The New Service has plastic stocks.
Aftermarket plastic stocks.
Smooth walnut is far more appropriate.
Ebay has several listings.
Got my tracking number.
Thailand?!?!?!?! They're shipping from fucking THAILAND?
WTF, Over?
And with DHL. The only shipping company I hate worse than FedEx.
PS: The bitter irony is they will probably fit perfectly considering their place of origin.
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14 August 2020
NO! Bad Thag!
I just caught myself being nostalgic for my Mini-14.
I have no idea why.
I have never been so frustrated by a rifle as I was with that thing.
I was happy to replace it with a Daewoo DR200 back in '95.
Why do I keep catching myself wanting one to play with now?
Especially since what I wanted, way back then, was a Galil?
I have no idea why.
I have never been so frustrated by a rifle as I was with that thing.
I was happy to replace it with a Daewoo DR200 back in '95.
Why do I keep catching myself wanting one to play with now?
Especially since what I wanted, way back then, was a Galil?
Where, Exactly, Did You Spend The Money?
Until very recently they were handing out $600 a week in unemployment.
This was often in excess of the wages earned by the person who just became unemployed.
They paid their rent/mortgage before they lost their job.
Why couldn't they keep paying it when they're actually making more money?
With that in mind, why did we need to place a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures?
Now that those moratoriums are nearing their expiration dates, why do we care that they didn't spend their money on essentials when they were raking it in?
This was often in excess of the wages earned by the person who just became unemployed.
They paid their rent/mortgage before they lost their job.
Why couldn't they keep paying it when they're actually making more money?
With that in mind, why did we need to place a moratorium on evictions and foreclosures?
Now that those moratoriums are nearing their expiration dates, why do we care that they didn't spend their money on essentials when they were raking it in?
People Laughed
Some laughed at me when I bought the guns, but I can still get ammo at normal prices.
.38 Super and .270 Winchester are still in stock at pre-Wu Ping Cough / pre-BLM prices.
While the lack of rounds is a bit of concern, my Gov't Model was banned from two bowling pin matches because I kept winning.
I've gotten all five rounds touching at 100 yards with the Savage.
I shoot them well, what can I say?
Always keep a brace of guns in an oddball, but still produced, caliber just in case the popular stuff gets hard to find.
.38 Super and .270 Winchester are still in stock at pre-Wu Ping Cough / pre-BLM prices.
While the lack of rounds is a bit of concern, my Gov't Model was banned from two bowling pin matches because I kept winning.
I've gotten all five rounds touching at 100 yards with the Savage.
I shoot them well, what can I say?
Always keep a brace of guns in an oddball, but still produced, caliber just in case the popular stuff gets hard to find.
13 August 2020
Hush Dancing Monkeys
The more Dancing Monkey opinions I read concerning politics, the more convinced I am that you need to be intensely stupid to be one.
So intensely stupid you willfully misinform yourself to prevent intelligence from taking root.
Kind of like going to the gym to build muscles, they do exercises that preserves and maintains their brains in a state which allows their dancing monkey abilities to thrive.
So intensely stupid you willfully misinform yourself to prevent intelligence from taking root.
Kind of like going to the gym to build muscles, they do exercises that preserves and maintains their brains in a state which allows their dancing monkey abilities to thrive.
She Has A Name
In case you didn't know, Lego released two kits commemorating the first Moon landing.
The first set was the entire Saturn V stack of Apollo 11.
The second set is the LEM, Eagle.
They title the second set as "NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander".
These things have so many names.
Lunar Excursion Module.
Apollo Lunar Module.
Several were given names in addition to their designations.
LM-3 Spider, LM-4 Snoopy (trivia note, Snoopy is the only intact, flown LM ascent module), LM-5 Eagle, LM-6 Intrepid, LM-7 Aquarius, LM-8 Antares, LM-10 Falcon, LM-11 Orion, LM-12 Challenger.
The Lego set is LM-5 Eagle. Eagle is not mentioned even once on the box. Dunno if it's mentioned in the instructions.
The first set was the entire Saturn V stack of Apollo 11.
The second set is the LEM, Eagle.
They title the second set as "NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander".
These things have so many names.
Lunar Excursion Module.
Apollo Lunar Module.
Several were given names in addition to their designations.
LM-3 Spider, LM-4 Snoopy (trivia note, Snoopy is the only intact, flown LM ascent module), LM-5 Eagle, LM-6 Intrepid, LM-7 Aquarius, LM-8 Antares, LM-10 Falcon, LM-11 Orion, LM-12 Challenger.
The Lego set is LM-5 Eagle. Eagle is not mentioned even once on the box. Dunno if it's mentioned in the instructions.
Surprise!
Long time neighbor murders 5-year old innocently playing.
Where is the media on this?
