Don't Threaten Us With A Good Time

Joy Reid, continuing the strategy of the Democrats and their supporters in the media being on the 20 side of any 80/20 issue. Here its likely the 2 of a 98/2 issue.

Fox News: Ex-MSNBC host Joy Reid warns GOP wants to return to 'no income tax'

The sheer terrible Republican dystopia she is warning us about: 

Joy Reid warns Americans of MAGA plans: “No income tax, no regulations, earn as much as you want, and leave it to your children with no taxes, that’s the world they want.” 

The horror, the horror. 

Grand Blanc Mormon Church Attacked And Set On Fire

An attacker entered the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today in Grand Blanc and shot people praying inside and set the church on fire.

Police and firefighters are on scene, attacker is reported to be dead. 

Lots of people are wounded and the church is still burning at this time.

 Click On Detroit: Grand Blanc church shooting: Multiple victims, shooter dead, church on fire, police say

Other than that, we don't have any other facts about this terrible act. 

Update:  Apparently the attacker rammed a truck into the building, threw an IED and started shooting. 6-8 victims so far, and church is destroyed due to the fire set by the attacker.

Further update: It is reported that an armed church security guard shot and killed the attacker. 

Correction to further update:  It's now reported that the attacked was killed by responding police officers and not church security. 

Stupid Criminals: What We Have Here

Is a massive failure of the victim selection process.

Our stupid criminal decided to rob not just one, but two armed off-duty police officers. 

 ABC7: Man shot while allegedly trying to rob 2 off-duty NYPD officers at Penn Station

Law enforcement officials say a couple, a husband and wife, were boarding an LIRR train between tracks 18 and 19 around 7 p.m., when the suspect tried to rob the husband, an off-duty NYPD officer.

The suspect wound up in a scuffle with the husband, and that's when police say the wife, also an off-duty NYPD officer, pulled out her gun and shot the suspect in the arm and stomach.

Yep, it happily be that way sometimes.

With this being Alvin Bragg's New York, it is no surprise that the robber had not just a laundry list of prior crimes, but had committed an assault last month but was already out on the street when he made his bad victim selection:

Sources told Eyewitness News that the 32-year-old suspect, who lives in a shelter in Brooklyn, has five prior unsealed arrests, mostly for assault and menacing, including one alleged assault that happened just last month. 

Funny how that happens. At least this assault had an ending that may just keep him off the streets and unable to commit crimes for at least another month. 

A Good Communist

While she sadly never faced the justice she deserved, JoAnne Chesimard, more commonly known among the red diaper baby and fellow traveller set as  Assata Shakur, a cop-killer, has now become a good communist.

NBC 6 SouthFlorida:  Assata Shakur, Black revolutionary on F.B.I.'s most wanted list, dies in Cuba 

She apparently died of "health problems and advanced age" in Cuba, where she was given asylum.  She died at the age of 78.

It would be a fitting irony and appropriate end indeed if the "quality" of Cuba's socialist healthcare system contributed to her demise. 

A Perfectly Dependable Pistol

As mentioned in Sunday's range trip post, I've acquired a replacement pistol for my SIG P320s.

It's a Walther PDP Pro, complete with an ACRO 2 red dot sight.

The Walther Dynamic Perfomance trigger is really great.  Between that and the ACRO, hitting the target was rather easy.

So far with 250 rounds through last Sunday,  I'm just starting to get used to it.  Zero malfunctions so far, and with 18 round magazines, its easy to get ammo going through it to the target so you're shooting more and reloading less. 

Overall it fits the hand well, it comes up naturally when drawn, and the eye finds the dot immediately in the ACRO.  So far, so good. 

Now that I've put the smaller back strap on the PDP, it fits my hand better. I need to get back out to the range to try it out and see if that change improves things.

I also bought a Tenicor Velo 5 holster to carry it in. First time trying Tenicor.

The Tenicor Velo 5, interestingly, is shipped with the clips and camming bar unassembled to the holster. This seems weird but there is a link provided to a Youtube video on how to best fit the holster to your body. Very smart, that.

