I guess you could shorten the police response as "Just because she was murdered, and a conservative politician,

doesn't mean her murder was politically related or- oh, the Counter-Terrorism Police have taken over, and now it seems it was."

Oh yeah, the local cops have, once again, covered themselves with a show of professionalism here, along with telling people 'don't speculate about this, it might affect the investigation', apparently so they wouldn't wind up looking bad.  Which seems to be a standard janissary thing.

Were percussion caps hotter in the old days?

Guy did some research, had a piece on Fecesbook, says yes:

The U.S. 1861 Ordnance Manual calls for percussion caps to be charged with one-half a grain of “percussion powder,” which was a mixture of fulminate of mercury and saltpeter.

Contrary to popular belief, mercury fulminate is not corrosive to iron guns. It works GREAT in percussion guns, but the fulminate was found to turn brass brittle, making it incompatible with modern brass cartridges.

So for experimental purposes I made some caps using the U.S. 1861 mercury fulminate mixture, and tested them alongside modern caps (CCI and RWS). The difference is astonishing. The 1861 caps are ear-ringing loud when snapped off by themselves, and can blow out a candle several feet in front of the muzzle.

I'll try to keep an eye out for more data, this is interesting.

No, I don't plan on making my own

Socialists: "All these things should not cost so much!"

Response: "If you idiots hadn't effed it all up, it wouldn't."

Just how screwed are the Brits, and what useless janissaries have their cops been made into?

This much:

The Teams meeting, she later told the Telegraph, was chaired by a white female inspector who ran it fairly and with some firmness, and who was under what Elaine describes as constant pressure from the Muslim men participating. The meeting’s governing concern, within hours of two Jews being murdered at their synagogue by an Islamist, was the potential threat to mosques. The inspector repeated, several times, that there was no intelligence of danger to any Islamic place of worship. One is not sure quite what to say about the decision to frame an emergency meeting about an attempted Yom Kippur massacre around the anxieties of the community whose ideology had produced it. Except that, when Elaine finally said something, the response was instructive. She told the meeting they had to address the elephant in the room:

‘We know who the attacker is and what community he comes from. We’ve got to be able to address this openly, and if we can’t do it here, there’s no hope.’

The chair immediately talked over her. The following morning the meeting reconvened, the female inspector replaced, without explanation, by a Muslim male inspector.

Shortly after, Bradford District Commander Richard Padwell wrote to inform Elaine of her removal. Her comments had been ‘divisive and inflammatory’; legal advice supported the view that she had failed to demonstrate the impartiality required of a chair. The letter also noted, and this is the detail that repays the most careful attention, that her comments were not being recorded as a hate crime, and that he would not be providing her personal details to the community members who had expressed concerns about what she had said.

Can you say 'The fix is in'?

I knew you could.

And old LE subgun

built for a specific group and purpose.

About that guy the buffalo* tossed,

it's been pointed out the the guy was a fair distance away, probably well outside the 'it should be safe' distance people go by.  And then it took off, and...

Reminded me of a friend and I going out to climb hills on the Wichita Mountains refuge.  We'd hiked out from our parking area and when we came out of some trees into a clear area, there was a buffalo, about a hundred yards or maybe a little more away, who apparently didn't like us being there.  He was watching and huffing.

We were passing further away and kept a close watch on him, and at one point I said "A Sharps would be kind of comforting right now."
"If we don't bother him he won't bother us."
I was thinking that that huffing meant us being in the area was bothering him, the question was would it be enough to make him decide to annoy back.  He didn't, and when we went back a while later he wasn't there, but looking back makes me wonder how fast I could've climbed a tree if he decided he felt like some exercise?


*Yes, I generally say buffalo, deal with it.

I'm sitting here writing because I was going to take a walk, only it rained, and looking at the radar it'll either rain some more or Ma Nature will say "Fooled you!"  And I have no idea which.

No, 'diversity' does not exist or function when the people you're being diverse for

want you to be either dead, a slave, or converted solely to their way of thinking.

That leads to rape and slavery gangs(yes, a fair number of devout muslims talk about how unbeliever women- to pick the most obvious category- can be used as slaves by muslim men), and cops saying "I protect my group first", and politicians openly saying they lied when they took that oath to uphold the Constitution and want to trash it.

Yes, it fits the bastards

Which reminds me of someone at one of the big gun ban groups, after some asshole murdered some kids, saying 'They're martyrs for the Cause'.

Bastards, indeed

There was a sign on I40 westbound not long ago that had the Buc-ees sign

and below that 'Only 283 miles', which I thought a bit excessive.  

Unless, it seems, they made it for Nobunaga.

If you haven't seen any of this guy's work, it's pretty good.  Travelling around the US and reporting on good things, like chips, salsa and queso that automatically comes at Mexican restaurants in the south, and biscuits and gravy, and other stuff.  I did not know he had enough to make a book, which I will find on Kindle Unlimited and read.

