Month: January 2024

Snake In The Astroturf

Eco-Crap, Watermelons

Here’s a face not known by my Murkin Readers, but probably familiar to those in Britishland:  ITV’s weather reporter on Good Morning Britain, the elfin Laura Tobin.

“Okay Kim,” y’all might say.  “That’s a right purdy lil’ thang, thanks for the pics.”

Unfortunately, this totty is one of those rabid climate change advocates/alarmists, whose slanted opinions on the topic, and frequent injections of said propaganda into her weather reports has even some Brits perturbed.

Just so you know.

News Roundup

Bad News

And boy, are you ever going to need one of the above to read what follows below…

From the Dept. of Education:


...”scholars”?  People with degrees in “_____ Studies”?  Ah don’ theenk so, Boss.


...wait:  the Austros have over-45-year-olds in schools now?

And further silliness in Global Warming Climate Cooling Change© News:


...weaselkeywords:  “could” and “up to”.  Substitute “won’t” and “anything like” to the above.

From the Dept. of Civil Defense:


...here in north Texas, there’s a word for people like this:  neighbor.

In International War News:

 
...and even from the grave, Henry gets a Schadenböner:


... instead of sending them to Ukraine, we’re using missiles on asshole Muzzy terrorists, oh yes.  However:


...because repeating the same failed activity over and over always works in the end.
#TypicalSocialistPolicy

And in a different kind of war:


...and then euthanized like unwanted animals?  Oh please make it so.

Speaking of animals that need euthanizing:


...in which we play the “Guess The Race” game.  Clue:  her name is “Shacoria”.


...she sounds nice.  The story is just wonderful.


...branding?  Too harsh, you say?


...headline may have been edited slightly, to reflect reality.

And in further INSIGNIFICA:

...of course you did, my darlin’.

Finally, in ShowBiz News:


...sex every night and three times a day over weekends?  That’s what I’d do, anyway.


…most children don’t look like what they become,really:

But if I can venture a guess, it’s not the face that gets people’s attention anyway:

And with that, we’ve reached the backside of the news.

Reaching Out

The Gun Thing

I stumbled on this list of “Best Sniper Rifles SOTI, and thought I’d share it with everybody.  Here it is:

Accuracy International AXSR
*Accuracy International AT308
Barrett Mk22 MRAD
Mk 13 Mod 0/5/7
Barrett M82/M107
*M40
M24 Sniper Weapon System (SWS)
B&T USA 300SPR Pro
FN SCAR Mk 20 SSR
*SVD Dragunov
HK 417/G28/M110A1
M110 SASS
Sako TRG M10
*Sako TRG 22/42
M2010 ESR
Desert Tech SRS A2

I’m so out of touch with this stuff that in all conscience, I wouldn’t dare to comment on their choices.  However, there are a few on the list that I have shot (asterisked), and I have to say that I would happily take any of them to war, if I were of the appropriate age and fitness.  Of those, here are my favorites.

  • SVD Dragunov — loath as I am to give any plaudits to the Commies, for pure ease of shooting and comfort, not to mention very acceptable accuracy, this is my absolute favorite.  I owned one for a brief period, and traded it for something else, which ended up being lost in that Tragic Canoe Episode On The Brazos.
  • M40 (Remington 40X) — not only have I shot this puppy, but I’ve seen what it can do in the hands of a good shot — that would be Doc Russia, who owns a hand-made variant — and at any distance out to 800 yards (in my hands, anyway) this gun is deadly.  (In Doc’s capable hands… forget about it.)
  • Sako TRG 22 — best trigger of all of them.  I was at a Schutzenfest  many years ago (2003? how time doth fly), and saw someone shooting this rifle.  I asked if I could pop off a few, and he graciously consented.  If they weren’t so spendy ($5 grand back then, well over $6 grand now), I’d have seriously considered buying one.  Apparently the TRG 22A1 is a considerable improvement on the original, but I can’t imagine how they improved the thing other than with some internal wizardry.  Apart from cost, though, it has another failing, for me:  it’s heavy, Bubba.
  • Accuracy International AT308 — anything those wizards at Accuracy Int. do is worth a look, and the .308 version is outstanding.  I can’t remember which model I shot — I think it was the “Arctic Warfare” model — but in the hands of even just a competent rifleman (that would be me, on a good day), all the AI rifles are one-holers.

Anyway, I found the article a lot of fun to read, even though the rifles’ nomenclatures made my brain hurt, trying to keep up (“Mk 13 Mod 0/5/7 — 417/G28/M110A1 — M110 SASS”… how the hell does anyone keep track of this shit?)

Precision shooting… what fun.

Dept. Of Righteous Shootings

Righteous Shootings

The plan is, you offer a car for sale on FuckedBook MarketPlace, insisting on a cash sale.  Then, when the prospective buyer shows up with pockets bulging with the stuff, you say “Oops!  Sorry, there’s no car but we’ll take your cash anyway!”  You’ll even have a gun in case things get nasty.

Sadly for the planners in this particular case, their prospective buyer came not only with cash, but with his own gun.  Legally owned*.

So when these assholes did the shooty thing, he did the shooty thing right back and sent one of the choirboys to join the celestial one.

Even though this happened in Illinois (Peoria, not Chicago thanl goodness), the cops weren’t interested in the choirboy’s problems, and gathered around Our Hero instead, offering congratulations and attaboys for helping them manage crime in their town.  Okay, actually:

He was released without any charges.

Good enough.

*here’s what interests me:

The robbery victim who fired a shot was a legal gun owner in another state and had a license to carry the weapon from one state to another.

What is this latter license?  As far as I know, Illinois doesn’t recognize any CCPs from other states.  Can anyone enlighten me on this?