This is why when they say "Black Lives Matter" we know they mean "White Lives Don't Matter."
And they're actually shocked we're stocking up on guns and ammo.
Where is the media on this?
This is why when they say "Black Lives Matter" we know they mean "White Lives Don't Matter."
And they're actually shocked we're stocking up on guns and ammo.
12 August 2020
Darwin Is Always Watching
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Not just the gun is always loaded, but he made sure the gun was loaded before breaking
I am not entirely certain he broke rule number two, since he made sure he had a round chambered before aiming it at his junk.
Same thing for rule three. He put his finger in there on purpose knowing he'd aimed at his junk and chambered a round.
Though it appears that he got just a half-Darwin.
Not just the gun is always loaded, but he made sure the gun was loaded before breaking
I am not entirely certain he broke rule number two, since he made sure he had a round chambered before aiming it at his junk.
Same thing for rule three. He put his finger in there on purpose knowing he'd aimed at his junk and chambered a round.
Though it appears that he got just a half-Darwin.
11 August 2020
A Right To Die
The Black Lives Matter criminal syndicate has justified looting of businesses under two grounds now.
First that the business has insurance.
Second that the looting is reparations.
Stealing is stealing even if you've managed to shift the burden of paying for the theft from the business owner to the insurance company.
You are still thieves, Black Lives Matters. Thieves rank very low in my eye. So low that if we changed the laws to let people shoot thieves regardless of the physical threat they pose to the shooter I'd say, "keep shooting until the stealing stops!"
I don't care what color the thief is, but if all the people stealing are black, then all of the corpses will be too.
Don't wanna get shot, don't steal what isn't yours. That's not a racist statement. We shoot every thief without regard to race, sex, gender, religious belief, country of origin or previous state of servitude.
You don't steal, you don't die. Couldn't be simpler and applies to any scumbag who thinks they've a right to someone else's property.
Claiming the businesses are insured is such a scumbag thief thing to say too.
You're simply stealing the premiums the businesses pre-paid to the insurance company. The money isn't magically appearing out of thin air to replace the goods. It's scumbags like the criminal syndicate known as Black Lives Matter who're the reason that businesses have to carry insurance for loss to theft in the first place. People like you were, in effect, stealing from them before you looted the place because they knew there were thieves like you about and sought protection from them.
What your looting will really do is make the place you looted close down and raise the prices at the places that remain. And you thought you couldn't afford it before?
Watching your criminal activity is also closing the minds and hardening the hearts of many people watching you behave exactly the way the one of the few groups who are lower than scumbag thieves, racists, predicted people of color would behave.
When someone looks at the riots and looting and makes a quick comparison to shit like "The White Man's Burden," and begins to wonder if perhaps some of the reconstruction era depictions of blacks are more accurate than they really are...
You've lost the race war already and set yourself up to be oppressed like no other people ever have been in the history of the world. American Indians will look upon you and say, "we got off light."
Because it will be from the moral high ground you will be forever oppressed. Insert C.S. Lewis quote here.
The boot will never lift because history will remember what you did with the glorious gift of freedom bequeathed you by 360 thousand dead white men. A gift you squandered because you did not earn it by your own hands.
A loss you will feel more keenly because you knew freedom once and will have had it taken away.
The tragedy isn't that YOU will be returned to oppression and servitude, but that literally millions of innocent, honest and hard working people who have the bad luck to share your skin-tone will also be punished with you.
But YOU made it about race.
Good job!
First that the business has insurance.
Second that the looting is reparations.
Stealing is stealing even if you've managed to shift the burden of paying for the theft from the business owner to the insurance company.
You are still thieves, Black Lives Matters. Thieves rank very low in my eye. So low that if we changed the laws to let people shoot thieves regardless of the physical threat they pose to the shooter I'd say, "keep shooting until the stealing stops!"
I don't care what color the thief is, but if all the people stealing are black, then all of the corpses will be too.
Don't wanna get shot, don't steal what isn't yours. That's not a racist statement. We shoot every thief without regard to race, sex, gender, religious belief, country of origin or previous state of servitude.
You don't steal, you don't die. Couldn't be simpler and applies to any scumbag who thinks they've a right to someone else's property.
Claiming the businesses are insured is such a scumbag thief thing to say too.
You're simply stealing the premiums the businesses pre-paid to the insurance company. The money isn't magically appearing out of thin air to replace the goods. It's scumbags like the criminal syndicate known as Black Lives Matter who're the reason that businesses have to carry insurance for loss to theft in the first place. People like you were, in effect, stealing from them before you looted the place because they knew there were thieves like you about and sought protection from them.
What your looting will really do is make the place you looted close down and raise the prices at the places that remain. And you thought you couldn't afford it before?
