see how diverse we are!"
Britain really is screwed.
I shall now go make holes in targets, and possibly write about it afterward.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Monday, June 12, 2017
Be it noted
that when you have a specific load to put together, black powder isn't that much more than smokeless.
Shooting and cleaning(blowtube, wiping, etc.) on the other hand, still a bit of a PITA
Shooting and cleaning(blowtube, wiping, etc.) on the other hand, still a bit of a PITA
Someday soon, this must be checked out
If there’s one meat item we all can’t live without, I think we could
agree it’s our beloved bacon. And while you can find it in most Oklahoma
restaurants, we found a restaurant that’s overflowing with bacon. From
the moment you walk into Bacon in Oklahoma City, the
smell alone makes your mouth start watering. Bacon lovers you will want
to visit this bacon-themed restaurant…it’s everything you’ve ever
dreamed of (and more).
Being sick to death of politics, I will ask an important question:
Why is it so damned hard to find extra-high scope rings?
And why do so many places lie when they call theirs 'extra tall'? And for that matter make it hard as hell to find out how tall they really are?
And why do so many places lie when they call theirs 'extra tall'? And for that matter make it hard as hell to find out how tall they really are?
"This movie doesn't fit my demands, therefore it's against women!" Or something.
We’re told that the female lead “does
nothing to challenge modern-day racist beauty standards”. Uh, I wasn’t
aware that that was a fucking requirement. Here’s a novel concept, Diana is a fucking GREEK. Which means she’s not black, or Indian, or Asian, or… fill in minority here. Shit these folks complained when a
woman that wasn’t Asian played the role of a ROBOT in a Movie based on a
Japanese comic (in the comic the robot was very much Anglo, but it was
an excuse to whine, so they took it).
...
She wants to know why Diana couldn’t be a woman of color, or a “fat, thick and short body type”… UH because they were trying to stay somewhat true to the legend and the comic book? Because AMAZONS aren’t black fat short thick women? (because 1) being Greek, 2) living a Warrior culture in a subsistence economy, that is probably near the point of hunger if not starvation on a bad year, there isn’t enough food to get fat?) DEAR GODS to the ancient Greeks and predecessors the height of pulchritude was a heavier woman, precisely because they were so rare, and if you were fat, that meant you were RICH. She (the author of this rag) then uses the excuse that “linebackers are fat, and no one doubts their athletic ability”.
Um, linebackers are BIG; I doubt there's much fat there. But bringing that up probably makes me a 'ist' of some kind.
...
She wants to know why Diana couldn’t be a woman of color, or a “fat, thick and short body type”… UH because they were trying to stay somewhat true to the legend and the comic book? Because AMAZONS aren’t black fat short thick women? (because 1) being Greek, 2) living a Warrior culture in a subsistence economy, that is probably near the point of hunger if not starvation on a bad year, there isn’t enough food to get fat?) DEAR GODS to the ancient Greeks and predecessors the height of pulchritude was a heavier woman, precisely because they were so rare, and if you were fat, that meant you were RICH. She (the author of this rag) then uses the excuse that “linebackers are fat, and no one doubts their athletic ability”.
Um, linebackers are BIG; I doubt there's much fat there. But bringing that up probably makes me a 'ist' of some kind.
We got in some Fiocci shotgun ammo:
12 gauge, 00 buckshot, 1150fps, at a very good price. I need to get a box of this to try out. That's about the same velocity as the Winchester Ranger low recoil load, and I'd like to compare them on patterning.
Damn. Just checked, can't find that they make a similar velocity load with #4 buck; that'd be a real good defense load.
Damn. Just checked, can't find that they make a similar velocity load with #4 buck; that'd be a real good defense load.
Sunday, June 11, 2017
Good piece on watching/controlling your space
If you can get accustomed to the idea that you are always being
watched by a potential threat than you will understand why looking hard
is so important. Looking hard is more than just wearing a tough guy
scowl on your face, protruding your imaginary lats and wearing a Batman
utility belt – with or without batarang (sorry Hondo!). What Joe wanted
his Marines to do was to present a hard target. When he was telling us
that, Marines and Soldiers were being hunted by a highly evasive enemy
who could move freely amongst the local population. They would strike
and disappear back into obscurity with little effort. Joe’s Marines
didn’t have this problem because we looked hard.
