Sixth evening,

Achy, tired, data is available for perusal.

Having mentioned Dad's appendix trouble and all the crap that followed,

a catch-up post: He's now doing a lot better.  There may be another surgery in the future when he's up to it, we'll have to see; if he does it it would help on one matter a lot.

So I'll have more mowing and such to do for the next while.

Made it to the outdoor range for the first time in quite a while

the other day, which was good.  Got home before it got really hot, though it was humid enough to feel like southern Louisiana in July.  Which leads up to today.

Part of the routine on the back trouble has been physical therapy twice a week, which in this case meant this morning; some of the old stuff, couple of new exercises.  Hot & humid today(didn't feel as humid to me), so stayed in mostly.  Until this afternoon I thought "I really need to cast some of 'X' bullets, and I can set up a fan, and it should be fine."

So I spent about an hour doing that, cleaned things up, took a quick shower, and sat a bit.  Where I almost fell asleep and out of the chair.  Don't know if just tired or got a bit too hot, in either case it was a surprise.

Seem fine now, though I'm not doing that again until the heat index is down a bit.

Speaking of the range, tested some loads.  One or two were lousy, a couple questionable, and a couple were pretty damn good.  So those I'll need to repeat.  I've been using five-shot groups, but I once read that a statistician worked some numbers and said the best indication of a good load would be had with groups of seven for some reason I probably wouldn't understand.  I may load those two with seven for next time and see what happens.

Also waiting for better temperature/better back is about 45 pounds of lead I need to cast into 1lb ingots so it'll be easier to store and use.  That may be a while.

Qualified immunity needs to either be greatly restricted

or gotten rid of.  I'm sick of reading about cases like this.
As Norris alleged in a complaint, Capt. Cody “did not check to make sure Henry SRT members were going to the correct address or otherwise perform adequate precautionary measures to ensure the search warrant was properly executed.” Although the captain did review the search warrant, he admitted he didn’t read it “all the way through,” and that he usually doesn't review the property's description prior to a raid.

For instance, the no-knock warrant described the suspect living at 305 English Road, which had “off white siding” and “a black roof.” In contrast, Norris’ home at 303 English Road (which he had owned for more than half a century) is yellow with a grey roof. Yet despite those clear differences, footage from eight separate body cameras showed the officers all walking past the correct house and heading towards Norris’ home.

Even when officers began raiding Norris’ home, Capt. Cody later testified he “wasn’t sure” this second house was actually their target and just assumed his subordinates “acquired information that justifiably led them to proceed to the second structure.” Those actions, Norris argued, “were not consistent with a reasonable effort to ascertain and identify the place intended to be searched.”

But last month, his civil rights lawsuit was blocked when the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the captain was entitled to qualified immunity. Citing a 2019 ruling where the Eleventh Circuit upheld qualified immunity to a deputy who accidentally shot a 10-year-old while aiming for the family’s dog, the court noted that qualified immunity protects “all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law.”

I will refrain from further comment as there are breakables in reach.

Better living through chemistry

and modern medicine.

Followup visit to the doc yesterday, and he decided that some of the hip problem* was probably changes caused by the back problem(in walking gait and such) causing irritation and inflammation in the hip.  So suggested a steroid injection to help that.

The insurance approved, this was done, and Holy Crap!  It was no instant cure, but by evening the hip was bothering me less, and I had a decent nights sleep without painkillers.  It's better today, and the PT was thrilled.

Hopefully the improvement will continue, and I will try to keep taking it easy.  Which isn't easy, because there's pruning needed, and mowing, and I want to take care of it NOW, and other such stuff.



*This started and was worst in the back, which caused the hip to start adding in.  And then, the doc's explanation being "Nerves are weird", one strip on the outside of my lower leg started joining in.  Not the thigh, or knee, just that one area.  So when the back improved the hip got worse and so did the lower leg part.  Sometimes.

Scenes from the range

Just a collection of things.
Don't get many "Why isn't there any ammo/primers/powder/whatever?" questions anymore.  Have heard that "The government is buying everything up." and "It's all a few hoarders."  I don't argue with them.

On the latter, a guy who worked at Academy Sports said that it's bad enough having people waiting outside starting two hours before the door opens on shipping days, they'd caught a few people buying their limit of ammo, going out of sight and changing shirts and putting on a mask and hat and trying to buy more.  Doesn't surprise me.

Not as many people have been shooting, because they don't have much ammo and aren't sure they can replace what they use.

With the Remington factory in Arkansas reopened, hopefully that's starting to take a bit of the pressure off.

We got a little powder in, which caused an increase in "Do you have X?  Then when will you get some "When will you have it?" exchanges, which happens a lot with ammo(Guy, if I knew when we'd get it I'd sell tickets. ) Which occasionally includes someone on the phone who wants you to list every kind we have a bottle- or box- of just in case there's something they might be interested in.   
"You have any ammo?"
"What are you looking for?"
"What have you got?"
(inside)"No, I am not going to go over every effing box of whatever is in the place, please tell me what you're trying to feed and I'll tell you if we have any."  Seems some want to buy ANYTHING, doesn't matter if they have something to use it in.  Maybe hoping they can trade it to someone.

There are many who didn't know that .357 Magnum and .357 Sig are NOT interchangeable.  Or that 7.62x39 and 7.62 Nato cannot be used in the same gun(that one's far more rare).  I've said it before: newbys get a lot of patience because they're learning, people who've "Been shooting for years, I know all this stuff" not quite so much.

Speaking of, from Miguel on an 'expert':
This is a woman that is both a US Army veteran and an engineer from the University of Southern California.

