Tuesday, March 26, 2024

One more politics thing and then I'm done for a while

Someone I know has been going through the "How could a Christian vote for Trump?" thing, and I remembered something from the 2016 period.

There was a lot of the same thing going around then, much of the "Oh, brothers and sisters, how can you?" from the same sources as now*, and one guy got an answer.  He'd mentioned he knew a bunch of evangelical Christian people, some who he greatly respected, and he kept asking them that question; some basically said "You just don't understand"(he truly didn't), some refused to go into it, but one man gave him a hard answer, something like
"He's divorced, he's slept around, he's not the kind of man you respect normally, how could you vote for him?"
Hard look.  "Because he doesn't look on us as the enemy, and the other side does."

A hard, simple answer.  The guy admitted that he hadn't really considered that before, but it made sense to him that in a choice between someone who considers you someone to be either altered or gotten rid of and someone who considered you another American who has care for the country, you'd vote for the latter.  Even if he's not what you would consider a good man.

I'd told that to the lady back then, and she either couldn't understand it, or couldn't accept it.  Apparently she still can't.


*A source she used to beat people with is a 'Christianity Today' or something site that, if I recall, has an awful lot of leftist crap added in.  Considering they seemed to have no trouble supporting Hillary Clinton, and Biden, I doubt a lot of people they're supposedly talking to consider them a fine resource on how to think and believe.

Some general stuff before I become productive for a while

Mexico can't (or won't) defeat the cartels, so they've become 'job creators' and such.  Yeah, that'll work out.


Remember the Littoral Combat Ships that were supposed to save us all?  Holy crap, the Navy is screwed.


Great, a worm that could be used to disable trucks.



Because it pisses me off so bad, I'm going to talk a little more

about a bunch of Biden supporters.  In particular:
Biden's treatment of women and girls.  The girls in particular.  There are pictures and video going back, what, at least a decade? of Biden putting unwanted hands on women and underage girls, sniffing hair, all of it.  But apparently that never really happened, or it's 'disinformation' or just plain ignored.

Hell, there were a bunch of people on the left right up there with people on the right saying "Why is Biden allowed to get away with this?  Why the excuses and willful blindness, especially from people who scream 'Believe All Women!' and such?"
Well, the answer is, I'd say two things:
First, he's a leftist Democrat and they'll excuse anything for someone like that.  Remember Ted Kennedy and his equally drunken and abusive friend Chris Dodd?  Waitress sandwiches and other horrible behavior?  Someone pinned down one of the bigshots of the Women's Movement at the time and asked how they could tolerate someone who does this being supported by them?  The answer was "He votes the right way", that was all that mattered.  Especially(I suspect) because it was mostly lower-class women like waitresses being abused, "We can tolerate those women being abused if it helps the Cause."

Second, a lot of them have chosen blindness.  Not long ago I pointed out Biden's handsy ways and this somehow became "You're talking about his daughter, she explained that was all misinterpreted from her diary."  Nothing about all the other women and girls, they don't exist.  Either ignored or they refuse to admit the existence of because "He's going to save democracy!"  And, of course they hate Trump so badly they'd rather see the place burn down than have him reelected.

It's friggin' amazing.


Added, because I'm ticked off:
The border isn't really a problem, or not his fault.  The ongoing betrayal of Israel because a bunch of muslim voters in a couple of states hate Jews and Biden needs their votes(let's ignore all the State Department and other staffers who don't like Israel and work hard to influence things) is fine because 'he needs their votes to save us!'.  The economy in horrible shape and getting worse.  The military being screwed to the point that we wind up in a shooting war it's going to be really, really bad.  And the left doesn't care.  Some because they're idiots, some because they want the country trashed because it's part of the leftist plan.

Throw in the long march through the institutions by the left which gives us lots of colleges where you don't dare criticize the left in general and some groups in particular, but you can actively call for the death of Jews and the college will protect you from consequences.

Monday, March 25, 2024

People have been talking about this for years, but when Wray comes out and talks about it,

a crapload of people act like they'd never heard of the idea of terrorists sneaking across the border...

It'll happen.  It'll be bloody and awful, and unless we're luckier than I can believe REALLY bloody and awful.

And the Usual Suspects will scream and whine that it's not their fault(it'll be Trump's fault, of course) at the same time they're trying to control everything we do and say about it.  And, without doubt insisting on honest people surrendering the arms that, in some states, will be the main thing used to fight the bastards.

And the people really responsible for it will get away with it.*  Maybe some people forced from office, but I have doubts; the ones most responsible are in blue states where they'd have to be caught with a live boy, a dead girl, and literally bloody handed for a lot of the idiots who vote for them to actually want to do anything about them.

