These guys are such slave drivers

Posted on April 9, 2014 by Phil Kadath

It is no wonder that the left hates them.

McDonald’s suspends work in Crimea
McDonald’s has suspended work at its in Crimea for “manufacturing reasons”, the U.S. fast food chain said on Friday, the second international company to cease operations this week on the peninsula annexed by Russia.

Crimea’s hasty unification with Russia, which Ukraine and the West do not acknowledge, has worried companies with assets in the Black Sea region as it is unclear how the change may impact business.

It always about business with these guys. The “bottom line” and all that. Those bastards.

Oh wait.

“The company has provided an opportunity to all employees … to transfer to any other McDonald’s restaurants in Ukraine preserving their positions, salaries and fees and paying to relocate employees and their families,” it said in a statement.

The left cannot enjoy capitalism because it doesn’t understand it. That, and to be honest, they really have nothing anyone wants to pay for. Because hate and disappointment are not marketable to sane people..

Posted in The Left is Never Right, Useful Idiots | Leave a comment

Cool Trick

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Oscar Gordon

You know how Joe is always going on about Flour Bombs and all that?  I think this illustrates the effect nicely.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

In case you were wondering

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Phil Kadath

School is back on for Spring Quarter today. Here’s what I’ll be doing.

I spent the last day of Winter Quarter getting supplies ready for this week. I will be “reviewing” processes I completed last quarter this week before moving on. There will be pictures and they will likely be shit. But they’ll help explain. They are all click to enlarge.

First,I cut two pieces of six in wide 3/8″ think flat bar with a 22 1/2 degree bevel on one side. Also a piece of one inch wide 1/4″ flat bar eight inches long. I then fire up my Shielded Metal Arc Welding machine (SMAW, aka: Stick Welding or Arc Welding) to 60 Volts at 110 Amps.

20140402_095837a

After grinding the millscale off the welding area, I tack the two pieces of 3/8″ with the bevels facing each other 1/4″ apart onto the piece of 1/4″ flat bar. I then make six to eight passes in the now 45 degree groove, making sure that my first pass (the “Root Pass”) melts and bonds to the piece of 1/4″ along the bottom of the groove.

I am to do this weld both vertically and overhead. Yes, that means I have to put the plates about  seven feet in the air and stand under it while I rain sparks and molten metal down on my face. Sounds like a wonderful way to spend an afternoon, doesn’t it?

When complete, the weld metal cannot be more than 1/8″ higher than pieces of 3/8″. There also can be no undercut along the edges, meaning the weld metal must not be lower than the 3/8″.

This is one of my fails from last quarter.

20140402_095853a

As you can see, the left edge is too high and there is about an inch of undercut along the middle of the right side. I eventually got it right, but showing you a good one would have been more difficult to describe.

But the fun doesn’t end there!

Once the plate passes a visual inspection, I then have to destroy it in the dreaded “Bend Test”.

Essentially. I blast the 1/4″ backing strip off the back with a few passes using a Carbon Arc Gouger (video) and grind the weld metal flat. Then I cut across the middle into two 1-1/2″ wide strips and polish it before putting into the bend press where 4000PSI is applied to test both the Root Pass and the Face of the weld.

The left one is a Face Weld bend and the right is a Root Pass bend.

20140402_095915a

This is a passing Root Pass test. You can see the Root Pass crossing the middle of the bent area. Pretty, ain’t it?

20140402_095926a

This is a failing Root Pass test. You can see the Root Pass again, and also two pinhole cracks appearing about 1/3 and 2/3 of the way across.

20140402_095933a

I was moving too fast from side-to-side when I made that pass and didn’t stay in the puddle long enough to completely melt the base metal to the weld metal.

This is part of a certification test I can take before I graduate. It is also good practice before learning to weld pipe. It is also as difficult as anything I’ve ever learned to do.

Provided I haven’t forgotten too much of this process during my week off school, I’ll move onto the wire feed machines next week, with the Innershield and Dualshield processes coming up first. I’ll explain more about these when I complete them.

