A bit of clearing for this Thursday

And last,
During son's first deployment to the sandbox, I'd sent him a copy of David Drake's 'The General' series, which he re-read.  I also talked him into a suitable picture to go with them.  Which allowed me to send a copy to Drake saying "Sgt. Firehand(2), on detached duty from the 5th Descott.

Drake replied "That's WONDERFUL!"
It still brings a smile.

So, is the NYeffingTimes lying, or

not bothering to find out if they were telling the truth?

If you want all the linked stuff, it's here.

The newest whiny bitch college students: "Geology is hard! Too many rocks!

The training sites aren't handicap-accessible!  There's not enough BIPOC/Etc. teachers to make me feel comfortable and empowered!"

Apparently the knowledge that field sites are often dry, or hot, or wet, or cold, or muddy, and that nobody gives a rats ass about your skin color or who you sleep with, is just too much to take.

80 year old ammo owned by a survivor of the Indianapolis(headline corrected)

And yes, it goes bang, and the magazines work.


Added: yes, need to listen better when doing a quick review before posting this.

Why people insisting "Trust the Science!" is bullshit, Reason #2:

The information you're given is too often crap.
A climate scientist has admitted exaggerating the impact of global warming on Californian wildfires to get his research published.

Patrick T Brown claims studies about climate change are rejected by scientific journals if they do not 'support certain narratives' and they favour 'distorted' research which overstates dangers.

He says his research article, which was published last week in Nature and titled 'Climate warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California', focused exclusively on climate change and intentionally ignored other key factors.

The US state has suffered extreme wildfires in recent years which have led to loss of life and property. Writing in The Free Press, Dr Brown said: 'I knew not to try to quantify key aspects other than climate change in my research because it would dilute the story that prestigious journals like Nature... want to tell.'

Explaining why he did this, Dr Brown, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University in the US, said: '... it is critically important for scientists to be published in high-profile journals...

The response from Nature bothers me:
Dr Magdalena Skipper, editor in chief at Nature, which is based in London, said the journal did not have a 'preferred narrative' when it comes to science. She said it had an 'expectation' that researchers had used the most appropriate data, methods and results, adding that 'to deliberately not to do so is, at best, highly irresponsible'.
The bold is the part that bothers me, because 'most appropriate' can mean one thing to an honest researcher, and another to "I know what they want, and I'll give it to them."  Maybe I'm being too suspicious, but, unfortunately, I doubt it.

This Jew-hating clown was a Democrat Representative for about ten years,

and I wonder if any Democrats in Congress will have any problem with this?

Damn Biden and every bastard helping him do this

In an exclusive investigation, Front Page Magazine reported that when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, 9/11 families became able to collect damages from the country’s bank reserves that were located in New York. Biden’s decision to enable the Taliban takeover had made it possible for victims to actually collect on a previous judgment against the Taliban.

Biden, reacting with all the ruthless speed that had been completely absent when Americans were trapped behind enemy lines in Kabul, rushed to freeze the money so the families couldn’t collect, apportioned half for “humanitarian aid” to the Afghans (over and above the $800 million he had already provided to the terror zone) and fought 9/11 families in court for the rest.
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That a presidential administration seized $3.5 billion from 9/11 families, moved it to Switzerland (in the tradition of Nazi war criminals) and set it up as a Swiss nonprofit not subject to American laws ought to have been one of the biggest stories, instead it’s been relentlessly buried. The fund’s board members include only one U.S. official, making the United States a minority, and the board only met three times as of earlier this year raising issues about what the fund is doing.

While the Biden administration claims that it’s only offering humanitarian aid, its definition of humanitarian aid included printing money for the Taliban through Poland and France. Why Poland and France? Much like Switzerland, Biden is operating in foreign countries to avoid congressional and judicial oversight for what are likely violations of United States law.
I'd bet that mention of this by most of our 'news' organizations has been little to zero; talking about it would hurt the Democrats in charge of it, after all.  Which makes them part of the damned enemy as well.

And more on aiding the enemy:
Where is the money coming from? Biden’s cash has been dispensed so secretively that the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s office (SIGAR) revealed last year that the State Department and Samantha Power’s fiefdom at USAID were so relentlessly stonewalling the watchdog that “department staff have received internal direction to not engage with or speak to SIGAR without prior clearance from State legal counsel”.

This year, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko told Congress that “I cannot assure this committee or the American taxpayer we are not currently funding the Taliban.” He warned that the word is that the “Taliban are already diverting funds.” A SIGAR report in July 2023 revealed that the Biden administration has “appropriated more than $2.35 billion in FY 2022 and FY 2023 funding for Afghanistan reconstruction programming since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.” Instead of cutting funds, “contributions to UN OCHA reported organizations of more than $4.45 billion from January 1, 2022, through June 30, 2023, are at levels that were not seen prior to the Taliban takeover… and were led by the United States.”

This is the kind of man who makes you think "If I die in violence,

I hope I die at least a decent fraction of how well he did."

I don't know if this is a general Fecesbook screwup, or

if I've managed to make a list.  Randomly when I try to sign in it tells me 'incorrect credentials'.  Try again, making sure of the password, same.  And when you click the 'forgot password'(because they've screwed that up before) it gives 'give your email and we'll try to find your account'.

Effing bullshit.

September 11 Never forget

 

And never forgive.

