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The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions." --American Statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852)


Monday, January 12, 2026

Monday Music "Open Sesame" By Kool and The Gang

 


I am continuing my string of songs from the 70's as part of my "Monday Music", the Disco stuff because I know that this is "Old NFO's" favorite genre. (Yes I can hear him hissing all the way back in GA, lol) 

  Back in 1977/1978 I was one of the producers of our 6 grade play and it was based on historical events, and I used several songs from the sound Track from Saturday Night Fever in the Play and one of the songs I used was "Open Sesame" from Kool and the Gang.  I went with a visual story with music to back it up.  I was told later on I raised the bar on subsequent productions.   I was never told "I couldn't" so I went with my gut and it went well.  I sometimes wonder if my life would be different if I had pursued that avenue instead of the direction that my life has taken.  Naa I am happy with my life that I have now with no regrets.  I went with a 2fer from Kool and the Gang, one song from the 1970's and one song from the 1980's...There is symmetry there, LOL


Open Sesame is the eighth studio album by the funk band Kool & the Gang, released in 1976. The album yielded the hit title track, "Open Sesame", which achieved some success, first as a top ten R&B single, then later as part of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. "Super Band" also reached the R&B top twenty. The album was the second of two albums released by the band in 1976.

 I couldn't find out any real information on this song except it was in "Saturday Night Fever and it was at the height of the "Disco Movement.".   I do like the sheer pageantry of the video's This was before the advent of "Professional" video's and music video's varied depending if the band was willing to make a video clip.



Emergency is the sixteenth studio album by the American band Kool & the Gang, released in 1984. It ultimately became the group's biggest selling career album, earning Double Platinum status in America, Platinum in Canada, and Silver in the UK.


The album produced four US top 20 hit singles including "Fresh" (US #9); "Misled" (US #10); the title track "Emergency" (US #18); and the album's biggest hit, the million-selling "Cherish" (US #2). "Fresh", "Misled", and "Cherish" also cracked the top 40 in the UK reaching #11, #28, and #4 respectively while "Emergency" only reached #50 in that country.

 "Misled"

Saturday, January 10, 2026

"We Dodged a Bullet"

 

I'm working a lot of.......You guessed it.....but I'm tired.

We got lucky, if Harris/Walz were successful in getting into the White house, what would a year with those feckless clowns look like?


   I believed that we dodged a bullet both times.  I have no issues voting for a women, but the Donks keep nominating either a totally corrupt one or a totally inept one.

I saw this from Kurt Schlichter, on Townhall.com  I also follow him on twitter and on Amazon.

AP Photo/Cliff Owen

Let’s start our 2026 by imagining the worst-case scenario – that Donald Trump was somehow beaten by that drunken trollop in 2024. Where would we be right now? Well, we’d be in a very different country, and many of us might very well be in cells. You’ve got a lot of black-pilling from people on our side that not enough people have been arrested, or the administration is moving too slowly on their particular obsession, or that everything isn’t perfect, which means everything is wrong. There’s some truth to that, because we can always do better, but we cannot forget that divine Providence has smiled upon us. We didn’t dodge a bullet. We dodged an 18-inch shell from the USS Kamala.

We got so damn lucky, and even as we continue to press the Republicans to do more, more, more, and more faster, faster, faster, and faster, we should never forget that.

If that clinical moron had won the presidency, she probably would’ve won the House, too. So, let’s assume we kept the Senate, and let’s assume we also kept the same set of tofu-spined senators who have only been kept in line by the unholy terror Donald Trump wields upon them like a whip and a chair. With him out of the picture – more about how he’d be out of the picture in federal prison for a decade or so below – these losers would’ve been encouraged to let their failure flag fly. It would be nerds gone wild as helpful Republicans would reach across the aisle to help Democrats complete their conversion of America into communist chaos. And as they did, those useless GOP collaborators would tell themselves that they were the adults in the room, but more on Epstein later.

Donald Trump shut down the border on day one. The exact opposite would’ve happened if he had lost. Instead of a couple of million aliens being self-deported or having deportation thrust upon them, we would have added three, four, or even more millions more. As you recall, the Democrat and GOP traitor party line was that it was absolutely impossible to close down the border except by signing onto Senator Jiminy Lankford’s magic beans deal that would lock in huge rates of Third World peasant immigration forever. And we wouldn’t have even gotten the magic beans under Kamala. She would have laid out the welcome mat and thrown the doors back open as part of Operation Great Replacement. You don’t need to struggle to guess who would be the ones being replaced.

