Month: July 2019
Oops
Everybody told them that it was a monumentally-stupid idea; but noooooo:
Restaurants Unlimited, a Seattle-based chain with restaurant locations in 47 US cities, announced on Sunday it was seeking Chapter 11 protection, citing “progressive” wage laws.
The company, which has operated since the Lyndon Johnson Administration, said rising labor costs—part of a national trend of government-mandated minimum increases—were part of its decision.
Note the 47 cities affected by these closures (see link).
I would feel more sorry for the soon-to-be-laid-off workers, but I’m betting that most of them supported the higher-minimum-wage idiocy in the first place, so… sucks to be them. Maybe next time they’ll vote with their brains instead of with their greed. (Granted, working-class people have trouble making ends meet in liberal shitholes like Seattle and San Francisco; but the politicians who have caused the high housing prices are the same ones who pushed through the higher minimum-wage thresholds. So there’s a double whammy here, and yet those idiot voters keep sending them back into office.)
Of course, it’ll be all Trump’s fault (according to the West Coast media).
Moving, Continued
Quote Of The Day
From The Diplomad:
“The controversy over the Betsy Ross flag. What utter rubbish! I did what I always do in such cases: I went out and bought two Betsy Ross flags, one in a frame for inside the house, and another to hang out front — I also bought another handgun.”
When the socialists get outraged, increase those activities that outrage them.
Doesn’t get more American than that.
Challenge Accepted
A whole bunch of people have been getting worried about this development:
Liberals are notoriously loath to take their own side in a fight. But their reticence may well be changing in an age of vigilante, white nationalist terror—openly condoned and supported by an incumbent president who has suggested that his armed devotees won’t stand for his removal from office. Increasingly, the antifa left is arguing—and training—in response. They are worried not only about an armed reckoning following a contested election, but also about rising violence from the paramilitaries loyal to President Donald Trump.
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Such paranoid fantasies may be familiar to heavy consumers of YouTube and Reddit, but watching them transposed on to the structures of governance is a novelty. As a result, many leftists and even some liberals are beginning to reconsider their feelings about firearms, joining a loose amalgamation of gun groups, from John Brown Gun Clubs (which take their name from the abolitionist) to the Pink Pistols (an LGBTQ group), Liberal Gun Club, and Socialist Rifle Association. Some of these organizations are moderate and traditionalist, others radical and revolutionary. But all share one implicit goal: to normalize firearms ownership and training among liberals. Some of their members hope such efforts will at least make Republicans think twice before attempting a massacre.
LOL. They must be thinking about Spanish Republicans circa 1937 (who, by the way were Communists) and not our flabby Murkin Republicans, who couldn’t massacre the syrup at a pancake breakfast.
Seriously: do these tools honestly think that conservatives are going to launch a massacre of Lefties in this country? Given the de-platforming of conservative voices, attacks on people simply for wearing MAGA hats and throwing Republican civil servants out of restaurants — not to mention the Pantifa attacks on peaceful protest marches in Portland and D.C. — I would suggest that it’s the Left who are far more likely to trigger civil violence.
Then we have this kind of picture, which some find alarming:
Yup; he sure looks like he means business.
To my mind, though, this doesn’t make for nervousness — it makes the whole thing interesting.
Go on, Pantifa Boys: show us what you’ve got. Let’s see how it works out for you.
Oh, and one last thought: if all this “preparation” by the Left means they’re waiting for conservatives / Trump supporters to begin the shooting, they’re going to end up being a lot older than the graybeard in the pic above before they get to put all that training into play. In the meatime, we have crap like this:
The climate of vigilante violence on the right has elevated racist attacks, hate crimes, and terrorism in our political culture.
What “vigilante violence”? Fucking shitbrains are starting to believe their own lies.
Not My Favorite
Over at CTD, I see this article:
II have to confess that I’ve owned several “Bisley-gripped” revolvers, and I was never able to shoot any of them for shit. Something about that upright grip angle made me shoot high — not the first shot, but by the third trigger-pull I’d be missing way high. The Bisley grip never felt quite comfortable in my hand, and so over time I got rid of all of them because there’s no point in keeping a gun you can’t shoot accurately, is there? (Especially when someone else absolutely loves shooting my old Ruger revolvers and has never stopped thanking me for swapping them with him. )
As a matter of fact, I shoot the “regular” Ruger grips a lot more comfortably (and hence more accurately), and ditto the Smith & Wesson’s. Here’s my GP100:
…and my Model 65 (sob):
I have the same issue with the Luger-style (which is raked too much in the other direction) and the 1911:
The Luger doesn’t work for me, and the 1911 does.
It’s strange how just a couple degrees’ difference of rake in the grip can make such a difference. Then again, I seldom shoot “hot” loads (as Roberts does, apparently). The hottest handgun round I’m prepared to shoot is the “regular” 240-gr .44 Magnum (in the right-sized revolver, i.e. Blackhawk/Redhawk). Forget that .500 S&W nonsense:
Yeah, I’m a recoil wussy. Sue me.