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Since bump stocks were outlawed, here is a stand alone device that is not a part of the rifle that allows you to do the same thing. As the article notes, ATF will probably outlaw a piece of plastic now. Why? I have no idea, you can do the same thing with a rubber band. And even if they do outlaw it, you know the 3D printing plans are already out there. I've fired legal full auto weapons, and you know what? It's a lot of fun on the range (and expensive!), but I can't think of a situation outside of needing to suppress an attacking force where it would be my firing mode of choice, and I have no idea when I would ever need to do that.
Interesting retrospective on the John Wayne film The Cowboys. It attempts to place the film in the cultural context of its time, while noting that elements that were anti-racist at the time would be seen as irredeemably racist in today's cancel culture. In this I'm reminded of Blazing Saddles. the film is unrelentingly anti-racist, but I know that modern SJWs wouldn't get it and I doubt any of them could even bear to watch it.
The article also spends some time on the demise of the western as a genre. It's not quite dead, the occasional western does get made, but I think it says something about the culture that we no longer idolize the rugged individualist as a hero, and it's not to our betterment.
Musical Interlude
And by the same guys:
So, which one is better? I'm going with Straight Outta Oktoberfest, but only by a hair.
But all of those crazy, unhinged, violent maniacs in DC a year ago were upset about St. Elmo's Fire, right? It doesn't exist, so why are we still talking about it?
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The Ace of Spades fantasy football league wrapped up play for the year last week, and the league champion was....*drumroll *....ME! Ta-dah! And to celebrate, here's a stupid listicle:
Some of these are deserved (Broadway Joe, I'm looking at you), but a lot of them are just stupid. This article is obviously written by a stats geek who doesn't seem to understand that the whole point of the game is to win. Brett Farve did throw oodles of interceptions. He was also a winner for most of his career. Same with Peyton Manning. And Terry Bradshaw. I'll take an “overrated” QB with average or below average stats and 4 rings to lead my team any day.
I've ranted about this before, so I'll try and restrain myself tonight, but the absolute racism of the “anti-racist” left is what disgusts me the most about “progressives”. Blacks and other minorities are Americans, and as such they are owed the opportunity to make the most of their lives and to succeed, just like every other American. Every single leftist policy, from the welfare state, to affirmative action to the elimination of standards and meritocracy works to deny them that right and keep them isolated, impoverished and dependent on government. I fucking HATE the left for that more than anything.
My great-grandfather had not, in fact, been eaten by a bear on Mt. Rainier while he was working as a park ranger. Instead, he’d been cheating on my great-grandmother and was summarily run out of town by her brothers. He moved to Alaska, and nobody knew what had become of him until we located his grave, many decades later.
On the other hand, my wife's grandfather WAS eaten by a bear. Or something. He was a trapper who vanished in northern BC while checking his lines. Nobody actually knows what happened to him, but he disappeared in a vast tract of uncharted wilderness while alone. Some damn thing ate him.
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