After sizing it appropriately following the steps in the video, I think it conceals the PDP rather well especially as it is very much a full-sized pistol: 

 

Don't mind the wrinkles too much. The Tenicor makes the Walther PDP disappear under just a plain t-shirt. I'm rather impressed.

The Velo 5 is also rather comfortable for carry in the holster.  No need for a wedge at this point, and the shape of it works very well to both conceal and make it comfortable to carry the PDP. So far so good, it's a solidly built and well thought out holster.

So far the Walther PDP is a worthy and reliable successor to the SIG P320.  Time and more range trips will tell to see if I can shoot better with the Walther than the SIG. 

What Happened To Trust The Science There, Lefties?

Lefties were frothing mad that Trump announced the results of a study that suggested that Tylenol taken during pregnancy could contribute to Autism.

That study was done by that well known right wing crackpot institution - Harvard University. 

Not just by some schlub at Harvard mind you, but by Andrea Baccarelli, dean of the faculty at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and professor of environmental health.

And before you say it's just one study (because you didn't bother to even read the abstract), the Harvard Study itself references 47 prior studies that suggest there is a neurological problem with taking Tylenol during pregnancy.

Indeed, even the manufacturer of Tylenol itself stated back in 2017 that Tylenol is not recommended to be taken during pregnancy.

 In short, there is sufficient data to suggest use of Tylenol during pregnancy is very much contra-indicated. 

So, of course, a trainload of pregnant leftist women are going on TikTok and are performatively guzzling Tylenol.   This may provide further grounds for yet another statistically significant study if they keep at it. 

Seriously, if Trump announced a cure for cancer had been discovered, Leftists would start protesting and immediately form CCM - Cancer Cells Matter in response. 

Happy Rosh Hashanah

Today is the Jewish New Year.  Not only a day of importance all by itself, it marks the beginning of the days of awe that end in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. 

Gemar chatimah tovah to all my readers, and may we all have a year of peace, prosperity, and blessing.

It's Good To Be The Mayor Of Dearbonistan

Interesting article on the upcoming mayoral election in Deaborn.

The Detroit Free Press: Dearborn candidate running for mayor vows to battle crime and blight, cut mayoral salary

One bit of info in the article stood out: 

. . .and cut by 25% Mayor Abdullah Hammoud's salary, which was higher than Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's salary last year.  

Yep, the mayor of Pro-Hamas and Hezbollah, Muslim-majority Dearborn, a city with a population of 103,000 people, gets a salary higher than that of the Governor of the entire state. Funny, that.

In 2024 he was paid $172,038 - more than 171% higher than the average pay for a mayor.  By contrast, Whitmer was paid $159,300.

Then again, Gov. Whitmer has under-performed rather markedly for this state, and Abdullah Hammoud has performed most admirably for Hamas and Hezbollah.

After all, if Hamas' leaders can feather their nests and become billionaires, why can't the pro-Hamas mayor of Dearborn make some big bucks? 

Sunday Range Day

I met up with Will at the range this morning.

When you're with him it is very important to never give the range command:

"Fire At Will".

Makes him nervous. Quite understandably so.

We started off with some shotgun patterning.  I had recently changed the choke on the Tavor TS-12 to a cylinder choke, for reasons.

Patterning with it showed nice tight patterns at 10 yards with Flite Control, but it opened up considerably at 15 yards - patterning with three rounds, all pellets but one were still on the target but it had spread quite a bit at that distance.

I'll likely put the factory choke back in when not using the attachment that requires the cylinder choke attachment.

I did a bit more shotgun shooting and found even the el cheapo Euro buck still would stay on the target at 10 yards, but not nearly as tightly as the flite control, which is definitely preferred for self-defense.

We then switched to handguns.  

Since the Sig 320 is currently pistola non grata both at the range and in local competitions and local firearm classes, at least for now, I had to go to an alternative which had just arrived this week, along with a new holster for it.

I'll do a more thorough write up on the alternative in just a bit.  I zeroed the red dot on it, it had come mounted and was shooting a tad low for me.  It didn't take long to get it right on, and I and quite pleased.

Ran it through its paces, and I'm quite pleased with it.  Once home I changed the grip to a smaller one to fit my hand better, which was pretty easy to do.

