As proof I can't keep track at times,

I was planning to post this the other day.  Or the day before, one or the other.

Piece read the other day, 'When your enemy is making mistakes,

don't interrupt them.'

Which seems very good advice.

Another little step toward the Slammers

He's absolutely right:

Which means the laser weapon the Israelis just put in service, and the stuff we're(and lots of others)working on, became a lot more affordable, and needed.  All we need now is a powergun to simplify the fueling of such a weapon.  

And that will change lots of things.

Not the best way to lose weight

Under the heading of 'had I but  known', one of the first two things saying "Hey, guy, you've got a problem here" was when I started throwing up.  As in everything.  Including 'take a drink of water, ten seconds later you're sticking your head in the trash can(it's got a bag and it's closer than the toilet)', over and over, including the first couple of days in the hospital, by which time the anti-nausea meds took effect.

Seriously, worst throwing up I've ever been through.  I lost right at ten pounds, which I have not regained.  I promise, that's not how you want to lose weight.  And I think my stomach shrunk some through all this, so it may work out to be a long-term loss.

My problem at  first was that allergies, which for most of my life didn't much bother me, the last few years have been a lot worse at times.  And I asked a couple of people who've had long-term bad allergy trouble if theirs ever affected them this way, headache and some upchucking, and they said 'Yes', so that's what I thought it was.  Boy, was I wrong.  And I really waited longer than I should before talking to medical people*.  I'll try not to make that mistake again.

*Dad and Mom have both been really bad about that; I think it's part of what  killed Dad.

Wirecutter put this up, and it deserves

to be spread around

Two very talented and skilled people, downright incredible

They know at least one of the people playing games with the autopen

In a jaw-dropping revelation that should shake every American to their core, former Biden advisor Neera Tanden has admitted under oath that she — not Joe Biden — was in control of the president’s autopen for nearly two years.

A top White House aide, utterly unelected and unknown to most of the country, had the authority to affix the President’s signature to official documents, including sweeping executive orders and controversial pardons, all while the nation was led to believe these were the deliberate actions of the commander-in-chief himself.

“As staff secretary, I was responsible for handling the flow of documents to and from the president,” she testified. “I was also authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents."

Note that the statement said to come from Biden to excuse this was
“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency. I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false,” a statement attributed to Joe Biden claimed earlier this month in response to the congressional investigation, and dismissing the investigation as a distraction by Trump and Republicans.
'Attributed to' does not mean "He said it to a reporter".  So did he actually, or not?

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'.