Is Chappaquiddick day.
The day that we as a nation found out that yes, money and power can get you off from murder (or depraved manslaughter) and leave you clean enough that you can become a drunken liberal Democrat senator.
May the soul of Mary Jo Kopechne rest in peace.
Screaming “Allah Ackbahr”.
And wielding an axe and a knife…
Trying to chop up White Christian appearing people.
Yet the “motive is not clear.”
What is with the continued denial? I mean, by now, even those of us who are slightly less intelligent than broccoli can figure out that these attacks have one common factor.
Why can’t they say Terrorist….or “Jihadist Muslim”…Or “Sudden Jihad Syndrome”. Or just plain “whacked out follower of Mohammed”? These acts of terror are not being carried out by disaffected Amish yoots…..
Who do they think they are fooling, and what do they think they are hiding?
Seems that Paul Ryan is in r=trouble with his constituents…
He got elected on a bunch of promises, and then turned 180 degrees and didn’t even try to fulfill any of them.
Borders? He voted for OPEN borders.
Fiscal responsibility? Please.
Obamacare? HAHAHAHA.
And now it looks like he is gonna lose his bid to get reelected.
That’s what is supposed to happen when you don’t do what the people elect you to do.
The “Machine” isn’t gonna get him out of this.
And I consider that a Good Thing.
So do they WANT a race war? (statistics are best I could find, but may not be perfectly accurate)
As it is, Black people (who are approximately 12.7% of the population) commit over 45% of the crime….and bitch because more black men are in prison than whites…..Black men are, by my math, 6% of the population of the US….
Blacks get 34% of the welfare dollars spent….(remember, 12.7% of the population)…Most of which is paid for by white folks. (SNAP is another matter, Can’t find decent verifiable statistics, but it appears that that 12% of the population gets over 35% of SNAP too)
In other words, Black people get a significantly higher percentage of handouts government assistance than any other segment of the US population….
So do these Black Lives Matter and other folks stirring the pot really think that they can get more for “their” people by making more trouble? Don’t they see the backlash that is growing? Do they really think that their causes will be better served when white people have had enough?
Make no mistake, I know many black people who I respect, who work hard just like my white friends….Who are decent people…Law abiding, classy, decent moral and just plain good folks. Their only difference from other of my friends is a bit more melanin and curlier hair….. They aren’t the ones having trouble with the cops, they aren’t the ones rioting and protesting and shit…(they have jobs and families and such that take up their time).
But these troublemakers…really, do they think that this shit is gonna make their perceived plight better? (not that their lives are all that bad…I mean, they have the same chance to make bad choices as the rest of us, they just make those bad choices when most of us decent folks choose not to….and they live better than the majority of people in other countries even in their “poverty” and despite the white man “Oppressing” them….)
Do they really think they are going to make the average white guy think better of them for this racial shit? Make Joe and Jane Whitebred trust black people more? Make them welcome them into their non integrated neighborhood? Want to have them in their towns?
Trust me, it won’t.
Yeah, I guess this proves I am racist to some folks….I think I am, instead, a realist.
If you belong to an organization….a service club, a car club, a biker club, a members only shooting range…..
For God’s sake, if they ask for help with labor or an event or work parties, help out. Give a few hours to make the event go better. Work the work party. Clean up trash after the event. Sling a paintbrush or drive a nail. If you don’t know how to do any of these things, still volunteer. SOmeone will teach you. Trust me, your help is needed.
Don’t be part of the 85+ percent of the members that just bitch about things without lending a hand…. Make things happen. Help out if you don’t wanna run the show.
But do something. Even if it is hot and sweaty work. No one ever drowned in sweat.
Volunteers make these organizations. Do your share.
The fact that Menards thinks they can sell 8″diameter/9 inch high logs for $9.99….
Or that I saw some hipster in fake work boots loading 4 into his cart.
If he is the future we are SO fucked in 20 years.
The way I figure it, my woodpile can pay off the debt of Puerto Rico and 2 other states to be named later…….
It ain’t the Catholics, nor the Protestants.
Nor the Jews, nor the Assatru, nor the Zoroastrians.
It ain’t the Wiccans, and it ain’t, the agnotics.
There is a common thread to the culture of those who commit these atrocities.
