“No matter what the crisis of the moment, the left’s solution is always to make ordinary people’s lives worse.” — Glenn Reynolds
Nothing that can’t be fixed by simple methods.
Month: May 2023
Today’s Earworm
From my teen years: Flowers In The Rain (from one of the world’s most underrated bands).
And a bonus, because the first one triggered this one almost immediately.
And yes, early Jeff Lynne pre-ELO was in the band.
Bill Wilson Cleans His 1911
I love watching a pro go about his business, and let’s be honest that when it comes to the 1911 pistol, few if any are Bill’s equal.
Which is why a couple of things he says in this video made me go: “Huh? I did not know that*.”
And I’ve fired well over 50,000 rounds through various 1911 models. Watch, and learn as I did.
*the life of a typical recoil spring was one of them. I change mine a lot less frequently than he does, but that’s going to change, you betcha.
Quote Of The Day
“The very people opposed to fossil fuels are mysteriously hostile to the best-known form of carbon-free energy production, which tells you what’s going on. The ‘climate cult’ rejects nuclear power because it might be too good at addressing their made-up climate crisis.”
— Vivek Ramaswamy
The guy should run for President. Oh, wait… he is.
All Your Kid Are Belong To Us
From the Department of Child Abuse comes this cheery little thought:
Teachers know what is best for their kids because they are with them every day.
We must trust teachers.
— Secretary Miguel Cardona
Yeah… trust our kids with teachers. Like this teacher, or this teacher, or this teacher, ad seemingly infinitum.
Now let’s talk about teachers showing kids porno in classrooms…
Frankly, when it comes to criminal abuse by authority figures, I see little difference between fucking a kid’s body and fucking up a kid’s mind with this evil shit.
Glenn said it best: leaving your kids in the care of the public school system is nothing short of child abuse.
And they’re not even being educated — except, it seems, with trannie agitprop and blowjob lessons in the curriculum.
Farming Or Party?
Then there’s this little snippet:
About 30 tons — or 60,000 pounds — of ammonium nitrate went missing from a rail car during transit.
Well now: either a couple of farmers have adopted a DIY attitude towards beating the rising costs of fertilizer, or else someone’s planning a party, Timothy McVeigh-style.
The way I feel about our beloved government right now, I find myself feeling curiously… how can I put this? — neutral? uncaring? apathetic?
That kinda thing. Anyway:
The company was shipping the ammonium nitrate in pellet form and believes it may have begun falling out of the rail car at some point during the trip, a Dyno Nobel spokesman told KQED.
“The railcar was sealed when it left the Cheyenne facility, and the seals were still intact when it arrived in Saltdale [Calif.]. The initial assessment is that a leak through the bottom gate on the railcar may have developed in transit,” the spokesperson told the station.
Why, it’s quite the Agatha Christie “locked room” mystery.
And let’s never rule out plain old incompetence, where someone just forgot to lock the delivery spigot underneath the car.