Happy Birthday Honest Abe

Even that execrable pup David Hogg thinks highly of him!

Ooops.   Lincoln got eaten alive by mosquitos during one of our wars and now someone told Hogg that's a war crime on Lincoln, so no the Harvard freshman is guilty of a thoughtcrime.   Sad trombone...

What is the point?

Why go after suppressors?  Statistically NEVER used in a crime.  I know of people in Virginia with suppressors.  Good people.  MANY people.   Middle class, upstanding, tax paying, model citizens.  And the State Police are going to go banging on their doors like they are criminals?  This is madness. 

Soup's on

Every winter I make a big batch of soup.  Ladle it out into microwaveable pyrex bowls.  Eat some, freeze others.

Little late this year.

And this year was beef stew.  Not a soup, per se.

In the past I go with beef and barley, venison chili, senate bean, split pea.

The beef stew was ON POINT this year.  Proud of myself.

I make it in a cast iron dutch oven.  And it's it three quarters full.  Makes 6 generous serving.  The reason for the dutch over is so I can put that in the oven at 250 to simmer.  That way I can't burn the bottom of the thicker stews/soups.

I hate the texture of onions and celery, but I like the flavor, so I replace the regular version with onion powder and homemade shallot salt, and celery seed.  Beef, potatoes, peas, carrots.

No pics.  It's stew!

Data Pr0n

I love this stuff. I've posted this stuff before, but it's evergreen.

DOJ and FBI tells us how many get shot and killed.  The number has gone from the 8K's to the 11K's.  Thanks Obama.  Times 2 of that for suicide.  So 30,000.

If you self report AND leave your contact info with the Federal Gummint, 100,000 people defended themselves with a firearm. (Defensive Gun Use)  MORE than 30K.

Clinton era Centers for Disease Control (NOT a big fan of the Second Amendment) said 500K DGU.

So the the Obama era CDC.  500,000+ defensive gun use.

These are the LOW numbers.  If you were deciding human rights for self defense just with math, then the Second comes out on top even with hostile statistical regimes.   All the other surveys have a larger DGU rate.

Suck it, Bloomberg.

AUTHORITAH!

Looks like the DC cops are arresting kids for Aggravated Mopery again.

I dunno how I feel about this.  One, the arrested kid is prolly an ass.  Two, the arresting officer is prolly one, too.

But you know, being an ass is rarely illegal. 

Ugly

It is 'universally' accepted that Glocki are ugly.  And other pistols are more attractive.

This is a subjective observation, but there is consensus.  Seemingly.

Why?

Oh, it's blocky, and not sleek.  The finish is only fancy if you do that after-market.  But it's the same with plastic pistols that came later, and those are considered less ugly. Sure, maybe there is a design flourish on a M&P, say, that apparently give that one style points over the Glock.  But are they really raising M&P that far above the Glock in the looks department?

Ok, let's compare it the 1911.  A pistol that is considered much more attractive looking.  And not a fancy one.  Picture a stock 1911, parkerized, plain grips.  Heck even paint those grips the same color as the rest of the pistol so it doesn't look two-tone. 

And now the hard part.  Set your prejudices aside.  And just look at the two pistols and judge as if you have never seen them before.

I know it is difficult.  The 1911 had a 60 year head start to get itself ingrained into the culture.  It had to compete on looks with revolvers, but those types are much more widely different than the two semi autos in question.

Is there some Golden Mean that grants the 1911 an advantage in the styling department?  Is that enough to place it head and shoulder over the Glock where most call one gun attractive and the other ugly? 

(and if there is the Golden Mean cooked into 1911s...  good job Browning!)

I Remember That Too

Two years ago, climate bedwetters claimed that ocean circulation was at its weakest in 1,500 years. https://t.co/ZJDqMT13hNhttps://t.co/4KDr6IgpJS

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) February 8, 2020

Remember when...

Democrats denigrated Bush II and called themselves part of the Reality Based Community?

Yeah, I miss those days when Dems and Lefties strived for that.  And it looks like Wolf Blitzer does too.

Wolf Blitzer: "The Senate has clearly spoken now. @realDonaldTrump was acquitted."

Dem Sen Mazie Hirono: "Wolf, he wasn't acquitted..."

Blitzer: "There was a role call, guilty or not guilty. Not guilty was the majority. & the [Chief Justice]... announced that he was acquitted." pic.twitter.com/Tt9qoSmqRP

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 6, 2020

I'd have been married a long time ago.

WHO DID THIS pic.twitter.com/0wPod4RuXt

— The Red-Headed Libertarian ™ (@TRHLofficial) February 6, 2020

5 will get you 20

That this guy was already a prohibited person when he shot a detective that pulled him over, then another detective after a car chase and disappeared.

(When/if they convict him he will prolly get more than 5-20...)

I woke yesterday to the local news saying BOLO for a tall thin white dude with neck tats.

Well, I already sorta keep an eye on peeps with neck tats.  Sorry non-meth-head kindergarten teachers that just happen to have a neck and face ink.

I say tall-skinny is a meth-head, but that's just an educated guess.  I could be wrong.

Why did he get pulled over?  Well the cops found a corpse in a house nearby and his name came up about it.

