So where are they?

Where are the protests from Black Lives Matter? Rioting in the streets and all that about dead black people.....

Or does Black on Black violence (and killing, , especially of women walking with 4 year old children) not matter?

Chicago passes 400 official shooting deaths this year.  Woman walking with man and 4 year old child killed, companions shot

Note: this happened a little after 5 in the evening...

(and, even though it makes me a Raciss to point this out, it (generally) doesn't happen in melanin deprived neighborhoods....) 

Overheard in the house:

As we prepare to go out to a festival on Sunday morning:

"What shirt should I wear?"

"You could wear the red one."

"Yeah, but then I'd never make it home......."

Nice

Kinda want.

Not too sure about the "barrel cooling vents", but I LIKE the look.

Next time I build a 1911 I may have to investigate further.

Lots of work to fit it and then finish it, either blue or nitride or whatever.

But it does look very cool. 

Just so you know

Charlie Gard has passed after life support was withdrawn by the hospital in the UK.

I don't want to use him as an example of why "Socialized Medicine" is not a great idea....But realize that it was the National Health folks who successfully kept him from receiving (Experimental, and by no means a sure thing), treatment elsewhere until it was, likely, too late for him.

The issue isn't who paid for his treatment, it was that they wouldn't even let the parents take him elsewhere to try and help him.

The State owns the British children, apparently.

Scary. 

He shoulda killed 'em instead

68 years. People only get 20 years for killing someone. And that is before parole.

Bundy standoff supporter is sentenced to 68 years in prison.  He shoulda shot 'em, then he'd be out in less than 10 after parole and sentence reduction and all that.....


Cliven Bundy doesn't say he "doesn't have to pay" he says he doesn't owe the FEDERAL government (BLM) the grazing fees....but rather the STATE.

The Feds pointed firearms and other wise threatened the folks that had gathered to resist at the Bundy standoff.....why was that legal and not the other way around? Why do Federal agents get a pass when there is a confrontation especially a peaceful one.

What this means is that next time such a standoff occurs, there is no reason not to be violent. Peaceful resistance, (with or without firearms) leads to longer prison sentences than Murder does.

City people

And, no doubt, Democrat voters.

Emergency crews rescue missing tubers in Muskegon River.

They claim that they were told (and they believed?) that "the river went in a circle and would return them to the point they started".

Remember, these people's vote counts as much as yours. 

Why our country is

screwed.

There are jobs, good jobs, going wanting.  Jobs that don't need a Tech Degree, nor sometimes even a high school diploma. Just people who will work, and be clean and sober while doing it....

Yet they can't find workers to fill those jobs.
Because most applicants can't pass the drug test requirements.
(and, of course, if they are "out of work", why, the Federal and State governments will GIVE 'em Free Money, Free Food stamps, Free phone, Free rent, Free heath insurance).

And those 'Benefits" don't need a Drug Test. Why is that?

People make their choices. We make their choices not have consequences. If you want more of something, subsidize it....If we Drug Tested applicants for government aid, we'd reduce our budgets and FORCE folks to either be clean, or starve. Either way, our country would be better off.

Old school...

The problem with big trees for firewood, while they produce a LOT of wood for burning come winter...
Is that they make BIG rounds. Like 3 feet across.

I can pick up the ones that are 24" across, they only weight about 250. Not that hard to put onto the splitter. Roll 'em onto your knee and stand up straight.

The ones that are 36-40 inches across weight somewhere in the order of 500-650 lbs (I weighed three that I just couldn't roll onto my knee to pick up).

Hard for one guy to handle. Damp oak is HEAVY.

So I hadda get out the Wedge-and-Sledge to break 'em up into pieces I could handle.

Now THAT is work.
I'm gonna feel that all day long.

Kudos

I can't stand the Honorable Representative Peter J Visclosky. His politics and mine are about as far apart as can be. Plus his primary choice of folks he represents (because the re-elect him every time) is unions, which I don't care for....

However, having an issue with a Federal Park in my area, and getting ZERO communication from management (I left detailed voice mail messages, no calls back and no action), I bit the bullet and called Visclosky's office.

A week later, they called me back for clarification and some other details.

Amazingly enough, shortly thereafter, I got calls from the Federal Park Superintendent.... and action. Problem solved.

He may be a raving Democrat, and represent Unions, Liberals, and Socialists over Conservatives, but when I asked his office for help, they delivered.

This is how it is supposed to work. 