Looking hard means expecting a fight. It means projecting a presence of dominance in all actions. It means being aware of your surroundings. It means presenting a hard target. It means owning your ground.
Looking hard means expecting a fight. It means projecting a presence of dominance in all actions. It means being aware of your surroundings. It means presenting a hard target. It means owning your ground.
At some point these bat-wielding 'security patrols' are going to put someone in the hospital
or the grave; and the victim or his family is going to sue the ass off the administrators for not doing something about the idiots.
The friends of the idiots will scream 'Racism!' and so forth, and the administrators will whine. And if the cops don't find and arrest the assholes, the problems will REALLY start.
"Why doesn't the public trust us? It's Trump's fault!"
Yeah, keep telling yourself that, moron.
Speaking of media asshats, from Madam Hoyt:
I’m also not precisely stupid. I can read print if it’s six feet tall and in letters of fire. I think I was fifteen when I tweaked to the fact that the media had a narrative, which was roughly “eventually the proletarian revolution wins over the world, and we’re all happy forever and ever.” This is why most people in Europe thought of Cuba as a paradise well into the eighties; why idiots still adorn themselves with t-shirts of the mass murderer Che Guevara; and why people who’d flinch at declaring themselves fascist don’t hesitate to call themselves communist.
This is worldwide. That’s what the media is, that’s what they do.
But the United States has always been a thorn in their flesh.
Oh, no, no way this could go wrong...
The Denver City Council voted Monday to approve major sentencing reform (in other words, making penalties more lenient) on Class I and II offenses. The latter cover crimes like public defecation, panhandling and camping out on the sidewalk. KUSA reports :
The friends of the idiots will scream 'Racism!' and so forth, and the administrators will whine. And if the cops don't find and arrest the assholes, the problems will REALLY start.
"Why doesn't the public trust us? It's Trump's fault!"
Yeah, keep telling yourself that, moron.
Speaking of media asshats, from Madam Hoyt:
I’m also not precisely stupid. I can read print if it’s six feet tall and in letters of fire. I think I was fifteen when I tweaked to the fact that the media had a narrative, which was roughly “eventually the proletarian revolution wins over the world, and we’re all happy forever and ever.” This is why most people in Europe thought of Cuba as a paradise well into the eighties; why idiots still adorn themselves with t-shirts of the mass murderer Che Guevara; and why people who’d flinch at declaring themselves fascist don’t hesitate to call themselves communist.
This is worldwide. That’s what the media is, that’s what they do.
But the United States has always been a thorn in their flesh.
Oh, no, no way this could go wrong...
The Denver City Council voted Monday to approve major sentencing reform (in other words, making penalties more lenient) on Class I and II offenses. The latter cover crimes like public defecation, panhandling and camping out on the sidewalk. KUSA reports :
City leaders and immigrant rights advocates argued the changes will protect Denver’s immigrant community from facing unintended consequences.Because better to let people crap on the sidewalks and streets than them face being deported. Right.
“Many times it becomes a deportable offense if you’ve been convicted of even a minor ordinance violation that’s punishable by a year in jail,” Mark Silverstein said, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.
Saturday, June 10, 2017
"Why doesn't the public trust us?" is the wail from some departments;
well, besides this happening in the first place, because the people who did it probably won't pay any penalty.
I've been in arguments where any criticism of cops who do bad things means "You hate all cops!" Which is idiotic, at the least. Saying "Hold them just as responsible to the law as anyone else" is not 'hate', it's the way it's supposed to be. There are good departments who do exactly that, and I wish there were more news stories about them, it'd do a lot to counter the stories of bad agencies where a cop can lie under oath, tamper with evidence, abuse power, abuse people, and get away with it.
I've been in arguments where any criticism of cops who do bad things means "You hate all cops!" Which is idiotic, at the least. Saying "Hold them just as responsible to the law as anyone else" is not 'hate', it's the way it's supposed to be. There are good departments who do exactly that, and I wish there were more news stories about them, it'd do a lot to counter the stories of bad agencies where a cop can lie under oath, tamper with evidence, abuse power, abuse people, and get away with it.
Dumbass makes a 'training' video
in which he- among other things- fires a round into the ceiling. Which gets him banned from the range.
"I was banned because I'm black! Racism!!"
