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The youth of today are so knowledgeable and provide proof often.
When my local barista handed me my change, one coin stood out. “Look at that. You rarely get one of these old wheat pennies nowadays,” I said, tapping the sheaf of-wheat design. I handed her the penny.
Turning it over and over in her hand, she said, “You know, I always thought they were made of copper.”
Top Biden Health Official:
We’re ‘Failing’ on COVID
Photo Crédit: National Institutes of Health director Dr. Francis Collins (AP)
With the United States recording its highest daily Covid case load in six months, a top public health official warned Sunday that the country is “failing.”
“We should not really have ever got to the place we are,” Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“In that regard, yes, we are failing.”
According to him, we reached a new daily surge with 118,000 cases.
The problem I have with this fear mongering is the failure to put the numbers in context. Per the Census Bureau, as of 8 August, the US population was 332,607,774. It is doubtful that includes the thousands of illegal aliens flooding our borders. Prefacing my percentage with the statement my math skills are below abysmal, the percentage of cases seems to be approximately 0.003 of the population.
Another portion of their talking points is children under 12 are not yet eligible for the vaccines. Collins said the number of children hospitalized with Covid is now at an all-time high of 1,450.
I keep hearing the word “hospitalized”. Has anyone noticed they have yet to define that word. Are people being kept in the hospital for hours or days?
Anecdotal evidence from my community is people arrive at the hospital, are tested, provided care instructions and sent on their way. This information is coming from health care professionals working in two of our hospitals. Admittedly, our county is quite large. There could be differences for other hospitals in the county.
Why the sudden uptick in fear mongering? Putting on my tinfoil chapeau, my thoughts are;
things were becoming a trifle difficult with the administration’s polling numbers. Inflation is climbing. The job numbers are consistently below their predictions. Very few are paying attention to Nancy’s January Commission theatre. Those may seem like a reason to restart fear mongering; however, they are not the proximate cause. The very worst possible thing was beginning happen. People started enjoying their freedom to live without dictates defining their life. Just think; no masks, going out and about without pré plandemic regulations. This cannot be allowed, hence the new fear mongering.
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Time for some Sunday religious humor.
George Carlin once said
( paraphrasing here )
“there’s a club and you’re not in it”
you wanna know something… don’t know about you
I’m happy not to be in that club
Needed some gas to get home from where I was where was I? Out in the woods , I was rather impressed at how clean the bathroom was, wanna see
that just might my first unisex bathroom I ever seen, so you know me, I had to check it out I didn’t say use
that’s not to shabby, rather fancy with those sky lights
few spiders hanging around which is par for the course
got the gas , walking to the door to pay inside, there was canopy setup… ice cream every where!
it was a fund raiser for a little girl with a brain tumor
” would you like ice cream”
I’ll pay for gas then get some mam
I only had a Grant on me that’s when the nancy piglousy came to mind
what ever is the largest bill I am handed back, I’ll get the ice scream with that
already knew it was going to be a Jackson, the person standing waiting for the lady to finish putting the 4th scoop on thier cone, that’s when they tossed a dollar in the can , I didn’t say it, I wanted to… you useless fuck, off they went Ma’am, what happened to the Mackinaw fudge?
“A group of bikers come through here about 20 minutes ago, all the girls wanted that
must been about 30 of them”
did they help out?
” they couldn’t stuff in anymore bills in the can so I change out the can”
big smile on her face
Well ma’am, I’ll take a Maple nut please she wasn’t using one of those scoops that could double up as a mellon baller
this was a real scooper
Mam! just one scoop please, that’s plenty , stuffed the Jackson through the plastic cut out I thanked the lady was about about around leave when she said
“can I touch your face?”
it doesn’t happen often but it does happen at the least expected times
she came from behind the ice cream put her hand on my face for moment I could her fingers where the ear use to be, when such a thing happens
I always have the same thought
God dude I know you count a Woman’s tears I don’t want to be responsible for these
she removed her hand
looking at me, then said she lost her husband to Agent orange
one could see the hurt still if one looked close
thanked me for helping out
Mam, this is some of the best ice cream I’ve ever had
I belong to a much better club
think I’ll go tool some leather
This is your Editor’s first attempt at writing a gun review. Today I’m going to give you my impressions of the Springfield Hellcat.
For those who are unaware, the Hellcat is Springfield’s answer to the Sig Sauer P365, Glock 43 and other micro 9mm pistols. Here are the specs on the Hellcat.
So, how does that compare to the other major players in the micro 9mm market? Well, the Hellcat is a hair longer than the P365 and a quarter inch shorter than the 43. It’s also a bit shorter than the P365 and the 43 with the flush magazine in place.
Now that the facts are on the table, lets get to what I thought of the pistol at the range.
