Time for some clearing

What? The media didn't report Mamdani talking like a Stalin mini-me?

Gee, why might they have done that?
Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment,” the editorial says, Mamdani made clear that he wants to identify “class enemies” — like landlords, and “bosses” who exploit workers — and set about “crushing them.”

His goal, it notes, isn’t to increase wealth, but to redistribute it to his supporters. He didn’t mention “growth” once.
Even Democratic talking heads Van Jones and David Axelrod criticized Mamdani’s “character switch” and his divisive speech.

What a surprise. Who knew Mamdani would turn out to be such an almost Hugo Chavez-like figure?

Well, anyone paying attention, actually.

Certainly more people would have known had the Washington Post covered his “long history of divisive and demagogic statements.”
Ah, but that would've caused problems for the Democrats, so there's your answer.

Another reason some ATF people need to be in jail,

let's consider falsifying evidence, tampering with evidence, and lying under oath to put someone in prison.

Putting them in prison, general population, sounds reasonable as punishment.
In a letter sent to someone not involved in Adamiak’s case, The ATF explained the RPG training devices.

“The sub-caliber RPG-7 training devices previously evaluated, like the ones you mention, typically contain a barrel chambered in 7.62x39mm, possess a firing mechanism including a striker, sear, and trigger device. Its intended use is as a subcaliber insert training device for the RPG-7 anti-armor projector. However, the design of the device also allows it to be fired without the use of an RPG-7,” the ATF said in the letter.

The ATF also never mentioned that the entire device—an RPG and the 7.62x39mm training device—were sold to the public on GunBroker.

“This one’s been modified a little to color within the lines of the National Firearms Act of 1934. First, it can’t load or fire a live PG-7V or other rocket-propelled grenade round, only the subcaliber device. Second, ATF interprets a subcaliber device as a ‘firearm,’ not any specific kind of firearm, but installing it in an RPG-7V, even one that’s been modified so that it cannot fire live rounds, creates a ‘short-barreled rifle,’” a Loadout Room story states.

This offer was not an experiment as to whether ATF would approve the sale. The entire device had been approved by ATF’s Firearm Technology Branch, and the seller had the ATF approval letter, which they included in the kit.

This is a pecan year

Which means no squirrels around.  I've never had a problem with them trying to get into the attic, but the little bastards start eating the pecans still green on the tree, and I'd not get any.  Then, after about two years of that, I found a couple of big splashes of feathers in the back yard.  "Ah, a hawk has found the  neighborhood" think's I.

And the squirrels disappeared.  Eaten or spooked off, I don't know which, but no squirrels seen, and I got pecans.

That hawk I saw a lot, either sitting on a power pole out back, or sometimes on the carport next door.  Then he disappeared, and next spring squirrels were back.  And for two years no pecans.*

This year, couple of months ago found a couple of feather splashes out back, and no squirrels to be seen.  And  now I'm picking up pecans.  There will be pie and other things with my own pecans this year.

A good piece on a lot of both the anti-semitism running around, and

what's a central pillar for a lot of young males: revenge.  And the big threats these include for the future.  Which does include the problems of getting people to actually deal with the threat to the west of serious muslims who follow their old ways.
But then, modern Western people simply don’t understand how pre-modern people think. They simply cannot take Muslims seriously when they talk of jihad — even though this has always been the Islamic way of war. Eating dinner at a bar in Washington on Saturday night, I sat next to a European journalist (I won’t identify his country, to err on the side of protecting him) who has been living in self-imposed exile in the US for some years. He had to flee his native country because his reporting on jihadism earned him multiple death threats. He told me he used to be a standard liberal, but his brutal experience with how liberals in his country, especially his colleagues in the media, refused to take his reporting seriously. They considered him Islamophobic, and a disturber of the peace. Some of the homegrown jihadis he wrote about subsequently carried out one of the most horrific jihad attacks in modern Europe history.

He told me that he could probably go back to Europe safely now, because most of the jihadis who had issued death threats to him had been killed fighting for ISIS in Syria. Still, he’s afraid, and he has a right to be. He too believes that civil war is coming to Europe. He also believes that the governing classes, in both public and private institutions, will not allow themselves to see it, because it violates the way they prefer to see the world. I brought up the French writer Renaud Camus, and how he had been cast out of polite French society. The journalist knew about him, and said yes, this is the kind of thing he experienced too, simply for trying to warn his countrymen what was living among them, and what was to come. (After dinner, I googled this man, and he was exactly who he said he was.)

