It's a holiday weekend clearing, and I,

being either dumbass or short of sleep, almost forgot

I've had this for the 4th of July; right now, considering what's been done to Britain, I wonder if she'd have had some change of heart

Funny, it is

It's what it means that's not

That's the Lt. Governor of Minnesota playing submissive for the Somalis. 

Speaking of idiocy, the elected-Mayor of NYeffingCity has selected his head of the Fire Department: a lesbian who's never been part of the fire department.  Apparently he liked the disaster that followed stupidity like this in Los Angeles.


More idiocy in the EU, some of the attacks on speech; they consider 'free speech' to be speech they approve of.

Same kind of bullshit in Aussie land.

Here's the Premier of New South Wales:

"We don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the U.S., and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community."

You can have free speech or you can have multiculturalism. You can't have both.
And he'll kiss terrorist ass as much as he can to show his submission to their approval.


Speaking of, the proper title of this would be 'UK Muslim Minister declares 'War on Boys Who are Not Muslim'

Why, you'd think some of those illegals were actually committing crimes...

 

Post at Insty

The communist/islamist hasn't been sworn in yet, but the actions of submission

have already begun.

A: How many leftist women in NYeffingC will do it?
B: How will they handle it when the sharia patrols start?

Borrowing: "It doesn't take a village to raise an idiot. Maybe a whole state-

say, Minnesota- could pull it off...
I swear it's a hard choice with these people between 'So open-minded their brains have fallen out', or "I'll do ANYTHING to keep you voting for me!"

From Old NFO

 

Merry Christmas to all,

and since I had a lousy night for the first one with the CPAP, to all a good night, I hope.

I wonder if the traitors running (formerly Great)Britain will get the idea

that those people are the enemy, or if they'll still try to protect them from people calling them on what they do?

And we'll see how this goes

Today, wound up with the CPAP.  Two weeks- barring problems with fit and such- and we'll see how I settle in with it.

Well, damn, this is not good

The company, which produces weapons ammunition sold on Palmetto State Armory’s website, operates alongside the armory’s production and distribution at the facility, but are separate brands. John Roberts, an attorney for the company, told The State that workers for Palmetto State Armory would not be impacted by the closure.

The company told DEW that the closing was “due to catastrophic supply chain constraints of raw materials necessary for production.” Roberts told The State the closure was a result of a gunpowder shortage.
I've known about the troubles for some time, but I'd thought the companies involved had found supply workarounds for the materials.  Apparently not, or at least not as well as I'd thought.

I can tell you that after Alliant cut off propellant sales for reloaders so they could put all their production into the corporation's ammo companies, they've started selling some again; Bullseye and Unique have been showing up on the market again, which made me thought that the supply problems had eased.

Isn't this all just so much fun?

I've got to clear some tabs with news ran across the last few days

Yes, some of this is at X, but you don't need an account to see these. For more details, you can search around for more. 

  Isn't it wonderful what our News Professionals won't talk about?


Unbelievably, @BBCNews has done a THIRD version trying to explain what Intifada means and STILL doesn’t mention the actual violence of the first and second Intifadas.

"But I am IMPORTANT, you commoner!  Stop criticizing me having all this security!"
He walks in surrounded by armed police and security, funded by the public, while ordinary Australians are told we don’t need protection and should just trust the system. He doesn’t live under the same rules he pushes onto everyone else.

If politicians want to disarm the public, then they should be disarmed too. No armed security. No taxpayer-funded protection. Walk the streets like everyone else has to.

That bloke should have walked in and out of the Bondi memorial on his own, the same way any other person would. Instead, he’s wrapped in a security bubble while lecturing the country about safety.

Biggest hypocrisy in the country.


So let me get this right…We are demonised for flying our flag but now the government wants us to go and fight for it?

Keir Starmer, I have news for you.


It's great advice, except for all those places the Elites don't allow it.
I'll add, ran across a mention the other day that most armed Australian cops are not allowed to carry their sidearms when off duty.  Which means the Australian government doesn't even trust their own cops.


With all the actual terrorists out there, you'd think that neither the EffingBI or the Aussie version would have to get mentally unbalanced kids groomed into getting arrested.


Speaking of groomers, and useless cops, more idiocy from (fG)Britain.


Things to do, this is all the time I've got for this right now.

Considering most of the hierarchy of the Anglican Church cannot surrender fast enough,

this tells me some people over there are sick of it.
But some senior Anglicans are unhappy. Rowan Williams, a former archbishop of Canterbury, talked of the political 'weaponisation' of Christmas. The Bishop of Manchester said Christmas must not become a 'prop in a dim culture war'. Giles Fraser, a prominent London vicar, said he would refuse Mr Robinson communion at his altar rail.
...
Young Bob, real name Thomas Moffitt, is in some ways a Right-wing version of Greta Thunberg, but without the scowl. He is cheerful, polite, brave and, inevitably, has attracted the attentions of Left-wing activists keen to do him down. At a London School of Economics event he says he had urine and glue thrown at him, and the pressure group Hope Not Hate obtained recordings of him saying rude things about Mr Robinson and other magnificoes of the Christian Right. Big Tommy was quick to forgive him – as a good churchgoer should – and called Moffitt 'a young man who deserves all of our support'. 