Let me start off by saying the pistol I shot was both brand new and not mine. A friend of mine bought one and wanted some help in breaking the gun in. When I got my hands on it, the pistol had a grand total of 50 rounds through it. By the time I was finished, it had seen 350 rounds. This wasn’t a long term test by any means, but I did put the pistol through it’s paces and developed some pretty strong impressions.
Before we go any further, I need to say that the Hellcat is a very well sorted pistol. I experienced a single malfunction during the range session. That malfunction was due to faulty ammo and not anthing to do with the gun. (On a slight tangent, I have noticed a decline in the quality of ammo coming from the major manufacturers of late.) Despite being brand new, I could not induce a malfunction no matter what I tried. I limp wristed it, gangsta gripped it and even fired it upside down.
As far as the sights go, I found the night site front and U notch rear easy to see and precise enough for the purpose. At 25 yards I was getting 3-3 1/2 inch groups. Not spectacular, but more than acceptable for a pistol I was unfamiliar and uncomfortable with.(More on that later). I should have noted this with the specs, but the Hellcat comes in two flavors, standard and OSP. OSP stands for Optical Sighted Pistol, and the Hellcat OSP has an optics cut on the slide. The pistol I tested was the standard version.
Now for my complaints, and theyre all related. And they all have to do with the grip, specifically the backstrap. This is truly subjective, and your mileage may, and probably will, vary.
In my hands, there is not enough curve or palmswell on the backstrap of the Hellcat. Additionally, the transition from the sidepanels of the grip to the backstrap is too abrupt, with little radius on the backstrap. What does that mean? Well, to put it simply, the pistol moved around in my hand under recoil. I found myself rolling my offhand thumb up onto the top of the slide between shots and regripping the pistol. Not ideal for a combat pistol. In the photos below you can see the Hellcat compared to it’s biggest competitors. Notice that there is more palmswell on both the P365 and the 43.
Final Impressions.
I really wanted to like the Hellcat. As I said above, it is a particularly well sorted pistol. I really like the sights, really, really like the sights. But compared to It’s major competitors, for me, it falls short. I have a fair bit of experience with the Sig (about 1000 rounds), and a bit, (about 300 rounds) with the Glock, and as of right now I’d chose either of them over the Hellcat. The Sig has a better trigger, the grip on the Glock fits my hand better. And being in NY, the extra capacity is a wash, we only get 10 round mags. (Although, if I’m being totally honest, I’d rather have a Sig P938 or Springfield 911 in 9mm over all of them.)
All that said, if the Hellcat fits your hand, it’s an excellent choice. It runs well, it has good sights, has the highest standard capacity of the three top competitors. If the pistol came with interchangable backstraps, or I could find some sort of grip sleeve that improved my grip, I might change my mind about it, until then. . .
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Finally, a math test I can pass.🤓😎😂
Due to the time of day served with
And
Have some hors d’oeuvres, a beverage and conversation.
Look man
I’m not suggesting that you need to learn Latin
although learning new things is always good. However, there is a long tradition of freedom-loving patriots formulating their slogans in Latin (“Audemus jura nostra defendere”) or Greek (“Molon Labe”). So while you don’t have to be able to read The Aeneid or The Odyssey in the original language, there are some key phrases you should know so that you can recognize an ally by his patches, bumper stickers in the wild.
The penchant for classical language has a variety of source
First, there is the affinity of patriots with the republics of the ancient world , example the Greek democracies, but the Roman Republic in particular
Second, there is the tendency of the Founding Fathers to be products of the classical education tradition, so they had more than a working knowledge of the languages of antiquity.
3rd. it’s knowledge filed under
” cool stuff “
Every branch is represented with a couple of spares for good measure
Some of you may recognize, straight away & some you not
“Sic semper tyrannis”
“De oppresso liber”
“Legibus armisque devoti”
“Hiemes oppugnamus et montes superamus”
“Semper primus”
“Semper fidelis”
“Construimus, batuimus”
“Libertatem defendimus”
“Parati defendere”
“Si vis pacem, para bellum”
“Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem”
Because I am nice I’ll help you with the last one
“Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito”
DO NOT GIVE IN TO EVIL BUT PROCEED EVER MORE BOLDLY
While hearing guy, I sound nothing like him… well except the cussin part
one could file that under Common ground 🙂
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Swarms of inexpensive drones, please meet your archnemesis – THOR
A new Air Force weapon will wipe out drone swarms with the push of a button
One of the biggest threats to U.S. troops abroad isn’t a stealth fighter, a nuclear missile, or a massive cyber attack. It’s a swarm of cheap drones that can overwhelm the expensive defense systems troops have on hand now.
“I’m talking about the [drone] you can go out and buy at Costco right now in the United States for a thousand dollars, four quad, rotorcraft or something like that that can be launched and flown,” Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the head of U.S. Central Command said last summer. “And with very simple modifications, it can be made into something that can drop a weapon like a hand grenade or something else.”