Posted in Kewel!, Phil Goes to College | 3 Comments

They don’t even understand

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Phil Kadath

How much they hate themselves.

Take, as an example, the so called “War on Women” that folks on the right keep getting dumped on about. Classic Liberals such as myself would rather a free and open market place for ideas, employment and the like. All we believe needs to happen and what we argue for is removal of race and gender quotas, set-asides and other preferential treatment in the market of life.

And we supposedly hate women because we think this.

The left, on the other hand, when faced with an issue decide that women aren’t good enough and push them aside for a “more preferred” group. And there will be no dissent, or you hate women.

The New Definition of Women Writers

Several weeks ago at a gathering of Washington DC theater critics and artistic directors called “the Summit” a furor was started over the lack of work by women playwrights at major American theaters.  Asked to explain the reason for this well established low representation of plays by women, one artist director explained that there just aren’t enough talented women playwrights in the pipeline, and that it will take at least a decade to fix the problem.

Outrage ensued, and rightfully so.  It was an inane explanation, and one that is insulting to thousands of women playwrights who face real, institutional barriers to having their work produced.

As a result of the kerfuffle several theater artists around the country began compiling lists of accomplished women playwrights.  One blogger ironically called it a binder full of women for theater companies looking for gender diversity.  What has emerged from these efforts is an open source google document called “We Exist” listing over 1,200 playwrights, and its still growing.  But somehow, this list of women playwrights has transformed into a list of “female and/or trans* playwrights.” The asterisk after trans is not a footnote its a…well, I don’t understand exactly what it is, but it has replaced “trans” without an apostrophe as the appropriate nomenclature.  If your following the terms as they go by.

Titling a list about female playwrights “female playwrights” is now no longer good enough. It must also include men who think they are women trapped in men’s bodies, or you are hating on women.

I guess that my list of “Amazing Twats” will now have to include men as well.

So be it.

Posted in Color me confused | 1 Comment

You probably haven’t heard of this one yet

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Phil Kadath

But knowing the gun bigots, you will soon enough.

Gun Safety Laws Prevented Potential School Shooting Massacre In Connecticut

Bent on fame and exacting revenge on the people she believed responsible for her pain and isolation, police say Natalie Carpenter plotted with 19-year-old accomplice Peter Thulin to covertly sneak into Danbury High School, hold students and staff hostage and shoot “until everyone was dead.”

This very troubled young woman was living in a group home called Hope House because she was, to put it less than gently, fucked in the head. The staff at Hope House let her “come and go as she pleased.” Two of the comings and goings were to a local gun shop and to the local Wal-Mart. At both of these locations, she was turned down when she attempted to purchase a shotgun. The gun bigots are pointing to Connecticut’s new firearms laws as what stopped her from making her purchases.

She phoned in threats to the school which, along with a tip from one of her friends about her ranting about killing people at a school, led to her arrest. After her arrest, they searched her room and found her journal/diary with even more evidence of her fucked in the headness and took her away.

However, in this link, which repeats the tale above but is nowhere to be found at the gun bigot’s sites or the leftosphere news sites where I first picked up on the story, it mentions that she was refusing to take her maintenance medications. Even during this time, the Hope House staff let her keep her “come and go as she pleased” privileges.

Why?

Why did they not put her on some type of probation that limited her movements? Why did they not send her back to a state run mental facility for people who don’t take their medications? That is the job of a halfway house, isn’t it?

I’m sure we’ll never hear about who, if anyone, is going to be punished for letting this obviously dangerously mentally deranged adult citizen roam the streets when and where ever she wanted.

And because no one gets in trouble for letting the criminally insane loose on the streets, the rest of the residents of Connecticut have to deal with fewer civil rights than residents of other states with sane firearms laws.

And the gun bigots on the left and in the news (but I repeat myself) get to lie by omission and say that their new limits on civil rights “stopped a massacre”.

Because those are the only victories they get these days.