I had always thought it was urban legend.....

So, today, I was doing a bit of cutting with a chainsaw. Somewhere, somehow, I misplaced one of the nuts that hold the bar onto the saw in the grass while changing a chain. (apparently, the nut departed this universe, as I combed the grass and even went over the area with a magnet....?) Not a big deal, I have a spare.....

So, when I was done, on my trip into town, I stopped at the Stihl dealer and picked up 2 extras, so that when I misplace one again, I would be prepared...

And there, as I live and breathe, I saw him. Dude had a more or less brand new 14 inch Stihl chainsaw and not one, not two, but THREE chains. Complaining that "none of them cut worth a damn and only made smoke".

Dude at the counter looked at him, then at me, then ran his finger over the chain.


"It's on backwards" he said. Both of us tried not to laugh.

Harry the whining homeowner looked at the chain.
Looked at the other chains. I stepped up and felt 'em....still sharp as factory new, just discolored from heat from friction.

"Here, let me show you" Counter Dude says.

Harry the whining homeowner just picked up his saw and chains and walked out.


How can anyone be so stupid? 

Interestin'

I always figured that there was more to the story...


And it was all capitalism that drove it.

Thought for the week:

Unverified....Use at own risk. 

BLEG:

I have a guy who contacted me via Email for advice on pistols. However, I live in Indiana outside Chicago and he is in Oregon.....So my help is limited.


Anyone in the Eugene area (or Portland, he apparently lives in both) can help him out?

If so email me and I will put you in contact. Contact me at TheMiddleOfTheRight@gmail.com and I will put you in touch.

Thanks

Second year in row!

We drew (last night) the winning tickets for the three gun raffle my gun club has been doing the past two years...

This is the second year that I have sold two of the three winners. Both times second and third place.

So, if you wanna win first, buy from someone else. If you wanna win one of the other two, buy from me next year.

ETA: Rich, Read your Email!

Toldaya....

Mueller is on a witch hunt.

He's gotta find something to satisfy his DNC masters.

Remember, we are paying for him and his sycophants to keep digging.

I need your Google-Fu

How many acid attacks happened in Britain in the 70's?
80's?
90's?
00's?
10's?

How does this correlate in time with the importation of muslims middle easterners in job lots and/or "diversification"? ?

Can't seem to find any info. But I am betting there is a correlation.

Of course, I am a racist and a islamophobe. (and according to some, a rat bastard and a just plain old meanie, but that isn't important right now).  ....So I see things that the press and liberals (but I repeat myself) can't.....

If they can do it

with drugs....

You can bet that, at some point, someone will do it with C-4 . (or TATP, but the Jiggle might well set that off). 2-4 lbs of C-4 or Semtex will not do a plane any good, structural integrity wise...Plus just the terror part....

And when they do.......then how do you do security?
Seriously....

Via 

Nice try there, fellas

Nice way to try and bash the NRA:

"We Finally Know Why the NRA Didn’t Stand with Philando Castile After a Cop Killed Him"

Except that that isn't the mission of the NRA. That is, rather, the mission of the  ACLU (or the NAACP, maybe).    They are the ones who protect human rights and such.

Was Philando Castile MURDERED by a cop who was scared? Probably. Should the cop be charged with MURDER? I answer yes. But cops get away with actions that would put you and I in jail.

Cops actions are't part of the mission of the NRA. The are a Gun Rights organization. Conflating the two is only done as an attempt to denigrate and undermine the NRA. Saying that many people are confused as to why the NRA was silent on the murder is't really truth. 

This is what they let into the country

Britain reaps the harvest:


So many acid attacks (by muslims, but they somehow fail to mention that) in England that the Newspapers are giving instructions on how to give first aid treatment to people attacked with acids or other chemicals.

Acid attack first aid: What you need to do immediately to help victims
Act as quickly as possible to minimise damage to the eyes, skin and surrounding tissues

When one makes friends with a snake, one should not be surprised when one is bitten....

Bringing in these folks who hate your culture, hate your values, hate you because of your religion? Allowing them to settle in your country with no requirement to assimilate? What, exactly, did these folks think was gonna happen?

Interesting:

Unverified, but rings true.

You decide:

A Female Doctor Working In Germany Warns The World:

(Note this, especially:)
I tell you, no one who has not come in contact with them has any idea what kind of animals they are, especially the ones from Africa, and how the muslim men and women act superior to our staff who are Christian.