Question, Answered

Seen at Insty, a thought from Randy Barnett concerning this issue:

Argument: Allowing the Prez to remove administrative officials will transfer an enormous amount of power to the Prez.

Question: Transfer from whom? Who currently has all that power?

One more question:  And where in the Constitution does it grant those executive powers outside the Presidency?

Ipse dixit.


Corollary thought:  if Trump wanted to make a serious difference to the Judiciary, he’d nominate Randy Barnett to the Supreme Court when one of the current super-lawyers retires or croaks.

No Man Should

There’s a wonderful Afrikaans idiom which goes, “Ugly is one thing, but stupid?”   (The “stupid”  is pronounced “stchoopid”, which makes it all the meatier.)

Which was my first impression when espying this little offer from PSA:

“UGLY” is for the gun;  “STUPID” is for the schmuck who’d pay nearly three grand (or the non-sale four-and-a-half grand) for this foul thing.

I don’t care how well it shoots (we’ll ignore the 9mm Europellet because in this case, the chambering is irrelevant);  this is not a gun that any man should be carrying, or competing with, or — guess who would — showing off to his friends along with his $100,000 diamond-encrusted Hublot wristwatch and $750,000 Lamborghini Astarigida*.

Ugh.  I need to get to the range and shoot some nice guns.  (see below)


*colloquial Italian expression for “erection”, i.e. “stiff rod”.  It’s what all modern Lamborghinis should be named.

Revolver Time

It has been quite a while since I took my revolvers out for some air — I speak here not of the .22 revolvers, but the meatier ones — and as I was packing the range bag, I thought I’d drop in a quick pic of some of the old S&W warriors:

For those unfamiliar with the K-frame (and one J-frame) models, they are (clockwise from top):

  • Mod 10 M&P .38 Spec 4″
  • Mod 14 Target Master .38 Spec 6″
  • Mod 637 .38 Spec 2″
  • Mod 65 .357 Mag/.38 Spec 4″

Just so we’re perfectly clear on the topic, I love all of them equally.  Each has a specific use (e.g. the Mod 65 is my bedside gun, the little 637 a backup option, etc.), each has its own story, and a day at the range spent in their company is a day well spent.

“So why the smaller K-frame models, and not the L or N ones, Kim?”

The K-frame revolvers just fall into my hands, no muss no fuss, like they were made for them.  The larger frames, not so much.

Also, I want to draw particular attention to the first-mentioned Model 10:

 

…because I came to own it under fairly interesting circumstances, which I’ll explain tomorrow as part of a novel idea.

Some Pushback Required

Okay, here is where all my hackles start rising, and my sense of fair play starts to load up some spare magazines:

The UK’s West Midlands Police used fictitious evidence to justify its advice to ban Israeli fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer team from attending a match in Birmingham last month, the force’s chief admitted to a parliamentary committee Monday, as MPs grilled police brass on the basis of their controversial decision.

The Aston Villa soccer club announced in October that no Maccabi fans would be allowed at a November match following a police assessment that classified the event as “high risk” and suggested banning Israeli fans from the stadium.

In the report presented to the club that suggested banning Israeli fans, police presented information about a 2023 match between Maccabi and West Ham, which the report said was the Israeli club’s “last appearance on UK soil to date.”

“The most recent match Maccabi played in the UK was against West Ham in the Europa Conference League on Nov 9, 2023,” the report read.

Well, fine, except:

However, no such match was played, and Maccabi has never faced off against the East London club.

Here’s the outcome I would like.  This asshole cop, and every single cop involved in this disgusting fabrication should be fired, stripped of their pension and benefits, and face charges of fraud (or whatever the official term for wrongdoing by a policeman may be).  Under Hammurabic Law, they’d all be executed for bearing false witness, but sadly, we’ve come a long way (too long a way) since then.

Basically, these dickless Tracys invented a reason to avoid a potential clash between two groups of people so that they wouldn’t have the responsibility of policing it.  And they could hide behind the fact that Maccabi are a Jooooz team, so who cares.

In the broader picture:  if these little shits can do this, any police force can, and most probably will.  (In totalitarian states they already have, multiple times.)

Disgraceful.

News Roundup

Wait a minute:  is all that heart-healthy stuff true?  Well:


...I’d give it up, but that’s just what they want me to do.  Then again:


...never mind steak dinners:  let’s hear it for steak breakfasts.  With eggs fried in butter.  Instead of cereals.


Do it for your healthNo forever chemicals.

Time for the weekly


...gonna need even more if we’re ever to reach that “20 million deportations” goal.


…and ten guesses where he came from, and how he got in.  [#FuckJoeBiden]


...did they scoop up that rancid bitch Ilhan Omar as well?  No?  Damn.

Still in Minnesoduh:


...in which we play the old “Guess The Perp’s Race” game againAnd sadly, said victim was not Ilhan Omar.

Some :


...all together now:

In Terrorist Bastard News:


...wait:  he’s not a MAGA guy?  How disappointing… for the Left.

Let’s look at the Sex Offenders Registry:


...just a guess, but I’m suspecting that any other would-be rapists in that village may be thinking twice, now.


...even for the French, that might be a little extreme.


...nice to see that “Grab-A-Granny” is now a prison exercise option.

From the Dept. of Education:


...hell hath no fury like a teacher scorned.


...this is only newsworthy in that it was a male teacher doing the minor-bonking.  And still in Floriduh:


...so?  Can’t see the problem, here.

And for the ever-popular 

And in the third house on the right down  :


...have we gone Full Sydney yet?  Apparently not:

And that’s all the Sydney News for now.