Posted in Evil walks the earth | 2 Comments

One more new arrival

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Phil Kadath

At the end of last Friday’s post of a couple of the rifles I’ll be taking to Boomershoot, I posted a really crappy shot from my workbench of the new point and click device.

Santa stopped by and left me T/C Encore receiver. So I spent the time between then and New Years trying to decide what I was going to do. I need a .300 WinMag, but not the ammo cost right now. I would like a back up for my .308 Win & .22-250 bolties, but I didn’t want to play it quite that safe.

What’s a fella to do?

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hunter S. Thompson

I always liked HST, with a couple reservations. But I decided to go pro with this one.

20140406_100654a click to enlarge

Introducing my as yet unnamed T/C Encore rifle in .357Mag.

I figured that since I now have the wheelguns in the caliber, it was time for a rifle. So I ordered a barrel from Match Grade Machine that was a 24″ Heavy Contour and a 1-to-20 twist rate.

Now, don’t go thinking I’m going to be wasting this barrel’s life slinging factory pistol ammo out of it. I am working up a load that should leave the muzzle at around 2100-2200fps with 125gr projectiles.

I slapped an el cheapo Tasco 3-9x on top because the demands for this rifle for the foreseeable future won’t be much other than fun/experimental duty. I’ll likely recycle the Nikon 6-18x I have on my .22-250 onto once I buy the replacement after I’m back working anyway (which is why I got the high rings).

So far though, I’m posting 2″ groups @ 100yds with some factory Blazer 158gr stuff I had sitting around, so I’m happy for now. I do plan on having the hot load worked up by Boomershoot so I can ring some steel at the 385yd line on Friday/Saturday.

Posted in Have Gun, Will Travel | 1 Comment

Sunday Funnies

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Phil Kadath

There was only one good panel this week, so I’ve included some multi-panel stuff and an example of a practical joke you shouldn’t play in any area I’m in.

n3j7d0llRg1qz4s6ho1

n3964n6njr1t8e0a5o1

n3hacuubey1rzv6rko1

n3hf9u7JVX1qdlh1io1

Posted in Kewel! | 2 Comments

Updates and New Arrivals

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Phil Kadath

A while back I made mention that I was going to update The Hun Bastard away from his kinder, gentler wood stock and Hensoldt wearing self to an MBR that would cause the Mothers Demanding Attention to fill their Depends undergarments.

It has been a while, but I think I’ve done well.

20140403_104045a  click to enlarge

Went to the range recently to get the 200yd zero on the Burris MTAC 3.5-10x. I still have the Hensoldt with all it’s accessories, if you know anybody who is looking for one.

I must say that the Magpul PRS2 stock is a must for the HK91 type rifles. The abusive recoil from the skinny buttstocks is gone. I think that once I get the heavy buffer put in there this beast will be a flat-out puppydog to shoot.

I don’t remember who made the handguard. Probably ATS. It is aluminum, doesn’t rattle, and I can attach stuff to it. Buy one if you like your handguard to do those things. I also bought a real-deal HK flash hider for the rifle because it works.

I’m probably going to fab up a spacer for the stock that’ll go between the stock and the recoil pad. While it does give the best amount of LOP from any of the available stocks, it still isn’t enough for my monkey arms and stupid-length neck. I’m also looking into fabbing up a replacement for the charging handle. Even the G36 replacement handle isn’t enough to get hamfist fingers under it with relative comfort during repeated use. It needs to be light because of the momentum it gets when you release it, and I’m not up to welding on aluminum just yet.

And as you can see, the ammo of the day was this can from The Ammoman.

The newest resident in my safe isn’t “new” in any way other than y’all ain’t seen it yet.

20140403_111522a click to enlarge

I bought the lower from SAA two Christmases ago before the price went “way” up after Newtown, and the IPK shortly thereafter before they disappeared. I put it together during the first week of my layoff last August and have been slowly building it with parts that came off the UPS truck. SAA upper, 16″ 1-in-8 barrel with a Smith Enterprises flash hider

The scope is also a Burris MTAC, this one is 1.5-6x because it was the same price as the 1-4x and my eyes aren’t going to get any better. The stock is a skeleton-type from ACE. As long as they keep making them, I’ll keep buying them. Great LOP and the cheekwelds aren’t cold.