I can't argue with Schlichter: carry.  Spare mags and all.  Because most of the .gov won't be of much help.  Hell, they'll be the ones who made it possible.


*Especially Wray and every other EffingBI clown who was too busy going after traditionally religious people, and home schoolers and such rather than actually chase down illegal aliens and terrorists.

I swear, I may have to stop arguing about politicians,

because I'm sick of the bullshit.  In particular:
"You criticize Biden, but you support a convicted rapist!"
Leave aside that Trump was not convicted of such(and Stephanopoulos may get his ass handed to him in court for saying he was), "Says who?"
"You didn't condemn the Bad Orange Man in the right words!"
WTH?

Crap like that, then add in when they read what you wrote and interpret it- and accuse you of saying- what they want you to have said, and attacking that.  On and bloody on.

Apparently the idea that I can dislike a lot about Trump AND despise Biden at the same time just does not compute.  Or they can't believe it.

For the most part you're not going to convince those people of anything except that you're against democracy("We're a REPUBLIC, dammit, and for good reasons!"), or love rapists, etc. ad Bullshit.

It's really enough to ruin any willingness to talk to people.

I know, I have too much "Surely they can argue in good faith!" in people.  Losing that rapidly.

Announced over the weekend is the latest "Screw civil rights and due process,

someone said you're a risk so we're here to take your guns" work by Pres. Gropey & Veep Kneepads:
Known as the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center, this latest office will put the DOJ's $2 million allotment to use under its Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program. The ERPO center was established with the help of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. A simplified website guides prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service providers, social service providers, and household members on how to file protection orders against gun owners they deem at risk.
'At risk' often meaning "Someone decides they're pissed at you and want to screw with you, so they can do it anonymously and pay no penalty for doing so".  Isn't it just wonderful?

For what it may be worth, this is a time to yell at the Congresscritters.  Loudly.

Yes, I know that they just, among other things gave the EffingBI many millions for a new headquarters as a reward for breaking laws, violating civil rights, and otherwise being Stasi-type assholes, but it can't hurt to yell at the senators and reps.  Again.

Nurse once asked me if I smoked, and I said

"Only when I'm on fire."

She gave me a dirty look, and I added "You think I'm joking."

Sunday, March 24, 2024

When you show up to testify as an expert,

and you're really not.

As Irish puts it, call 911 and report this murder

"Men: it's ALL YOUR FAULT!"

As usual.

Ever notice these people always find a way for women to avoid responsibility for something they're involved in?  Apparently saying "No, unless you wear a condom!" or "No, I'm not laying down on a first date/at a drunk party/who the hell are you?" isn't possible.  Or sexist.  Or something."

I'm reminded of a sign a lady had on her desk: "When women act like men, why can't they act like nice men?"
Short version: "Women, don't be jerks yourselves."  Which would probably get her reported to HR or hanged on social media today for being a misogynist.

According to this guy it's not oil production the Ukraine is aiming at,

it's the feedstocks for explosives and rocket fuels.  Which makes sense.

And it would not surprise me at all if he's right about the Biden people getting it wrong.

Saturday, March 23, 2024

And the second of those nights in this period known as a week

 is here


How stupid are things?

This stupid.

And this.

And you could keep listing idiocies.  For instance, Occasional-Cortex insisting "RICO is not a crime, so you have nothing on Biden!"(although there you really don't know if she believes that or is parroting her notes, but it's still stupid)

We may be screwed.

Friday, March 22, 2024

It's one of those nights,

so...

One more piece of "They lied to us,

apparently not giving a damn who or who many it would hurt."
On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reportedly agreed to remove all its previous social media posts and consumer advisories that specifically addressed the use of ivermectin for the treatment or prevention of COVID-19.

“FDA loses its war on ivermectin and agrees to remove all social media posts and consumer directives regarding ivermectin and COVID, including its most popular tweet in FDA history. This landmark case sets an important precedent in limiting FDA overreach into the doctor-patient relationship,” Dr. Bowden wrote on her social media.

The plaintiffs have recently received the signed court order and are preparing to issue a press release about it later today.

After the damage was done.  Not only to the people who might've been saved a lot of difficulty, maybe their lives, if the FDA hadn't decided to control this.

Further damage: their credibility is shot.

Yes, we're being invaded

And the politicians and bureaucrats helping it happen are enemies of the United States.

Just the kind of behavior we've come to expect from this agency,

and the nervousness mentioned might explain why a lot of paperwork that's taken months to years has suddenly been going through in weeks.