Occasional-Cortex is playing "There is no inflation, it's propaganda from the capitolists!"

to try to take the heat off the .gov.  It's not going over well.
“Is AOC crazy?” Law said. “Has she been to a grocery store recently? $1,000 ain’t nothing no more. $100 ain’t nothing no more. Maybe she should spend some time in the projects and really help people.”
and
“And for her to act as if inflation being something other than the government’s fault? Well since I don’t have someone to pay for my $30,000 dress for a gala like she did, it’s much easier for me to see the truth.”
seem to be typical responses.

Of course, spending time in the projects would involve facing those nasty commoners and pretending to care, and actually doing something would require giving up on socialism, and she'll never do that.

How you know the left is really worried about the blowback from the New Mexico idiocy:

You keep seeing things like this from people who hate the 2nd Amendment:

In that ongoing experiment with subsonics

in 7.62x39 using those Berry's plated bullets, yesterday fired a few more with 12.8 grains of CFEBLK with good results, and then a few with 12.9.

Please note Standard Disclaimer.*

The 12.8 shoots well, but tends to leave the cases dirty as if the pressure isn't enough to expand them enough to seal well, so tried the 12.9.  Definite improvement on that and nice, tight group.  I have got to put these things over the Chrony and find out just how fast they're moving.  The primers look normal, so pressure seems on safe levels.

*These are loads I worked up.  Some was from data on different bullets, some was figured on my own.  They worked for me, I can't guarantee they will for you.  So use with caution, if you do.

A challenge to Grisham's idiot order is moving

in New Mexico, which is good.  That she proved the control freaks want to use 'public health emergency' as a justification for, well, anything is bad.  Very bad.

Nice when the courts tell the .gov that "You can't censor people, even if you hide it

by pretending it was a private business doing it."
The government cannot abridge free speech. U.S. Const. amend. I. A private party, on the other hand, bears no such burden—it is ‘not ordinarily constrained by the First Amendment.’ Manhattan Cmty. Access Corp. v. Halleck, 139 S. Ct. 1921, 1930 (2019). That changes, though, when a private party is coerced or significantly encouraged by the government to such a degree that its ‘choice’—which if made by the government would be unconstitutional, Norwood v. Harrison, 413 U.S. 455, 465 (1973)—’must in law be deemed to be that of the State.’ Blum v. Yaretsky, 457 U.S. 991, 1004 (1982); Barnes v. Lehman, 861 F.2d 1383, 1385–36 (5th Cir. 1988). This is known as the close nexus test.
...
We agree that the Plaintiffs have shown that they are likely to suffer an irreparable injury. Deprivation of First Amendment rights, even for a short period, is sufficient to establish irreparable injury.
This whole case is covered nicely by this:

It appears Gov. Grisham is getting open support from her national socialist and racist brethren,

but as they say, I bet she doesn't appreciate it.

It does appear that the idea of 'catching criminals and putting them in prison' is not an emergency measure she wants to do, because that would hurt her standing with the criminals and enablers(who are far more important to her than the honest peasants).

Because I feel like it, a second installment

made up of redheads

A bit more on the barrel question

Original .50-70 barrels were a nominal groove diameter of .515", modern are mostly .510.  Original twist rates were around 1-in-42", most new are1-in-26" so can handle longer bullets.

Once I actually see the barrel and see if it can be lined, that may settle things if it can be.  Otherwise, new it is.  I don't have access to a lathe this size(know a couple of people who do), and was hoping to find one contoured, just needing threading, chambering, and dovetails cut.  Then I stared looking.  The only .50 barrels I have found so far are either for muzzleloaders, or .50BMG.  Neither Shilen, Green Mountain, or Shaw make a .50, either at all or with this pitch.  Dixie and Gun Parts, nope.  Few other makers, no joy.

I'll keep looking.  Comes to that, may have to convince to go to something that can be found without a 'And for only X-hundred more we can make you a custom!' situation.  

This is as frustrating as finding out decent quality flintlock rifle kits are more expensive than the so-so rifles out there.

Now seventh evening,

so

Since so many teachers think like this bitch,

it's one more piece of evidence why you cannot trust most teachers to not play good little indoctrinator.
CTU President Stacy Davis Gates is sending her freshman son to a Catholic school on the South Side of Chicago.

In her defense of the decision, Davis Gates criticized school choice, blaming such policies for the lack of resources at Chicago’s public schools.

“It was a very difficult decision for us because there is not a lot to offer black youth who are entering high school” in Chicago, Davis Gates told WBEZ.

Ah, who's been running these schools for decades?
But wait! There's MORE!
“School choice was actually the choice of racists. It was created to avoid integrating schools with Black children. Now it’s the civil rights struggle of our generation?” she wrote on X last year.
Oh, of course it is...

Wouldn't it be interesting to know how many of these anti-choice teachers send their kids to private or parochial schools?

The Governor of New Mexico is an oathbreaking bastard, and her word isn't worth

the breath used to speak it.

Her 'public health emergency' is caused by not enforcing the damned laws and putting bad guys in jail.  But doing those things would make her leftist supporters unhappy, so "I'm going to illegally ban carrying firearms by honest people!"

Slimy bitch will do this, she'll play 'suspend the Constitution' on anything else she chooses.

Yes, I'm pissed.

Helping look for a barrel for an old Remington Rolling Block,

with zero success.  Trying to find one in suitable bore/rifling for .50-70, and finding nothing.  So far the only .50's found are for .50BMG.