Well, the MRI was done,

and a newer, more open machine made it a lot more comfortabie.  So, let us move on to the data for this week.

Sounds like the University of Oklahoma needs a big funding cut, since they have so much money

they're wasting it on "You can't have your own thoughts, this is OU!"
But the University of Oklahoma’s mandatory diversity training modules go further, requiring students and faculty to answer questions in a manner that expresses agreement with the university’s viewpoints on thorny and difficult issues. Viewpoints with which students and faculty may not actually agree.

And on "None of your business what we're doing!"
The university’s March 23 response — more than four months after our request — said that FIRE would be permitted to view the training materials, but only in person on OU’s campus in Norman, Oklahoma. In other words, in order to view public records, the University of Oklahoma would require a FIRE staff member to fly across the country (FIRE is based in Philadelphia) during a global pandemic. That’s not exactly a transparency-friendly approach to public records, and it all but ensures that public records remain private.

This is bullshit of the first order, and people need to be fired for this.

'Russian disinformation' 'Republican dirty trick' No, it really is Hunter Biden's laptop,

and you corrupt, useless pretend reporters can go to hell.

Now DailyMail.com can reveal the secrets Hunter chose not to divulge, exposed in the contents of his abandoned laptop and verified by top forensics experts.

The bombshell cache of 103,000 text messages, 154,000 emails, more than 2,000 photos and dozens of videos are packed with revelations conveniently missing from the memoir, including:
How he begged his father to run for president in 2019 to salvage Hunter's own reputation

How he repeatedly dodged police action against him, despite constantly dealing with drug pushers and prostitutes and having multiple run-ins with law enforcement

Hunter was guarded by a Secret Service agent while on a 2018 drug and prostitute binge in Hollywood, despite not being entitled to protection at the time and amid denials from the federal agency

Joe Biden was afraid his text conversations with Hunter were being hacked even as they discussed his White House bid

How Hunter's laptop is brimming with evidence of apparent criminal activity by Hunter and his associates including drug trafficking and prostitution

Let us include under 'corrupt and useless' the EffingBI and Secret Service.  Who did and have done nothing about any of this except try to ignore it and/or cover it up.

President Gropey has a really bad memory for history

From crap he said last year:
We never said you could own any weapon at all from the beginning.
(Bullshit. You could own anything the military had, from cannon on down. Hell, merchants had armed ships with batteries of cannon)
You can't own a machine gun.
(Yes, you can)
You can't own a bazooka.
(Yes, you can)
You can't own an M1 tank, no matter how much money you have. 
(I'm pretty sure you can. Not to mention that if he thinks someone with that kind of money couldn't get one, he's truly stupid)

So, we have tw- actually three choices:
One: Biden doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.
Two: Biden's a liar.
Three: Both.
I'm going with both.

Well, I was supposed to be getting a MRI this morning,

but the scheduling got screwed up AGAIN, so now it's another day.  Which is a serious pain in the back.

What is so damned hard about getting the damned time and day right?

And a few more

I'm tired enough to not want to do anything else, so

clearing some stuff it is

Speaking of Democrat hacks with bylines, 60 Minutes is the demonstrator

of just how bad these bastards are.

Short version: the Gov. of Florida has not followed the Preferred Narrative™ on dealing with Wuhan, and succeeded, and they can't stand it, so they're trying to trash him any way they can.  Since he used the pharmacies at a bunch of stores to- successfully- get lots of people vaccinated, 60 Minutes tried to paint it as him paying off one chain for political donations.

And cut out all parts of the interview that disproved their PN™.  

Also proof that, if you're interviewed by hacks like these, record it.  They don't like it, tell them "I continue recording or no interview."  If you can prove them liars if they screw with it, they can't get away with it as much*.  Video of them trying to explain why you can't record it would probably be entertaining, too.


*The leftists will let them get away with it, no matter the proof.

Professional Journalism: both "Oh, we lied about this before the election

and partisan hacks not even trying to hide it anymore.
First, from the liars at NPR,
National Public Radio has corrected an online article that falsely asserted that documents from first son Hunter Biden’s laptop had been “discredited by U.S. intelligence.”

A book review of Hunter Biden’s memoir “Beautiful Things” initially dismissed the documents first reported in October by The Post.

“The laptop story was discredited by US intelligence and independent investigations by news organizations,” the book review by Ron Elving, senior editor of the publicly funded media organization, initially claimed.

The correction on the Thursday article now says, “A previous version of this story said US intelligence had discredited the laptop story. US intelligence officials have not made a statement to that effect.”
"The lie served its purpose, so now we're 'correcting' it."

On the other,
Joseph Wulfsohn at Fox News reports CBS News decided on Saturday to delete a tweet for sounding way too partisan. On Friday, CBS tweeted out a report by Khristopher Brooks headlined "3 ways companies can help fight Georgia's restrictive new voting law."
It 'sounded' too partisan?

I'm wondering how the congregation can hear the sermon

over the clanging of his balls as he walks.

Turns out the gentleman is originally from Poland, so he's had to deal with Stalin wannabes before.

Also, here's the Calgary PD's defense of trying to help shut down an Easter service.  The circled part indicates a lot of folks are seriously tired of this "It is for your own good and Public Safety, comrade!" bullshit.

Next question: do they have the nerve to try to arrest him in particular, and the rest of the congregation, for telling them to piss off?  If they try, I doubt they'll like the result.

Sometimes something unique comes through

and I get to take a good look at it.  And some pictures.  In this case,

a Sharps New Model 1863 Cavalry Carbine.

Still with the proper ringbar and ring for carry.

These were originally set up to use a .52-caliber bullet with a paper or linen cartridge, fired by either a percussion cap or use a mechanism to feed a sort of disc-type cap onto the nipple when you cocked the hammer.  After the Civil War a bunch of them were bundled off to Sharps with an order to convert them to the new .50 Government(more commonly known as the .50-70) cartridge; this is one of them.  The breechblock was modified to hold the firing pin, the hammer modified or replaced to work with the new block setup.

It's lighter than you might think, and balances nicely.  Has the standard for the time tiny little sights.

And, wonderful thing, I got to fire it.  If you want to shoot one of these, you'd have to roll your own.  The owner's loads were a 450-grain bullet over a light charge of 55 grains of 2f black powder.

To my thinking, if I had one of these, something like that is what I'd make up; 55 grains and it roared, recoil was there but nothing bad.  This thing with 70 grains- or as close as you could get in with modern cases- would speak LOUDLY.  On both ends.

It's a really interesting feeling to hold something made and used during the Civil War and after, and fire it.

I really need to win some lottery.

First, this was the first .357 Mag we'd had in about two months

And it didn't really impress people

700 fps.  And more than a bit expensive.  And it still sold out pretty quick.  People will grab anything in their particular cartridge right now.