Recently I've heard of people filing for a suppressor tax stamp getting it back in two-five weeks, with a few people getting them back in a few days.  Speculation was they were trying to clean up their act with the political winds blowing as they are; this reinforces the idea.

We'll see.

Monday, March 18, 2024

I need to clear some things




























Apparently it's never occurred to her that the 1st Amendment is SUPPOSED to hamstring the government

in significant ways.

Same for all the other Amendments.

Gun Free Zone has posted on 'one-punch kills',

here's another one for the list.

I'd guess either the man had preexisting health problems, or his head hit the pavement when he fell.

I have posted a bunch about Israel, both before and after

the attack last October.  I'm aware some of you don't hold the Israelis in high regard; that's fine.  As said before, I don't consider them angels without flaw, just an actual democratic government in a place where they're about the only one.  And, nominally, on our side.  So, an ally who definitely has its own interests* but is generally with us.

That's the basic.  So when a bunch of bloody-handed murderers, rapists, and torturers attack them again, and they say "ENOUGH!" and pull out the big hammer, I sympathize with and support them.  And it really pisses me off when a bunch of supposed 'liberals' and socialists(face it, there's nothing 'progressive' about them) believe every lie and support the bad guys, and our Professional Journalists seem willing to repeat every claim and flat-out lie by said bad guys, without question...

Which brings us to what I ran across at Insty this morning, from which I will quote about said 'liberals' & Co.:
So whatever one thinks of Israeli policy, or Israel's eventual response to 10/7, one would think, based on my interlocutors' position, that critics of Israeli policy would nevertheless agree on one thing: Hamas must be deposed, one way or another. There is no plausible two-state solution with Hamas in power; the harsh critics are almost all self-styled progressives, and there is nothing progressive about Hamas's policies toward freedom of religion, LGBTQ rights, women, militarism, antisemitism, and so on, nor its constant theft of humanitarian aid. Hamas's rule in Gaza is essentially every Progressive's worst nightmare.

Yet, ever since at least 10/10, when it became clear that Israel's reaction to Hamas's atrocities was not going to be to capitulate, the harsh critics have been all but unanimous in calling for Israel to essentially surrender ("immediate ceasefire") with Hamas still in power, and have almost to a person not called on Hamas to surrender and abdicate. (And self-styled human rights organizations have felt free to make up human rights law, including contradicting their own past public positions in other conflicts.)

I have to admit that I underestimated the mendacity of these people.

Lots of people have.  Which is why nothing they say is trusted any more, or given benefit of doubt.  On a LOT of things.

Now throw in President Gropey & Co. trying to force Israel to lose.  For two reasons:
1. A bunch of muslim voters in a couple of states are threatening not to vote for Gropey because 'You're supporting Israel's genocide against Palisimians!"
2. The asshats at the State Dept., who seem to have hated Israel since the day founded, really want them to lose.**
And I'm really sick of this garbage and the people running it.


*'Nations do not have friends, they have interests' I think is the quote.
** No understanding.  It's like the British diplomatic people having some romantic vision of the arabs and dislike of Jews.  Why?

Sunday, March 17, 2024

I'm mentioning this tonight because if I don't, I'll forget to

Another installment of "If you hate our Major Media, you probably don't hate them enough."
In advance of oral arguments tomorrow in the Supreme Court for Murthy v. Missouri, formerly Missouri v. Biden, the New York Times and authors Jim Rutenberg and Steven Lee Myers wrote a craven and dishonest piece called, “How Trump’s Allies Are Winning the War Over Disinformation.”

The Times implies both the Twitter Files reports and my congressional testimony with Michael Shellenberger were strongly influenced by former Trump administration official Mike Benz, whose profile occupies much of the text. Benz is described as a purveyor of “conspiracy theories, like the one about the Pentagon’s use of Taylor Swift,” that are “talking points for many Republicans.” They quote Shellenberger as saying meeting Benz was the “Aha moment,” in our coverage, and the entire premise of the piece is that Benz and other “Trump allies” pushed Michael, me, and the rest of the Twitter Files reporters into aiding a “counteroffensive” in the war against disinformation, helping keep social media a home for “antidemocratic tactics.”

This all has a strong whiff of setup.

Oh yes, there's a lot more.  Isn't it wonderful how Journalists can find a way to approve of the .gov controlling what people get to read?

I said it before: if I had a kid now, there phone

would work for phone calls and texts, and nothing else.  This just makes me think all parents should do the same.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Once again the sixth eve rolls around, and

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And, as usual, a mass shooting that didn't fit the Preferred Narrative™

disappeared pretty quickly.