Did some Bill Drills from concealment and I'm clearly out of practice with times in the low 4 second range for clean runs which sucks. Some of this is due to using a completely new firearm and holster, but mostly it is because I need to get out to the range more to practice. 

We then shot plate racks, and again I was out of practice on that too.  But I soon had times in the 5 second and below from concealment, not great but at least not terrible.

Oh, did I mention the other possible reason why my performance sucked - it was raining cats and dogs while we were shooting the Bills Drills and plate racks?

Because it was, a lot. 

Shooting glasses are kinda hard to see out of when covered in rain, just saying. 

So, after getting pretty thoroughly soaked we called it a morning as Will had an appointment to go to her.

So we packed up, cleaned up the range, and headed off. 

It was a good time with Will, who I hadn't seen in awhile, and a clear sign I need to get more consistent with practicing in order to improve. Fun was had.

More of Those Peaceful Democrats

NBC News: Arrest made after shots fired at ABC affiliate in Sacramento

A 64-year-old man suspected of shooting into an ABC affiliate station in Sacramento was arrested Saturday, police said.

The Sacramento Police Department arrested Anibal Hernandezsantana after an investigation into a vehicle at the scene led them to a home in the 5400 block of Carlson Drive. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, shooting into an occupied building and negligent discharge of a firearm. 

Police spokesperson Anthony Gamble said it's unclear how many shots were fired at the ABC10 building, but "it does appear at least three rounds did strike the building."

 Right after Jimmy Kimmel gets fired for lousy viewer ratings and lousier views, the left lashes out.

Meanwhile, over 90 Democrats in the House are unable to condemn political violence with 58 voting against the irresolution and 38 chickening out and  abstaining. 

Yet again the violence is coming form the Left, and the leaders of the Left refuse to condemn it.

Stupid and Evil both. 

Update:  In an example of the left's stupidity once again, and that of the leftist California justice system, Anibal Hernandezsantana was released on bail. He was then thankfully re-arrested by the FBI as the state justice systme had left him free to do it again.

Fox40.com: ABC10 alleged shooter arrested by FBI hours after release on bail, attorney says

More Media Tight Focus On Details

NBC had this lovely headline: Family of Mexican father fatally shot by ICE near Chicago 'wants justice to be done' 

Get down far enough in the article, and you see that justice, in fact, was done. But it takes quite some time, as NBC buried the facts either deliberately or in an act of journalistic malpractice.  

And NBC posted this bit on Facebook on the same article: 

  

 

Per the family and MBC, how this illegal died is such a complete mystery that needs answers: 

Nearly a week after a Mexican immigrant was fatally shot by an immigration officer during a traffic stop in the Chicago area, his family in Mexico and community members continue to seek answers as they call for more transparency in the probe looking into the sequence of events surrounding his death.

Only when you get 10 paragraphs, and about two full screen scrolls down the article, do you find out what occurred and why he got fatally shot: 

According to ICE, two officers pulled Villegas González over, but he resisted arrest and attempted to flee the scene.

Yep, it's the whole resisting arrest decision by a criminal leading to things going pear-shaped.

 But wait, there's more, a lot more:

Surveillance footage from a nearby nail salon broadcast by a local CBS News TV station shows an SUV blocking Villegas González's car. Two ICE agents are seen by Villegas González’s car, one on the passenger side and the other on the driver's side. Villegas González starts backing up. As he drives his car forward, the ICE officer standing by the passenger side attempts to go after Villegas González; the other officer is not visible in the video anymore.

One ICE officer "was hit by the car and dragged a significant distance," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, which added the officer "sustained multiple injuries and is in stable condition."

Oh, it was that kind of resisting arrest, where you drag an officer with your car and then get shot.  

"Fearing for his own life, the officer fired his weapon," striking Villegas González, DHS stated.

Surveillance footage from a nearby auto shop captured the sounds of at least two gun shots.

A video from a witness shows the two ICE officers removing an injured Villegas González from his car after he crashed into a cargo truck. A video from the cargo truck driver obtained by Telemundo Chicago shows both ICE officers providing first aid to Villegas González.