Watching your criminal activity is also closing the minds and hardening the hearts of many people watching you behave exactly the way the one of the few groups who are lower than scumbag thieves, racists, predicted people of color would behave.
When someone looks at the riots and looting and makes a quick comparison to shit like "The White Man's Burden," and begins to wonder if perhaps some of the reconstruction era depictions of blacks are more accurate than they really are...
You've lost the race war already and set yourself up to be oppressed like no other people ever have been in the history of the world. American Indians will look upon you and say, "we got off light."
Because it will be from the moral high ground you will be forever oppressed. Insert C.S. Lewis quote here.
The boot will never lift because history will remember what you did with the glorious gift of freedom bequeathed you by 360 thousand dead white men. A gift you squandered because you did not earn it by your own hands.
A loss you will feel more keenly because you knew freedom once and will have had it taken away.
The tragedy isn't that YOU will be returned to oppression and servitude, but that literally millions of innocent, honest and hard working people who have the bad luck to share your skin-tone will also be punished with you.
But YOU made it about race.
Good job!
File Under Only Wrong When We Do It
Something interesting about diving into American history and the Native American is how often the phrase... "History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes." ...matters.
I am reading how it was wrong (and racist) for us to force the American Indian to not use their own language, to make them feel ashamed for being Indian and to force them out of their lands.
But it's A-OK! to force white Americans to not use their own language, to make them feel ashamed for being white and to force them out of their own houses and businesses.
I'll give you idiots an honest listen once you stop being hypocrites about everything you talk about.
Bonus History Lesson! The American Indian didn't experience these things until they'd lost the war. White America has not yet begun fighting the war.
Western civ and liberal democracies tend to be reluctant to start this kind of war because it so often leads to genocide.
Not once has western (read white if you must) civilization embarked on such a war and lost. Not one time.
It's gotten bored with victory and taken its toys and gone home, but it's never lost.
Remember, we're not fighting a war with you yet. Be careful what you wish for when you poke the sleeping dragon.
What If I Am Wrong
I am writing an alternate history based on a world very similar to ours, but with common and openly practiced magic where the Indians escaped the reservations to an alternate dimension...
I am not writing a doctoral thesis on The American Indian in 1899.
That means there will be glaring errors in the history. Glaring errors in the culture. Glaring errors everywhere.
It's an alternate history with magic. Those aren't errors. Those are deliberately inadvertent changes!
I'm going to do my best not to introduce those errors, but I will not lose sleep if a miss some.
I am not writing a doctoral thesis on The American Indian in 1899.
That means there will be glaring errors in the history. Glaring errors in the culture. Glaring errors everywhere.
It's an alternate history with magic. Those aren't errors. Those are deliberately inadvertent changes!
I'm going to do my best not to introduce those errors, but I will not lose sleep if a miss some.
A White Elephant
Marv gave me an old caplock rifle his sister had abandoned at his old house.
It's an FIE made "short" Kentucky rifle.
Something we're wondering is what size nipple wrench to get.
I sure hope it's #11, because that's all anyone appears to sell.
For most things you do a search and can find drawings.
Not nipples.
Mine measures 0.210" across the flats. What size nipple wrench fits that?
Marv found one of his wrenches and it's just 0.180". What size nipple is that?
It's an FIE made "short" Kentucky rifle.
Something we're wondering is what size nipple wrench to get.
I sure hope it's #11, because that's all anyone appears to sell.
For most things you do a search and can find drawings.
Not nipples.
Mine measures 0.210" across the flats. What size nipple wrench fits that?
Marv found one of his wrenches and it's just 0.180". What size nipple is that?
10 August 2020
Then Why Did You Ask
A friend asked me to explain my politics.
I warned her that she'd have to listen for quite a spell without interrupting.
I didn't get to finish the first sentence...
Now I know when she brings up politics just to tell her to shut up.
You no listen to me, I no listen to you.
I don't think we're very far apart politically, but she came to her position emotionally.
I warned her that she'd have to listen for quite a spell without interrupting.
I didn't get to finish the first sentence...
Now I know when she brings up politics just to tell her to shut up.
You no listen to me, I no listen to you.
I don't think we're very far apart politically, but she came to her position emotionally.
Very Well Said Rant
Rage against the dying of the light, Drinker!
Bonus, there's no winning by conceding to the SJW so you've nothing to lose by refusing to appease.
Bonus, there's no winning by conceding to the SJW so you've nothing to lose by refusing to appease.
Somewhere Someone Is Wondering Where I Went
I noticed this morning, while checking the local ABC affiliate's news web page there were instructions on how to dial your TV to the free over-the-air broadcast if you were a Dish subscriber.
The Lovely Harvey pulled the ejection handle when the CBS affiliate went dark last week.
Local programming is a $5 a month extra.
Half of the national broadcasters are off the air because of price bickering.
So I cast about to see what else was missing from Dish...
