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Gratuitous Gun Pic: Marlin 983S (.22 WMR)

Gratuitous Gun Pics

Fresh from my diatribe against Marlin Rifles comes this customized and scoped example of their stainless-barreled Model 983, as seen at Collectors:

Aesthetically speaking, I don’t see the need for the heavy rubber recoil pad (on a rifle chambered in .22 Magnum?), but other than that, it’s very nice — and the recoil pad is removable.

I bet that’s a one-hole shooter, all day and every day of the week.  Yeah, it’s a lot of money for a Marlin, but that’s just another reason to hate them for stopping production:  they’ve driven up the prices through scarcity.

Of course, if you forego the customization, Marlin 983 rifles typically run for less than half the above, if you can find one.

All that said, I prefer my earlier Model 882 SV:

…which really is a one-hole shooter, as anyone who’s shot it will attest.

When All Else Fails

Africa

…when your backs are to the wall, and when you have neither the money nor the expertise to fix an intractable problem, you can always call on the… Chinese?

South Africa’s newly minted electricity minister followed up a trip to China last week with pronouncements that the Communist Party will provide a solution for the socialist country’s collapsing power grid, which has needed planned blackouts for much of the past year.

This will end up, in typical African fashion, with a lose-lose result — the Chinese will come to realize, as all colonial powers eventually do, that sinking money into Africa is just that:  throwing money into a pit, with no tangible reward.  And South Africa will end up the same as they are now, maybe worse, with a power system that still doesn’t work, only with a mountain of debt to the Chinese loansharks that they have no chance (or intention) of paying back.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of socialists, on both sides.

News Roundup

Bad News

And diving straight into the nudes news:


...follow the link to get the location and dates etc.  You dirty animals.

Global Warming Climate Cooling Change News:


...in case you’re wondering, I’m off looking for Sarah Hoyt’s Shocked Face.


...yeah, there is.  All that “civilization”, “lifesaving inventions”, “engineering” and so on are all very well and good.  But what has Whitey done for us recently?

Booz Nooz:


...I did my best.


...actually, I found the reverse is true:  but then I’m a social drinker, not a solitary one.


...quelle surprise.  However, there’s no reason to wait for next week’s contradictory report, because:


...this according to noted health expert Vera Wang.


...just wait till they read To Have And Have Not.


...and from other news outfits… nope, I haven’t heard anything, either.


...I think under “Clueless Assholes” in the dictionary, you’ll find the Pals.

And the speaking of Muzzy assholes, here’s the latest from the Great Cultural Assimilation Project:


…just couldn’t wait to get after that pale infidel poon, could he?


...but apart from all that, the article was accurate.  [/NYT]


...call me old-fashioned, but I’m going to stick with the tried and tested “hang a wet towel on it” exercises.  I have no idea what vaginal peace signs are;  hippy kegels?

And in INSIGNIFICA:

   

...anyone who knows who these people are needs to get a life.

And on behalf of today’s sponsor, just one more item on the topic:


...yeah I know, just another BritTV breakfast show totty.  When she covers up, she looks quite normal and mumsy:

...but when she lets the girls out to play, however:

And now we’re all abreast of the news.

Quote Of The Day

QOTD

From Lincoln Brown at PJMedia:

“MindGeek doesn’t care about free speech. Porn is big money, and MindGeek and its associates want as much of that money as they can get, no matter what the human damage may be.”

All very noble and moral etc.  Now let’s just substitute a few words:

“The federal government doesn’t care about free speech. Taxation is big money, and the government and its associates want as much of that money as they can get, no matter what the human damage may be.”

Works, dunnit?