In sufficient numbers, those drones can spy on friendly bases, destroy infrastructure and attack personnel, explained the Air Force Research Laboratory in a recent video. How? Because machine guns don’t have the range or accuracy to destroy the nimble fliers; anti-aircraft missiles are too expensive to use on the cheap devices; and most military bases don’t have enough missiles to destroy an entire swarm.
Enter Thor, the Norse god of Thunder, who serves as the namesake to one of the Air Force’s newest weapons. While the Air Force’s Tactical High Power Operational Responder (THOR) may not look like a hero, it could save the day for American troops if their far-flung combat outposts are ever attacked by hundreds of cheap kamikaze-style enemy drones.
THOR isn’t much to look at: the weapon consists of a big satellite dish mounted on top of a 20-foot long shipping crate. But simplicity is a virtue, as the weapon can be transported easily aboard a C-130 transport plane and set up within three hours by a crew of two, according to the Air Force Research laboratory, which is leading the development of THOR.
Once THOR is set up, it can detect an incoming threat and silently shoot a beam of energy to knock out drones in a wide target area, exactly like what you might find in a drone swarm. The beam is a high-powered microwave that instantly triggers a counter-electronic effect in the targeted drone. AFRL boasted that the system took out hundreds of drones in real-world tests. That real world setting may have been somewhere in Africa, where the Air Force tested out THOR starting in December.
“I’ve watched it in action and it’s really quite impressive,” said Air Force chief scientist Richard Joseph at the time.
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The State of New Hampshire and some of its residents have schooled “River Dave” Lidstone in most brutal fashion: A good man living off the grid on other people’s property may reap bad rewards, if government finds out
Fire burns cabin of New Hampshire man jailed after nearly 3 decades in the woods
For almost three decades, 81-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin adorned with solar panels. He has grown his own food, cut his own firewood, and tended to his pets and chickens.
But his off-the-grid existence has been challenged in court by a property owner who says he’s been squatting for all those years. And to make Lidstone’s matters worse, his cabin was burned to the ground Wednesday afternoon in a blaze that is being investigated by local authorities.
Lidstone, or “River Dave” as he’s known by boaters and kayakers, was jailed July 15 on a civil contempt sanction. He was told he’d be released if he agreed to leave the cabin, but he has stayed put.
“You came with your guns, you arrested me, brought me in here, you’ve got all my possessions. You keep ’em,” Lidstone told a judge in a court appearance Wednesday morning. “I’ll sit here with your uniform on until I rot, sir.”
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A female driver in Los Angeles has shown us there is no need to change one’s plans for the day after causing an automobile accident, even if the accident was running over and killing a 91-year old woman
Fatal Hit-and-Run NR21202
Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Police Department’s South Traffic Division detectives are asking for the public’s help in providing any information that would lead to the identification of a hit-and-run driver involved in a traffic collision that resulted in the death of a pedestrian.
On August 2, 2021 at 7:00 a.m., an elderly woman, approximately 91-years-old, was struck while walking across an alley on Ellendale Place just south of Adams Blvd. The vehicle was traveling westbound in the alley backing unsafely when the suspect vehicle collided with a pedestrian that was walking westbound in the alley.
The driver exited the vehicle and observed the pedestrian laying on the roadway. The driver moved the vehicle out of the roadway, stood around her vehicle for approximately three minutes, then returned to her vehicle and left the location failing to render aid.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded and transported the victim to California Hospital where she died from her injuries.
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Manhandling The Media
Who: Libs.
What: Feel so entitled to favorable media coverage that they feel comfy campaigning for coverage calls. Let’s just say that this is a far cry from the media’s dynamic with the other side of the aisle.
Heels Indeed
Case in point: Emails have just surfaced revealing that the University of North Carolina implored ABC to “protect” 1619 Project embellisher Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Pretty Nervy
‘Working the refs’ for more biased officiating is what some fanbases think elite basketball programs do.
Press Presumptuousness
Julia Ioffe’s delightful new “Tomorrow Will Be Worse” email blast won us over with this spot-on characterization of entitled media relations: “Democrats de facto expect you to be on their side and are horrified when you hold them to account as you would any other administration.”
“And, like Barack Obama’s people, they’re extremely controlling … ‘Biden people will nitpick over a clause or an adjective or a highly parsed nuance, which on the whole Trump people didn’t do,’ the reporter added … Here it’s like, You said ‘stern,’ but we think he was ‘firm.’”
Expectations Discrepancy
“‘Democrats in general have a much thinner skin,’ observed the prominent White House reporter. “This is not unique to Trump but Republicans never expect a fair shake, so if you cover them fairly, you can have a good working relationship with them.”
May I Have Another?
Needless to say, we can attest to the reality that the relationship between conservatives and the media resides somewhere between contentious/antagonistic and resigned/defeatist.
I have only one brief thing to say about the media..