Until we admit that, we can’t begin to deal with the issue.
“Religion of Peace”.
(and look: I know many Muslims who are peaceful. But until the House of Saud and those in the other rich muslim states stop funding the Jihadis and those who preach Jihad, this will continue.
Until, of course, we non-Muslims decide to fix the issue permanently.
Firearms are just tools for those people to use…
So are heavy trucks with high horsepower diesel engines.
See, that truck didn’t kill those folks on it’s own.
The Driver Did It.
Not the truck.
My prayers for those affected by this tragedy.
I knew it was Muslim Extremist terrorism the moment I heard about it.
I honestly figured it would happen here first….And that the truck didn’t have the back of the truck filled with TATP or AMFO as a lat ditch ending….
So remember the fun I had with Gander Mountain and the Sig Sauer 1911…?
Wrong caliber….Easy mistake….
Then the “yes we will take your order” but then “no we won’t” and “yes we have it in stock”, but then “no, we don’t”….”Yes, backorders are OK”, but then, “no, sorry, that firearms isn’t available, sorry”. “We cancelled your order, but took our time about refunding your credit card”….
Well, I gave up.
Called the FFL that works through our range….we get his cost plus 10% profit for the range. Kinda nice.
All told, he got me the fixed night sight version of the pistol I wanted (adjustable target sights) for only $68 more than what I would have paid through Gander Mountain.
Got it Thursday.
Had time on Wed to go to the range and actually put it through it’s paces.
Me likey.
Standard 1911 frame, only with 25 per inch checkering on the front strap. not too sharp, but makes for a nice grip. 20 per inch checkering on the mainspring makes it easy to keep your grip even in rapid fire. Trigger is a nice 4.2 lbs.
I had wanted target adjustable sights, but apparently Sig, while showing them in their catalog, is really hiding them in a secret detention center outside of Indianapolis not shipping them to any of the distributors that any of the FFL’s that I work with can buy from…so I bought this one.
Fixed night sights are OK. Good size notch, the dots are decently sized and spaced. I can live with them. (yes, I am whining). Actually, I like em a lot. Tritium night sights are, of course, nice in the dark.
The gun shoots dead on, right outside of the box. I might go with a slightly slimmer set of grips, but these are well checkered and nicely curved and fit the hand OK. And double diamond 1911 grips are cheap and easy to find in any thickness…The “speed bump” grip safety may get a bit of filing to round the edge just a bit, especially on the left side, but then again, as I shoot it more, this may not be an issue as I might get used to it. Dunno, have to see.
It ate factory WWB 230g ball no problem, and also some reloads (4.9 grains 231 230 g ball). Overall, 30 rounds of WWB and 50 of my reloads had zero hiccups. Ejection is very consistent. I could have placed a 5 gallon bucket in the right place and had 90% of the brass hit the mouth of the bucket. This is an external extractor, not a real JMB 1911 type (more like what you’d get on a new style Hi Power).
The 8 round mags from Sig drop free, as do my other 7 and 8 round 1911 mags. The magwell is small, but slightly beveled and reloads aren’t much trouble. (The rapid fire target from 50 feet (below), I did 2 5 shot strings in just under 4 1/2 seconds including the reload ). Could (should) have been faster, I bobbled the reload… but then again I am used to a bigger magwell….
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| (Yes, this group is larger than it should be….. but for rapid fire, I will take it, even with the vertical issues) |
All told, I like this pistol. I will have to work with it a bit more to like it more than my Para, but we have been old friends for a while, and this newcomer is gonna take some getting used to…..
Slow fire, now I gotta say, that was fun. Group size was just over 3″ at 50 feet, and the pistol came back on target nicely each time. Can’t say that I am unhappy with this target.
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| Yeah, I’ll take that…. |
There may be better ways to spend a hot summer afternoon, but getting to know your new pistol is high on my list….
So Bernie has more class then all the GOP ex nominees…
He was able to suck it up and endorse the candidate who clearly beat him for his Party’s support.
Says something about the level of class and gravitas that our pool of GOP candidates have, doesn’t it? I mean, Bernie had the grace to throw his support to Hillary, yet Trump is still waiting for Jeb and his ilk to do the same .