Speaking of books, I haven't been reading as much as usual, but some things I have that I've been happy with:
Larry Correia's Monster Hunter Files, Vol. 2, pretty good.

No Game for Knights, short story collection from various authors, also good.

I've mentioned David Drake's collection of Old Nathan stories, which I very much like.  Well, ran across 
The Cunning Man not long ago, and liked it.  Character reminds me somewhat of Nathan Ridgeway, and I have to wonder if they got a push in the right direction from his stories?

Correia's started another series with Academy of Outcasts, a fine start on a fantasy series.

And Raconteur Press has published lots of short-story collections from many authors, take a look at them.

And now, I've actually got to start using this arm and getting some stuff cleaned up.

Ok, it's not a Grail Gun, but

 this is a .41 Magnum I'd love to have

Thanks to a post by a friend on Fecesbook.*

Yes, I'm pissed at Fecesbook.  "We have deleted your picture on this group(where I haven't posted for a long time) because it violates our standards.  No, we won't show you the picture, or provide a link, so you'll just have to try to figure out what we're actually bitching about, but don't worry, you can appeal(even though you don't know WHAT you're actually appealing)"

Yes, judges and prosecutors who break the law should pay the same price

they like to command the commoners to pay.  Especially, say, judges who help illegal aliens avoid ICE, and prosecutors who lie under oath and knowingly break the law.

Not to mention doing that for political reasons.

I have discovered I can run the riding mower

mostly one-handed if I'm careful, which is good because I need to do some mowing and don't want to ask son to come over after work and do it.  

Bad thing: we had rain over the weekend(good, this time of year), and it was enough that it'll be afternoon before the grass is dry enough to cut.  Which means can't do it this morning while it's just warm.

Ah well, other things I can work at  now.  Limited, but I can.

In other news "It depends on what you mean by 'rape' why our numbers are up."  So says Commissar Mayor.  I'm sure that's comforting to the victims.
Also, a lot of rents have- surprise!- had big leaps.

Side matter: X posts that have video have changed, and you have to sign in to see the damn things.  So, unless they fix that, I'll havc less of those linked.  PITA, it is.


I wonder if the kid's parents are thinking about- if he doesn't have one- getting the kid a rifle?


I do wonder of the stupid bastard crashed on landing.

This may well be the season winner for tourist tossing

by bison.  And this poor bastard was not bothering it, just happened to be in a bad place at the wrong time.

A different sort of iron sight setup,

with the front sight looking like a rear sight.  Take a look and see what you think

My, isn't THAT just amazing

So, something weird about the mount/weapon, or what the hell?

Found at Kim's, his comment being 'Let’s give a round of applause to Russian military training and their equipment.'

Ah, the joys of wearing a sling almost all day,

especially in summer.  

This kind of sling both holds your arm, it uses a second strap to hold a foam block between your arm and your side to help isolate it, and make it VERY obvious to you if you try to  use it when you shouldn't.

And it's hot outside.  And not fun to sleep with it on.  But the doc and the PTs insist.  Especially since there was a relatively long wait between "This is what's wrong, and you need surgery" and being able to do  it, and that meant a bit more work for the surgeon, thus longer healing time.

It is improving, and yes, I'm doing the exercises I can at home, so we're moving along.  But damn, that doesn't change that I'm tired of this.

Unrelated matter, but interesting: Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation 'Significantly' Improves Depression in Just 10 Days, Trial Finds

Yes, my first thought was 'Hey, one more plus for getting laid!', but no, that's not the stimulation they speak of.

Why people don't trust experts anymore,

Part 872.  Because some of them are lying bastards with an agenda that does not involve the truth.

Take Bellesiles-level crap,

make it about slavery, and when doubts are cast add in 'The critics are racists'.  Oh yeah, that's great.

The article is in the NYeffingTimes, so it's behind a paywall.  Maybe the full thing will become available later.

The Brit censors want what?

Local law enforcement agencies and courts. A British quango has floated the idea that American cops will be dispatched to collect a British speech fine, on the week of America’s 250th birthday, from a website whose entire legal existence sits under the First Amendment. You could not make it up, and yet here we are.

Preston Byrne, the US lawyer representing 4chan, gave the plan the review it deserved.

“This is legally illiterate,” Byrne wrote on X. “If they really want to sue us in the United States to recover a foreign censorship penalty, we welcome the fight.”

He was only warming up. “we now have a foreign censor claiming not only that their laws work on U.S. soil, but also that they can conscript U.S. police forces to finish the job,” Byrne wrote, adding that “Ofcom’s threats here are, much like their fines regime, toothless and designed to intimidate.”

His conclusion on the whole business: “it’s long past time for the U.S. to put the UK back in its box.”

And then kick the box off a dock.

And now, on a possibly rainy evening, it is time

to make some space 

                                            "It's not getting bigger, so we can keep going!"

                                                                    Soon, Snake, soon...

And below is some stuff for the adults