But see, the Jews are our real problem, right? Come on.

Here in Europe, it’s not Jews that make public life in so many European big cities unbearable. In fact, they were the first ones to experience the special pleasure of Islamic harassment and persecution — an experience that is now far more general. They were the canaries in the coal mine. They so often are. Now some European towns are having to cancel their traditional Christmas markets, because the cost of providing security to stop Muslims from attacking them violently is too great. Check this video out — a Muslim mob marches through a Christmas market in a show of cultural strength. No European Jew ever attacked a Christmas market, or tried to ruin it for others.

Throw in impatience with getting the economy going better.  Huge factor for lots of people.

Two things for this day

First,

Second, for that one branch,

Well, they do look downright edible


And last, just because I like it

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one

tired of this level of makeup.  Kim had this picture

which brought this to mind this morning.  Not a bad looking woman, but jeez, all that MAKEUP...

Do women believe they need this level in order to look good, or has it just become the 'acceptable level' for pictures to go out in public, at least according to their, call them advisors?

Yes, the people in NYeffingCity who call Trump a fascist

just elected a communist as Mayor.  And- picking one of the messes in Virginia,

Amazing who the "We hate nazis/rightists!" will support if they say the right words and have a 'D' after their name, isn't it?

As Lawdog points out, there are bad people out there

who want you dead.
Initially charged with murder, the siblings plea-bargained down to manslaughter, the sister getting a ten-year sentence in prison.

Fast forward to November of 2025, and the sister — Angela Walker — ran as an Independent for a seat on the City Council of Bangor, Maine. Well, she claimed “Unaffiliated”, but her campaign was sponsored by these guys — about as Progressive as one might want.

Not only did the fact that she murdered a man by stuffing sand down his throat not prevent her from being elected, but the good comrades of Bangor have announced that her election proves that people can change.

Huh.

We also have the newly-elected Attorney-General of Virginia, who not only openly fantasised about personally shooting the children of an opponent in front of the children’s mother, but offered a lame excuse when his texts about political violence were published.

Which didn’t seem to bother the good comerades of Virginia in the least, since they promptly voted him into office.

Huh.

And, of course, we have the Maine — see above — midterm election for Senator next year. Where the progressive side of things is being represented by a man who wore the death’s head tattoo of the Nazi prison camp adminstrators for years, and who stated on social media: “Tell them that if they expect to fight fascism without a good semi-automatic rifle, they ought to do some reading of history.”

Since the good comrades of the Progessive side of American politics call anyone to the right of Marx and Trotsky a “fascist”, this tends to be a bit worrisome.
Having run into a few of the last('Anyone who disagrees with me is a nazi!'), oh yes, they're out there.  They tend to have savior complexes too('Anyone in a subgroup/type/etc. I feel protective of cannot handle words, they need me to protect and save them!') which makes them feel justified in doing just about anything.  As the saying goes, 

And, in some places(Portland, etc.) the cops are useless; they're either under orders not to trouble the leftists as they attack people, or are personally sympathetic to you being hurt or killed.  Which means that, best you can, you need to be ready to protect yourself.

Friday was busy, then

Saturday busier as I took the day and went to Tulsa for the Wanenmacher Gun Show.

If you haven't been, it's bleeping big.  First time I went with a friend, we walked in the doors and a I looked around and thought "Holy shit, this is HUGE!"  Filled with everything from guns to parts to ammo to knives to reloading stuff to camping/survival gear and antiques.  This being before I had a cell phone, let alone one with a camera, I wasn't able to take a picture of something daughter would've loved: a vampire hunting kit from Louisiana.  

I'd looked it over and mentioned how interested she would be and they guy said I could take pictures, but since the rules said no cameras I hadn't brought such.  He did mention his buyers found one or two most years, almost always in Louisiana and mostly in the New Orleans area.

I've been numerous times since, and I can generally see most everything I might want to in one day now; for instance, the high-dollar Winchester and Ruger and so forth collector area could be skipped(pretty stuff, but way out of my price range).  It's the place I got to handle an old Evans double rifle in .470 Nitro Express, which I'd have loved to have if I wouldn't have had so sell my house and truck to pay for it.  Lots of military surplus, and hunting arms and on and on.

No new boomsticks from this trip, did find some stuff I could use.  But by the time I got home, too tired for writing about it.  

And that was my Saturday.  Only thing keeping it from pretty close to perfect was that when I got home tired and hungry, my favorite Mexican place was too busy to get in without a long wait, so dinner was found elsewhere.