For a religion often said to be in terminal decline in Britain, the polling figures about youth churchgoing intentions are astonishing – and, surely, welcome. But not by those senior clergy mentioned above. The Guardian newspaper discerned a 'far-Right misappropriation of Christian imagery'. The likes of Rowan Williams and the Bishop of Manchester fear that Tommy Robinson may be piggybacking on Jesus to promote nefarious political ends.
Considering the Guardian is a socialist crap pile, and the aforementioned "We must not be too strict about actual religion in this church" officials, who seem to be all leftists, that's a recommendation.

I asked a cousin of mine why he and his 20-something university friends had discovered an interest in churchgoing. It was nothing to do with Scripture or tongues or Pentecostal fire. His answer was simply: 'We want to defend our culture.' They were fed up with their Christian heritage being ignored and diminished by their university authorities. Dribbly middle-of-the-road Anglicanism won't cut it for them. They want a religion that is proud of its values and doesn't shrivel in the face of political correctness.

And they are not alone. In September the Unite the Kingdom march in London attracted vast crowds. News organisations reported at length that Tommy Robinson was involved. There was less attention paid to the preponderance, on that march, of crosses and banners bearing Biblical quotations.
Which is apparently what really bothers said High Officials.  And which must have the Labour Party and a bunch of the Tories crapping themselves.

Found this piece at Kim's place, and it's worth reading it all.

Australian news weenie insists the attack at Bondi Beach 'had nothing to do with religion',

 demonstrating she's either a effing idiot, or so sold on the Preferred Leftist Narrative that she doesn't  mind looking like such a effing fool.

The ABC says 'she's very smart, and gave a analysis of what to think', basically.  So the ABC is just as big a collection of idiots as the BBC.

Yes, Chicago really is that bad,

and their idiot Mayor yelling 'Racism!' as an excuse doesn't change it.

I second NFOs recommendation to check out Second City Cop.  Not only do they tell the truth about a bunch of the mess, but they gave said Mayor the name Conehead.

One more thing tonight, this for the "But Australia doesn't have mass-murders since we banned everything that goes boom!"

 types.  Michael Z. Williamson look this up and posted it on Fecesbook.

click on it to embiggen

It's now Saturday evening,

and thus clearance time.  Well, tonight or Friday, in this case tonight

All the leftists whining about Trump having abused Georgia Link fixed

with his conspiracy theory about the 2024 election?  He was right.

Lots of trees in Georgia...

The Brit .gov is calling for the young to prepare to fight,

and the attitude in return is "Screw you, you traitors."

And this is in The Telegraph, old major news service.

We'll see what happens.  Which ought to involve tree decorations.

Man, they really want history to be what they prefer,

not what it was.

‘First black Briton’ honoured by BBC was actually white

And, apparently, the fact that if she had been black she would almost certainly have been a Roman slave, didn't matter to them.

Ain't these people wonderful?

One of my favorite places, in the years since I somehow ran across him, has been Wirecutter

As he mentioned he would he's cut back a lot, and he's about to cut it back  more.  Still here, but going to once a week.

Damn, when he does pull the plug I'll miss him.

Ah, the wonders of those noble clowns hiding behind their badges

SHOCKING: Bondi survivor Vanessa Miller was separated from her three-year-old daughter and pinned down by gunfire. She told @Erin_Molan that she tried to grab the gun of a critically injured officer to suppress the terrorists, but other officers—rather than returning fire themselves—held her back.

“These police officers were hiding behind a car... I tried to grab one of their guns. Another one grabbed me and said 'no.' I hope they are hearing this. You are weak. You could have saved so many more people’s lives. They were just watching this all happen, holding me back.”
Remember that scene in the movie 'Demolition Man' where the cop is saying "We're not trained to deal with violence like this!" ?  I guess the Aussie cops took it to heart.

Same cops who knew one of the murderers had past contact with ISIS, but gave him a firearms license anyway.  And now say "We need more gun laws!"

And in the meantime,
Avner’s, a Jewish-owned bagel bakery in Sydney, has closed effective immediately following the Bondi chanukah massacre and escalating antisemitic threats.

The owners say police and security agencies warned the bakery had become a potential target, and that they were unable to guarentee their safety, making it unsafe to continue operating as a publicly Jewish business.
"No, you can't have weapons for self-defense, but don't count on us to protect you."


