When it really happens: SHTF...

[Aragorn243]

I want to keep them on the range but this year is going to be rough. I've never cut anyone before. I've encouraged a few to go on their own and there are a few I probably should have cut but most self leave on their own. I have 18 kids left from last year. Of those, one I will not allow on the team even though he's a senior. Just a bad attitude. 2 are not qualified in any way to be on the team, one of the two knows it, the other is a special needs kid that mostly stopped coming last year anyway. That leaves me with four that I can't guarantee a slot for. I have 6 returning varsity and 2 that went to matches and 3 that are ready to move up. That leaves me with 3 openings at best, possibly only 1 and I want at least one freshman. They may not all come back being how it is so I'll have to wait and see at sign ups.

[Ovidio]

Maybe some hints of bad mood and some tons of insults from a few million Italians did the deed: they're still playing little dictators, but backed up on the violation of one's home and said that they don't want anybody to report neighbours.
They do, I'm sure, and they'll find enough of those infamous people, but it was nice to see how the bulk of the Italian people started rumouring and cursing, as well as making very heavy jokes on these turds.
A very light one is this... But there are literally thousands going around these days.
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[browningautorifle]

they're still playing little dictators, but backed up on the violation of one's home and said that they don't want anybody to report neighbours.

Sounds like the days of the Red Brigade...

[Ovidio]

They come from the same milieu. The communist party called them erring comrades for years, until they really got extremely dangerous. Only after a lot of dead they recognised the tragedy, albeit they never took responsibility for growing them.
I had a very troubled childhood and teen-age because of those bastards.
My dad was a high-ranking manager at Pirelli in the mid-seventies and was on the to-kill list of the red brigades. Famous fascist, to be killed at the first opportunity they wrote on their manifests. Just because he did not strike and kept working even when there were trouble.
He kept his Beretta 35 on and on the night table at night for years.
My grandpa was judge in the highest court and held the trial against the heads of the red brigades later, end of the eighties.
He had to live with an escort for years, and when we went to the sea in summer, with my grandparents, we had police and carabinieri escorting us.

But to be sincere, today's idiots are just ridiculous.
The others were very intelligent in their foolishness, serious, criminal and thus dangerous.
Ours now are just good to write comedies about.
But you see, feel and experience that they still have that horrible phoniness, that intolerance which brings them to declare themselves democratic, to always talk about freedom, rights, high principles, to tell the whole world how good and tolerant they are. Until you express a differing opinion.
Then they attack you calling you names, saying that you're a fascist, an intolerant, a racist, homophobe, whatever. They make a thorough character assassination of yourself and, until a few years ago, every now and then, some crazy among them took up arms and killed the enemy of the moment.
Pathetic, but still dangerous.
The funny part with such idiots is when you ask them to define a fascist and an intolerant: they normally just self describe themselves. Many don't even notice, but the few who do...
Priceless!

Back to guns: Saturday I'll go pick up my Finnish Mosin M39. Great conditions. I'll trade my FASS 57 (or StGew 57) for that other one.
I just happen not to like semi autos... Never really noticed because I love my Garand. but she's special, as I used her during military school.
I'm even thinking of trading my StG 58 (Austrian FAL) for some bolt action milsurp. Hopefully for a trainer. Enfield No1 with Garand sights...
Let's see.
I wanted to put my 58 on the used guns site, but when I opened the page there was another one at 100 € less than I wanted to get. Damned fool that guy!

[Surpmil]

The "left" in the USA have clearly put their feet in it with their riots and disorders; it's going to blow back badly for them in this election.

I can see they have realized this now, but too late. Now the new is all about volunteers cleaning up and "kneeling protests"

Dostoevsky called those behind all this "the devils". In Russia they fully justified his assessment, and they have anywhere they have been given the chance.

[Aragorn243]

The media is working hard to control the results of this election. We have the major social media power houses now censoring real news because they deem it harmful. Yet they have been misrepresenting police custody deaths which are fueling these riots which actually are harmful with no restrictions.

Slow news day on Covid so they went on a special about how if you are blood Type O you will fair better than those with blood Type A which have the worst outcomes. PANIC, PANIC, PANIC. Is this not "harmful"?

Especially since the difference is so small it's statistically not really significant. The other factors in a persons life factor so much more heavily than blood type.

We are seeing increasing numbers in positive cases but it's starting to appear that people really don't care, they want these shutdowns ended. Hospitalizations and deaths continue to remain relatively low, deaths decreasing even while hospitalizations are on the rise.

[Ovidio]

Today, my son came back from school and told us: Ma, Dad, I'm in "preemptive quarantine".
- What's that?
- Well, two of my classmates have fever and have been sent home and have undergone a swab. I can't go anywhere until the results will be communicated to the school. But you're ok, you can still live on as usual.
- How come? was my next question.
- Well, we've been told so. But that's not all: I can't go anywhere but to school, answered my son.
And, since I take the bus and the train to go to school, I can still take bus and train.
- Can't you just follow the lessons remotely?
- No. To activate the remote classrooms, there needs to be a "class council" that decides so, and that happens only if someone is Covid-positive and has to undergo the full quarantine. Any other reasons are not considered. And the remote lessons are private for those who are home.
- But wouldn't it be more logical to activate a camera and allow the kids to just follow the normal lessons from home? That would almost be like being there!
- Maybe, but those are the rules...

Gentlemen, the situation is tragic, but not serious...

[Aragorn243]

Fever can be caused by all sorts of things and oddly is the only thing I haven't had since this started. I have a minor cough right now and a slightly runny nose but not a hint of a fever. This is the third time since March. I suspect it's allergies.

Tomorrow I go squirrel hunting for the first time in three years. Haven't hunted for them since my emergency surgery.

What's funny is someone created a meme about the Game Commission, our wildlife law enforcement unit, and the Governor made it a mandate to wear fluorescent orange masks while hunting. If you couldn't find a fluorescent orange mask you could buy one from the Game Commission for $30.00. Failure to wear an orange mask could result in a $500 fine. Failure to wear any mask could result in loss of hunting rights for two years. Came complete with a photo of the mask with the Game Commission logo on it. I thought it was hilarious and shared it and now several gullible people I know believe it and are posting nasty messages to the governor over this. That's how ridiculous this is that they actually believe this is something the Governor would do.

[Ovidio]

I’m a very heavy allergic guy. I think I’ve never been so unpopular as in damned 2020

[browningautorifle]

I too have allergies to our tree pollen here, just a bit of wheezing at times and later in season like...now, I have a bit of a liquid sounding cough to clear in the morning. I have noticed I haven't had a cold or flu along with the normal seasons for it. By the way...I avoid wearing a mask at all times/costs... So it's the other people that brought these diseases to me.