Month: October 2025

Still On The Block

The Gun Thing

Well, some time has passed in the disposal of The Layabout Sailor’s estate guns, and nothing has changed since this post. In other words, there are a couple-three rifles are still available.

Let’s start with my favorite, the Norwegian Krag chambered in 6.5x55mm.

As I mentioned earlier, the carbine has been sporterized because its original stock was literally falling apart (like, giving the unwary shooter splinters when handled). As such, it has little collector value because those old boys want it original.

But as a hunting rifle? Hoo baby.  If I were younger and still hunting, you wouldn’t be seeing it here because I’d have kept it for myself.  I’ve fired the rifle myself before, back when Jim and I were doing one of our many range visits together, and it’s a honey.  Look, it’s not really a long-range (400+ yards) gun, because few carbines are.  But if I were doing dense-brush hunting for hogs, or deep-woods hunting for whitetails or even black bears, I would take this Krag ahead of any other rifle. And I mean that.

As for its action:

Butter-smooth, of course, and that Krag loading tray ditto. None of that wrestling a stripper-clip or thumbing individual cartridges down into a stiffly-sprung magazine, no siree; throw five cartridges in the tray, snap it closed and the gun will sort it out for you.

This Krag is a proper Norwegian issue (see the arsenal proof stamps) and was made in 1908.

Honestly? I love this little carbine so much that if I had the money, I’d just buy it from the estate myself, despite my having quit hunting. It’s that nice a gun. But I don’t, so I can’t (more’s the pity).

Now here’s the deal.

I want to raffle this off to you, my Loyal Readers. There is a reserve price of $500 that must be reached first, but to make it really easy, I’m asking for a ticket price of only $10 (no limit on purchase quantity). So if I get fifty entries (assuming only one ticket per Reader), it’ll be done and dusted — I’ll do the draw immediately, notify the winner and ship it off to your FFL. Shipping is on me.

Now ask yourself the question: Would I like the chance to own a sweetie like this for only $10? (That’s the current cost of one McDonald Meal Deal, go figure.)

Zelle to [email protected]; Venmo to @Kim-Dutoit-3.  (I don’t do PayPal anymore, sorry.)

And paper checks to the usual Sooper-Seekrit address:

6009 W. Parker Rd
Ste. 149-141
Plano TX 75093

Do it for me, do it for Jim’s Widow Irish, but most of all, do it for yourself.  You will not regret it.

News Roundup

Bad News

Ah, the good old days when we could unashamedly use  !BOOBS!  to sell products.  But now:


...Florida, Texas brace for impact of still more Yankees.  FFS.  Still… okay, quit hogging the popcorn, y’all.


...actually, the opposite:  the deportations aren’t unpopular, and everyone who’s MAGA is united behind them.  Other than that, it’s quite true.
#MSNBC


...funny, we were just about to say the same about the Democrats.

Some International News:


...remember, it’s all part of The Great Cultural Assimilation Project©.


...like we care what the fence-sitting, speed-hating chocolate makers do.


...just to remind everyone:  it took until 1975 for Seffrica to get broadcast television.

In the Lawn Ordure Files:


...what pisses me off is that he actually got two sentences of 18 years for each offense, but the asshole judge decreed that they be served concurrently instead of consecutively.
#JudicialBullshit


...and still no mention of weekly floggings, castration or flaying.

In Business News:


...that just gives ol’ Elon more reserve stock for his Mars colonization plans.


...says the retail organization who pretty much caused the whole “off-shore production” activity.  I’ll believe this bullshit statement when 80% of Walmart merchandise is made in the U.S.
#NeverGonnaHappen

From the Dept. of Education:


...she was saving her vag for the highschoolers’ trip, no doubt.

And in the usual

         

And speaking of that lot, as we drive headlong down :


...first thought:  because she’s an attention-seeking slut, like the entire Kardashian coven?  I report, you decide:

Amazing;  after all that surgery and such, she’s still less attractive than the average Moscow street prostitute.

