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Just for Fun

One fun thing about so-called “instinctive shooting” (pointing/aiming a firearm as a simple extension of one’s hand, like pointing a finger) is practicing peripheral vision target acquisition. Oh, it’s not really a practical shooting, urm, practice, but it’s fun to acquire a target out of the corner of one’s eye, fire, and check one’s accuracy. Do note, however, that is is ESSENTIAL to determine in advance where EVERYTHING one does not want to harm is NOT accessible to one’s fire. ESSENTIAL. BEST to practice such fun stuff on a well-defined and well-regulated range, and ONLY acquire targets that are located in a safe direction as defined by the range master (if such exists).

Of course, I have only taken up “instinctive shooting” practice because of my ageing eyes—mine are uncooperative with the iron sights on handguns—making “IS” practice. . . practical. For me. Surprisingly (or perhaps not), as far as handgun practice goes, the techniques have actually seemed to markedly improve my accuracy for mid-to-short range handgun use.

Whatever. It’s fun for me. YMMV.

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“Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth”?

1 Corinthians 8-10 offers a pretty wide range of responses to “food sacrificed to idols.” Why am I thinking about this? Well, Amazon engages in a number of shady practices, but perhaps the most concerning is the way it bends the knee to Chicom interests and practices (all forms of idolatry, worshiping at the feet of Mao and his corrupt practices, as it were, corruption as evil as Mohammed’s own). For but one example, if one submits a review of a product that Chinese Communist interests object to, one can be assured of being banned from submitting any further reviews.

So, the 1 Corinthians linkage concerns? If buying from and using a product from a corrupted source offends (lead astray, cause to sin—including oneself *heh*) one who is weaker in the faith, then one should not buy/use such a product from that source. If buying an otherwise useful product from a corrupt source does NOT offend one who is weaker in the faith, then it’s OK.

So, I bought a new, compact Bible that will fit nicely in my ADC vest to sub in for the miniature New Testament I carry in my shirt pocket. . . from Amazon. ¯\_(?)_/¯ Beats driving 80 miles round trip to a bookstore in a dying mall to buy the same product.

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The Dark Ages

While I was quite aware of most of the drawbacks to eliminating our POTS line and relying only on cell phone service, most of the cons were actually moved to the already fairly full “pro” column when we decided to make the move. *heh* However. . . although service outages were still counted as possibilities in the “con” list, I did not rate that as very likely. Perhaps I should have. Cell outage simultaneously combined with dead Internet service: even less likely.

But here I am on a rainy morning with both, simultaneously. Naturally. Oh, well. It’s not as if I am without plenty of other things to occupy my time, eh? 😉

I’ll file this somewhere live when The Dark Ages end.

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*grumble-grumble-gripe-complain*

Been raining too much. (Yeh, flood warnings, but I don’t much care there. Can’t do anything about it, so. . .) EVERY time I have had a chance to mow (dried out enough). . . more rain. ended up with much of the lawn 10” high. Today? Brief window, giving Master Curmudgeon Emeritus, Bovine Scatology University, an opportunity to go off on mower ergonomics. Front yard: relatively small (~1/6 acre, IOW, pretty darned small), so gas push mower (because height is beyond what my very comfortable to use reel mower can manage). NATURALLY, the handle CANNOT be positioned at a comfortable level for use, so decades-long gripes from my back, knees (especially worst one), ankle and hip are all screaming at me to use a rider for such a small patch. Nope. Not with that hill on the north side, bubba. (Ways around the problem involve trespass. *heh*)

Oh, well. On break, now. I hope it doesn’t sttart raining before I get this wee patch finished.

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Founding Principles

Not of the United States. No, the founding principles of the Democratic Party: envy and greed, resulting in covetousness, resulting in the Democratic Party’s first “great work,” the Trail of Tears.