According to ICE, both Villegas González and the injured officer were taken to a hospital. Villegas González died of multiple gunshot wounds at the hospital. The ICE agent, who has not yet been named, was released from the hospital after receiving care for back injuries, lacerations to the hand and knee tears.

Yep, it is just a complete mystery, at least to NBC, leftists, and his family as to why he was shot.

 

To the rest of the world, not so much, really.

Details, Details, Details

A stabbing on the University of Michigan Campus led to the following description of the attacker in the Detroit Free Press:

The alert, sent at 6:22 p.m., asked people to avoid the area of the Zina Pitcher and Catherine Street. A follow up alert, sent at 7:11 p.m., identified a suspect as a heavyset male wearing a white shirt, tie and jeans, and asked anyone who sees him to call 911. 

The Detroit Free Press:  Suspect arrested after stabbing causes emergency alert on University of Michigan campus

Funny how this news article giving the description of the alert failed to mention a rather salient, useful, and kinda distinctive identifying feature. 

I mean, there's a wide range of heavyset males wearing a white shirt, tie and jeans, even in Ann Arbor.

Oh yeah, that identifying feature, courtesy of the helpful campus alert.

You'd think that additional descriptor would be helpful in catching the attacker, but the mainstream media does not.

Anyhoo, the suspect is now thankfully under arrest and in custody. 

Well he is for now, at least until Washtenaw County's progressive prosecutor's focus on racial equity and progressive justice lets him out the revolving door. 

You Can Hope In One Hand . . .

The Detroit News: Macron hopes his recognition of a Palestinian state will be a landmark contribution to Mideast peace

Desperate to distract attention from his failures domestically in La Belle France, Macron decided to dip into the Middle East.

How'd his recognition announcement work out?  Well, not so good, at least not for anyone but Hamas and Macron's ego:

Politico: France’s recognition of Palestinian state scuttled Gaza truce talks, Rubio says

You mean rewarding a terrorist group after they committed terrorism and then throwing them a lifeline when they were on the ropes doesn't bring them to the bargaining table and lead to a cease fire and end to the fighting?

Sacré bleu! Who could have seen that coming?  Aside from, you know, everybody. 

Now, It Is Both

Charles Krauthamer had his finger on the pulse of the American body politic when he wrote:

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

This tracked well.  Conservatives generally thought liberals were simply being stupid about their beliefs and related policy choices, such as the liberal positions (manly of them impressively held together simultaneously) that:

    Men and women are the same;

    There are more than two genders;

    You can choose your own pronouns; 

    Men can be women, and can play in women's sports and wander into women's bathrooms; 

    Trans women are women; 

    Teens are too young for a tattoo without parental permission, but they can   have irreversible body-altering surgery without parental knowledge or   consent;

    DEI;

   ACAB;

    Law enforcement, jails and incarceration are a "sickness";     

   Michael Brown was a gentle giant that dindu nuthin';

   George Floyd was a saint; 

   The mentally ill just see the world differently; 

    No requirement for cash bail for criminals;

    A revolving door justice system; and many other positions that are far from mainstream but pushed often to the point that people opposing those views were cancelled, called racists, fascists or what have you.

Even after the murder of Iryna Zarutska, conservatives just thought liberals were really stupid to hold such policies that kept leading to terrible results for  innocents in society.

No cash bail for violent offenders, a revolving door justice system, and "equity" in the criminal justice system led the murderer to be released immediately after 14 arrests on a verbal promise he'd show up for his latest offense that all came together to lead to her murder.

Yep, conservatives still considered liberals to be stupid. 

After the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and seeing the joyous reaction to that assassination both online and on the mainstream media by liberals, conservatives now consider liberals to be both stupid and evil.

Given where liberals considering conservatives to be evil has led, that conservatives are now considering liberals to be evil should be a rather sobering thought.

The Left: We Were Sure, But Now It's "Complicated"

Leftists and Anti-Republicans were busy publicly claiming the murderer of Charlie Kirk was MAGA or Republican and a Groyper, or that this was "Right on Right" murder.