#NoManShould

Stopping The Tax Tide

Taxes and Theft, Trumpism, UN and other scum

Last week I ranted about this “Global Emissions Tax” nonsense emanating from the U.N., and it is with great glee that I see that God-Emperor (not King) Trump has nipped that issue in the bud:

A global tax on shipping emissions won’t take effect after pressure from the Trump administration to abandon the climate activist-fueled proposal.  

The International Maritime Organization had been set to vote on Friday on adopting a global carbon tax aimed at pushing the shipping industry to stop using fossil fuels. But that vote did not happen after President Donald Trump on Thursday called for other countries to oppose the tax, saying that the United States would not “tolerate” or “adhere” to the measure. 

From what I can understand, Trump threatened the voting nations with stuff like trade embargoes and tariffs if they voted in support of the thing, whereupon they said “Yes, Massa”  and did what he told them to do.

However, let’s not crack open the champagne just yet:

Instead, the International Maritime Organization, an agency of the United Nations that regulates shipping, moved Friday to postpone the vote on the tax for a year. 

“Now you have one year, you will continue to work on several aspects of these amendments,” said Arsenio Dominguez, the secretary general of the International Maritime Organization. “You have one year to negotiate and talk and come to consensus.”

So next year, it’ll come up for a vote again, and again we’re going to have to rap their nose with a rolled-up newspaper.

I have a simple suggestion to end this thing, forever.  Tell the United Nations that if they ever try to impose a global tax system on the world (and on us, of course), this action will automatically trigger the United States’s immediate withdrawal from the UN, and the expulsion of the UN organization in toto  from the United States.

Then get Congress to pass a law to enable the action.  Shouldn’t be that difficult, even with the expected opposition from federal judges.

Message to the UN:  We don’t do taxes.

End of story.

Wrong Approach

Advice, Marxists, Resistance

Here’s an interesting development:

A hunting stand with a sight line to President Trump’s Air Force One exit area was found at Palm Beach airport.

FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau is investigating the situation.

“Prior to the President’s return to West Palm Beach, USSS discovered what appeared to be an elevated hunting stand within sight line of the Air Force One landing zone,” Patel said, according to Fox News. “No individuals were located at the scene. The FBI has since taken the investigatory lead, flying in resources to collect all evidence from the scene, and deploying our cell phone analytics capabilities.”

And here’s where I would have parted ways with Kash & The Gang.

What I would have done is upon discovery of the stand is completely the opposite.  Instead of making a big splash about it, I would have kept shtum, and booby-trapped it so that if some scrote tried to use it, there would be a ‘splosion — just a small one, so as to incapacitate as opposed to dissolving said scrote into hamburger.

Of course, this action may be against some law, which just goes to show how wet and stupid our laws have become.

Schumer Shutdown FAFO Update

Politics, Trumpism

Well they started it, so what did they think would happen?  How about this:

White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought on Friday announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is halting $11 billion in federal funding for projects in four states amid the government shutdown.

And the four states thus targeted?

New York will face the biggest bulk of funding cuts with its projects in New York City, but cities in California, Massachusetts and Maryland will also see reductions because of the shutdown.

My reaction:

Of course, they’re upset about this:

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (Soc-  NY  OH) warned the pause will devastate American families.

“Cutting $11 Billion in Corps projects will devastate communities across America & drive up costs for working families. Infrastructure investment keeps ports competitive, protects homes from flooding, & supports good-paying jobs. Infrastructure investment keeps ports competitive, protects homes from flooding, and supports good-paying jobs.”

Hey Marcy, your constituents and those from the other four Left-wing states voted you and your little socialist buddies into office, and now they get to face the consequences of your actions.  Suck on it, Lefties.

As for the rest of us:

Correction:  Alert Reader Jon M. informs me that said Kaptur reptile is in fact from Ohio — in the ninth district, a little bluebottle in the tomato soup that includes the garden spot of Toledo.  My apologies both to her and to the state of New York.