Fox Sports stuff had been gone since September last year. Still not resolved.
HBO and Cinemax (which I didn't pay for anyway) are down from November 2018.
They've had progressively less to offer and are unwilling to support current and long-time customers.
That might explain why they're hemorrhaging customers.
I do love the threat of my unpaid bill being sent to collections. Bitch, please. Get in line behind the medical offices whom were paid by the insurance but decided to send us a bill anyways.
The Lovely Harvey pulled the ejection handle when the CBS affiliate went dark last week.
Local programming is a $5 a month extra.
Half of the national broadcasters are off the air because of price bickering.
So I cast about to see what else was missing from Dish...
Fox Sports stuff had been gone since September last year. Still not resolved.
HBO and Cinemax (which I didn't pay for anyway) are down from November 2018.
They've had progressively less to offer and are unwilling to support current and long-time customers.
That might explain why they're hemorrhaging customers.
I do love the threat of my unpaid bill being sent to collections. Bitch, please. Get in line behind the medical offices whom were paid by the insurance but decided to send us a bill anyways.
09 August 2020
No Shit Really?
Wealth Gap is ancient.
So it's clear that the archaeology and history departments don't talk much.
Feudal systems of government focus wealth to a privileged few on the backs of workers in abject poverty.
'Tis capitalism what begins to end that and break down the gap.
Republican style democracy shanked it good and hard.
The "poor" in America live in conditions that cannot be obtained for any amount of gold or spice by even the richest king 6,600 years ago. Heck, spices are so cheap they're not even guarded at the store.
There's still a rich and poor gap in capitalism, but the lives of the poor are really much better. The poor lack the rich's luxuries, but don't lack in basic necessities and are still nearly awash in unheard of luxury for most of humanity's existence.
So it's clear that the archaeology and history departments don't talk much.
Feudal systems of government focus wealth to a privileged few on the backs of workers in abject poverty.
'Tis capitalism what begins to end that and break down the gap.
Republican style democracy shanked it good and hard.
The "poor" in America live in conditions that cannot be obtained for any amount of gold or spice by even the richest king 6,600 years ago. Heck, spices are so cheap they're not even guarded at the store.
There's still a rich and poor gap in capitalism, but the lives of the poor are really much better. The poor lack the rich's luxuries, but don't lack in basic necessities and are still nearly awash in unheard of luxury for most of humanity's existence.
Tomorrow's Forecast
Dateline 1945: Expect morning temperatures in Nagasaki to be significantly cooler...
It's been 75 years since someone pissed us off so bad we nuked them.
In those 75 years Japan has gone from being an enemy to an ally.
The ruins of Japanese cities have become bustling centers of commerce.
The bustling centers of commerce that were American cities have become ruins...
I guess the Japanese don't vote Democrat...
It's been 75 years since someone pissed us off so bad we nuked them.
In those 75 years Japan has gone from being an enemy to an ally.
The ruins of Japanese cities have become bustling centers of commerce.
The bustling centers of commerce that were American cities have become ruins...
I guess the Japanese don't vote Democrat...
08 August 2020
At The Limits
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| Canon M50, EF-S 55-250; f/5.6, 1/1000", 250mm, ISO 640. Tripod, manual focus, cropped a lot. |
You can just barely make out banding on Jupiter.
I can't get better with the equipment I have thanks to my gigantic pixels compared to FuzzyGeff's or a full-frame camera.
All in all, I'm happy with this because I feel like I worked hard to get it.
Go Go Self Medication
My legs have really bad days.
Really bad.
Over the counter just doesn't dent it.
Well, over the counter drugs.
Booze, on the other hand, works like a jiffy!
Booze also helps with the nightmares.
Hurray booze!
Oh, and my phone died.
Hopefully it's just a depleted battery.
Really bad.
Over the counter just doesn't dent it.
Well, over the counter drugs.
Booze, on the other hand, works like a jiffy!
Booze also helps with the nightmares.
Hurray booze!
Oh, and my phone died.
Hopefully it's just a depleted battery.
07 August 2020
Boogaloo
Not that they'll read it here...
Dear idiots.
There's no such thing as a "boogaloo movement".
You don't even understand where the term comes from.
"Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" is the '80's film it refers to which is an unasked for sequel nobody wanted.
The "nobody wanted" is the important part.
Calling a repeat of something that nobody wants as something two: something boogaloo has been part of my vocabulary since that horrid film came out.
As to how it got associated with white supremacy?
Someone on a gun board, someone else can figure out whom, said "Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo" and the meme took off.
The important takeaway is UNWANTED SEQUEL.
The real usage among the gun boards hasn't been racist, or even desirous of a new civil war.
