Forget “declaring an emergency”.

I’m all for Donnie simply refusing to sign the spending bill.

Go full shutdown again.

I don’t want to see another shutdown. But I DO want our southern border secured….at least not open (as it is now).

Let Donnie go forward and ask why the Dems don’t want to secure our southern border.

Let the shutdown happen (again). Let him stand fast.

And, just so I am clear, I think declaring an “emergency”  for wall funding is a misuse of presidential powers.  This has been an ongoing issue, and using the emergency powers is not right.

I still think he needs to call out ALL the legislators that won’t fund the security of our southern border. Call ’em out by name and ask the American people to ask ’em WHY they won’t. 

Seems that the po-po are “questioning” two “persons of interest” in the “assault” that happened in Chicago. 

Now, The men are “not suspects” and are simply being questioned.
But if they spend any time at all with the police, and it is later determined that Jussie was not entirely truthful in his claims, they should sue him for the time they spent with the police and the stress that this is no doubt causing them.

And the police, should they be able to prove he is “less than truthful” should be able to force him to pay all of the costs for the investigation.

I say “not entirely truthful” because small bits of the story…small but important bits….keep changing. 

I am slowly coming to believe that if it weren’t for fake racist (both anti-black and anti-muslim) incidents, there wouldn’t be any at all.

ETA: Seems that the Chicago Police Department RAIDED the home of the “Persons of Interest”.
Raided. Kicked down a door and tossed the apartment. Lots of damage.
I would think that Mr. Smollett should be liable for that damage as well, if and when.

Negotiations to end the Shutdown were, as expected, in bad faith.

Pretty much the past few weeks has been a waste of time, as the parts of the funding bill for border security are, as expected, a joke. Read some of the limits they have placed.

Apparently these folks are willing to sell out the country and the citizens therein.

I’m thinkin’ lampposts and rope, but then again, I hate the sight of innards and such.

Trump should stand fast, and veto this abortion.

So Ocasio Cortez wants to eliminate air travel, among other things, to save the planet.

Yet during her campaign she spent nearly $21,000 on air travel…..and only $3100 on travel by rail….so much for long distance travel.  7:1, more or less. Odd, for someone who believe that we are ruining the planet, innit?

I’ll maybe start thinking these people really believe what they say when they start acting like they believe what they say.

Hypocrites. 

I mean, if one had been the “Victim” of a racist and homophobic attack, wouldn’t you want to do whatever it took to find those folks who perpetrated the attack? Cooperate with the police?

Do everything you could to prove your story is correct? Truthful?

Like, maybe, turn over your phone records to the police when requested? Metadata and geolocation tags?

Or would you turn over records that were so heavily redacted as to be useless?

(Sources close to the Chicago Police Department tell me that the theory is that it was a Grinder date gone bad)

Seems the video records don’t show the “noose” readily apparent as he reenters his apartment after the fact, but it was around his neck when the police got there. And he apparently was able to retrieve his Subway sandwich that was purchased BEFORE the attack. Odd.

it is also reported that “The growing lack of evidence in the case has reportedly pushed Chicago police to even consider charging Smollett with filing a false report. “.

First rain,

Then turning to a half inch of ice.

Then some more rain.

Then snow, to make the load on the trees and powerlines greater as it sticks to the wet ice.

Now wind. Ice is falling from the trees, along with small branches.

Oughta be interestin’ later.
I pity the power line guys. (never yet seen a girl lineman)
I think they’re gonna be busy this afternoon and evening.

More than one in four Democrats, 26 percent, now say socialism means “equal standing for everybody, all equal in all rights, equal in distribution,” 

Y’know, I don’t see any of these folks reducing their lifestyle, living at the Poverty level, giving all of their hard earned money and possessions away,….not one. They all take their pay, their income, and live well. Make no mistake, I don’t begrudge them the fruits of their success, be it from hard work or from inheritance (which is the hard work and success of other before them). Sometimes, a level of success comes from simply not making bad choices…from an eye to the future, from impulse control. From making GOOD choices.

But failure to realize that their money came from SOMEONE’s hard work, luck, or skill is stupidity….

And if they AREN’T living at the level of those they claim to want to help, those that they wish to take from other successful people to “level the playing field” then they are hypocrites.

And we should call ’em out for their hypocrisy.

That when teachers unions strike “For the Students”, they almost always also require a substantial pay raise?

“For the Students”.
“For Better Education”.

Sure.

One interviewed teacher:
“I have a Masters degree, and I never expected to be at this position at this point in my life…I deserve more”.
Then get a different job, dearie. A Masters degree to teach elementary school? High school?

Calling “bullshit”

The inevitable Glock vs 1911 came up (no surprise there!) during one of the breaks. (For the record, I carry 1911 style pistols. Don’t like GLOCK, but they are good pistols that do what they are supposed to do:..go “Bang” when the Bang Switch is squeezed and hit where they aim. I don’t like the Safe Action trigger….my choice. Doesn’t mean GLOCK are bad firearms, just not my preference.)

“You can take a dozen GLOCK pistols and field strip them and put all the parts in a pile and then stir them up and reassemble a dozen GLOCK pistols from random parts in the pile and end up with a dozen working GLOCKs.”

True.

“you can’t do that with 1911’s, they have to be hand fitted”.

I asked if they really thought that, say, Springfield Armory hand-fitted their production 1911 pistols at a an MSRP of $900 or so? Seriously?

No, they assemble them from bins of parts…..then test fire them and put them in a box with a manual, just like GLOCK.

I also pointed out that when GI 1911’s are rearsenaled, the same process happens. Stripped into parts, inspected, and then reassembled from bins and racks of parts. And, if the parts are in Spec, then the pistols work as designed.

One cannot take parts from different specifications of firearms and do this. You can’t mix Gen 1, Gen 2 and Gen 3 and 4 GLOCK parts and reassemble them randomly into working pistols, same way one cannot take parts from 1911 pistols from different manufacturers (and therefore slightly different dimensions) and end up with working pistols.  1911 describes a TYPE of action in a pistol, not pistols made to the same specifications by different manufacturers (Wartime military production notwithstanding). Different brands have different dimensions, just as different series of GLOCK pistols have different dimensions.

But the same brand and same model of production 1911 style pistols? Yes, yes you can.

(ETA: Please, this was not meant to start a “1911 vs Glock” fight in the comments.)

Long day Saturday.
9 hours of class.

But I are now an NRA certified Range Safety Officer. (Or I will be once the paperwork and NRA fees are paid)

This way, the range has more than one NRA trained RSO.

It was an interesting class. I knew most of it, but details matter, and I learned a bit that was good.