Grouse

Punt guns were used by market hunters in the early 20th century. The biggest we could find was a 300-pounder that could kill hundreds of ducks in one shot. The Biggest Shotguns of All Time | Outdoor Life

The June inflation numbers are a disaster, coming in at a 40-year high of 9.1%. After the Biden administration’s repeated victory laps crowing about “the fastest-growing economy in the world” and how we’re “stronger economically” than ever, the downward spiral is feeding a growing consensus that President Joe Biden and his Democrats in Congress are actively making things worse. According to official numbers, prices rose 1.3% on the month, which translates to an annualized pace of nearly 17%. Controlling for manipulated housing statistics, the numbers are even worse: 1.7% on the month, which comes to 22% annualized. Let's Go Brandon! Even as Democrats reluctantly abandoned COVID lockdowns, they were busy unleashing a flood of new restrictions targeting energy production and distribution, farmers, manufacturing, logistics, and small businesses, often using the environment, unions, or COVID-19 as the excuse. Of course, if Biden and congressional Democrats had their way, it would be far worse: The Senate came within a few votes of passing Biden’s so-called Build Back Better plan, which would have handed trillions to special interests while hobbling the economy, exploding inflation, and driving shortages far beyond baby formula. The goofy Green New Deal might have spent $93 trillion—over a million dollars per family—on top of economy-crushing mandates. In sum, this administration and congressional Democrats are doing everything they can to drive inflation higher. What would stop the chaos? Simple: Rein in federal spending and end the war on production. Radically scale down the handouts, the regulations, and extortionate taxes that strangle businesses, factories, and the tens of millions of workers they employ. If we do not get a handle on this crisis, indeed on the mentality driving this progressive takeover of the economy, it won’t just crush this economy. The life prospects and future of the next generation will be in jeopardy.

American home soon after the stolen election of 2020

As a result of inflation, real hourly wages have fallen 4.8% since Biden took office, the worst since the 1970s. That is a monetary loss of $3,400 in annual wages per worker, or $6,800 per family in which both parents work. That's a stiff price to avoid mean tweets from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. For the record, before Biden took office, our national economy had been dealt a severe blow by the ChiCom Virus pandemic — but was in a strong position to recover thanks to the pre-pandemic economic policies of Donald Trump and his administration. The nation was poised to make a full recovery by the time Trump's "Operation Warp Speed" COVID vaccines were introduced. There was record-low unemployment for Black and Hispanic Americans and a 50-year low for women; median household income was at a record high, while poverty was at a record low; inflation was at 1.4%, and our nation was energy independent; our borders were more secure than in decades; our international superpower standing had been restored, and our nation's most dangerous foreign enemies were keeping their heads down, fearful of Trump.

The Left's Plan to Seize Control of Local Election Offices With a scheme that would make George Soros proud, well-moneyed leftists are angling to take charge of our elections. Douglas Andrews One of the many maddening infuriating jaw-slackening fascinating anomalies about the 2020 presidential election is that Basement Joe "81 Million Votes" Biden won a smaller percentage of counties than any winning president ever, and yet he got more population-adjusted votes than even rock-star Barack Obama got in 2008. How'd he do that? Indeed, Biden won just 16.7% of counties in 2020, which shattered the previous record low of 22% set by Obama in 2012, which broke the previous record low of 28% also set by Obama in 2008. So, in 2020, Donald Trump won 2,547 counties to Joe Biden's 507, and he hauled in a whopping 13 million more votes than he did in 2016, and yet he lost the election by seven million or so votes. (If we sound bitter, it's because we are.) Clearly, the Democrats had something going on with that bulk-mail ballot fraud strategy and all those unmanned ballot drop boxes in those big, populous, Democrat-controlled cities in those crucial swing states like Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, which were decided by a total of around 43,000 votes out of some 161 million cast. Clearly, the handlers of the dementia-addled old guy who couldn't draw flies to a campaign rally and who finished a pathetic fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire somehow had it all figured out on Election Day. And they intend to keep it that way going forward. How? By adhering to the old ward boss's adage: It's not who votes. It's who counts the votes. As The Daily Signal's Fred Lucas reports: Hmm ... electing the people who decide elections. Why didn't we think of that? The goal is to "promote thousands of election administrators in the years ahead," Lucas says of the leftist PAC. "But for 2022, it reports endorsing 11 candidates competing in races in California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, and Tennessee." California and Illinois are lost causes, but they still have plenty of Republican congressional districts. And all those other states are either purple or red. Ever wonder why your local school board is such a hot woke mess of leftist idiocy? Right there you have it. While conservatives are working late hours and shuttling their kids to baseball practice and basketball practice and field hockey practice and swimming practice, leftists are running for election to crucial local positions that we've all but abandoned to them. That's how a political party that stinks at governing — a political party that can't define what a woman is and insists that men can have babies — can keep insinuating itself into our lives. Because we let it. What difference can one local schlub make? As Lucas continues: "Local election clerks generally are empowered to interpret and enforce state election regulations. They often have discretion on matters such as whether to count absentee ballots that come in after Election Day, how strictly to enforce voter ID or signature-matching requirements, and how closely poll watchers may monitor the ballot counting on Election Day." That sounds like a Democrat wish list for electoral fraud. And if you have a strange sense that you've seen something like this before, you needn't look any further than George Soros and his model for electing soft-on-crime district attorneys in big cities across the nation. "What we shouldn't lose track of," says Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, "is they are playing the long game. They are going to look for every possible way to impact elections, and they can make substantial changes in the long run through this kind of program that they wouldn't have been able to make in 2020." After all, if you're the Democrats, why mess with a crooked good thing? Especially if your political opponents are asleep at the switch.

If this guy attacked Hochul, do you think he would have been handled the same and let out right away?

Many doctors are saying people who are vaccinated are more likely to get it now than people who had it and were never vaccinated. Seems natural immunity was the way to go.

About 25 years after that on Raritan Bay.

Archie and Edith Bunker as kids

Freedom can be taken away, but it can also be given away -- out of sheer ignorance.

Summertime 50 years ago. Those were the days. Young, dumb and having nothing but fun. Makes me realize though I may be 66 now, I'm really still 16 with 50 years of experience.