stuff up

If you haven't read him before, or it's been a while, go take a look.  This one in particular, on the bigotry and intolerance of much of the left.

Rolling Stone wants to keep playing Fast & Furious

Demonstrating, once again, that they're not reporters, they're Democrat operatives with bylines.

I'm really surprised this sorry excuse for a peace officer

is willing to show his sorry face.  Let alone put a uniform on again.
A Florida officer, who was fired after 'failing to coordinate an immediate response' to the Parkland shooting in 2018 and instead cowered behind a car, will be reinstated.

Sgt Brian Miller was terminated from the Broward Sheriff’s Office in June 2019 after being suspended for several months.
...
But on Wednesday it was revealed that despite his actions that day, he will be getting his job back. Miller will be reinstated with full back pay and seniority. 

According to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, an arbitrator ruled that Miller’s due process rights were violated when he was fired and dismissed the case against him.
I will refrain from further commentary because my language will deteriorate badly if I do.

Stuff clearing

Among the things learned in digging around about that knife

is more about the two that traditionally were fitted into the big blade's sheath.

That big one is now mine.  Now I need a really good look at a proper sheath so I can figure out how to fit the karda and chakmak in when I make it a sheath.

Seems the Lightbringer is getting real nervous

about the investigations.  Good.  Because he should be; anyone involved in this crap should be scared as hell about this all coming out.

Like the meetings.  Plural.  And the calls, and the connections.  And all the people who've lied under oath.

Don't know if we'll get the real housecleaning needed, but at least some of the information is actually getting out.

Some parts of the world, a better way to treat snakebite

is a seriously big deal.

According to new research from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, giving snake bite victims oral medication in the form of “dimercaprol (also called British anti-Lewisite) and its derivative 2,3-dimercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid (DMPS)” was found to temporarily inhibit the efficacy of snakebite venom from vipers. Further, the drug was found to be even more potent when later combined with traditional antivenom medication.

 

The team’s paper suggests that DMPS could be repurposed as an oral medicine for treating snakebite victims soon after a bite, and before they travel to a healthcare facility. While antivenom may still be needed once the patient arrives at a clinical setting, early treatment with DMPS has the potential to save lives and limbs in the world’s poorest communities by removing treatment delays.

Even here in the US, for people hiking or working in snaky areas, this could help a lot of people.

 

 

That kukri I was looking at

19" overall; it's an impressive bastard

Anybody know anything about Nepali script?

Looking at an old kukri, and it has this marking on the spine

Information I could find says it's about what regiment it was made for/issued to, but that's about it.  Ran across a chart of the alphabet, but I couldn't make anything of it except the last two characters each meaning '4'.

"People hate the media because Trump tells them to" is the cry;

and, like so much else from many Professional Journalists, it's bullshit.  People don't trust said Media because they lie, both blatantly and by omission.
NBC News' Chuck Todd aired a deceptively edited clip of Attorney General Bill Barr discussing the Michael Flynn case during his "Meet the Press" broadcast on Sunday, prompting the network to concede the mistake hours later -- but there is still no word on whether Todd will apologize on-air.
A: They conceded because they were called on it, not because they wanted to correct this.
B: Chance of an apology: damned low.

In response, the "Meet the Press" Twitter account posted: "You’re correct. Earlier today, we inadvertently and inaccurately cut short a video clip of an interview with AG Barr before offering commentary and analysis. The remaining clip included important remarks from the attorney general that we missed, and we regret the error."
'Inadvertently'  and 'missed' my ass, this was deliberate and with malice.  Again.

Miguel says "If your cause is just, why must you lie?"

People like Shannon Watts, lying serves them far better than the truth.
Freitas responded to the attack Thursday, accusing Watts of engaging in "politics of slander" to bolster her candidate. 

"Not only is this ‘tweet' verifiably fake, but she used it to slander my wife," Freitas said in a tweet. "If they can't win on issues, they engage in the politics of slander + personal destruction." He went on to ask Spanberger if she stood behind the "lies your allies @MomsDemand are spreading to raise money for you." Spanberger has not addressed Watts's tweet and did not respond to a request for comment.

Well, sir, we've been looking for answers since this story broke;

unless there's a way now to hold some people's feet to the fire, you're not going to get them either.

It would be truly glorious to have some of the ATF brass and politicians like Holder put under oath, with it being specifically noted "We do know some things, and if we catch you lying there will be criminal charges."

More on the subject of experts

We need experts and expertise. I want the help of doctors when making decisions about my health, of educators when making decisions about my children’s schooling, and so on. And when the pandemic swept in, our politicians needed to consult the experts. Time will tell whether we needed the relatively strong lockdown we got, whether the Swedish model was better (maybe, maybe not), and so on. I would not pretend to judge at this relatively early moment. Whatever the best path might have been, we should beware experts with lousy incentives. If experts are people who respond to their incentives just like non-experts, then we may need to rethink how we use experts in the political system. 

Today we have the “rule of experts.” Monopoly experts have the power to choose for you in one field after another, including child protective services, economic policy, and pandemic response. But if you give some humans the monopoly power to choose for other humans, you have created some dangerous incentives. The rule of experts gives you the highest chance of expert failure. We should value expertise, but fear expert power. Whenever possible, then, we should do away with the rule of experts by empowering the people. Let each person choose for themself, and let the experts compete with each other to provide advice. That’s a call for ramping down the power of government bureaucrats and ramping up personal freedom. But you can push that idea only so far with pandemic policy.