News Roundup

So now that we’re suitably anesthetized, let’s chew on the news:


...[snork] you had me at “roads scholar”.  And speaking of bright sparks:


...we need new planners, methinks.  After we’ve made the existing ones disappear.


...or maybe all we need is the modern equivalent of the old “pump jockeys” (loud sound alert):


...and to all the people who thought this awful little trannie would ever see a jail cell, I have a NY bridge for sale.


...that would be scary, except that the Biden Administration is already halfway there — and they did it with stupidity.


...lock up your sons.


...and in the good old days, this little snowflake would have been hanged for lèse-majesté.  I miss those days SO much.


...we already knew that, assholes.  No doubt this was funded with taxpayer money.


and my solution:

And in INSIGNIFICA:

  ...no pics because sheesh.


...okay, this is going to be good.

Because:

Have mercy (x2).

Gratuitous Gun Pic: Sporterized Mauser 98 (8x57mm)

I have to admit that my experience with “sporterized” military rifles has not been good.  Too often, the work has compromised the function (and still more often the aesthetic beauty) of the original.  (This is not the case when the sporterizer has had a name like “Goudy”, “Stegall” or “Goens”, but then again, the lofty skills of said gunmakers has always been accompanied by loftier-still prices, so I’ve only ever handled such rifles, but never fired one.)

Here’s one that caught my eye, however, at Collectors:

Other than the plastic stock, I can’t find too much to dislike about this rifle — even that ugly muzzle brake should tame the 8×57’s recoil.  Also, it’s selling for less than a grand (compared to the $5,000-plus of the custom rifles from the above makers).

Want, with wood.

Lies Upon Lies Upon Lies

Thanks are owed to Jack Hellner at American Thinker  for taking the time to do what I’ve been too lazy to do:  cataloguing all the climate lies of the past fifty or so years.

I’m reminded of Hitchens’s Razor, that statements presented without evidence can equally be dismissed without evidence.  Trouble is that the Climate Charlatans have repeatedly presented evidence, except that the data themselves have been not only fallacious but outright lies, fabrications and distortions.

So… when can we begin the mass hangings and firing squads?

Bass Longing

Inspired by the first video below, here is a short list of songs in which I’d like to have played bass guitar, on stage with these artists (and no, I was never as good as the featured bassists, but so what):

Little Brown Bird (Tal Wilkenfeld, Clapton/Beck)

The Confessor (Dave The Bass Player, Joe Walsh)

Sometime World (Martin Turner, Wishbone Ash)

Sledgehammer (Tony Levin, Peter Gabriel)

Every time I hear the bass on these songs, I get an attack of the If Onlies…

Classic Beauty: Gertrude Michael

She graduated high school at age 14, and then she went to college to study law.  Fortunately, sanity prevailed and she went into a musical career, then into movies.

One of her co-stars is reported to have said that she had the “most kissable mouth in Hollywood”.  That’s some strong competition, but Gertrude Michaels would have been right up there… still, I’ll let everyone else be the judge.

The bits below the lips weren’t too bad, either:

She would have been a lousy lawyer, anyway.