This one has everything: a naked man, a riding mower, an elderly couple and an excellent outcome.
A Georgia homeowner fatally shot a naked man who tackled his 67-year-old wife off a riding lawnmower and then began attacking both of them.
One would think that any goblin would think twice before trying this on in rural Georgia, but then again, goblins are not generally PhD candidates.
From GeekWithA.45, commenting at this post:
One of my old friends, a scholar of Talmud and Kaballah, once opined that there was a really important reason $DEITY lead Moses and the Israelites around the desert for 40 years between their deliverance from slavery and arrival at the promised land, and it had little to do with petty Divine annoyance on the subject of golden calves. It was, he explained, to give that society time to let the slave generation die off and train the new generation to conditions of self reliance, to become people fit to determine their own fate. I think there’s a lot to that. Slave instincts of servility are pernicious, and difficult for even the hardiest to shake off.
There’s more than a lot to that. There is so much truth in that brief summation that I’m mortified that I’ve never put it into words.
I am happy to announce that the winner of the ULD Rifle Draw is Longtime Reader and frequent commenter Topcat1957.
Summary: There were 253 tickets in total. No paper tickets this year; I simply assigned each ticket a number and did a random number generator between 0 and 254, and TC’s number came up.
Thank you all for participating, and congrats to TopCat.
Amidst all the hoo-hah of Ruger buying Marlin and re-releasing Marlin lever rifles, it seems as though everyone has forgotten about Marlin’s heritage in rimfire rifles.
See if you can see what caused me an immediate RCOB on this page:
“Currently not in production”???? WTF is going on over there? When was production halted anyway, and why?
And indeed, a cursory look at my usual thirty or so favorite gun dealers’ sites revealed that the Model 60 is MIA, everywhere.
A Marlin 60 was the very first rifle I purchased, shortly after I arrived in the U.S. as a Drenched Wetback© in the mid-1980s, and in the proper hands it is capable of astounding accuracy — for any rifle, let alone a budget one — as witnessed by Reader Brad’s recent trip to the range:
That’s five rounds at 25 yards, although he did “cheat” by using a peep sight instead of the original buckhorn/V on the Marlin.
Note to the “marketing” department at Ruger: restart production of this little beauty ASAP, you bastards, or hell will follow.
Just a sweet lil’ dream.
I don’t often visit Target stores because they so seldom have anything I want, and if they do, it’s at a premium price. Guess I won’t be going there anytime soon anyway, what with this bullshit going on:
Target will be selling breast binders and packing underwear as part of its latest clothing collection just ahead of “Pride month” in June.
The retailer is known for celebrating June in a splashy, rainbow-colored way. It has been criticized for offering a pride collection for kids, specifically babies, for years. Now the company is catering to the trans community by promoting specialty garments specifically made for them.
According to Bustle, Target partnered with TomboyX and Humankind for the collection, which are both “queer owned, female-founded brands.” Merchandise will include the expected rainbow-colored messaging that’s become commonplace for these collections. It will also have some new items that a mainstream retailer like Target hasn’t sold before.
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In the adult collection, a poem that includes the line, “For the queer lovers and everyone in between, for the rebels that fight to forever be seen,” is featured on tote bags, shirts, and beach towels.
There are also pride flag cat toys, including a giraffe designed in lesbian flag colors and stuffed teacup with rainbow tea, and three tea bags with the lesbian, transgender, and bisexual pride flags.
Call me whatever-phobic, but I just can’t see that any of that merchandise will be suited to me.
Idiots, or evil? I report, you decide.