I've seen it used more as a short-hand for John Parker's quote from Lexington, "Stand your ground; don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
It's tiresome to have to point out that this isn't racist, but we're going to have to explain everything to our tyrant children every little thing, every single time, aren't we?
Dear idiots.
There's no such thing as a "boogaloo movement".
You don't even understand where the term comes from.
"Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo" is the '80's film it refers to which is an unasked for sequel nobody wanted.
The "nobody wanted" is the important part.
Calling a repeat of something that nobody wants as something two: something boogaloo has been part of my vocabulary since that horrid film came out.
As to how it got associated with white supremacy?
Someone on a gun board, someone else can figure out whom, said "Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo" and the meme took off.
The important takeaway is UNWANTED SEQUEL.
The real usage among the gun boards hasn't been racist, or even desirous of a new civil war.
I've seen it used more as a short-hand for John Parker's quote from Lexington, "Stand your ground; don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.”
It's tiresome to have to point out that this isn't racist, but we're going to have to explain everything to our tyrant children every little thing, every single time, aren't we?
I Already Wear Hawaiian Shirts
Apparently, posting this picture to Twitter indicates you're a racist.
One person refusing to do the National Socialist salute is racist? Sharing this picture which is readily available on Wikipedia is an indication of racism?
Hey, idiots, learn the history of the person refusing to salute. It's also readily available on Wikipedia.
I'm not sure how Hawaiian shirts became Klan hoods, but the idiots have long been claiming that anything they don't like or understand is racist.
They've already made it clear that merely not being racist isn't enough to keep you from being racist; and defining racism in incredibly racist ways. They're also hinting that not conforming to their ideals will bring violence to you.
Seems appropriate to have a picture of Fascists in a crowd when talking about them, huh?
Here's one for them.
Herr Landmesser refused to participate in the salute. Actual, real live, nazis didn't physically attack him for it.
How far have you sunk when genuine German National Socialists saluting Hitler have the moral high ground over you?
One person refusing to do the National Socialist salute is racist? Sharing this picture which is readily available on Wikipedia is an indication of racism?
Hey, idiots, learn the history of the person refusing to salute. It's also readily available on Wikipedia.
I'm not sure how Hawaiian shirts became Klan hoods, but the idiots have long been claiming that anything they don't like or understand is racist.
They've already made it clear that merely not being racist isn't enough to keep you from being racist; and defining racism in incredibly racist ways. They're also hinting that not conforming to their ideals will bring violence to you.
Seems appropriate to have a picture of Fascists in a crowd when talking about them, huh?
Here's one for them.
Herr Landmesser refused to participate in the salute. Actual, real live, nazis didn't physically attack him for it.
How far have you sunk when genuine German National Socialists saluting Hitler have the moral high ground over you?
Trainwreck Transfer
He formatted it incorrectly on his blog, so I just copy-pasta'd it here.
Update: And the little piece of HTML I copied and posted here has was deleted.
Thanks Google!
So I've tried to restore it...
06 August 2020
Hand Cannon
The Colt New Service arrived from Iowa today!
It is no small gun.
The single-action Army isn't known as a small gun, and it's dwarfed by the later design.
While the finish is, by no means, pristine; it locks up tight as a drum and has a mirror bore.
Just need to get my schedule shifted around to get to the range.
It is no small gun.
The single-action Army isn't known as a small gun, and it's dwarfed by the later design.
While the finish is, by no means, pristine; it locks up tight as a drum and has a mirror bore.
Just need to get my schedule shifted around to get to the range.
Rather Warm Today What
核？
核とは何ですか？
やばい！ やばい！ やばい！ やばい！
On this day, 75 years ago, the second highest temperature was recorded in Japan and still holds the record high for Hiroshima.
05 August 2020
What Happened To That Project?
You might note that, in recent pics, my Krag doesn't have the rear peep sight I talked about installing a while ago.
Bubba, while he did a good job converting a rifle to a deer-slaying carbine, used a commercial front and rear sight set up.
The Williams sight assumes you've still got the issue military front sight, which is much taller than any commercial blade.
The HEL-E4A project is languishing because of a lack of lathe and skill to work said lathe.
I can hire both, but I'd need to seriously clean up my drawings so that I get what I want instead of what the machinist thinks I want from the drawings I have now.
The semi-auto STEN idea got nuked by the utter lack of 922r compliance parts for an otherwise very doable project from fairly available and affordable parts.
Bubba, while he did a good job converting a rifle to a deer-slaying carbine, used a commercial front and rear sight set up.
The Williams sight assumes you've still got the issue military front sight, which is much taller than any commercial blade.
The HEL-E4A project is languishing because of a lack of lathe and skill to work said lathe.
I can hire both, but I'd need to seriously clean up my drawings so that I get what I want instead of what the machinist thinks I want from the drawings I have now.
