Which Is It?

Beetlejuice has lost its bid for re-election as Mayor of Shit-cago. So I pose the following question: is it because the voters are just racist homophobes, or are they actually sick of a criminal coddling LIBTURD and its shitty policies?

I would love to have that question answered by another unqualified LIBTURD who is only in place for being the first black lesbian in a position as her main qualifications.

Karine Jean-Pierre.... a response? Use the comment section below or email contact form on the sidebar.

Am I Wrong?

So apparently, Mayor Beetlejuice is in danger of losing its re-election bid in Shit-cago. Does anyone not believe a job in (p)Resident Gropey Dopey Joey Poopy-Pants' administration awaits that creep if it loses?

A Random Act of Journalism?

That's what El Rushbo used to call it when like a stopped clock that is right twice a day, journalists would actually report a story that was true, did not include lies of omission, or just spew agenda and talking points. They acted as real journalists without even realizing what they had done.

Yesterday morning, Wifey made a nice breakfast of blueberry pancakes and I fried up a couple of slices of SPAM, so instead of heading right down to the basement as planned, I stayed upstairs to eat. She had the TV on as usual watching the CBS Sunday Morning show. I usually shun that liberal crap that is normally about Hollywood, NYC, the arts, etc. NOTHING that interests a deplorable such as myself and is usually borderline insulting. CBS is normally anti-gun, so when I saw what their first story was, I figured I would watch with a jaded eye and disregard their Demon-Crap talking points while I ate my breakfast. It started out with the substitute host spewing the latest nonsense about gun violence being the leading cause of death among children and teens in the United States. Sure, when you count "kids" up to age 26 and include suicides then it looks like your kid could be gunned down any time now. But right after that bogus statistic, he adds that young black men are hardest hit. Whoa.... he said the quiet part out loud. My interest was piqued to say the least, so I watched the entire story, reported by Ted Koppel. Below is a link so you can watch it yourself. It is just under 13 minutes.

 

CBS Sunday Morning Show 02/26/23 - ROCA, Steering Young Men Away From A Life With Guns

 

Now the guy Ted Koppel interviewed from the ROCA program, Jamal West did say something at the 01:20 mark about there now being so much access to firearms. Meh, I disagree. Criminals have always had easy access to stolen or otherwise ill-gotten firearms. They certainly can't buy them the legal and painful way you or I do, filling out a 4473 and submitting to an NCIS check waiting for the bullshit to finish and then maybe have your credit card declined because your bank doesn't like civilian firearms ownership. But even criminals used to know that use of a gun was last resort. THAT is what has changed, the feral street animals now go for the gun first, for the most trivial of reasons. "The kill or be killed" mentality that is misplaced in those urban shitholes, unlike the "an armed society is a polite society" mentality in suburban or rural America. Much of that is related in the story.

Baltimore PD Col. Monique Brown, a 22 year veteran of the force, said the same thing I always say about violating the Constitution. In order to prevent crime, rights are gonna be violated. Police normally show up to investigate and make arrests. Now am I sad the rights of feral street animals are being violated? No, and since they are mostly uneducated, they have no clue what their rights are anyway and that "violation" probably saves lives if they get caught with an illegal firearm. She also alluded to the fact that the consent for pat down has been made illegal by the hobbling of police, which I have personal experience with in Kommiecticut.

The whole story was about turning these feral street animals into young men taking responsibility for their lives and turning them around. The guy at the end of the story, Sheldon Smith Gray aka "Snackz" has earned his certificate to be an HVAC technician, which as we all know, he may not end up making as much money as dealing drugs, but it is certainly a decent living that comes close to $2K/week and comes without the danger and possible incarceration.

The most amazing thing to me was to see a CBS News story like this, without the usual calls for more infringements on the armed peaceable citizens.

Updates From Previous Posts

Reloading

I finally got the production run of 200 rounds of 9mm done yesterday that I wanted to do these past two Wednesday evenings, but something came up both times preventing me from loading. This past Wednesday was a late day structure fire a couple of towns away that we got called to for station coverage. Oh well, 2 more hours overtime.... CHA-CHING!! Since I was off yesterday and my plans to do a tire rotation on wifey's RAV-4 went out the window because she was going to be out, I had a few hours to myself to get my reloading done. Unlike the recent easy run of 200 .357 Magnum rounds, I ran into some issues. These have happened before and I finally solved the root cause. I then had a powder mishap with using my new Lee Pro Auto-Disk dispenser, caused by my inexperience with the newer model I recently bought. The bad news; I had to burn off a quantity of contaminated powder (what a waste) to dispose of it. The good news; I am not blind or burned, the house is still standing, and I have all my fingers. I will explain below.

