Month: May 2023

Jumping The Gun

Friends and Family

Over at the brilliant Day By Day website, Chris Muir has been forced to bring forward his annual fundraiser because of the current Biden economy…

…and so have I.

I cannot tell you how much the economy — most specifically, Bidenflation — has eaten away at my paltry income.  Over the past two years, the value of my safety net account has dropped by over 70% as New Wife and I have struggled to make ends meet.  And believe me, we’ve pared back on our spending, whether it’s on groceries, clothing or anything else that one needs to keep alive.  Forget luxuries.

I’ve sold all the guns I can, a couple at a loss even, and there’s nothing else left to sell.

The only small consolation is that we’ve managed to keep our credit card balance really low, so as to minimize the monthly payments.

Now we’re at rock bottom, where any kind of unforeseen demand will push us over the edge.  We can’t afford to put any large expenses on a credit card because then we’d be unable to make even the minimum payment.

This website is my only source of income.  Those of you who make a monthly contribution to Patreon have my eternal thanks, because that amount has oftentimes kept us afloat.

Now I’m asking for your help, and I hope everybody can be at least a little generous.  Yes, I’m aware that everyone is under financial pressure, so what I’m asking may be too much.

And yes, it hurts to be so needy, and so desperate.  But there it is.

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Quote Of The Day

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In response to this:

The NAACP Board of Directors issued a travel advisory Saturday for the state of Florida, urging people to avoid the state.

…Knuckledragger said this:

“Looks like Miami will be peaceful during next year’s Spring Break.”

…only if you’re ignorant of the statistics, honey.

Bygone Broads 4

Drive Time, Gratuitous Chick Pics

Here we go with another “pairing” of a bedroom-poster-worthy car and a woman of similar value.  This time, it’s the De Tomaso Pantera:

And Morgan Fairchild:

 

And yes, she got older and plumper (but in all the right places, if I may say so):

I have no words, either way.

All-American Goodness

Gratuitous Gun Pics, Patriotism, The Gun Thing

Reader Brad_In_IL suggests a theme for a shooty weekend:

“Seeing that this is Memorial Day Weekend, I’ve decided to only shoot pieces which are uniquely and distinctly American. Therefore…

“Saturday will be my Browning / Stoner 2023 Memorial Day Commemorative Shoot, and I’ll be shooting the 1911 and the AR-15… and maybe some .22 pistol (also Browning). No 9mm this weekend… Georg Luger (Austrian) will have to take a rest.” 

An excellent thought:  bringing a little background to the typical “Oh what should I shoot today?”  question that plagues us all.  And going All-American on both gun and cartridge makes it a little more fun, especially as it relegates the 9mm Europellet and the 7.62x39mm Commie to the “Later, Furrin Bastards!” category.

To make life even more interesting, let’s set an arbitrary criterion of “guns and cartridges from before 1900“.

Not so easy now, is it?

Here’s what I would take:

Winchester 1894 (.30-30/.30 WCF or .45 Colt/.45 Long Colt or .44-40)
…and of course Marlin’s and Henry’s versions would be welcome, too.

Browning 1885 High Wall (.45-70 Gov)

Colt Single Action Army (.45 Colt/.45 Long Colt or .44-40)

And of course, there’s some plinking to be done:

Marlin Model 39A (.22 LR)

Winchester Mod 61 (and clones)
(clones allowed because Winchester stopped making them because they’re idiots)

Now, I’m not saying I actually own any of the above (because of that Tragic Canoeing Accident on the Brazos a few years ago), but you have to admit, there’s a whole lotta shooty Murkin goodness on that list.

Your suggestions for the festivities in Comments, as always.

Pushing And Shoving

Government Thugs, Resistance, Rights

It is worth noting that almost every instance of an ordinary citizen going crazy and killing government agents has come as a direct assault on his property rights.  In some cases it’s been linked to eminent domain seizures — e.g. that farmer in Missouri who gunned down two local government surveyors (and then shot himself immediately after)  over a “right of way” infringement on his land.  (I can’t find a link to the incident, but it happened at least ten years ago and I still remember the salient details.)  Here’s a more recent situation of Gummint getting too big for its britches (although as yet, there’s been no gunplay because Amish).

Anyway, all that’s unimportant to this post, because enter Fuckface Kerry:

John Kerry claimed that US farm confiscations are not off the table, as he stated that small farms contribute significant greenhouse gasses.

And no doubt he got his loony idea here:

Recently, the governing body of the European Union officially endorsed measures to compel farmers to vacate their lands as part of the EU’s Natura 2000 scheme, which categorizes farms as significant emitters of nitrogen. Under the plan, farmers would be offered 120 percent of their farm’s value through a “buyout” program. However, those who decline this offer would face the risk of being forcibly removed from their land without any financial compensation.

Farmers in Holland are undergoing the most radical regulations that are causing the culling of herds and destroying crops.

Because the Dutch farmers are unarmed, of course they have to resort to peaceful protests by blocking highways with their tractors.

Our American farmers (and their many supporters) are not similarly disadvantaged, and I think that anything that Fuckface starts is going to make the Cliven Bundy episode look like a Sunday church picnic.

Pass the popcorn, Simon.