Author: Kim du Toit

News Roundup

Bad News


(“This [mother] drinks it, that one doesn’t.”  So much for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.)

And speaking of French wisdom:


...little late to the party, mes amis, but à bas les Vertes!  (Couldn’t have put it better myself.)

Speaking of Greens, and their Global Warming Climate Cooling Change© agenda:


...ah fucking hell, not this old chestnut again.  This was supposed to happen back in 1975, when all the Smart Set was convinced a new Ice Age was upon us.  Now that Covid has failed, Global Warming has morphed into Climate Change and nobody cares about either, here comes the Collapsing Gulf Stream again.  Can I suggest that if it doesn’t collapse next year, all the scientific alarmists be scourged then hanged in the public square?  Show of hands…

And speaking of capital punishment:


...someone tell me why people like this should not be broken on the rack, then beheaded.  I need a good laugh.

Next:  a parent who gets the picture.
...and good for her, say I.  Hope she’s got a gun or two floating around, in case of looters.  But she’s from Utah, so...


...and in other breaking news:  Sherman Sacks Atlanta.

In Sex Wars:


...no.

In Medical News:


...keyword:  Mexico.  Also:  “…all of whom had undergone cosmetic surgery like breast implants or butt lifts”.

In Serious Crime News:


...see, if he’d only stopped at three...


...and given who it was, our Potternerd should be thankful they didn’t shoot him dead on the spot.  Although the shooting should have been confined to the fraidy-cats who called the rozzers on the poor kid.

In the Travel / Entertainment Dept.:


...and here I thought that “themed cocktails” was just another term for hookers in fancy dress.


...wait:  a fireball?  In a water park?  Does not compute.

TAYLOR Swift and Travis Kelce are on course to become
the richest power couple in entertainment
...BFD.  If Taylor Swift married some starving folk singer in Memphis, they’d still be the “richest power couple in entertainment”.

And now for the ever-popular

And to finish this off, a stroll down :


...oh well, I report, you decide:

Incidentally, when did “42” become middle-aged?  Even when I was 29 (and not 69), I thought 40-year-old broads were sexy, not middle-aged.

But we can discuss all that another time, because that’s the end of the news.

Going Medieval

Mocking Furriners, Rights, The Gun Thing

Britishland:

Brits:  “If guns are banned, can we use swords?”
Britcops:  “No.”
Brits:  “How about crossbows, then?”
Britcops:  “We’ll get back to you on that*.”

*The Home Office has launched an eight-week consultation to see if there should be a licensing system to control the use, ownership and supply of crossbows.

Frogland:

The Principality of Monaco plans to follow in the footsteps of its surrounding French neighbours by organising a national day dedicated to the collection of weapons and ammunition that have been found or inherited by individuals.

At the end of 2022, France managed to collect more than 150,000 weapons without inflicting legal or administrative proceedings on the weapons’ former owners.

The head of the Administrative Police Division, Rémy Le Juste, addressed the topic at the Monaco Police’s well wishes for the New Year, saying “this is a major subject which deserves everyone’s attention, given the somewhat troubled international context that we are going through.”

Le Juste admitted that “It still happens that our services intervene with individuals who find themselves owners through inheritance of undeclared weapons dating from the Second World War,” and added: “We encourage, from now on, all people who find themselves, despite themselves, possessing weapons to call on our services: either to have them destroyed or to make them unfit for their use, and this, without these people being subject to criminal charges, subject of course to the agreement of the judicial authorities.”

Only knights, the King’s men and the king’s favorites may own weapons of war.  Peasants:  non.

U.S.:

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

More Bastardy From California

Gummint, Rights, Surveillance Society, The Gun Thing

I thought this nonsense had been declared illegal:

Several major credit card companies have decided to move forward with a plan to track purchases made at gun retailers in California, CBS News reported Monday.

American Express, Visa, and Mastercard will implement a new merchant code for firearm and ammunition retailers, allowing banks to track “suspicious” purchases to comply with a new California law.

As I’ve said before, whenever government needs a BJ, corporations have absolutely no problem falling to their knees.

Fuckers.

Cash.  Gun shows/estate sales.  Individual purchases.  (I don’t know how any of this would help CA residents, as they appear to be doomed, gun-wise.)

Update:  Seems like Idaho has the right idea, though.

Combo Guns

Gratuitous Gun Pics, The Gun Thing

Among members of the gun fraternity, “combo” / “drilling” guns (multiple-barreled rifle/shotguns) have never been as popular Over Here as they are in Yurp.  Here’s an example of one, the Merkel 961L as seen at Steve Barnett’s Luxury Death Dealers’ Emporium:

This one’s a little different from the norm in that it features two side-by-side 8x57mm JRS (rimmed) rifle barrels over a single 20ga shotgun barrel as opposed to vice-versa, but the concept is the same.  And let it be known that I have absolutely no problem with a pairing of 8mm Mauser with 20ga, no sir not me.

For those who would prefer something a little more manly, here’s a Merkel 96K, with two 12ga barrels over the wonderful 9.3×74R chambering.

Here’s the thing.  Combo guns have always had a devoted following amongst big game hunters of previous generations (much less so nowadays), but I have to tell you that in no way shape or form would today’s hunter be undergunned out there in the bush with either of the above.

Yes, they are heavy, but at around 8lbs unloaded they compare well with, say a modern single-barreled Steyr rifle in .300 WinMag which weighs about the same or even more.

But as examples of the gunmaker’s art, little can compare to the majestic drillings, and certainly not the pedestrian rifles such as the Steyr.

If I were offered one of the above two, it would take me hours to decide between two rifles/one shotgun or two shotguns/one rifle.  (I already have one or two single-barreled rifles, as any ful kno.)

Assuming I were able to go into the African bushveldt again, I’d probably pick the 12ga/9.3x47mm pairing if hunting anything dangerous, but the 8x57mm/20ga for smaller game.

By the way, the price differential ($19,000 for the 961L vs. $9,000 for the 96R) reflects the greater precision work required to register two rifle barrels vs. two shotgun barrels.

I love both, for obvious reasons:  hogsback wooden stocks, exquisite workmanship, manly chamberings… I need to stop now.

Quote Of The Day

QOTD

In response to the celebratory picture of Vogue cover “girls” over the past [whatever] years:

…some guy SOTI grumped:

“Too much cinnamon, not enough sugar.”

I LOL’d.

*The word “girls” was put in quotes because some of the models (Oprah coff coff ) were last seen as actual girls back in the mid-Sixties.