And here: no, it may not be possible to hate our 'news' media enough.

And, considering what we know of all the people Mamdani has chosen for offices, why would one showing more hatred of Jews surprise anyone?

It would give me great satisfaction if Trump does indeed take the ass off the BBC,

and we can listen to them and their politicians whining just like the ones Stephanopoulos cost so much money. 

This was a range day,

first in a while.  Bit chilly this morning, nothing suitable attire couldn't take care of.  It started out chilly with almost no wind, about the time I was finishing it was picking up, so that worked out well; being out in it did wear me down a bit.

Which makes me think most of a week of digestive trouble wore me down more than I'd realized.  But did get some loads tested, and I'm happy with the results.  This time of year couldn't really ask for a better day.

First times I shot at this range included some cold/foggy/thinking about rain times, which included one of my first times firing .45-70, with iron sights, at 200 yards.  Which meant figuring the darkest part of the gong for part of it(see 'foggy' above), which made it very encouraging to pull it off.

One thing I need to look for is a better spotting scope.  This one works fine on .30-caliber holes and larger, but at 200 it's damn near impossible for me to spot .22-caliber holes.  Which I suspect means that one which will work for that is going to cost more than I may be willing/able to spend.

I need to win a lottery.  Which would be a problem because having seen something about the odds, buying a ticket would make me feel like I'd just thrown a few dollars away.  Dad bought a ticket every week, just for fun, and over time he made a little money.  I need to get more of his attitude on this.

How screwy are things?

Earlier today was a report that Brown University had wiped the website stuff of one student.

Now this.

Disgusting idea, isn't it?  But, considering the clowns running a bunch of colleges, impossible?

Not a damn chance, unfortunately.

I'd say he doesn't care for the new M7 and 6.8x51

rifle and cartridge.  

As the subject of things going Ka-Boom came up with that gif the other day,

this is the result of a reloading mistake

Man came in with a AR15 he'd just finished building(not his first), and a box of ammo he'd loaded to test fire it.  Came about a few minutes later with a dazed look on his face and said something like "I think I grabbed the wrong powder."  This is the upper; the lower had, I was told, a bit of a bulge on the sides but that was about it.  You could salvage the handguard, and that's about it.  The bolt, bolt carrier, upper receiver, probably the barrel extension from the look, all trashed.  

Amazingly, he was pretty much undamaged other than the shock and a couple of scratches/bruises.  Let us keep this to put in our reloading room to show people "PAY ATTENTION IS A RULE!"  In this case he grabbed a powder bottle without actually looking at the label and grabbed A1680 instead of the BLC-2 he intended, 1680 being a MUCH faster-burning propellant.

From Professional Journalists in (fG)Britain

 

I have no idea of the backstory of this

 

But  it's bad

Apparently the Aussie cops have borrowed the 'He was on our radar' crap Updated

from the EffingBI.
NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon, as mentioned above, suggested to ABC that one of the shooters was known to authorities but “the person that we know has very, very little knowledge to the police.” It is not clear if Akram was the man he meant. “So he's not someone that we would have automatically been looking at at this time,” Lanyon said, excusing police.

Isn't that just wonderful?

And the Prime Minister is rightly catching heat for leaving something important out in his "I feel your pain" comments:
What is so shameful is that after the shooting, which specifically targeted a Jewish holiday event, the prime minister of Australia refused to mention the religious motivation of the attack or call it terrorism. He merely said his thoughts were with the victims and that the killing was “shocking and distressing.”
Now, we have to(they think) cut the bastard some slack, it wasn't that long ago he was kissing Pali ass and saying less-than-kind things about Israel and their government to buy caring points with the various 'Let's Have Intifada' types.  So if he actually called it a anti-Jew terror attack, it'll upset all those people he thought he had bought approval from.  And being a ass-kissing  control-freak politician, he can't do that.


On the bad guys having guns, when laws in Australia are what they are: the question occurs that, besides "Well, we knew about him, but he wasn't considered a threat", I have to wonder if he was able to get-keep guns and ammo because some clown in authority didn't want to be called a racist for telling him no?  

Update: Ian has a piece on the reaction times, and let's say the Aussie cops don't look real good

Being what time has made me,

I'm wondering when various people will start bitching about the damage the Bondi and other 'We Hate Jews' attacks are doing to muslims?

Or, to borrow,

I'm also wondering which media talking heads will come up with the most idiotic things to say tomorrow?

Attack on students in Rhode Island,

 'person of interest being held and nothing said further'.  Which does give suspicions, though the 48-hour rule definitely in effect.

And then, in Australia, no real doubt who's responsible.
At least 11 killed as terrorist attack targets Jews at Sydney’s Bondi Beach
Insty ran across this, an attack in London as well

If you carry, ever, do it everywhere/when you legally can.