Quiet

 It's quiet in the tropics.  That is good news.  So far this season, we have had only three named storms and no hurricanes in the Atlantic basin.  The map from the National Hurricane Center looks quiet as well.

On this last day of July, we still have four months left in the season, and things are apt to start popping at any time.

Sunday Morning Dawg

 

A Salient Point

 Back in the good old days of the Trump presidency, and the Democrats were in full derangement mode, nearly every legal scholar agreed on one point.  A sitting president cannot be indicted.  The only remedy to a criminal president is impeachment.

As the criminal investigations surrounding Hunter Biden heats up, Joe can take solace in the fact that he cannot be indicted as long as he holds the office of the president.

I'm sure that if predictions hold and the Republicans take the Congress in November, they will crank up hearings to plumb the depths of the Biden crime family.  There might be a move to impeach Joe, but I think there is a better way.  If the Republicans take the presidency in 2024, our new president should appoint an Attorney General who will clean house internally, then begin prosecuting prominent politicians who broke the law.  Without fear or favor, With neither passion nor prejudice.  Simply apply the law to the miscreants.

Mae vs 200 Guns

Green Energy

 

Tucker Carlson: It turns out we're insane

The Biden administration is in full blown new-speak mode.  We cannot trust them to use common definitions for common language, because it might mean that the country is being wrecked by their incompetence.  At this point, I'm becoming convinced that they are evil.

Tucker breaks it down for us.

Stagflation

 This is the next term they will try to redefine.  Stagflation.  According to the Oxford language dictionary, Stagflation is characterized by persistent high inflation, coupled with high unemployment, but with stagnant demand.

When you look at our unemployment numbers, they look good, until you realize that we're coming out of the Covid pandemic, in which millions of people dropped out of the labor force and are no longer considered unemployed. When you look at the labor force participation rate, you will notice that there are a lot of people who are still not back at work.

Okay, It's Official

 With 1st quarter GDP at -1.6% and 2nd quarter GDP at -0.9%, we are in a recission, regardless of what the Biden administration says about it.    As Glenn Reynolds points out:

The news is bad on the lack of trust. A recent University of Chicago Institute of Politics poll found that a majority of Americans think that the government is “corrupt and rigged against people like me.” . . .

Why do people feel that way? Well, that’s a real poser, but I’m going to offer a suggestion: They feel that way because they’ve noticed that the government is corrupt and rigged against people like them.

C'mon, Joe! It's a simple definition that has been taught in business schools for years. Admit it, and do something about it.  You asked for this job, remember? 

Transfer Bar or Hammer Block

 I own several Snith and Wesson revolvers with internal hammer blocks.  I own several Ruger revolvers with transfer bars.  They serve basically the same purpose; to make it safely possible to carry the revolver fully loaded with the hammer down. I also own several single action Colt clones that are decidedly unsafe when carrying six rounds in the chamber.

The NRA talks about this in this issue of Shooting Illustrated.  Lots of good information there.

I do know that Ruger changed the profile of their transfer bar several years ago, in the 513-series Ruger New Vaqueor, and it caused problem with misfires in CFDA shooting. That transfer bar caused problem in the new Ruger revolvers, and our gunsmiths were stymied a bit for a fix, but they eventually sorted it out.

I still look for the Ruger New Vaquero in the used gun cases, but if the serial number starts with 513, I tend to shy away from it, unless the price is especially good.

The Great Reset

 No, not the great Reset that the Democrats want, The great reset in my shop, following the very successful shoot that I hosted last weekend.  We had to tear down everything, load it on trailers, and move it to the venue downtown.

Monday, I was unpacking everything, and at about 2:00, all the energy went out of me.  I could barely move, fatigued down to my bones. Tuesday morning I got out to the shop and started taking it easy, working as I could.  But, it was like playing Jenga.  Everything I moved had to have something else had to move.  But, I'm making progress and starting to see results.   It's going to be okay.

I just finished the accounting for the match, and the club made a little money.  The money in this club has always amazed me.  When Belle and I started this, it began as a ministry for our church, and we gave it all to God, for his stewardship.  The club is growing, the equipment purchases are covered, and we have money in the bank.  It's all God's work.

God moves in mysterious ways, and He is sponsoring a club that shoots handguns.

Forward

 So, there is a new political party, called Forward, which was reported by Reuters.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Dozens of former Republican and Democratic officials announced on Wednesday a new national political third party to appeal to millions of voters they say are dismayed with what they see as America's dysfunctional two-party system.

Their platform, as such, is here. 