Guy, you were banned because you're a friggin' idiot. Deal with it.
"I was banned because I'm black! Racism!!"
Guy, you were banned because you're a friggin' idiot. Deal with it.
Friday, June 09, 2017
Tab clearing, starting with No, our ancestors weren't stupid;
they had a lot less of a base to work from.
Everyone who's ever been charged/screwed with by BATFEIEIO because "Your paperwork doesn't match ours!" ought to sue the bastards.
...The first step in inspecting an NFA dealer is to obtain a print out of his NFRTR registry, then compare that to his inventory.
OIG asked how often there was a discrepancy between the inventory and what the NFRTR said the inventory should be: 46% of inspectors said either "always" or "most of the time." (Only 5% reported "never"). How often was the discrepancy found in the NFRTR? 44% said always or most of the time, only 6% said "never." The comments by inspectors were pretty eye-opening:
"When I conduct an NFA inventory reconciliation, I start knowing that the NRA register will be incomplete or inaccurate."
"The discrepancies in the NFRTR makes it impossible to verify the onsite inventory."
And on, and on. Bastards have put people in prison over this, and ought to be fired for it.
Never put anything between you and explosives which a surgeon might be required to remove from your body.
Midway has a sale on factory-second Berry's bullets.
Everyone who's ever been charged/screwed with by BATFEIEIO because "Your paperwork doesn't match ours!" ought to sue the bastards.
...The first step in inspecting an NFA dealer is to obtain a print out of his NFRTR registry, then compare that to his inventory.
OIG asked how often there was a discrepancy between the inventory and what the NFRTR said the inventory should be: 46% of inspectors said either "always" or "most of the time." (Only 5% reported "never"). How often was the discrepancy found in the NFRTR? 44% said always or most of the time, only 6% said "never." The comments by inspectors were pretty eye-opening:
"When I conduct an NFA inventory reconciliation, I start knowing that the NRA register will be incomplete or inaccurate."
"The discrepancies in the NFRTR makes it impossible to verify the onsite inventory."
And on, and on. Bastards have put people in prison over this, and ought to be fired for it.
Never put anything between you and explosives which a surgeon might be required to remove from your body.
Midway has a sale on factory-second Berry's bullets.
Well, they couldn't have people finding out what Iran did with all those pallets of cash,
now could they?
The Obama administration "systematically disbanded" law enforcement investigative units across the federal government focused on disrupting Iranian, Syrian, and Venezuelan terrorism financing networks out of concern the work could cause friction with Iranian officials and scuttle the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a former U.S. official who spent decades dismantling terrorist financial networks.
Much like Fast & Furious, wonder how many bodies are piled up because of this?
This really tells you all you need to know about what a pit D.C. is:
It all started when Nunes said he had received unsolicited information of wrongdoing from one or more whistleblowers. Unfortunately for Nunes, he approached complaints of improper surveillance in a Central Valley sort of way (but a most un-Washington manner).
Instead of the usual pattern of leaking the whistleblower's information to friendly media (and, of course, denying that he was the source of the leaks), Nunes went ballistic -- and, heaven forbid, public.
...
The result? Suddenly, Nunes himself became the object of Washington vituperation for not immediately informing House Democrats about the potentially inappropriate monitoring.
Nunes was targeted by progressive activists and investigated by the House Ethics Committee -- which has thus far not released any findings of improper behavior -- apparently because he went public and is now viewed as a partisan of Trump.
"You're not doing this the Right Way! You're causing us problems!" Etc.
The line I've read is "Europeans have never forgiven the Jews for the Holocaust."
The French-German broadcaster ARTE has reportedly shelved a documentary on antisemitism because it doesn’t bash Israel enough. ARTE and WDR, the publicly-funded TV networks that commissioned the 90-minute documentary, have decided to confine the film to the archives, calling it “unbalanced”. “You can’t make a film on antisemitism without saying every three minutes that the Palestinians are the victims of Israelis,” the co-producer of the documentary, Joachim Schröder, told The Jerusalem Post.
The documentary makers reject the objections publicised by the broadcasters as eyewash. “It’s not about balance,” Schröder was quoted saying in the German newspaper Bild, “How can a film on Antisemitism be ‘balanced’? ARD with offices in Strasbourg is obviously fearful of calling out the Jew-hatred in France and Germany.” Both ARTE and WDR are financed by German taxpayers.
