Well, that's encouraging

some talking with a friend who's a nurse.  She said I should figure on it taking a week of time for every day I spent in the hospital to get to full recovery.  So about another five weeks.  Yuck.

So, to distract myself from that, I provide you with this stuff today.  Some are a bit old:

I'm assuming that's Minnie's seat

Later, folks

Yes, I'm trying to get back to more blogging

Trouble is between recovery and regular stuff I'm supposed to be careful about, and some family stuff that can just eat time...  It's hard to get much done here.

Throw in seeing a doc who has nothing to do with the recent excitement and hearing "What happened?  What problems are you having?  Wow, you're really lucky, I knew some people who had that happen and-" followed by various amounts of nastiness they're sometimes still fighting with.  Yeah, some fun thoughts to carry around.

Right  now I need to get some grocery shopping done, which I'd hoped to do yesterday but wound up with the whole day tied up.  And since eating is a bit more important than yelling about stuff, see you later.

Possible followup to Iran exiting the nuke club:

"We may find out how many sleeper agents snuck into the US under Biden & Co."

And, if you're counting on the EffingBI catching them, I think you're putting too much trust in those clowns.  Yes, there are some honest, dedicated agents there; there are also scads of politicized asshats, and if you trust them at all you're a fool.

So if you sometimes carry, this would be a good time to.  Just in case.

And, as the Bee reminds us of that 'boot in your ass' saying,

Looks like when this President said '60 days', they really should've listened

 

 I'm sure the left will be pitching fits,  and calling Hegseth more names.  Because actually taking out an enemy who's threatened and attacked us for years will truly upset them.

It was not like when Kevin* got a new liver,

but it was not exactly a fun time.  This past while started with a headache and being unable to keep anything down(seriously, first time I've taken a drink and within 30 seconds had to throw it up), and progressed from there.  Which led to an emergency clinic, where the staff did the usual checks, the doc looked me over and said "You should go to the emergency room, you need some scans and we can't do that."  Pause.  "I suggest you use an ambulance."

So went to the ER, where they checked things and rolled me into a CAT scan, which was soon followed up by a MRI(both first of several).  By the time all was done I'd been there a week, then spent another with family so they could keep an eye on me.  So, as you might imagine, I'm behind.  On a lot of things.  Still alive, and going to have to figure a priority list of crap to do first.

So, as the character said, 'Here. We. Go.'

*of Smallest Minority fame

A good piece on self-defense situations

in churches.

Well, I'm sort-of back;

Getting home has me kind of washed-out; that much time in a bed/hospital room takes it out of you.  I need to mow, among other things, but that's going to be done as can.  Last thing I want is to call family and say "Ah, I may have overdone things, help."

So I will, as can, be back to bitching about appropriate things.  Which will, if they mess it up, include raising hell with/at the congresscritters if they lose the SHORT and HPA from the budget deal.

One personal things, one gunny thing

The personal is I spent a few days in a local hospital, dealing with a problem I didn't  expect.  I'm out, but will be out of circulation for a few days more before resuming some blogging.

The gunny was an article at The Firearm Blog on an old weapon called the Welrod.  Which I cannot get to come up.  If you can find it, take a look.

And now I'm of to continue recovery.

In case you hadn't heard, Mexico lost their case against S&W

in a unanimous ruling by the Supremes.  So that's good.

Speaking of gun and ammo,

I'd hoped to have shot a bunch more at the outdoor range over the past couple of months.  Demands on time had eased, but then the weather decided to play games.  We've had a lot of rain, some heavy, some just enough to keep things from drying out.  And slogging through mud to set targets isn't a lot of  fun.

Throw in yard stuff.  There's a tree I need to prune back, but I'm afraid it's going to involve calling someone, because it needs to be done up in the tree, and I don't have the safety gear for that.*  So I've been lopping off what I can with a pruning pole, and I'm about at the edge of what I can safely do there with a ladder.

So I'm still behind time-wise.  And trying to keep the house cleaned up takes time as well, even doing a bit at a time.

And, oh look, it's rained a little more this morning.  The forecast last night was cloudy but dry until tonight, now it's a fair chance of rain today 'then mostly cloudy'.  Fat damn chance.  Well, maybe I can fit in some loading for stuff to shoot when it does dry a bit.**

*I have fallen out of a tree once as an adult; it wasn't fun.  Paying someone is a lot cheaper, too.