During a quick read, I didn't see anything about a strong military, or a secure border, or reining in government.  Just a bunch of feel-good nonsense without any real policy or priority.   It will be interesting to see if they get any seats in Congress this year.  Or, if it is just a bunch of never-Trumpers looking to increase their bottom line.

I think I'll stay with the Republicans for the time being.

Recruiting and Retention

 The headline says it all.  

Woke military policies drive down recruitment, Army falling far short

General Milley is an unbridled disaster.  For an officer with his qualifications, decorations, and awards, he has proven absolutely unsittable to leading the Army.  He presided over the worst military defeat in the history of the US Army, then brought the troops home and began implementing woke, social justice policies that have crippled an already demoralized Army.  He should have been cashiered as soon as the last plane went "wheels up" out of Kabul. Were he an honorable officer, he would have retired immediately, citing his failure and recognizing his inability to inspire confidence.

Our Secretary of Defames, Lloyd Austin, suffers from the same failures.  He should have been gone long ago, but I suspect that he checks intersectional blocks for the administration.  

Recession

 I was taught in college, in the early 70s that a recession was defined as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP put us in a recession.  In the 80s, in graduate school, studying both classical and Keynesian economics, I learned the same definition.

With first quarter growth at -1.6% and second quarter growth at -1.6%, we are now in the classical definition of a recission.

I don't care what Joe or his Commerce dept says about it, we are inside the classical definition of a recession.  He can spin it all he wants, and he can get over it.  He's a lying sonofabitch anyway.

Justice, Not Revenge

 I see a post over at PJMedia that says the GOP is considering investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci if they take back the Congress in November. 

Congressional Republicans are floating the idea of investigating Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Biden administration’s response to the COVID pandemic should they win back the majority in the midterms.

Don't investigate him for the Covid response.  We forget that he was advising President Trump and could not have moved forward with the Covid response without the approval of the president.  There is a lot of blame to spread, but I think that we should be very precise in our investigations.  Better, we should investigate Fauci for his participation in gain-of-function research that led to the pandemic.  He was giving grants to the Wuhan lab, and they were working on bioweapons.  If he didn't know, he should have known.  If he were giving grants nilly-willy to a lab in communist China in some high-faluting of doing dangerous research without proper oversight, he may be respnsible for the whole pandemic.

I'm just saying.

There is another article at PJMedia that asks if the GOP should look ahead to a 2023 revenge agenda?

No, just no.  We have too much work to do to simply get America back on track.  Revenge is a bad idea in government.  Justice, certainly, but never revenge.  Let the voters take revence.

Louisiana State 2022

It's in the record books.  We had 88 shooters from 12 states, in ages ranging from 8 to 82.  Below is a video of the finals.  We start our finals by letting the kids shoot.  Girls, boys, then step up to the ladies, then to the men.

My media team fell down, mainly because I am the media team.  I don't know anything about color balance, or audio inputs.  Turn your sound down, it's loud.  The little girls start at the beginning, the boys start at about the 12:00 mark.  The ladies begin somewhere around the 32:00 mark, and the men about 1:06:00.

We trach our kids gun safety By the time many of them have been shooting for a little while, they are experts with the single-action revolver.  

Louisiana State is in the record books.  It's time to unpack the van and unload the trailer and make sure that I'm ready to host a club match in August.

Sunday Morning Dawg

 We're still shooting, but I put this in the queue several days ago.  I'll bet this is what he is doing when we are at the range all day.

That dog sleeps in the goofiest positions.  I'll be back tomorrow, as soon as I can unload the van and find the computer.

Out Of Pocket

 In another hour or so, I'm going to shut down this computer and go off net for an extended weekend.  I"ll be conducting a major shooting match. I am the match director and won't be posting this weekend.   I'll be back sometime Monday, July 25th.

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Good Guy

 A young man who was carrying a firearm stopped what could have been a mass shooting incident in Greenwood, IN.  He is being hailed as a hero by police.

Evidently, he did a pretty good job of ending the threat.

In a news conference on July 18, Greenwood police Chief James Ison described the dramatic confrontation between Dicken and the shooter, who had opened fire on people sitting in the food court. Ison said he believed Dicken saved many lives. “[Dicken’s] actions were nothing short of heroic. He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun. Was very proficient in that, very tactically sound,” said Ison, who revealed that the shooting was captured on surveillance video. “And, as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to exit behind him.”

Kudos to him for being willing to step up. 

I heard rumblings about this story on Monday but was unable to follow up on it.  Thanks to Termite for supplying a link.

Do It Now

 Dr. Anthony Fauci has announces that he will retire by the end of Biden's term.

If he retires sooner rather than later, maybe Congress will not recall that he lied to them under sworn testimony. He may escape indictment under a Republican congress.