From the Dark and Fascist State of New Jersey:
A police union official said the video 'clearly shows' officers acting in the victim's interests.
'Taking swift action isn't always elegant, but this video clearly shows that the officers acted quickly to extinguish the flames, and pull this man out of harm's way,' said Carmine Disbrow, president of the Jersey City Police Officer's Benevolent Association.
Yeah, nothing says "We care" like kicking and stomping someone.
The Obama administration "systematically disbanded" law enforcement investigative units across the federal government focused on disrupting Iranian, Syrian, and Venezuelan terrorism financing networks out of concern the work could cause friction with Iranian officials and scuttle the nuclear deal with Iran, according to a former U.S. official who spent decades dismantling terrorist financial networks.
Much like Fast & Furious, wonder how many bodies are piled up because of this?
This really tells you all you need to know about what a pit D.C. is:
It all started when Nunes said he had received unsolicited information of wrongdoing from one or more whistleblowers. Unfortunately for Nunes, he approached complaints of improper surveillance in a Central Valley sort of way (but a most un-Washington manner).
Instead of the usual pattern of leaking the whistleblower's information to friendly media (and, of course, denying that he was the source of the leaks), Nunes went ballistic -- and, heaven forbid, public.
...
The result? Suddenly, Nunes himself became the object of Washington vituperation for not immediately informing House Democrats about the potentially inappropriate monitoring.
Nunes was targeted by progressive activists and investigated by the House Ethics Committee -- which has thus far not released any findings of improper behavior -- apparently because he went public and is now viewed as a partisan of Trump.
"You're not doing this the Right Way! You're causing us problems!" Etc.
The line I've read is "Europeans have never forgiven the Jews for the Holocaust."
The French-German broadcaster ARTE has reportedly shelved a documentary on antisemitism because it doesn’t bash Israel enough. ARTE and WDR, the publicly-funded TV networks that commissioned the 90-minute documentary, have decided to confine the film to the archives, calling it “unbalanced”. “You can’t make a film on antisemitism without saying every three minutes that the Palestinians are the victims of Israelis,” the co-producer of the documentary, Joachim Schröder, told The Jerusalem Post.
The documentary makers reject the objections publicised by the broadcasters as eyewash. “It’s not about balance,” Schröder was quoted saying in the German newspaper Bild, “How can a film on Antisemitism be ‘balanced’? ARD with offices in Strasbourg is obviously fearful of calling out the Jew-hatred in France and Germany.” Both ARTE and WDR are financed by German taxpayers.
From the Dark and Fascist State of New Jersey:
A police union official said the video 'clearly shows' officers acting in the victim's interests.
'Taking swift action isn't always elegant, but this video clearly shows that the officers acted quickly to extinguish the flames, and pull this man out of harm's way,' said Carmine Disbrow, president of the Jersey City Police Officer's Benevolent Association.
Yeah, nothing says "We care" like kicking and stomping someone.
"Yes, yes, you need this for pain, but
some people abuse it, so NOBODY should have it."
Which means people who actually need it will suffer, but the nannies will feel very virtuous about themselves, and that's what really counts.
Makes you wonder if the control freaks demanding this have ever been in actual physical pain of high degree.
Which means people who actually need it will suffer, but the nannies will feel very virtuous about themselves, and that's what really counts.
Makes you wonder if the control freaks demanding this have ever been in actual physical pain of high degree.
That I am forced to make sure screws and such are tight
instead of someone making sure I don't have to worry about such triggers me. Shouldn't oughta be allowed.
That is all.
That is all.
Thursday, June 08, 2017
Recall on Ruger Mk IV pistols
Ruger recently discovered that all Mark IV™ pistols (including 22/45™ models) manufactured prior to
June 1, 2017 have the potential to discharge unintentionally if the safety is not utilized correctly. In particular,
if the trigger is pulled while the safety lever is midway between the "safe" and "fire" positions (that is, the
safety is not fully engaged or fully disengaged), then the pistol may not fire when the trigger is pulled. However,
if the trigger is released and the safety lever is then moved from the mid position to the "fire" position, the
pistol may fire at that time.
Some are not subject to the recall; how to tell if yours is and all the other information here.
Some are not subject to the recall; how to tell if yours is and all the other information here.
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