Ten to Twenty for Forty-Five

Of the many, many, many annoying things about the FOFF is that he refers to himself by his last name. Does he have to keep saying it so he doesn't forget? Is he that insecure about himself?

Meanwhile, the usual anacephalic trolls and Putinite sock-puppets put on a disgusting display in Congress yesterday. They can't bother to take a look at the sudden profitability of grocery store chains, that CEO pay keeps racing ahead of the rate of inflation. that oil company execs are colluding with OPEC to screw American consumers, no, they can't look into any of that. Because those pirates and financial looters are their campaign contributors.

Great-Grandpaw's Service Revolver; Match Ed.

I shot a USPSA match with a century-old S&W M&P revolver.

The sights are pretty minimal. When in shooting position, only the top bit of the front sight is visible in the rear sight. I had painted the back of the front sight with "traffic cone orange" nail polish over a white base coat and it was surprisingly visible. The trigger was as sweet as only an old Smith and Wesson revolver (or one with custom work) can be.

USPSA matches are speed matches. Your base score is how long it takes to shoot a stage. Then time is added for every hit outside of the "A" zone and for misses. So it goes slower with a revolver as reloading is a little slower (for most people) and the capacity is far less than the full-sized pistols commonly used in such matches.

I didn't score last, not even close to last. So I was pretty happy.

Pets and Death

If this piece doesn't touch your heart in some way, then you are probably someone that I would rather not know.

(Yes, it has nothing to do with cats, specifically. But that is the label that is close enough.)

NRA -- Back In

I let my membership lapse five years ago in disgust at the corrupt fuckery of Wany LaPierre and his many cronies. But in reading here and here, it seems that some real changes are underway.

So I'm back in, for a year. If things progress, I'll renew. If not, I'll drop it, again.

We shall see.

Hypocrites Changing Their Tunes, Here

The FOFF on Crime (and a bit on his cultists)

You can go back decades and find that he has taken a tough stance on crime. He called for the Central Park Five to be executed and ran a full-page paid opinion ad about that in the New York Times. Even after those kids were exonerated, he didn't retract his opinion. He has called for criminal defendants to be roughed up by the cops during arrests. He has advocated that those convicted of crimes lose all civil rights, forever. He called for Hillary Clinton to be locked up. He wanted to call out the Army to shoot protesters. He had tear gas and riot cops used to push back peaceful protesters so he could stand in front of a church and hold up an upside-down Bible (a book that he probably has never opened in his life).

None of that has changed, except for when it is his ox being gored. Now that his criminality has caught up with him, that there is a possibility that the lock on a cell door is going to be turned on him, he's complaining about how bad the criminal justice system is.

I expect that all of that hypocrisy is going to be laid out, in full. it won't. though, make a bit of difference to those who agree with that particular jackass that the grass is blue.

The donkey told the tiger, “The grass is blue.”

The tiger replied, “No, the grass is green.”

The discussion became heated, and the two decided to submit the issue to arbitration, so they approached the lion.

As they approached the lion on his throne, the donkey started screaming: ′′Your Highness, isn’t it true that the grass is blue?”

The lion replied: “If you believe it is true, the grass is blue.”

The donkey rushed forward and continued: ′′The tiger disagrees with me, contradicts me and annoys me. Please punish him.”

The king then declared: ′′The tiger will be punished with 3 days of silence.”

The donkey jumped with joy and went on his way, content and repeating ′′The grass is blue, the grass is blue…”

The tiger asked the lion, “Your Majesty, why have you punished me, after all, the grass is green?”

The lion replied, ′′You’ve known and seen the grass is green.”

The tiger asked, ′′So why do you punish me?”

The lion replied, “That has nothing to do with the question of whether the grass is blue or green. The punishment is because it is degrading for a brave, intelligent creature like you to waste time arguing with an ass, and on top of that, you came and bothered me with that question just to validate something you already knew was true!”

The various Trumpanzees who have been chanting for years that the election was stolen and now that Dolt-45 was railroaded are like that jackass. They've bought a lie, they're chanting a lie and there is no point in arguing with them. They are the political equivalent of Flat-Earthers and Creationists. The only thing we can do, to save our country, is outvote them.

And if they act out, turn the key on them, too.

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

The Rhino!

The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds shows with the F-4 were something to see.

Why I Always Thought That the COFF Was Guilty

He hired Roy Cohn as his lawyer.

Cohn was a walking personification of a sleazeball shyster. He was the sort of fixer for rich crypto-criminals that nobody who was even remotely honest or ethical would ever need. He defrauded elderly clients, acts that finally got his scummy ass disbarred.

That tells me that FOFF always operated a criminal enterprise. It just took 50 years to finally catch his ass.

Still, there is something delicious about a political party that has prided itself for decades on being the "party of law and order" hitching its star to a convicted felon.

Verdicting These Down, Here

Caturday

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