The semi-auto STEN idea got nuked by the utter lack of 922r compliance parts for an otherwise very doable project from fairly available and affordable parts.
I Wouldn't Pull That Thread
Apparently VA hospital nurses are unionized.
They're not striking, but they are protesting over the imminent end of hazard pay for Wu Ping Cough.
Almost as an addendum to the article it mentions they demand an end to the systemic racism of the system they work in.
I agree.
Reduce staffing of black people from the over 65% I see every visit to the national proportion of 13%.
Did they think we didn't notice?
This is something that will fly under the radar of the average citizen because they never go to a VA facility for anything and have no idea how affirmative actioned the places are.
It's a very union shop now that it's been pointed out. "Not my job" is rampant.
Update:
Their slogan is, "Human lives over profit!" Ironic as the demand more money, no?
It's always OK for THEM to profit, which they never register that every dime they get will come out of something else, and that will end up costing lives.
Remember the poor old codger who died because there was no money to transport him from one side of the building to the other?
They're not striking, but they are protesting over the imminent end of hazard pay for Wu Ping Cough.
Almost as an addendum to the article it mentions they demand an end to the systemic racism of the system they work in.
I agree.
Reduce staffing of black people from the over 65% I see every visit to the national proportion of 13%.
Did they think we didn't notice?
This is something that will fly under the radar of the average citizen because they never go to a VA facility for anything and have no idea how affirmative actioned the places are.
It's a very union shop now that it's been pointed out. "Not my job" is rampant.
Update:
Their slogan is, "Human lives over profit!" Ironic as the demand more money, no?
It's always OK for THEM to profit, which they never register that every dime they get will come out of something else, and that will end up costing lives.
Remember the poor old codger who died because there was no money to transport him from one side of the building to the other?
04 August 2020
Oh Baby
If I start saving now... and all y'all hit that tip jar generously...
Damn I've got a case of the wants.
It's enough to make one a Wehraboo.
Cut The Cord
Today marks the first day in over 20 years that I do not have some sort of paid subscription to TV.
I am no longer paying Dish Network for their services.
The equipment was failing and they were disinterested in seeing that it was repaired or replaced without a substantial increase in cost through signing a new contract, despite my paying extra to "insure" the equipment against such failures.
The constant dropping of channels while they squabbled with content providers over the price was also getting old.
The NHL joining the asinine trend of dancing monkeys kneeling for The National Anthem was the final straw.
You can't subscribe to cable or satellite without some of your fees subsidizing professional sports, so the only way to stop paying for these asses is to stop having subscription TV.
Done and done.
Now we see what we can get from a Roku or similar without paying for more than the box.
I am no longer paying Dish Network for their services.
The equipment was failing and they were disinterested in seeing that it was repaired or replaced without a substantial increase in cost through signing a new contract, despite my paying extra to "insure" the equipment against such failures.
The constant dropping of channels while they squabbled with content providers over the price was also getting old.
The NHL joining the asinine trend of dancing monkeys kneeling for The National Anthem was the final straw.
You can't subscribe to cable or satellite without some of your fees subsidizing professional sports, so the only way to stop paying for these asses is to stop having subscription TV.
Done and done.
Now we see what we can get from a Roku or similar without paying for more than the box.
03 August 2020
Be Concise
Dear YouTubers and Podcasters.
Don't cram three minutes of content into ten.
Summarize your point in the introduction.
Make your point in the body.
Repeat your point paraphrased from the opening statement.
Don't make asides that don't have anything to do with the point.
Don't tell us the story that made you think of your point BEFORE you've made it.
The supporting material isn't the body and shouldn't be presented until you've made the argument it supports.
Otherwise it's just you blabbering aimlessly.
PS: Mount your fucking microphone so the only part of you I can hear is your sleep inducing voice.
I don't wanna hear you breathing, chewing or swallowing. None of those are part of your point, are they?
You don't aim the camera at squirrels fucking in the yard, right? Why do you aim the microphone at something besides the subject?
Don't cram three minutes of content into ten.
Summarize your point in the introduction.
Make your point in the body.
Repeat your point paraphrased from the opening statement.
Don't make asides that don't have anything to do with the point.
Don't tell us the story that made you think of your point BEFORE you've made it.
The supporting material isn't the body and shouldn't be presented until you've made the argument it supports.
Otherwise it's just you blabbering aimlessly.
PS: Mount your fucking microphone so the only part of you I can hear is your sleep inducing voice.
I don't wanna hear you breathing, chewing or swallowing. None of those are part of your point, are they?
You don't aim the camera at squirrels fucking in the yard, right? Why do you aim the microphone at something besides the subject?
And Another Thing
I pulled the ejection handle on a friendship where the friend in question was getting increasingly liberal.
That was about 5 years ago.
I find it telling that I never explicitly said, "I'm done, don't talk to me any more," I just stopped initiating conversation.