"Those racist right-wingers say ALL Haitians do it!

(Well, some of them do it, but you're not supposed to talk about it)
NBC NEWS: “Conservatives are OUT OF LINE suggesting there are Haitian cannibals!!”

NBC NEWS (same article:
“There are…um, gangs that are eating people, including The Cannibal Army. But it is unacceptable for those on the right to notice!”

Whole post here.

They're really working to shut down any criticism of letting unvetted Haitians in in large numbers, aren't they?

More here

Thursday, March 14, 2024

The 'Internet of Things': Spyware and security leaks,

including from the car company to your insurance company.

Not long ago my insurance said that if I opted to install their 'driver safety box' in my truck it would probably lower my insurance.  Which sounds nice, but when you look at the information you find you're installing a tracking device that will tell them when and where you go, how fast you drive, if you brake or accelerate 'unsafely' or 'unnecessarily'- by their definition-  and so forth.  Screw that.

Few years ago daughter gave that a trial on her car, to find that she was an 'unsafe driver' according to the box.  Oh, that braking?  She was backing out of a parking space when some clown came shooting down the lane and she had to brake hard to avoid a crash, and the damned box beeped at her.  So you can't win, and you let them track you everywhere.

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Sword dynamics

Nice video, and a fine response to the "Swords were heavy!", etc., BS.  The people making and using these needed speed and fine balance, and they got them.

Be warned the closed captioning isn't very good.

"People who disagree with me about herd immunity and

anything else in dealing with the Wuhan virus must be dealt with!"
Well, I do agree some dealing with needs doing.


I'd guess mainly Florida, but also some other Atlantic coast states better get ready

Border agents in Miami have been told to prepare for a wave of migration from Haiti following the takeover of the country by bloodthirsty gangs, The Post has learned.

An internal agency email leaked to The Post pointed out it is unlikely Haitians who take to the sea and enter Florida illegally will be repatriated back to their home country, given its instability.

The message also warned that one vessel of migrants landing would overwhelm agency capabilities in the area.

“One landing will cripple the station and our ability to respond to other traffic,” the email to agents read.

And if you think A: They'll all be innocents, including parents and kids, and B: This administration will actually try to control it and sort out the bad guys, you're an idiot.  Think of a lot of gang members used to using machetes on people, with the occasional cannibalism, loose here.  If you live in the region  you might consider some more ammo if you can afford it.

I fear West Point has been taken over by the assholes from the sound of it.

... At a meeting of the West Point Board of Visitors on March 7, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, LTG Steve Gilland, announced a planned change to the stated mission of the United States Military Academy at West Point by eliminating the words “Duty,” “Honor” and “Country” from its official mission statement.
The gentleman who wrote the piece is giving the creators of the the benefit of the doubt; after all the crap that's come out of the people in charge the last years, I can't.  It's either "I don't really understand why changing this would upset anyone" or "Screw those people, THIS is the New Way."



Seems the early 'Biden's interview with the investigator was awful'

was understatement.
Former special counsel Robert Hur revealed in Capitol Hill testimony that Biden 'willfully' retained classified materials as a private citizen and gave them to Mark Zwonitzer - the ghost writer of his $8 million book - who later tried to destroy them.

Hur arrived on Capitol Hill to offer insight into his devastating classified documents report that painted Biden as 'elderly' and 'forgetful' and with 'diminished faculties,' but did not recommend charges for the president.

He pushed back on Democrats who claimed his report cleared Biden of any wrongdoing, saying it 'did not exonerate' the president.

'We identified evidence that the President willfully retained classified materials after the end of his vice presidency, when he was a private citizen,' Hur said during the high-stakes hearing.

Put bluntly, you or I, or some military type or bureaucrat who handled classified documents this way would've been in a cell a long time ago.  Not to mention that ghost writer who should be looking at a long time in prison.

But, being Biden, "He's too old and confused to charge."

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Turned out too windy, but it was still some time at the range

and that's always good.  The primary thing that got done today was trying the 7.62x39 subsonics at 50 yards, which gave surprising results.

DISCLAIMER: These loads were developed after reading, talking and thinking hard about it because I could find no published data for this bullet/cartridge; they seem safe in my firearm, but might not work well, or safely, in another, so if you try these it's on your own head.

With that done, the first group was 11.7 grains A5744, both loads using the Hornady 255-grain Sub-X bullet in Fiocchi cases with CCI Small Rifle Magnum primers.  Amazingly, when I'd about given up on other things and decided to try these the wind dropped a fair bit, still some gusts but I was able to time those fairly well.*  When ran these over a Chrony a while back they averaged 977fps:

That's not bad at all.  

