pretty face, chicks with guns 051921

her eyebrows are nice, nose is great, lips are gorgeous...

hanfu from porn site, 051721

 lovely...

blonde girl, pirate's cove 051521

 her waist, above her hips, looks very sweet...

peyton list, starlets 051421

i prefer a girl showing jawline, not a swell of flesh under her chin.

dti, john farnham 051321

 

“Civilization was a blessing you never truly appreciated, until it threatened to collapse around you.”

 

Peter Hamilton

 

“Safe” for violent offenders?

 

I remember when I was going through the Police Academy back in the early 1970s, and shooting at a paper target called the “B21, Police Silhouette”

 

Scoring zones were marked with the appropriate value, depending on whether you were shooting to “kill,” or shooting to “disable.” The target was a human form printed on a white background

 

For example, when attempting to “disable,” one received a higher score for shooting the target’s right arm than for shooting the left arm.

 

The whole dubious notion of trying to “disable” someone via gunfire, but not produce a fatal injury, was soon unceremoniously, and contemptuously, discarded by American police.

 

It was a quaint idea, dreamed-up by desk-bound bureaucrats, but in actual practice “in the field,” it didn’t work, as any idiot could have predicted!

 

When attempting to “disable” someone in range simulations, the paper B21 was always perfectly stationary.

 

There was plenty of light. Plenty of time. And, the target was not actually trying to murder you!

 

Even then, scores were consistently poor.

 

Teaching students to aim at, and uniformly hit, “center mass” proved eminently more likely to succeed.

 

We all decided that attempting to produce “non-lethal injury” while employing “lethal force” was inherently a pretty stupid idea!

 

Now, we’re seeing that a medium-sized department, LaGrange, GA, has suddenly dredged-back-up this dubious idea!

 

I’m sure it will spread to other departments with leftist chiefs.

 

They’re calling it “Shoot to Incapacitate,” and in order to exercise their “non-lethal gunfire,” they’ve produced a new, improved version of the B21!

 

It teaches officers to shoot arms, legs, and “abdomen” when their very lives are in deadly, imminent peril!

 

Leftists who promote this long-ago discredited rubbish claim to want to “preserve life,” but the lives of violent criminals are obviously the only ones they care about. Lives of police officers and innocent citizens are apparently of no importance.

 

When an officer “shoots to incapacitate,” but the VCA dies anyway, predictably the officer will be lose his job for “acting out of policy,” and will then be prosecuted for self-defined “excessive force.”

 

The “new standard” will be that the “incapacitation method” must always be used, in every police shooting.

 

And, when mandatory “non-lethal results” from the use of “lethal-force” is the expected norm, and it predictably fails completely, the new demand from the Left will be that all police be disarmed, stripped of all guns.

 

You know that’s coming, to the invariable cheers of Democrats!

 

Simultaneously, leftists are taking away our OC, tear gas, bean-bags, Tasers, batons, every less-lethal option we have. In addition police snipers and SWAT Teams are being disbanded.

 

Guns are next. Count on it!

 

Meanwhile, you can bet good money that hypocritical Democrat governors who pseudo-sanctimoniously join this bandwagon will make damned sure none of it applies to their own bodyguards. After all, they’re “essential,” while police officers and citizens are obviously expendable!

 

Currently, lawlessness in every Democrat-controlled metro area, from NYC to SF, is completely out of hand.

 

It’s growing worse by the day, and that is exactly the way they want it!

 

This is not co-incidence!

 

“An important sign of the collapse of the rule of law is the rise of a paramilitary, and its merger with government power.”

 

Timothy Snyder

 

/John

raquel torres, pinterest 011720

 she played vera marcal in the movie duck soup with the marx brothers

susan holmes, when supermodels ruled the earth 051121

never heard of her, but damn! she's good looking.

debbie harry 1970s and earlier, 051121

 eyebrows, nose, mouth, hair

pretty girl, pirate's cove, 051121

 pretty eyebrows, nose, mouth, long straight hair

pretty, long dark hair 050621

 pretty...high cut one-piece...long dark hair...from pirate's cove, 050621

pirotess record of lodoss war, 050521

 Pirotess...lovely...left upper quadrant...

carole munro, 1970s and earlier

 Carole Munro...

coles phillips illustrations, 050121

 i'd slide the bodice off her tits...pin her arms under her sleeves...cup her breasts in my palms...tease her nipples under my thumbs...sniff her hair at the nape of her neck...bite her bare shoulders...i'd slowly tug her sleeves down...she'd sit perfectly still, hardly breathing...i'd close my hands around her breasts...her eyes would half close

wanda ventham, pirate's cove 043021

My teenage years

 

Morgan Fairchild, Pirate's Cove 042921

 Fluffy hair...

dilbert humor

 

Recipe of the Week: Harriet’s Banana Cake

 The following recipe for Banana Cake was sent to us by SurvivalBlog reader Harriet, who posts savingfoodforeating, on Instagram.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 ½ cups mashed bananas (about 3 really ripe bananas)
• 3 cups flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp. salt
• ¾ cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup brown sugar, packed
• 3 eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• ½ c. buttermilk (milk with a splash of vinegar)

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
2. Cream butter, sugars and eggs
3. Add mashed bananas and vanilla
4. Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt
5. Alternate the buttermilk with the flour mixture
6. Pour into an oiled 13 x 9 pan
7. Bake for 45-50 minutes at 350 degrees
8. Test for doneness with a toothpick or knife
9. Frost with cream cheese frosting or a dusting of confectioner’s sugar

Hint: If I’m not frosting this cake, I’ll often make it in loaf pans and add more cinnamon

ALTERNATIVES FOR STORAGE FOODS

How to make this recipe from your pantry:

1. Rehydrate dehydrated banana chips that you’ve made. I don’t know if store-bought banana chips would work. I tend to think not.
2. Make your own baking powder from 2 parts Cream of Tartar to 1 part baking soda
3. Use powdered butter or light-colored lard
4. Use dehydrated eggs or egg substitute
5. Make your own buttermilk using milk + vinegar, rehydrated milk + vinegar, canned milk or water + vinegar

test post 042521

 can i save art?

lament for icarus, Herbert James Draper 

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 This photo is from Pirate's Cove, dated 042221.

William Shakespeare - The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1

William Shakespeare, 1564 - 1616

Prospero speaks to Ferdinand and Miranda

You do look, my son, in a moved sort,
As if you were dismay’d: be cheerful, sir.
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vex’d;
Bear with my weakness; my, brain is troubled:
Be not disturb’d with my infirmity:
If you be pleased, retire into my cell
And there repose: a turn or two I’ll walk,
To still my beating mind.