Since those pronouncements, after furiously groyping for straws, the left has come up empty.

Even after going so far as to photo-shopping a Trump t-shirt on the killer to hide that it was a leftist, and claiming he must be Republican because his parents were Republican, the truth did indeed come out that he was quite left, was sleeping with a trans furry partner, and killed Charlie Kirk because had "enough of his hatred", likely because his disagreed with Kirk's take on transies - or more likely he disagreed with the views of Straw-Charlie Kirk created by the Left rather than Charlie Kirk's actual views.

So now, the leftists, after being shown pretty darn dispositively that the killer was not right wing, nor Groyper, nor Republican, are heading to their next rampart of  "oh, it's complicated and we don't know his ideology".

Funny how you were so darn sure he was right wing based on no real evidence, and now you claim you don't know, it's complicated, and you can shrug it off, eh? 

Notice how they just can't admit they were wrong.

And Just Like That, Senator Marie Hirono, A Progressive Democrat

Kills the Left's and the Democrats' rationale for having (trans or self-claimed to be trans) men play in women's sports:

"One question I had is that you are now requiring applicants to be able to do a certain kind of pull-ups, which a lot of women cannot because of physiological differences. Are you requiring these kinds of pull-ups?" Hirono asked.

 Fox News: Patel defends FBI pull-up test after Hirono decries it as gender bias in Senate showdown

 Upcoming Dem talking point:  We were never for biological men playing in women's sports and we certainly didn't advocate polices punishing women who objected to it. 

Those Tolerant Dearborn Islamics

The Detroit Free Press: Dearborn mayor tells resident he's not welcome in city after opposing sign for Arab leader

Yes, Dearborn has named a street to honor someone who is Pro-Hamas, Pro-Hezbollah, and a piece of Shiite.

Then, the Muslim mayor had the temerity to tell a resident who objectedabout such an honor being bestowed on a terrorist sympathizer and propagandist that the resident is not welcome in the city. 

That tells you quite a lot about Dearborn and its government, doesn't it? 

Let's also note the Detroit Free Press really soft walked why there was an objection to honoring Siblani: 

because of Siblani's past statements on some Middle Eastern groups. 

"Past statements on some middle eastern groups".  Way to bury the lede there Detroit Free Press, and provide cover for the Islamics. Well done.

They honored Osama Siblani, a pro-terrorist scumbag who has said, among other things:

We the Arabs, Whether in Michigan or Jenin, Will Help Bring the Palestinians to Victory over Israel, with Stones, Guns, Planes, Drones, Rockets, and Our Voices 

says Arab-American Activist Osama Siblani during Dearborn, Michigan rally. 

During a pro-Hezbollah  demonstration Siblani also said:

September rally noted chants of “death to Israel” prompted an assurance from Siblani that Hezbollah “will take care of the job.”

and charmingly: 

Siblani also offered a message to Israel’s Jews led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “We will take you back to Poland.”

 Yep, quite a man worthy of being honored in Dearbornistan. I will note that Netanyahu was born in Tel Aviv,  Israel -- not Poland.

CBS, The New York Times,  The Detroit Free Press, Michigan's Democratic Party and many others owe an apology to The Wall Street Journal and Steve Stalinsky.

Short of the Henry Ford Museum, there's no reason to go to Dearborn and support muslim pro-terrorists, at all. 

Yep Pretty Much This Is The Left At The Moment

Credit to D.B. Brock for making this Meme:

 

Apparently, "Police Should Ignore ARMED Criminals" Is A Real Leftist Take

Yep, apparently in order to stop Black criminals from being shot, which makes progressives sad, there's a serious advocacy effort that police should not stop people who appear to be illegally armed in Detroit.

The Detroit Free Press: Stopped for a curfew violation, shot by police: When nonviolent stops spiral in Detroit

Yes, they're serious about this:

Futterman, the Chicago professor, questioned whether officers should chase for suspected guns, particularly when they do not see one. He helped that city craft one of the nation’s most restrictive foot chase policies after back-to-back March 2021 fatal police shootings involving foot pursuits over minor issues. 

How's crime been doing in Chicago since those policies ignoring crime and restricting chasing criminals have been implemented?  Oh, not so good.