** Which will make it humid as hell until some of this moisture finally goes away.

About that new Army rifle & ammo,

I've been reading a bit, and hearing some things.  It's heavier- rifle & ammo both- and, while the round is effective, you can carry less of it for the weight/space.  Also a factor.  Ammoland's latest piece on it is here.  An earlier video here.

One of my questions is how long will the barrels last, especially on machine guns?  You're talking really high pressures, about 20K psi higher than 5.56 and 7.62, and that's going to wear on things.  There are people with a lot more knowledge than I arguing this out, and we'll see what comes of it.

All I can say is I hope this thing works out for the guys on the sharp end.

'Bout covers it

If these targeted attacks had occurred against any other minority group, there would have been a national reckoning, an urgent clamor to examine the factors driving the hate. Not so this time.

These stories quickly vanished from the headlines. And, sickeningly, there's another story – even more chilling – that you likely never heard about.
(No, I had not heard about this one)

On October 26, 2024, Sidi Mohammad Abdallahi, 22, a native of Mauritania in West Africa, shot a 39-year-old Orthodox Jewish man in the back as he was walking to synagogue in the neighborhood of West Ridge, Chicago.

...
What will it take to convince the Left that the existential threat to the American way of life that they keep predicting is already here?

Free Palestine is now the slogan for the global terrorist project. Period.
Yes, it is.


And with idiots like this on city councils, it'll get worse.

And the left will make excuses for- well, anything.

Terror attack in Colorado

With this (thank you, Biden) Egyptian illegal alien yelling 'Free Palestine' and 'End Israel' while setting people on fire, there's no "We cannot understand a motive" bullshit.

Not sure if the usual apologists have started as yet.  And I wonder if Denver being the "Don't you peasants dare carry a gun!" place it is, this was a gun-free zone.  Wouldn't surprise me, such assholes really don't want to worry about one of the intended victims ventilating them.

Democrat admits why they really want to not only keep the suppressor tax, but increase it:

Money and control, what else?

And yes, with the Hearing Protection Act and others in the Senate now, I've been yelling at my Senators.  Haven't you?

The Brit cops are trying to deal with that "People don't trust us anymore!" situation.

Not enough time for a real post,

So this is what you get

Be it noted that Blogger is apparently run by clowns

who get upset at something, won't tell you exactly what- or what cartoon on a page upset them- and then bitch at you for violating their 'standards'.

I need to clear some stuff

Michael Williamson has a recurring post on why people hate leftists*,

things like this have to be at the top of the list:
A longtime aide to former President Joe Biden admitted that White House staff felt justified doing “undemocratic things” during his term in office because they believed President Donald Trump posed an existential threat to American democracy.

The revelation came during an appearance by Axios reporter Alex Thompson on “Fox News Sunday” with Shannon Bream, where he discussed insider accounts from his reporting on the Biden administration. Thompson described a mindset inside the White House — one in which unelected aides saw themselves as the real decision makers while shielding Biden from scrutiny and managing the presidency behind the scenes.

“If you believe — and I think a lot of these people do sincerely believe — that Donald Trump was and is an existential threat to democracy, you can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing undemocratic things,” Thompson said.
'Undemocratic things', you ask?
Thompson also cited a quote from his reporting in which a longtime Biden aide openly admitted the president “just had to win, and then he could disappear for four years.”

“He’d only have to show proof of life every once in a while,” the aide reportedly told Thompson. “His aides could pick up the slack.”
Translation:
"We use him as a front, and WE run the country!"  

Can you say 'Hang the bastards'?  I knew you could.

*His term for them is cleaned up a bit

Before I try to get some things done, some political stuff

Starting with, the Mayor of Seattle should be either charged with or sued for his violation of 1st Amendment rights.  He's a piece of garbage.


Left-wing 'fact check'.  

'Bout covers it

Right now, both on politics and 'journalism', is watching journalists who took orders to cover up Biden's condition, for years, now whining that Biden's staff lied to them and wouldn't let them know anything.  And don't ask why they didn't investigate any of the stuff they'd seen and heard, because they say so, and give us money for not having done our job then.
Oh, and respect us because our job is hard!

Every one of the bastards should be fired, except their editors and bosses are just as complicit and won't do it.

Some gunny stuff on a rainy day

Wirecutter linked to this collection of kabooms.  That last being a demonstration of why you give a misfire some time before you screw with things.


History of the NFA from The Firearm Blog.

Keep in mind that the current state of those parts of the current budget deal have changed, and might still change, we'll see what happens.  Be sure to let your congresscritter know you're watching them.

Ammoland has a review of one of PSA's new rifles.