Second with 11.9 grains of the same powder, average 1030fps:


Especially under the conditions, I'm very happy with those.  Primers looked just like normal fired primers; I am aware that looking for flattening isn't exactly a gold standard, it's possible to wind up with pretty high pressure before some start to show that, but it's what I've got to go by right now.

What really surprised me was that they're about 1.5" low at 25 yards so being about 1/2" below point of aim at 50 was a pleasant surprise.  Also, for some reason the indoors groups were about 1 to 1.5" right, but nicely centered here, and I wonder if the wind helped?

So I'm tired from being in that wind for several hours, but happy with the results here(the other stuff I won't talk about).



*And yes, about ten minutes after I finished this and decided to try a different firearm again, it came back up.

That would definitely count as a bad day Adding some info

I'd like to know the 'why', I really would.

Added: when he tips is up looks like the barrel fractured just in front of the handguard.  Lots of discussion at Wirecutter's place where I found it, centers around barrel blockage and it gave there or the barrel nut wasn't properly secured.

Monday, March 11, 2024

Said it before, daylight savings time is the worst idea

Ben Franklin ever had, and the idiots who started it in this country should be dug up and hanged.  Or just find all of them and piss on their graves.

Sunday, March 10, 2024

From the People's Republic of Californicated

An activist group in California has paid public high schoolers $1,400 each to learn how to fight for social and racial justice. And the money for the scheme comes from the state’s taxpayers.
Of course it does.  And parents who object?  Their kids will be told that the parents are racist, etc.

Considering what's come out of places like Edmond, OK, it's becoming more and more that putting your kids through public schools anywhere is child abuse.

Speaking of vile politicians,

Liz Cheney is an illustration thereof.
Cheney and her committee falsely claimed they had “no evidence” to support Trump officials’ claims the White House had communicated its desire for 10,000 National Guard troops. In fact, an early transcribed interview conducted by the committee included precisely that evidence from a key source. The interview, which Cheney attended and personally participated in, was suppressed from public release until now.
...
Cheney frequently points skeptics of her investigation to the Government Publishing Office website that posted, she said, “transcripts, documents, exhibits & our meticulously sourced 800+ page final report.” That website provides “supporting documents” to the claims made by Cheney and fellow anti-Trump enthusiasts.

However, transcripts of fewer than half of the 1,000 interviews the committee claims it conducted are posted on that site. It is unclear how many of the hidden transcripts include exonerating information suppressed by the committee.


President Gropey is a piece of work, isn't he?

WATCH: Joe Biden just went on MSNBC and said that he regrets using the word "illegal" during his State of the Union speech to refer to the killer of Laken Riley.

“I shouldn't have used 'illegal.' It's undocumented."

He can't pronounce the name of the murder victim correctly, but he can apologize for using bad word about the murderer who's here illegally.

I wonder what he'll start saying to try to satisfy the leftists and muslims who hate Jews to try and get their votes back?

Saturday, March 09, 2024

Let us now escape from the chilly outside

with the 7th evening stuff



More on the garbage in some Oklahoma schools

NEW: Students in Oklahoma schools have come forward and describe a culture of bullying, hazing, manipulation, and pressure to participate in disgusting dares like licking toes and armpits, spitting in people’s mouths, and having garbage thrown on you.

This has been going on for YEARS.

Full post, including video, here

I'm back to thinking of starting with a whipping post, followed by the firings and prosecutions.

Friday, March 08, 2024

There having been no further 'bad blogger' crap,

I once again present the sixth eve visuals in the new format

As if this administration cares if their appointees are competent

and/or honest.
Dettelbach never mentioned that the manufacturers of the pistol brace, which was originally designed for disabled veterans, received determination letters from his ATF that said the brace was not subject to NFA. He never told Brennan that if 40 million pistol braces were suddenly classified as Short Barrel Rifles by ATF, their owners could have faced federal felonies if they didn’t immediately register their weapons as SBRs. He never disclosed how ATF’s zeal to write and enforce its own laws began in earnest under the Biden-Harris administration, or how the ATF – under his leadership – is getting its butt kicked in court as a result.
Etc.

Long as they hate the peasants holding to their rights and have sufficient contempt for the Constitution, Pres. Gropey & Co. are find with them.

'No American troops in Gaza' my ass

He goes through with this idiocy, they'll be there.  And Hamas will welcome them.

And, while the Navy has experience in such, for defenses they have to be able and willing to use force.  Anybody doubt there would be so many 'only if' restrictions so as to make them sitting ducks?

Thursday, March 07, 2024