Let's examine some of these chases described on the article: 

Detroit police were drawn to Walter Peete by his hand in his pocket.

The 29-year-old was leaving the corner store in February 2018 after picking up a deck of cards to entertain two young cousins who’d grown bored playing Uno. For the short walk, Peete had taken an unloaded gun he was not legally allowed to have. He’d later say it was because the neighborhood was dangerous — someone had once pulled a gun on him there and his sister had been robbed. 

Describing Peete’s hidden hand as gripped in a way that suggested he had an illegal gun, special operations officers driving by approached him. When Peete ran, they gave chase. 

The pursuit ended with an officer shooting Peete 13 times, leaving him laying bloody in his driveway with three generations of family in the house.

Well, the article fails to mention why poor little Peete (who ain't little per the pictures) can't legally have a firearm. Maybe, just maybe, it was because he was on parole for a felony conviction for drugs. I thought we wanted to keep guns out of the hands of criminals?

The article goes on:

Why chase Rayshawn Walden? 

Well, if you have to ask that question as a reporter when the following facts are in the very same article immediately following the question posed, I daresay you're a special kind of stupid:

It was a split-second decision made by a DPD officer who saw him standing at a gas station in the summer of 2020. Officer Bailey Rumschlag said his pursuit was touched off by a bulge on Walden’s hip indicating he had a weapon. As they ran, Rumschlag said Walden began turning on him with the gun in hand, prompting the officer to shoot. 

Yep, when after fleeing from police, you then turn towards a police officer with a gun in your hand, getting shot is highly likely.

Let's sum up the article -  Police are looking for criminals illegally carrying guns. If you're illegally carrying a gun,  making sudden moves with the illegal gun while being stopped by a police officer leads to you likely being shot.  The pro-criminal element in Detroit and elsewhere is upset by this.

Again, if you want to truly save Black Lives, teach Black criminals not to resist arrest, including that vital bit of information that apparently everyone  else but them already knows:

 If you pull a gun or you point a gun at a police officer while resisting arrest you are probably going to get shot. 

So much for the Left being all about getting "guns off the street". 

Head Clearing

To escape much of the ugliness online with Leftist's celebration of the murder of Charlie Kirk, including by many people whom I thought knew better and would act better (Boy, was I wrong about that), and the other horrible events of the week, I decided to get a bit of a break in this morning.

So, I drove out and then hit the West Bloomfield Nature Trail this morning, increasing the load in the rucksack with another 5 pound soft weight to 30 pounds for a solo ruck. 

30 pounds felt somehow markedly heavier than the 25 pounds from Tuesday, which of course was heavier than the previous 20.   I figure I will keep adding weight as I go to increase the workout.

That this ruck hopefully would clear my head a bit was the goal, as well as the bonus of getting a workout in. 

Of course, it started sprinkling rain as I began, which was not in the forecast, but that soon cleared up.

 Getting into the trees and away from the sounds of traffic and the day-to-day was rather nice.

 

Quite a few people about, but I soon managed to get on my own and just concentrate on maintaining a decent pace and enjoy the quiet.

I was doing a 19-minute mile pace for most of the ruck, but by mile 4 I was slowing down to a 20-minute mile pace.

Solo rucking is different from group rucking.  No banter or chit-chat or conversation, just moving along looking at the greenery and keeping moving. Quite calming, actually.

Certainly a bit more introspective, and it lacks the internalized peer pressure that makes you not back off your pace in a group.  You don't want to slow down the group or be one to give up during a task. It also lacks the outside encouragement that others in the group give including regular check-ins to see that people are ok.

Surprisingly, I'm not the slowest and most out of shape person in the rucking group, which is nice.

 I ended up doing 4.7 miles in 1.33 hours and an overall average pace of 19.55. Not a bad beginning.

It did help clear my head a bit, and I got to be inn a calm space and see some wildlife, too.

If you're getting all wound up about the terrible news and events of the past week, put the phone down, step away from the ugliness of social media, get outside, and get yourself refocused. 

The ugliness will sadly all still be there when you get back, but you deserve a break from it.