About the only upgrade I plan on making is a hydraulic buffer. The one thing I really don’t like about AR’s is the “spring-zing” right under my face. The hydro-buffers don’t get rid of all of it, but they are an improvement.

So there you go. And both of these gentlemen will be joining me at Boomershoot, which is now less than a month away. Feel free to come see them in person.

Also for debut at Boomershoot, I’m drawing up a new type of “modular” shooting bench that I’ll be building in the next couple weeks (I bought the steel yesterday). I scare-quoted “modular” because I wanted to use the word “portable” instead. But sadly, it won’t really be light and portable. You’ll be able to be able to take it apart for easy transport, but once assembled it may take two people to move it around. You can switch from left, right, and center shooting positions and have a customizable shooting benchtop and seat.

You will likely also be able to park your truck on top of it. I don’t know way you would want to do that, but there you go.

UPDATE: Sneak peek. More pics and info next week.

20140215_154311a

Posted in Have Gun, Will Travel | 4 Comments

This is your brain on Social Science courses

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Phil Kadath

You know you’ve paid too much for your Liberal Arts degree when you start asking yourself and others this question.

What Can Educators Do To End White Supremacy In The Classroom?

The city of Madison hosted the 15th annual national White Privilege Conference last week at the Monona Terrace to discuss issues of white supremacy, social justice, education and the Tea Party. The MacIver Institute attended multiple breakout sessions and will be releasing our highlights over the next couple days.

Our first account comes from the breakout session titled Stories from the front lines of education: Confessions of a white, high school English teacher.

The session was facilitated by Kim Radersma, a former high school English teacher in California and Colorado. Radersma is currently working toward her Ph. D. in critical whiteness studies at Brock University in Ontario, Canada.

Radersma argued that teachers must fight against the oppressive structure in education and society. She said anyone who is going into teaching and education must be a political figure.

“Teaching is a political act, and you can’t choose to be neutral. You are either a pawn used to perpetuate a system of oppression or you are fighting against it,” Radersma said during the session. “And if you think you are neutral, you are a pawn.”

She said educators need to challenge the system, otherwise they are giving in to white supremacy.

The first step of her plan is likely to stop issuing grades to students. Just pass them through the system. The next is probably to stop requiring math, science and English courses for graduation. This way, no one will be able to point out that she’s an idiot.

n1tnxthRiF1rj545ho1

Posted in Academia and Other Nonsense | 2 Comments

Ignoring the Problem

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Phil Kadath

Won’t make it go away.

Just as how they whine about “income inequality” while ignoring that they’re helping the gap widen with their policies, the left loves to ignore voter fraud and instead call those attempting to fix it “racists”.

House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) and Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) issued a joint statement Wednesday in response to more alarming evidence of voter error and fraud discovered by the North Carolina State Board of Elections.

Initial findings from the Board presented to the Joint Legislative Elections Oversight Committee today show:

765 voters with an exact match of first and last name, DOB and last four digits of SSN were registered in N.C. and another state and voted in N.C. and the other state in the 2012 general election.

35,750 voters with the same first and last name and DOB were registered in N.C. and another state and voted in both states in the 2012 general election.

155,692 voters with the same first and last name, DOB and last four digits of SSN were registered in N.C. and another state – and the latest date of registration or voter activity did not take place within N.C.

These findings only take into account data from the 28 states who participated in the 2014 Interstate Crosscheck, leaving out potential voter error and fraud in the 22 states that do not participate in the consortium.

So the problem could easily be nearly twice as large.

I predict multiple stories on the MSNBC evening shows talking about “racist legislators” and the pointing our of any spelling errors in the above mentioned report.

Posted in Count ANY Vote | Leave a comment