The current Dhimmi-craps have advanced, though. Now, in addition to envy and greed, they have embraced misery. The party creates misery and inflicts it on its constituency. . .with the aid of that constituency, knowing full well the tendency for misery to love company. . . and that the only thing misery loves more than company is creating more misery for others who are not yet among their miserable number.

Easy to rile people up when they are consumed with envy, greed, and misery of their own creation.

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39% of Democrats Admit Supporting Terrorism

The accepted definition of terrorism is, “the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims.”

39% of Democrats View Vandalism Against Tesla as Appropriate Form of Protest

That is textbook terrorism.

Yeh, 39% of Dhimmi-craps admit they support terrorism. Not surprising. What is surprising is that ONLY 39% admit it.

The article does get something wrong: “The Democratic Party is now leaderless, directionless, and no longer stands for anything.” No, the party does have leaders. The leaders are all ENCOURAGING terrorism (no surprise, since they have a history of allowing, even encouraging sending billions of dollars to foreign terrorists and have a history of encouraging domestic violence by verbal encouragement, by dismissing charges for arson, looting, and violence against persons, even giving money for bailing out violent criminals and offering pardons, etc.).

The Dhimmi-crap Party definitely has a direction: tearing down the republic, dumbing down the electorate (whenever it is not corrupting it by voting cemeteries, forging mail-in ballots, etc.), pushing anarcho-tyranny both through lawfare against political opponents and oppression of common citizens and through encouraging outlawry by others, and on and on.

And it does have things it stands for. Sadly for America, ALL the things it stands for are bad for America, bad for Americans, and bad for the world as a whole.

At this point, I fear the best we can do is encourage the Dhimmi-crap Party to continue its slow (but accelerating) political and institutional suicide. (It’s in bad taste, though, to stand on the sidelines and cheer them on. Bad taste, but fun anyway.)

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General Preparedness

Murphy is our (under-) shepherd; we shall not want for trials and tribulations, and ghoulies and ghosties, and long-leggedy beasties, and things that go bump in the night.

*heh*

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Better Practice

Practice does not make perfect. it does end to make permanent, though. So, whatever you practice, do it with as proper a form and content as possible.

Still, practicing some things can be dangerous. Practicing knife fighting skills pretty much requires a skilled sparring partner, but knives are inherently dangerous tools/weapons. So: rubber knives with the same form, weight, and balance as one’s primary edged weapon can make for Good Practice.

Similarly, dry fire exercises with firearms can help hone one’s grip, aim, and trigger skills, but dry firing revolvers is generally disrecommended. So. . . dummy rounds. But dummy rounds can make other firearms practices safer, as well. For example, practicing reloading revolvers using speedloaders. It’s just that wee tad safer.

I was glad to find some dummy loads for a wee lil revolver that were S&W “longs” instead of the more easily-found ACP dummies, since they more accurately replicate reloading the preferred round for that lil revolver (it accepts and safely fires either the ACP—”short”—rounds or the “long” though it was built for and functions better with the “longs”).

Sadly, the only company I could locate (only 40 miles away!EIGHTEEN DAYS for USPS to lose/find/lose/find/HOLD/lose/find and finally deliver it.

*smh* That is why I send packages via UPS. It’s just. . . Good Practice. *heh*

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The One-Sided War Has FINALLY Seen a Reply to the Enemy

I see some saying the craziness resulting from TDS and completely whacko reactions to DOGE cutting waste, fraud, corruption, and blatant treason (supplying BILLIONS in aid and comfort to avowed enemies of the US) is evidence that the Loony Left Moonbat Brigade does not think of long term consequences. Au contraire, mon frère. Some leftists do think of long term consequences. It’s why they have had so much success with the “Department of Misunderedumacationism” in dumbing down America. #gagamaggot Surely you don’t think the 45 years of policies and pressures from the DoE that have caused such harm in the supposed cause of “helping” schools have all been from a LACK of thought about the results! Nope. The harm done has been intentional.

“Once is happenstance; twice is coincidence; three times is enemy action” and 45 years of harmful acts is a war.

DoE: DOA. RIH.