She thinks the AR is too “complex & difficult to operate & clean” and that you don’t have to aim with a shotgun full of buckshot.

Could she prove any more succinctly that just because someone was in the Army, doesn’t mean they know fuck-al about guns?


Be advised this was written under the influence of very tired, last night was a bitch

Just the kind of welcome

VP Kneepads deserves.  Must given her and the ass kissers a shock.

There was some damned rain,

damned because we don't need it right now, but the evening is pleasant.  Damp or dry if you're busy out the data will be here.

Why yes, it does sound exactly like that

“All proposed names are either too generic, or too similar to previous well-known viruses, or contain an Arabic number. This makes it hard to remember or recognize, leading to a tendency among the general population and scientists alike to use a shorthand term such as ‘Wuhan coronavirus’ or ‘Wuhan pneumonia.’ This has, in fact, been the case since it was named 2019-nCoV. This practice would, however, stigmatize and insult the people in Wuhan, who are still suffering from the outbreak.”

Gee, doesn’t that sound like the talking points that came out of every single Democrat and their mouthpieces in the mainstream media around that time? Also, for a virologist to argue that a scientific name should be changed because “it’s too hard for the general population to remember all those numbers” is pretty unheard of.
But for a bunch of virtue-signaling Professional Journalists, not a surprise.  At all.

This is interesting, and would serious upset the PRC

This part is terrifying:
According to Housley, FBI director Christopher Wray “didn’t know right away because they wanted to make sure they got all they needed before telling him.” In fact, Wray was “ambushed” with the information, according to Van Laar’s sources, as was the CIA. “Sources say DIA leadership kept the defector within their Clandestine Services network to prevent Langley and the State Department from accessing the person, whose existence was kept from other agencies because DIA leadership believes there are Chinese spies or sources inside the FBI, CIA, and several other federal agencies,” according to the report.

'Terrifying' because it's probably true.  

And let the gun bigot screeching begin

From an e-mail:

The Second Amendment Foundation has won a significant court ruling in the case of Miller v. Bonta , which challenged the constitutionality of California’s ban on so-called “assault weapons,” with U.S. District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez declaring the state’s statutes regarding such firearms to be unconstitutional.
...
“In his 94-page ruling, Judge Benitez has shredded California gun control laws regarding modern semi-automatic rifles,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “It is clear the judge did his homework on this ruling, and we are delighted with the outcome.”

In his opening paragraph, Judge Benitez observes, “Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment. Good for both home and battle, the AR-15 is the kind of versatile gun that lies at the intersection of the kinds of firearms protected under District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008) and United States v Miller, 307 U.S. 174 (1939). Yet, the State of California makes it a crime to have an AR- 15 type rifle. Therefore, this Court declares the California statutes to be unconstitutional.”

That's a weasel in the henhouse.

It's downright nice outside, so

if you're out doing something interesting I understand; the data will hold until later.

Midway is about to get some M1 Carbines in

Prices seem to be about average for what you find now, I'm guessing for the lower grade, to pretty high for the upper.

Because it was a nice day and I couldn't not try,

I rode the bike today.  Only about ten miles total, but by the time I got home the hip was telling me to knock it off.

We'll see how it goes in the future.

There need to be trials Added

followed by public hangings for Fauci and everyone else involved in his lies and garbage.

Addition: apparently this caused severe butthurt to someone.  Who, as usual, named himself Anonymous.  Who can go do something physically improbable  to himself.

Google: "We are Evil, and we have a thing

about Jews."

Google's Head of Diversity:
Kamau Bobb, who is also an 'Equity in Computing' don at Georgia Tech, wrote a 2007 blog post, which remains on his website, titled: 'If I Were A Jew.'

Bobb writes: 'If I were a Jew I would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself. Self defense is undoubtedly an instinct, but I would be afraid of my increasing insensitivity to the suffering of others.'

He evokes the memory of Kristallnacht, a Nazi pogrom against Jews in 1938, and Holocaust victim Anne Frank to question why Israel lacks 'compassion' towards Muslims in Gaza, Lebanon and the West Bank.
Seems that when the head of Google isn't lying under oath to Congress, he hires people like this.  Wonderful, isn't it?

'If the lab-leak hypothesis is true,

expect a political earthquake'
I should damn well hope so.

Of course, the Professional Journalists and bureaucrats and leftists who had fits screaming "RACIST!" will do everything they can to deny any responsibility for the shitstorm they created because 'Trump!', and because they followed the orders of their PRC paymasters(have you seen how much they have invested in lost of our Professional Media?).

Also, it seems that Fauci is coming out with a book.  Which we can be sure will tell us what a far-sighted hero he is for saving us.  Wonder how much payo- ah, how big an advance he'll get?

One of the fun things about this back problem

is this:
I'd been thinking about selling my bike- a sport-touring type- and finding something with a more upright seating position, because this one has started to really bother my legs on long rides.

Now I'm wondering if that, or if it'll be 'Get rid of the bike entirely, because I won't be able to ride worth a damn anymore.'

The physical therapist I've been working with says not to do anything permanent yet, because she thinks I've improved quite a bit and might be in pretty good riding shape by the end(in somewhere between 1 and several more months).    We'll see.

Dammit, I hate it sitting in the garage, not being ridden.

Memorial Day

Some tab/saved-up clearing

No, the Arctic sea ice is not disappearing.


'Cultural Appropriation' is bullshit.


That XKCD cartoon always annoyed me.


More of the costs of those idiot lockdowns.


Fauci is a lying bastard.

It figures Biden & Handlers would want a lying bastard like this to run the BATFEIEIO.



And now, I need to clean up and get some sleep.