This is not a bad idea…
Stole this from @Tactical_review:
I am not a fan of the soft rifle case. That comes from the years working Audio in which everything that needed to be moved was done inside an Anvil Case which makes Pelican stuff look like made of Papier Mache. I know a rifle is not as delicate as a piece of electronic gear, but the fear of damage remains.
We are not taking about taking your rifle on a plane trip outside your control but your average trip to the range and maybe a little bit of road trip. A regular guitar or bass case should do the trick rather nicely and cheaper.
A nice Pelican rifle case will run pass the $250 mark while you can get a not too shabby traditionally shaped guitar hard case for one-fourth the retail price of Pelican. If the guitar shape is not your cup of water, then the Fender-style cases may be to your liking, specially the very old style repros.
Yes, you will need to fix the inside and use a foam cut-out (I have no idea about the cost) but you will look cool and your rifle will arrive with style at your shooting destination.
AP – Ebola spreads to major Congo city as vaccines a concern
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The second-largest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city in eastern Congo, as health experts worry whether the stock of an experimental vaccine will stand up to the demands of an epidemic with no end in sight.
Butembo, with more than 1 million residents, is now reporting cases of the deadly hemorrhagic fever. That complicates Ebola containment work already challenged by rebel attacks elsewhere that have made tracking the virus almost impossible in some isolated villages…The outbreak declared on Aug. 1 is now second only to the devastating West Africa outbreak that killed more than 11,300 people a few years ago. There are currently 471 Ebola cases, of which 423 are confirmed, including 225 confirmed deaths, Congo’s health ministry said late Thursday.
Without the teams that have vaccinated more than 41,000 people so far, this outbreak could have already seen more than 10,000 Ebola cases, the health ministry said .
All the outbreaks before were contained in small villages and in remote areas. Even so, the last one killed over eleven thousand people during a very unusually long outbreak. And the number of death tells us it has a 50% mortality on those affected which is, believe it or not, better numbers that history records. Still, the possibility that Ebola hitting a major city and wiping out half the inhabitants is not a nice consideration. Now comes the question: How is it being spread? Let us pray it has not done the jump to airborne.
About the only good bit of information is that a vaccine has been developed by Evil Pharma but unfortunately they say they do not have enough to make a dent. IRRC to achieve herd immunity, you need at least half the population vaccinated.
This is by far the largest deployment of the promising but still experimental Ebola vaccine, which is owned by Merck. The company keeps a stockpile of 300,000 doses, and preparing them takes months.
“We are extremely concerned about the size of the vaccine stockpile,” WHO’s emergencies director, Dr. Peter Salama, told the STAT media outlet in an interview this week, saying 300,000 doses is not sufficient as urban Ebola outbreaks become more common.
And we have not heard yet from the Anti-Vaxxers saying that the consequences of the vaccine are worse than dying of Ebola. Apparently painfully shitting your internal organs in a mixture of blood and mucus before dying is preferable option.
Let’s pray this strand reaches its natural cycle ASAP.
No, nothing new or important happened in Paris.
I have seen some celebratory comments and memes in social media regarding the protest of the Yellow Vests in France. some regard them as the triumph of a new social change against the left-wing politics of Macron and Socialists in general. I got news for everybody: No great changes will happen and this is nothing new in France. In fact, if history teaches us something is that probably the French will be worse later next year.
It seems the French go though one of these social shakedown every 20-30 years or so. Think about it, the French Revolution ended with a country in chaos, and things so screwed up that they got rid of a king and ended up with Emperor Bonparte. Jumping to the 20th Century and the day of the Liberation of Paris, the Communists trued to raise shit fighting with other Resistance units for control of the city and even trying to pop DeGaulle as we walked in. The whole did not go farther because the whole US Army taking over the city.
The most romanticized of the was the May 1968 protests which affected the whole country and changed the Country in the direction of European Socialism which has progressively making a France a bigger mockery than ever and brought is the yellow Vest Revolt. What will it bring? No idea yet, but I am betting on nothing good. And since it is environment, I wouldn’t be surprised if they established the infamous mile tax or some sort of other restriction that will affect private car owners to subsidize cheap public transportation. Let’s not only do it for the environment, but for the poor.
It is the same old shit in a different decade, that is all.
Crimes that will no longer be prosecuted in Suffolk County, MA (What could go wrong?)
Boston, MA – When Suffolk County’s district attorney-elect Rachel Rollins takes over the prosecutor’s office in January, criminals will no longer need to worry about being held accountable for many offenses – including resisting arrest.
“It’s a recipe for disaster,” veteran Boston defense attorney, Robert Griffin, told the Boston Globe.
“The problem is the message that you’re sending,” Griffin stressed. “You’re encouraging bad behavior. You’re telling people that we’re not going to do anything about this.”
Rollins, 47, has been widely hailed – and widely criticized – for her well-publicized “Charges to be Declined” list, which she has featured on her campaign webpage.
Newly-Elected DA Vows To Stop Prosecuting Resisting Arrest And 15 Other Crimes
The list of crimes that will no longer be prosecuted are:
-A stand alone resisting arrest charge, i.e. cases where a person is charged with resisting arrest and that is the only charge
-A resisting arrest charge combined with only charges that all fall under the list of charges to decline to prosecute, e.g. resisting arrest charge combined only with a trespassing charge
-Trespassing
-Shoplifting (including offenses that are essentially shoplifting but charged as larceny)
-Larceny under $250
-Disorderly conduct
-Disturbing the peace
-Receiving stolen property
-Minor driving offenses, including operating with a suspend or revoked license
-Breaking and entering — where it is into a vacant property or where it is for the purpose of sleeping or seeking refuge from the cold and there is no actual damage to property
-Wanton or malicious destruction of property
-Threats – excluding domestic violence
-Minor in possession of alcohol
-Drug possession
-Drug possession with intent to distribute.
And this being Massachusetts, you know the citizens have by limited opportunities to defend themselves when the inevitable societal breakdown happens. As long as a criminal steals under certain amount of money, he is safe. Now imagine five friends walking into a liquor store and each of the pilfer booze in the amount of $200 each. Imagine that it is several groups of five, every day for a week. That would be one business that will shut down before Sunday. Mom & Pop grocery stores? Pack of smokes in Mass is almost $10 so an individual can come and steal 25 packs every instance and not be arrested? Beers?
Go to the mall and get yourself a nice pat of $185 Nike LeBrons and just walk out of the Foot Locker knowing you more than likely will not be arrested and if you are, you won’t be prosecuted. Walk around the counter of the Cinnabon in the food court, break open the register and steal only $250? Approved!
Your imagination can do the rest.
As long as they do not touch anything Federal, it is gonna be a full Christmas coming January 2019 for the Criminal Element in Suffolk County.
Hat Tip Joshua F.
I gave up one smoking but not the other.
I forgot to congratulate myself last month on Two Years Being Smoke Free and also Two Years Without Being Preachy Asshole Against Smoking.
If you want to know, I did the Chantix treatment and worked amazingly well. I had no side effects.
But some smoking was done last Friday:
I love that smoke ring. And I feel I am getting better results since I began to slit the skin under the ribs. Three long cuts seem to do it fine.
And if you read about my fixing of the smoker back in May, I want to let you know it is still working like a champ. I don’t know if the Cast iron pan may have something to do, but it seems that I can control the temperature better.
PS: We are using Jack Daniel’s BBQ sauce. It adds some sweet & tangy without overwhelming the flavor of the smoke and the meat.