Month: December 2024

Commies Gonna Commie

Marxists

Needless to say, the Left is following their usual modus operandi  when something happens they disagree with:

Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees and administration appointees were targeted with dangerous threats over the last 24 hours, the Trump team announced on Wednesday.

“Last night and this morning, several of President Trump’s Cabinet nominees and Administration appointees were targeted in violent, unAmerican threats to their lives and those who live with them. These attacks ranged from bomb threats to ‘swatting.’ In response, law enforcement and other authorities acted quickly to ensure the safety of those who were targeted. President Trump and the entire Transition team are grateful for their swift action,” Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

Apparently, Law Enforcement is all over this one.

“The FBI is aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting incoming administration nominees and appointees, and we are working with our law enforcement partners,” the bureau said. “We take all potential threats seriously, and as always, encourage members of the public to immediately report anything they consider suspicious to law enforcement.”

Uh huh.  I’ll believe it when I see a few perp walks.  Sorry, Fibbies, but your standing with people like me is lower than shark shit.  [200 reasons omitted for brevity]

Ask Me Why

Seen On Campus

…whenever I get an begging letter from my alma mater, I give a merry laugh as I consign the missive to the trashcan, with extreme prejudice.  Try this one:

University of North Texas teacher’s college hides DEI language from courses following public scrutiny

I took one Ed course — one — when I was at UNT back in the day, and resolved never to take any more because it was socialist agitprop of the most obvious kind, disguised as teaching principles.  I say “disguised” because of all the students taking the class, I was the only one who complained about the content to the professor.

What else can one say when a considerable proportion of the content featured the writings of self-confessed terrorist Bill Ayers, in his post-Weather Underground guise as a professor of Education at U. of Illinois in Chicago.  Here’s a snippet from his Wikipedia (hardly an impartial source, as we all know):

William Charles Ayers is an American retired professor and former militant organizer. In 1969, Ayers co-founded the far-left militant organization the Weather Underground, a revolutionary group that sought to overthrow what they viewed as American imperialism. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Weather Underground conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings in opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The bombings caused no fatalities, except for three members killed when one of the group’s devices accidentally exploded. The FBI described the Weather Underground as a domestic terrorist group.  Ayers was hunted as a fugitive for several years, until charges were dropped due to illegal actions by the FBI agents pursuing him and others.

And we students were required to follow this not-so-ex-terrorist’s teachings?  Fuck that for a bowl of Commies.  I see with great displeasure that this old bastard is still alive and poisoning society, the prevaricating asshole.

Anyway, given that background, it should come as no surprise to anyone that the Ed Department at UNT is lousy with commiesymps and useful idiots, so of course they’re going to be staunch adherents of the disease known as DEI, and will go to extraordinary lengths to “disguise” DEI language while continuing to teach its principles to gullible students (the future teachers of our kids).

No wonder our public school system is so terrible.

Keep asking me for donations, UNT, and I’ll keep ignoring them.  Their official (i.e. un-Photoshopped) mug:

Pointed Stick

Weapons

From his lair in chilly Scotland, Longtime Reader and Friend Quentin S. asks the following intriguing question:

I saw a post on Quora about swords and open carry which piqued my interest and might pique yours. I understand that open carry of swords is actually legal in many US states. So, suppose you were no longer able to carry a gun, which sword would you choose? And which would you recommend?

I’m guessing that you personally would choose a sword-stick, but how about for someone younger and fitter? A rapier? A cinquedea?

The fact that I had to look up “cinquedea” to see what it was reveals my abysmal ignorance of cutlery.  For those of similar ignorance, here’s what it is (with a link in the pic should you want to buy one… hmmm):

I have to say that as a gunnie, I’d never given much thought to what I might select should the bitter question ever come to pass (“If we aren’t allowed to carry guns, how about swords?”).

If it came to just a bladed instrument I already own, I’d be caught short because my interest has confined itself to knives.  Although my Fox 685 survival machete (also of Italian origin, coincidentally) might do in a pinch:

…it’s a tad short and much too heavy for (shall we say) those social occasions.

No;  just as one night choose a rifle over a handgun in order to keep an enemy at a distance, a sword would definitely be preferable to a knife — and that cinquedea, lovely as it is, is more of a dagger than a sword and to be honest, I have that area covered, in spades.

So which long-bladed implement would I choose?

At first impulse, I might indeed chose a sword-stick, as Quentin surmises.  Here’s an example (once again, link in pic):

I have to tell y’all, that looks extremely tasty.  Hmmmmm…  (Yeah yeah, I know:  “Wait a minute Kim;  you mean you don’t own a sword-stick already?”  Shuddup already;  I carry a 1911, FFS.)

Here’s my problem, though.  While that sword looks lovely, and in a pinch the stick could even be used as a light cudgel, I don’t have the faintest idea how to use one.  Never got interested in swordplay outside childhood, so here we are.  And I’m not sure I’d want to learn, at this my advanced age.  It does strike me, however, that if you don’t know how to use a weapon, it could prove to be problematic should you actually be required to use one in extremis.  And if I’m about anything, it’s about training and practice when it comes to lethal weapons.

So if not a dagger or rapier-type of sword, what next?

How about a more slender, slashy version of the Fox 685:  a cutlass?

But it’s kinda long (nearly 3 feet) and clanky, innit?  I’d want something just a tad more controllable, something that would be as handy for slashing as for stabbing.  As always when I’m searching for answers, let me learn from history:  what was used in antiquity, back when they didn’t have SMLEs or 1911s?

Ha!  When in doubt, see what the Greeks used, when slaughtering Persians and other assorted fuzzy-wuzzies.  Here’s the xiphos (linked):

OMG I think I just fell in love.  24 inches of sharpy goodness, curves that would make Sophia Loren envious, and all the heritage and history rolled into one.  It’s like the E-type Jag of swords:

…only a lot more reliable.  I think I may just sell one of my seldom-used guns to get my hands on a xiphos because it’s beautiful and also unlike the E-type, affordable.

Any reason why I shouldn’t?