"Why do you care, T-Bolt?  Don't you live close to DC?  This is up nearer to Baltimore."

Yeah I commute to work near there.  They cancelled school around my office during this manhunt.  And I am unarmed because Maryland.

Well, I am not carrying a concealed pistol because Maryland.  I am armed.  I'd prefer to be better armed.

Dude's prolly half a county away, at least. 

(update:  they had caught him before I had left work for the day.)

Have you noticed

That all election anomalies and shenanigans you hear about seem to happen when Democrats are in charge of the process?

Anchor around my neck

So, in my formative years, when TV had 3 channels, the nightly news anchors were a familiar fixture.  Sam Donaldson was a ubiquitous sight, for example.  He retired from daily talking head work, so I saw less of him.

But he still appears, now and then.  Guest spots.

Saw him recently, and my god.  He looks like a Jeff Dunham puppet.  Walter.  Uncanny.

Walter should get a toupe. 

Rush!

They need to give Rush that same Elites-Only cancer cure like they gave to Jimmy Carter for his inoperable brain cancer and Ruth Bader Ginsberg for her pancreatic cancer.  It's only fair. 

Real ID

Finally got mine.  Real ID.

They waited on me because my license was close to expiring.  I must be one of the last.

If you get the option to make an appointment at your motor vehicle administration or department of motor vehicles or whatever you call it, do it.

There were two lines when I got there, 45 minutes early.  The line to take a number.  The appointment line was a dozen people.  My line.  It moved slow, because, of course it did.  ALL lines at the MVA move slow.  The other line, the one for people without an appointment?   The peasantry?  60 people in that one.

Once the bureaucratic sloth worked through to me and I got my number I had about 30 seconds before that number was called.

Now, you need a proof of your social security number.  An old W-2 did for me.  A photo ID.  And I had a passport for that.  And 2 utility bills to prove you have an address.  Piece of cake.

What was new was the warnings you had to acknowledge that you were a citizen eligible to vote and you promised never to be involved in voter fraud or any kind of vote stealing schemes.  That was new.

Another new thing is if you bring your DD214 you can get "Veteran" put on your DL.  So, now I guess I can get discounted meals on November 11th?

They said they'd mail it to me in 7-10 business days.  It took 4.

Next on the list?  In two months the passport expires.

Speaking of History

The lefty debacle in Iowa?

My freude is geschadened.

The Wrong Side of History

The clucking scolds that keep accusing other people of being on the Wrong Side of History?

They are ignorant of History.

Hmm.  I am ignorant of brain surgery.  The closest thing I get to it is cooking and eating Scrapple.  When someone slide "Wrong-Side-History" in the conversation, Ima tell them they are on the Wrong Side of Brain Surgery.

Board Voting Follow Up

So I did a shout out for voter-guide resources for the NRA board of directors, in a feeble attempt to get this train back on the track.  I just wanted to recap in an actual post.

Commenter Old Windways likes Massachusetts's James L. Wallace.

Rob Pincus over at AmmoLand is no slouch and he has recommendations here.

• Anthony P Conandro
• Graham Hill
• Robert Mansell
• Todd J Rather
• Steven C Schreiner
• Frank C Tait
• James L Wallace

Sebastian at Shall Not be Questioned pointed to the guide of another blogger that he concurs with and whom I also respect, Only Guns and Money.  And he has some inside dope on the NRA.  Read that post.

• Graham Hill
• Frank C Tait
• ---

Note the overlap with Pincus.  Two separate folks that are fans of Hill and Tait.


You can't vote for more than 31 (!) folks and you have to get it in before March 29th.  (Read the instructions your own self, you know how I make mistakes, don't trust me 100% to get it right.)

Back in MY day

We just put a bayonet on our Garand and called it good

Deep State

You know...  I've just come to realize what bugs me most about the Deep State.

The ostensibly conservative members of same.

For year, DECADES, they have been mouthing conservative platitudes and principles that I shared, or thought I shared.  They often touted these great principles with an elegance I truly appreciated.  It's why I followed and listened to these pundits.  They appeared to be walking the same path as me.  (Some flat out lied and were stone cold socialists this whole time.)

But always there was a higher priority with them.  An agenda that superseded those stated principals.  The conservative Deep State had other principals.  Unstated because they knew those positions would not go over well with their allies.  Private principals that often contradicted their stated ones.

"Oh, you just SAID you supported the 2nd Amendment, and you are fine with instituting a Great Britain regime here?  Oh, you just SAID you were against abortion, but you are all for taxpayer money fully funding Planned Parenthood abortion mills?"

The abortion part is just an example.  That's not my issue.  I just notice the disconnect, the dissonance.

So it's a betrayal as well as hypocrisy.  It's all just so galling.  I hope one of their cruise ships hits an iceberg.

That's Reasonable

A near foolproof way to test the validity of Catastrophic Climate Change Claims?

Cheap and fast!

And it will never happen.

The people making the false claims now will obstruct it from ever being rationally validated because they already know the conclusions.  Their lies and fraud will be exposed and a massive money and political edifice focused on the subject will come crumbling down, to their detriment.  Duh.