The Lee Pro-1000 set up for 9mm, ready for the next tube of shells

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It seems like I have had problems with loading 9mm before, but didn't remember the details until I got into it yesterday. As the shell plate carrier comes down on the operating lever upstroke, the primer gets seated in the primer pocket, and you can feel it seat. I occasionally did not really feel it seat and when the completed round cycled out into the bin, it seemed to have a dimpled primer in it and it was slightly sticking out. As I carefully watched the operation of the press from another angle, I discovered the problem. The resizing die and de-capping pin were out of adjustment, meaning the old primer was occasionally not being pushed all the way out of the primer pocket. Thankfully, the protruding primer prevented a new one from coming down the chute, otherwise a new primer would get crushed against the old one, probably making a loud sound. I shut off the powder, emptied the primer chute, and cleared the shell drop tube. The sizing die was removed, the de-capping pin adjustment lengthened slightly, and the die reseated on the turret plate. Running a few shells through to only resize and de-prime resulted in a 100% success rate. Those shells were put into an empty shell drop tube by themselves for the restart of production. The powder was turned on, primers reloaded in the Lee Auto Prime, and I began cranking the operating lever. There were no more hiccups and the 200 rounds were finished.

The powder mishap occurred as I was clearing the press of powder and primers. The primers always go away first, since they could be an ignition source. I remove the feed tray then clear the chute. There is no easy way to do this, but I have it down to a science. Because of the way the new powder dispenser is constructed, you can remove the hopper and leave the base in place. This allows you to change disks to increase or decrease your powder charge for a different caliber using the same powder. This is perfect for me since I use Alliant Bullseye for 9mm, .38 Special, .45 ACP, and .45 Long Colt. So I thought I would try removing the hopper and dumping the powder back into the container. When I experimented with the new dispenser the other day, I filled it and then emptied it. Once you turn off the hopper valve, you have to cycle the dispenser a few times to clear the charging disk. I did this by putting an appropriate shell in the shell carrier, and then short stroking the operating lever to move the shell into position below the charging die. I operated the lever fully to charge the shell with powder. When the shell filled with powder gets to where it would flip off into the catch bin, I carefully removed it by hand, and then dumped the powder back into the hopper. I would have to do this 3 or 4 times to get all the powder out. It seemed to work fine that way. Unfortunately, I had a total brain fart and forgot about that whole procedure. Instead I unscrewed the knurled knobs holding the powder hopper onto the base and lifted it off. Of course, powder poured out of the hopper unabated and all over the press. I twisted the hopper to "OFF" and stopped any more from pouring out. What a fucking IDIOT!! Oh it gets better... as I went to put the hopper full of powder aside, it tipped over and the cover got hooked on the side of my toolbox, popping it off and spilling an even larger quantity of powder all over the case of my vernier caliper and bench top. So as not to start a fire or blow myself up, I used a hand broom and dust pan with an aerosol duster instead of a shop vac. It took the better part of an hour to clean it all up completely. I have an old coffee can I use for bad powder, so I took it out to the gravel driveway, dumped it out, and lit it up. It made a nice bright orange flame about 2 feet high for about 3 seconds and it was all gone. I will not make that mistake again. Once everything was clean, I set the press up for a quick 100 round run of .38 Special I'll do maybe later today. That will give me 200 rounds each of all my target ammo; .45 ACP, 9mm, .38 Special, and .357 Magnum.

 

Local Fiber Installation

Well, my question of whether they were going to run the new fiber down my back country road got answered. They did.

New fiber strung and hung waiting for splicing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This pole is located at the right front corner of my property. My house is up the hill to the left. As I said in this post the other day, that ship has sailed. Frontier can just suck it if they think I would EVER go back to them. I don't care what kind of promotional rates they are offering. As with AT&T's old fiber internet and U-Verse TV, even though there are light strands on poles, doesn't necessarily mean they will put in the fiber boxes required to activate it all. Those are expensive to install and maintain, and they won't appear unless there is enough demand.

I hope they don't bother bringing it up to the pole in my driveway, because I am sure my neighbor that shares the driveway and utility pole won't be interested either.

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H/T to Western Rifle Shooters Association

 

 

While I have served in the military, I was never in combat. That said, working in the fire service for over 30 years, I have seen more than my share of horrific things. Gore, death, people dying in my presence, severe burns, trauma, etc. I don't do the George Costanza "Serenity NOW!" thing of burying things deep in my mind only to manifest themselves later in a horrific way, but I don't sit and dwell on it either. I believe I strike the right balance of knowing and remembering what I do and continue to do the best job I can.

The coping mechanism we use is the black humor. It occurs back at the station and only amongst ourselves, NEVER in public. I once dealt with a guy that accidentally set himself on fire. Rather than do what we are taught from a young age of "STOP-DROP-AND ROLL" he ran out of the house and down the road. Neighbors reported him to be a giant screaming fireball when they tackled him and put him out with pots of water from their houses. It was one of our first aeromed transports by LifeStar helicopter and I was in charge of the L.Z. The EMT's were bringing the PT up the road on the stretcher to meet the bird already on the ground. Have you ever burned a hotdog on the grill? That is exactly what this guy looked like.... all blackened and his skin split open all over his body. They loaded him up and flew off to a trauma center. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

When we got back to the firehouse it started out with everyone kind of quiet, then they started talking about what we just went through. It did not take long for the "crispy critter" comment to come out, and from there it was a free for all of jokes and laughter. I said I was going to be off grilled hotdogs for a while. More laughter. That's just how it is. We do it. Cops do it. Hospital personnel do it. The military does it. It must be done privately among ourselves because publicly it would be disrespectful and hurtful if family members overheard it. But believe me, it is very beneficial to us.