…OR:
You could buy a second-hand VW Jetta TDI for less than half the price of a Tesla. The Jetta has a 20-gallon diesel fuel tank which will take you over 500 miles, and which will burn those 20 gallons of diesel more efficiently with a lower carbon footprint than the generator takes to burn 9. And at 30,000 miles, you won’t have to spend a further $10,000 to replace its battery.
Just a thought.
Apparently, the cops have caught the asshole who ran an SUV into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wis.:
“Brooks is a career criminal with multiple priors and was released from jail two days prior to the incident after posting a $1,000 bail for three misdemeanors and two felonies. He has a history of resisting arrest, obstruction, battery, statutory sexual seduction, strangulation and suffocation, property destruction, illegal firearm possession, bail jumping, domestic violence, drug related charges and is a registered sex offender.”
I’m not too sure that calling him an asshole is sufficiently descriptive, but then again, “someone who needs killing” will probably get me into trouble.
The real asshole in this little escapade is the fucking judge who allowed him out on bail, and Asshole #1a is the public defense attorney who motivated it.
From Jed Babbin:
“The only reasons [Kyle Rittenhouse] was acquitted are because the system is racist and because America needs stricter gun control laws.”
Do they need any more? Iniquity as far as the eye can see…
…not that far, considering their Leftist myopia.
It occurs to me that we haven’t had a decent pic of a gun on this here website in ages, so without any more to-do, here goes:
Like the similar-but-not-identical Czech Model 1924, the Mauser 24/30 rifle was made for the Venezuelan army by Belgium’s Fabrique National, and not by Mauser (the Germans having been banned from making weapons for being Very Naughty Boys between 1914 and 1918).
I’m not going to go on about the gun’s history — between Othias, Mae and Ian McCollum, the topic has been extensively covered — but what I am going to go on about is the rifle itself, and its cartridge.
I happened upon one of these beauties at a local gun parlor, and were it not for the fact that I had only the budget to buy Daughter her carry piece, I would have walked away with two guns that day — a not-uncommon occurrence during Times Of Plenty back then.
If you can find one in minty condition, this is not a rifle to be left on the rack. The action is (duh) Mauser 98, the chambering is for one of my favorite cartridges, and were I to see that same one right now, I would sell a child or something to get it. Here’s a comparison of like cartridges:
…and you can see that the 7x57mm is different from all the rest in that it has a long, thin bullet which provides excellent penetration. This, lest we forget, is the same cartridge which kicked the .30-40 Krag’s ass during the Spanish-American War, and pushed the U.S. Army towards the .30-06 Springfield as a replacement.
I like the 7×57 because its recoil is relatively light, although I will also concede that it’s not the flattest-shooting cartridge past 200 yards.
But for an all-purpose rifle that can handle most small- to medium game and errrr two-legged targets with the same effect, you could do worse — a lot worse — than have one of these in your safe.
Here’s a rant after my own heart:
I was puzzled, so I checked the website and got nowhere. The password I’d used for the account was suddenly not accepted.
So I phoned the number on the website. And got nowhere. This time the problem seemed to be my PIN.
Or maybe my account number. Or maybe my customer ID. Or my PCN number. Whatever that was. The recorded message didn’t really care. I gave up.
I had become the innocent victim of the new digital age in which the algorithm reigns supreme.
There was a time when a human being with a problem talked to another human being who helped to get it sorted. Those days are gone.
The lives of big companies and government officials are made so much easier if we customers or clients can be kept at arm’s length.
The online experience is bad enough — but when you dare to call the “Customer Care” (ha!) telephone number, that’s really when the SHTF.
A combination of the two above means that I will be changing my Medicare supplemental insurer, because it seems to be the only way I can punish these assholes for their bovine indifference to my situation.
I’ll let Humphrys finish this rant:
Increasingly, we are being deprived of even a semblance of what we once thought of as customer service.
We are left talking to a computer screen behind which sits not another human being, but an algorithm. Or a recorded telephone announcement that may or may not respond to our pleas for help.
It’s as though any human compassion in the relationship between customer and provider has simply disappeared. And that’s very sad.
Or enraging. Ten guesses which side I’m on.
Bringing you the usual mix of pointless, stupid and crappy stuff. Also the sorta-news.
…key word: India.
…the difficult part is not involving Hillary Clinton in the process, because no one will believe a Kamala Harris suicide.
…just wait till they actually get to see some.
…
…Rope. Tree. Nadler. Some assembly required.
…not nice to refer to our beloved FBI as “tools”, but here we are.
And a few headlines from the department of 
:
…not to mention that it makes them think of eeeevil guns.
…all the hundreds of Nazi-loving actors who ever played Hitler could not be reached for comment. Best part: Mirren is a howling Lefty.
…good. Let’s go back to calling them perverts. sickos and Clintons.
…how about:
…too strong?
And in an unusual display of common sense:
…next on the list: Afghans, now that the Great Satan is no longer in their country and peace has been restored.
…what he said.
Time for INSIGNIFICA:
…actually, there’s no “could” about it. As the holder of a foreign title, Markle is Constitutionally prevented from being President. LOL.
Finally, from a hardworking wife and mother:
…and because:
…here ya go:
Hey, for a quarter-million bucks a year, I’m just surprised there aren’t more of them. Or maybe there are, but how would I know? (I feel a spin-off post coming…)