The missus gave me an ultimatum since we had books crawling all over the living room because my room’s bookcases are all full. I checked prices online for real book cases made out of wood and not particle board and I almost had a heart attack when they were asking +$200 as starting price.

Six feet tall, six 3-foot by 12″ long shelves and I reckon I can get creative and put more books on top. On average, every shelf is capable of taking on 32 paperbacks, so if I shove real hard, I can manage to squeeze 200 books in there. But it is sized vertically to take the average hardcover with an inch to spare on top.

Tools I already had so it was just wood and screws for a total of just under $90.  OK, add $10, I just remembered I bought stain too to match the “decor.” (Nope, the $90 includes the stain, I just checked the list)

And the best part? The missus approves!

PS:

Just to show the bookcase under load. This is the first one I made years ago doing service in my room right now.

Bottom shelf has two boxes of lead ingots on the left and shotgun shells on the right. The shelf above is just bullets on the left and mostly primer everywhere else. Above that is books and assorted little stuff I can’t find a palce to put.

On International Women’s Day, here’s your reminder that trans women are women.

— ACLU (@ACLU) March 8, 2021

No one gets to tell us what it means to be a woman. Not our bosses. Not the government.

Policing womanhood is bad for all women.

— ACLU (@ACLU) March 8, 2021

I have a friend who is a lesbian.

We were chatting about shit and she started to complain about how many men have recently joined the lesbian community.

There are more men who identify as women on lesbian dating sites than actual women lesbians.

The ACLU can say shit like this but what’s its doing is letting weirdos and perverts (nobody believes they are actually trans) taking over women’s spaces.

ESCALATION: Antifa activist’s wife leaked medical records of Trump supporter battling cancer

While many people are now well aware that members of the group known as Antifa have a tendency to engage in property damage. Brian Talbert was one such victim to these acts of sabotage, doing “thousands of dollars” of damage to his house and car.

But in Brian’s case, Antifa’s harassment campaign against him went a step further.

It all began in January 2019. Talbert, the leader of the “Deplorable Pride” group in Charlotte, North Carolina, attended a March for Life Rally in the city. There the avid Trump supporter faced a far-left opposition group. A local Antifa activist named Andrew Woods taunted at Mr. Talbert, shouting “you’ve got some pretty interesting medical history Brian.”

At that time there was no way Woods could’ve known that Talbert was receiving cancer treatment at the Levine Cancer Center in Charlotte.

Flash forward to February 2021. Brian Talbert comes across the TikTok page of Andrew’s wife, Amber. Through her video posts Talbert figured out Amber worked at the same hospital facility where he got his cancer treatment. He then discovered she accessed his personal medical records on twelve separate occasions over the course of two years.

Holy shit.

If this person can read a medical file, this person could alter a medical file.

An activist could eliminate test records, allergies, change next of kin, many things that could do a person real physical harm.

This woman was fired but I think she needs to go to prison.

When Antfia turns your medical records against you, that crosses to a new level of threat.

There is nothing, and I mean nothing, more valuable than victim status.

I saw some parts of the Meghan/Harry interview and the nutshell summary of it is:

A third rate Hollywood actress who had a history of treating her family like shit married into one of the wealthiest families in the world, used her marriage to build her brand and get jobs in Hollywood she otherwise would not have gotten, alienated her husband from his family, aired her in-laws’ dirty laundry on international TV, and still believes she is the victim.

She had fame, fortune, and access but that isn’t enough anymore.  She had to be a victim.  She had to figure out how to be one of the wealthiest and most privileged people on Earth and still have poor people feel sorry for her.

This is one of the cultural harbingers of the apocalypse of society.

Once upon a time, as recently as the early to mid 20th Century, the wealthy and powerful had a sense of noblesse oblige.

The robber barons built great libraries, concert halls, funded cultural institutions to better the classes below them.

Today’s wealthy and powerful want the classes below them to be sympathetic to them.  This is how you get multi-millionaire celebrities giving sob stories of oppression.

Just the other day it was in the news that Taylor Swift was claiming that a joke made at her expense on a Netflix show that nobody watches made her the victim of misogyny.  Taylor Swift is one of the most popular musicians alive right now and is worth $400 million.  She can take a fucking joke at her expense.

When Tiger Woods has his car accident, CNN showed an old interview of him talking about a time when some rando on a golf course said something to him that might have been racist.  Tiger Woods is worth $800 million and spent six years banging a Swedish bikini model until he got bored with her to bang a hostess on the side.

I’m not condoning racism but a guy worth nearly a billion dollars who goes home and bangs a Swedish bikini model should have enough self-confidence to ignore some old fuking guy on the golf course being an asshole and not go to CNN to explain how oppressed he is.

We’ve gone from a society that valued leveling up to one in which everyone wants to be the biggest sob story.

We are doomed.

I believe that Asians and Jews need to move out those strongholds of Democrat “Love and Understanding” and move to Redneck Country ASAP where at least you are allowed to shoot any asshole that comes after you because you look funny.

Via Wirecutter.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Federal prosecutors have dismissed more than one-third of cases stemming from last summer’s violent protests in downtown Portland, when protesters clashed with federal agents. KGW reviewed federal court records and found 31 of the 90 protest cases have been dismissed by the U.S. Department of Justice, including a mix of misdemeanor and felony charges.

Some of the most serious charges dropped include four defendants charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony. More than half of the dropped charges were “dismissed with prejudice,” which several former federal prosecutors described as extremely rare. “Dismissed with prejudice” means the case can’t be brought back to court.

Feds quietly dismiss dozens of Portland protest cases

I have to say that although disappointed, I am not surprised this is happening. It fits the Socialist playbook That I have seen before in Venezuela: Commit crimes in the name of the Revolution and you will be released from jail if you are caught. Chavista goons had no problem attacking those daring to raise their voices against the Socialist government and suffered no legal consequences. In some cases killing people opposing the government took a bit longer to clear up like the mass shooting and  killing in Plaza Altamira of Caracas by one Joao de Gouveia who had the misfortune to get caught by the mob, had to be rescued by cops, was tried, sentenced, put in prison and after a year, suddenly nobody knows where he is. And please, if you know what is good for you, stop asking his whereabouts.

And it is going to get worse.

From Minneapolis:

https://twitter.com/zerosum24/status/1368968774959960067

Who would want to be a juror in that trial and want to do anything but vote guilty just to avoid being identified, called out, and canceled or attacked, not to mention watching the mob destroy Minneapolis again?

You may still have the right to a fair trial and a jury of your peers, the government hasn’t taken that away from you.

The Left just outsourced the elimination of that right to the mob, not unlike how they outsourced book bans and the elimination of free speech to the cancel mob too

Welcome to the new normal where the threat of violence and canceling people allows the mob to eliminate your right to a fair trial through jury intimidation.