Without me contacting them, they just stopped talking.
I walked away and they never bothered to see if I'd reconsider.
It makes you doubt your value, it does.
The increasingly liberal aspect is easy to explain.
Living in a liberal college town with zero experience outside liberal college towns will do that to you. Especially when your dating poll is liberal college students.
Their lack of follow-up contact feels more like they created a situation where I'd finally give up and walk so they could say that they didn't boot me to the curb.
I've felt this way about liberal friends before. I've a few in my wake.
It's not their fault, it's Thag who bailed.
I am, at present, without friends in Iowa, save one, because of that liberal college distortion and zero real-world experience.
That was about 5 years ago.
I find it telling that I never explicitly said, "I'm done, don't talk to me any more," I just stopped initiating conversation.
Without me contacting them, they just stopped talking.
I walked away and they never bothered to see if I'd reconsider.
It makes you doubt your value, it does.
The increasingly liberal aspect is easy to explain.
Living in a liberal college town with zero experience outside liberal college towns will do that to you. Especially when your dating poll is liberal college students.
Their lack of follow-up contact feels more like they created a situation where I'd finally give up and walk so they could say that they didn't boot me to the curb.
I've felt this way about liberal friends before. I've a few in my wake.
It's not their fault, it's Thag who bailed.
I am, at present, without friends in Iowa, save one, because of that liberal college distortion and zero real-world experience.
02 August 2020
Jovian Moons
Galileo saw this! With less streaking and possibly with the big red spot being visible.
Eyes being better than sensors for seeing light and dark at the same time.
Still playing with settings and trying to resolve the banding. The moons will not be visible when set that dim.
Best attempt so far:
Why?
You're standing there, with a bloody knife in one hand and the severed head of a hooker in the other.
There's a cordon of cops with their guns pointed at you, screaming, "Drop the knife!"
All you can think is, "Why don't they want me to drop the head?"
There's a cordon of cops with their guns pointed at you, screaming, "Drop the knife!"
All you can think is, "Why don't they want me to drop the head?"
01 August 2020
Trying It On For Size
Listening to Ice Cube rant about the evils of The Democrat Party since reconstruction Whitey...
It occurs to me we have a new term to apply to black celebrities lecturing ME about how I kept them from becoming... uh... successful millionaires?
Wait.
So every one of you black celebrity musicians, actors, comedians and athletes:
Come down from your ebony towers and see how I'm living before you try to tell me I'm keeping you down.
It occurs to me we have a new term to apply to black celebrities lecturing ME about how I kept them from becoming... uh... successful millionaires?
Wait.
So every one of you black celebrity musicians, actors, comedians and athletes:
Come down from your ebony towers and see how I'm living before you try to tell me I'm keeping you down.
Because It's So Cold Outside From The Hurricane Pulling In All That Arctic Air
FIRE!
Rolled the logs over and flame is restored!
Could It Be All The Corruption
Americans have a hostile relationship with their police.
We've a deep independence streak that bridles at someone telling us what to do.
The police tell us to stop doing what we're doing.
We tend to not like that.
Even if, or especially when, we've voted to make what we're up to illegal.
This gets coupled with a deep seated feeling that we didn't vote to make what's now against the law illegal.
And this resentment is plain enough when the police are honest.
Historically, they are patently not.
Historically, they rarely are.
There've been many exceptions to the general corruption and its to the credit of everyone involved that the institutional corruption endemic to city police forces has, in recent times, been greatly reduced.
Reduced, but not eliminated.
Just enough remains to remind the cultural memory that the po po are just a state sanctioned gang.
Something the, admittedly, mostly honest police have failed to do is to convince the public that the rampant corruption of the past is in the past.
This failure is centered around a failure to condemn the "bad apples" vocally and vociferously.
This is coupled with police association with another organization that is never without corruption, the labor union.
The cops, especially the honest ones, cannot do their jobs without the trust and support of the people and communities they serve.
Once place they've consistently failed is in serving their communities. Too often everything about them is in service to themselves with little to no regard to their communities. Most don't even live among the places they police.
It's a Gordian Knot and most people insist we untie it rather than cut.
At present the cops and people aren't really that far apart. We need to look hard and honestly at the thin partition between us and viciously excise the elements which placed the barriers to our understanding one another.
If we don't then organizations such asBureau of Land Management Black Lives Matter can build further separation between the honest people on both sides.
If we don't then corrupt politicians will continue to build personal armies who enforce not the law, but the edicts of the politicians.
I doubt we will and an honest citizen will have to come to regard any cop as an enemy rather than a friend because we cannot know if the cop we're dealing with is corrupt or honest.
History, sadly, says they're going to be corrupt even if corruption is actually rare recently.
We've a deep independence streak that bridles at someone telling us what to do.