It was decided that a sleep study would be good for me

Know what a sleep study is?  They have you go to the room in the evening, screwing up your sleep schedule, put leads all over your head, a few on the chest and legs, then put a cannula on your nose to blow oxygen in.  

For two hours.

Then they take that off and put one of the whatever-the-hell it's called breathing things, which means having to strap this mask to your face and have it blow air when you inhale for the remainder of the night, with you expected to sleep through it.  

Let's just say that I'm about to fall over after being up all day after that, and if they decide to tell me "You should wear one of these every night for the rest of your life" I think I'd tell them to go to hell.  

Oh yes, so much fun.

I wonder how NYeffingCity will react when

the New Mayor Approved Purity Squads start going around telling women how to dress, and restaurants and bars to stop selling booze and pork?

Why so many have come to flatly hate politicians,

and the control freak types idolize them:

Quote of the Day

You have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.

Muriel Bowser
Mayor, Washington D.C.
2015

Thanks to Joe Huffman for the quote

I've read about sperm oil over the years,

here's a bit of history on the subject.

This will set the gun bigots off

A printed magazine spring.  With improvements to come, I'm sure.

My, isn't that interesting?

NGO caught registering illegals to vote, and telling them to vote for the Islamist/Communist in NYeffingCity.

Which makes me wonder if a similar or same group is helping the other Communist/Islamist running for mayor in Michigan?

A good piece, with some serious warnings for the future

The essay argued that it wasn’t just that women had cancelled the president of Harvard; it was that they’d cancelled him in a very feminine way. They made emotional appeals rather than logical arguments. “When he started talking about innate differences in aptitude between men and women, I just couldn’t breathe because this kind of bias makes me physically ill,” said Nancy Hopkins, a biologist at MIT. Summers made a public statement clarifying his remarks, and then another, and then a third, with the apology more insistent each time. Experts chimed in to declare that everything Summers had said about sex differences was within the scientific mainstream. These rational appeals had no effect on the mob hysteria.

This cancellation was feminine, the essay argued, because all cancellations are feminine. Cancel culture is simply what women do whenever there are enough of them in a given organization or field. That is the Great Feminization thesis, which the same author later elaborated upon at book length: Everything you think of as “wokeness” is simply an epiphenomenon of demographic feminization.

The explanatory power of this simple thesis was incredible. It really did unlock the secrets of the era we are living in. Wokeness is not a new ideology, an outgrowth of Marxism, or a result of post-Obama disillusionment. It is simply feminine patterns of behavior applied to institutions where women were few in number until recently. How did I not see it before?

And one of the warnings:
These two approaches to the law clashed vividly in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. The masculine position was that, if Christine Blasey Ford can’t provide any concrete evidence that she and Kavanaugh were ever in the same room together, her accusations of rape cannot be allowed to ruin his life. The feminine position was that her self-evident emotional response was itself a kind of credibility that the Senate committee must respect.

If the legal profession becomes majority female, I expect to see the ethos of Title IX tribunals and the Kavanaugh hearings spread. Judges will bend the rules for favored groups and enforce them rigorously on disfavored groups, as already occurs to a worrying extent. It was possible to believe back in 1970 that introducing women into the legal profession in large numbers would have only a minor effect. That belief is no longer sustainable. The changes will be massive.

The latest example of "Keep your mouth shut and don't show this to people" from (fG)Britain

Shabana Mahmood, an Islamist politician who wanted to outlaw any discussion of Islamic violence as ‘Islamophobia’, was appointed to head security by the Starmer regime, has warned “I urge people to avoid comment and speculation at this early stage.”

There’s no need to urge the public to “avoid comment and speculation” when the violence comes from the right-wing or a mentally ill man.

Once the authorities urge us to “avoid comment and speculation”, we know what they don’t want us talking about.

Mahmood’s warning isn’t just an empty threat. Those living in the UK who ‘commented’ or ‘speculated’ in the past had the police show up at their door and have been arrested.

Wonderful, isn't it? More information on this "Oh no, it's not terrorism!" attack here.  And another attack shortly after the one noted above, also involving someone yelling 'Aloha Snackbar!', which translates to "We don't know his motive."

A clearing for today, with

some things more suited for the date

                                                And some things fitting for this time of year

I don't want to hear about 'The Right/MAGA needs to turn the temperature down!" again

until the left has turned this crap down.  

Carville's always been a nasty bastard, but he's gotten worse.