As it turns out, not too well, since there are ships stuck in port. Remember, the DOD’s vax mandate has nothing to do w/ COVID & everything to do w/ pledging loyalty & purging dissent. That’s why the mandates will continue regardless of what happens w/ the spread of the virus.
Arts and Crafts
Completing Gaston
I had a lot going on this week, but managed to get in a bit of shop time. I used it to get the slide for project Gaston finished.
I used this slide from Ninex19 at a cost of $320, a Glock 19 slide parts kit from Brownell’s ($50), and a Faxon barrel ($210). That makes the total for the upper half $580.
Assembly was easy. I used this video as a guide:
It isn’t the best video, but it got the job done. One thing I wanted to note: the slide came with a brass striker channel, and I used that one instead of the one that came the parts kit.
All I need to do is set the TFO sights on the pistol and it’s done. I think it looks good, but it will be a week or so before I get a chance to test it at the range.
The total cost was $790 plus the $95 for the sights- a total cost of $885, or $45 over budget. A bit more than a factory G19, but I get the extended barrel and the RMR cut. Plus it looks great.
COVID
Panic
Imagine a disease so dangerous that it requires testing to know if you have it.
- The only COVID-19 symptom that doesn’t show up with a common cold is the loss of smell, Barrett said, but that’s not a “useful tool to differentiate between the two.”
- That’s why self-diagnosis is not a safe option for finding out if you have COVID-19. Getting a COVID-19 test is the best way to determine if you’re infected with the omicron variant.
If you are diagnosed with it, you get locked in your home and can’t go to work. The best course of action is: don’t get tested.
Blog News
Merry Christmas
I wish all of you a very merry Christmas. Stay healthy, stay safe, continue to prepare, but most of all, enjoy this time with your friends and family.
Unless there is a major development, this will be my only post of the day.
Criminals
Private Cops
Only the rich can afford private security to replace defended cops in California.
Uncategorized
Don’t post confessions
You know how not to get caught breaking the law? Don’t post a confession online. Everything that you do doesn’t need to be on there.
Criminals
Immigrants are our strength
Is there any reason for putting foreign citizens in sensitive positions? Only to have them be Chinese agents?
Cancel Culture
He’s Looking At Me
A guy in a gym is looking at a woman. That apparently justifies her and her husband in threatening the man. It isn’t a crime to look at someone, but it certainly IS a crime to threaten someone with violence.
Chicks like this dress the way that they do because they WANT people to look at them. They just don’t want people who they find unattractive to look at them. If the man had been “hot” she would have enjoyed the attention and continued to show off for him. Because he wasn’t physically attractive, she decided to play like she was offended. These women seem to think that they can use or threaten force because a guy that they don’t find attractive dares to look at them. This is evidenced by the fact that they post videos and pictures of themselves all over the internet for people to ogle. They enjoy being the center of attention.
Back in 2011, I was standing in line in a Quizno’s sandwich shop in Tampa. The woman who was standing in line in front of me had on one of those midriff-bearing tops, and had a tattoo in the middle of her back. The tattoo was in an old English type of font, with her pants covering the lower half of the letters. I was standing in line, trying to figure out what the tattoo said when she turned around and asked me what I was staring at.
I replied that I was looking at her tattoo, and asked her what it said. Now it’s been my experience that people with tattoos love to show them off. Not this woman. She got angry and said, “Did I give you permission to look at it? Where do you think you get the right to stare at me without my permission?”
Now my natural smartass came out at that point, and I replied “What were you thinking when you put on that outfit this morning- ‘Oh, I hope no one looks at me!’ ??”
At this point, some huge guy, presumably her boyfriend, comes over and asks her if I am bothering her. She replies in the affirmative, and the meathead tells me that we are stepping outside to settle this. I tell him that there is no way that I am going outside and that I am not going to fight him, to which he replies that either I am going to go on my own, or he is dragging me outside, and he is kicking my ass whether I like it or not.
At that point, I tell him that it would be a VERY bad idea to drag me outside, and tell him that he needs to just let it go. Long story short, I didn’t have to go outside, and I didn’t have to shoot anyone.