The police tell us to stop doing what we're doing.
We tend to not like that.
Even if, or especially when, we've voted to make what we're up to illegal.
This gets coupled with a deep seated feeling that we didn't vote to make what's now against the law illegal.
And this resentment is plain enough when the police are honest.
Historically, they are patently not.
Historically, they rarely are.
There've been many exceptions to the general corruption and its to the credit of everyone involved that the institutional corruption endemic to city police forces has, in recent times, been greatly reduced.
Reduced, but not eliminated.
Just enough remains to remind the cultural memory that the po po are just a state sanctioned gang.
Something the, admittedly, mostly honest police have failed to do is to convince the public that the rampant corruption of the past is in the past.
This failure is centered around a failure to condemn the "bad apples" vocally and vociferously.
This is coupled with police association with another organization that is never without corruption, the labor union.
The cops, especially the honest ones, cannot do their jobs without the trust and support of the people and communities they serve.
Once place they've consistently failed is in serving their communities. Too often everything about them is in service to themselves with little to no regard to their communities. Most don't even live among the places they police.
It's a Gordian Knot and most people insist we untie it rather than cut.
At present the cops and people aren't really that far apart. We need to look hard and honestly at the thin partition between us and viciously excise the elements which placed the barriers to our understanding one another.
If we don't then organizations such as
If we don't then corrupt politicians will continue to build personal armies who enforce not the law, but the edicts of the politicians.
I doubt we will and an honest citizen will have to come to regard any cop as an enemy rather than a friend because we cannot know if the cop we're dealing with is corrupt or honest.
History, sadly, says they're going to be corrupt even if corruption is actually rare recently.
Mass Not Retained
The element to element spells transmute a volume.
Earth to Air changes 1 cubic foot of earth or stone into 1 cubic foot of air.
Mass is lost.
Energy must be lost too because that block of rock is breathable air.
A wizard did it. Literally.
The reason I looked it up is the question of what happens when a Googoo missile ward transforms the missile into water.
220gr of cupro-nickel plated lead is 1.257ml of volume and that becomes... 1.257g of water flying through the air at 2,000 ft/sec.
Don'tcha just love how consistent I am about measurements?
That water is going to be steam really fast and going to stop pretty much dead as soon as it transforms.
But now I know how long-range rifle fire will be handled against the wards.
Earth to Air changes 1 cubic foot of earth or stone into 1 cubic foot of air.
Mass is lost.
Energy must be lost too because that block of rock is breathable air.
A wizard did it. Literally.
The reason I looked it up is the question of what happens when a Googoo missile ward transforms the missile into water.
220gr of cupro-nickel plated lead is 1.257ml of volume and that becomes... 1.257g of water flying through the air at 2,000 ft/sec.
Don'tcha just love how consistent I am about measurements?
That water is going to be steam really fast and going to stop pretty much dead as soon as it transforms.
But now I know how long-range rifle fire will be handled against the wards.
Look Brain...
Talking to FuzzyGeff and I can't focus on what I'm talking about.
Almost falling asleep.
Get ready for bed and it's like a cocktail of crack, meth and adrenaline for my brain.
Now I am AWAKE for no damn reason.
SIGH.
Got plenty of research books to pore through for Sabers and Sorcery...
Almost falling asleep.
Get ready for bed and it's like a cocktail of crack, meth and adrenaline for my brain.
Now I am AWAKE for no damn reason.
SIGH.
Got plenty of research books to pore through for Sabers and Sorcery...
Effectiveness
If wearing masks is effective then wearing one will prevent you from sucking up the virus and everyone else can skip it.
It's not something that requires two layers to work.
Except...
There's masks what capture it and keep you from spewing it out.
There's masks what filter it out and keep you from sucking it in.
They are not what everyone is wearing.
They are not bandanas.
If a bandana is effective then one layer is just fine and you go to town wearing one while I breathe normally.
It's not something that requires two layers to work.
Except...
There's masks what capture it and keep you from spewing it out.
There's masks what filter it out and keep you from sucking it in.
They are not what everyone is wearing.
They are not bandanas.
If a bandana is effective then one layer is just fine and you go to town wearing one while I breathe normally.
Nuke The Unions
I've noticed something reading about cops and teachers in our post Chinese Bio-Warfare world...
The teachers and police unions are giving orders to their members.
These orders are being obeyed.
It occurs to me that the teachers and the police work for the unions and not us.
It also occurs to me that if they work for the union, then the unions can pay them.
I'd rather that they worked for US and not some third party insinuated between us.
The teachers and police unions are giving orders to their members.
These orders are being obeyed.
It occurs to me that the teachers and the police work for the unions and not us.
It also occurs to me that if they work for the union, then the unions can pay them.
I'd rather that they worked for US and not some third party insinuated between us.
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