Up in Minnesota, the Learing Centers would have vastly expanded. One of Kamala Harris’s promises was to take this childcare scam and increase it exponentially. Remember that the Democrats aren’t against fraud. That’s like J.B. Pritzker being against carbohydrates or Tim Walz being against show tunes. And forget DOGE. Every transsexual Ecuadorian with a mime troupe and a bank account would still be getting USAID money. Plus, you would still be subsidizing the Volvo Bolsheviks’ NPR habit. And the Green New Deal? Stacy Abrams would have gotten her $2 billion, but that probably wouldn’t have stopped her from being appointed as the new FBI director (and being confirmed with invertebrate Republican votes). After all, she checks all the boxes – she’s not a person of pallor, she’s female (though, sadly, she was apparently born that way), she’s a communist, and she’s fat. The entire administration would be filled with DEI people who lucked into their jobs by winning the intersectional bingo game. A Kamala Harris administration would have been a jobs program for dumb people who are as loud as they are mediocre.

What would the Heels-in-the-Air administration be doing? Not releasing the Epstein files, because nobody would care. There would be nothing in it for lol-bertarian Thomas Massie, so that he wouldn’t have stuck Republicans in the back with it – he would have found something else to stick Republicans in the back with. Of course, the Democrats weren’t going to release it for the same reason they didn’t release it when Joe Biden didn’t release it – there’s nothing in there that trashes Trump, though there’s a lot in there that trashes Democrats.

What they would be doing is prosecuting Republicans, and not a little bit. All the J6 defendants whose civil rights were treated like an Insane Clown Posse concert porta-potty after a Juggalo chili cook-off would still be rotting in prison for the crime of actually showing up in the People’s House thinking they had rights. But the real story would be Donald Trump. He would absolutely be convicted in Washington by a jury that voted 95% against him and judges that voted 100% against him on the charges that, like in New York, had never been filed against anybody else before. The New York judge would’ve sent him to prison. The Atlanta thing would still be going on, and the federal jury would’ve convicted him, though he was absolutely being framed. They would’ve sent him to federal prison, his crime being that he beat the Democrat establishment and dared to try to give voice to the useful and patriotic half of America.

And they would not have stopped with the ex-president. All of us who refused to comply would be targets. The framing would’ve gone into high gear and spread to other Republicans. Everybody and his brother with an (R) after his name, except for the compliant collaborators, would have been charged with seditious conspiracy for pointing out an obviously fraudulent election, then dragged in front of the corrupt DC bench and juries to be framed. 

Their goal would be to eliminate any possibility of an effective Republican Party and an effective resistance, and the shameful thing is that some members of the GOP would be eager to help. After all, while we have cleaned up our roster, too many Republican elected officials are much more comfortable taking scraps from the table from their Democrat masters than actually standing up and fighting back against the destruction of our country.

The destruction of our country would’ve continued apace. Under Trump, the amazing Harmeet Dhillon has personally led the 180° turn by the Department of Justice in the prosecution of civil rights violations by actually recognizing that it is wrong to violate the rights of white Americans and males. The heart of wokeness is barely beating now; if Harris had won, it would’ve gotten 10 cc of epinephrine stat and been shocked with the defibrillator paddles. Recently, JD Vance noted that Americans no longer have to apologize for being white; under the venomous race communist government of Kamala Harris, you would’ve had to plead “not guilty” for your pale perfidy.

Make no mistake. They would’ve been coming for your guns, and they would’ve been coming for your boy’s penis, as perverted deviants would have made bizarre, transsexual indoctrination mandatory and its criticism forbidden. Say goodbye to the right to say what you think. Look at Europe and how they’re arresting people for the crime of speaking. Have you noticed how none of Kamala’s friends are standing up for free speech today? That’s because they’re against it. They actively believe it would be a good thing if they could toss you in jail for saying stuff, and they absolutely would, given the opportunity. Oh, they would’ve called it “hate speech” or “misinformation” or labeled it some other way to make their tyranny seem benign, but we know their game. It’s the same game dictators always play. They want you disarmed, disenfranchised, and disinclined even to attempt to exercise what had formerly been your right to participate in your own governance.

Don’t even get me started on what they’d be doing to your church. They would not have been satisfied with taking away its nonprofit status. They would’ve actively interfered with the teachings, forcing the faithful to adopt the moral paradigm of some SSRI-ridden, Chardonnay-gulping wine woman who reads books with names like “Where the Sea Urchin Dreams of Me Abandoning My Family So I Can Find Myself.”

Maduro would still be in power, and the Delta Force would be 50% Muslim transwomen of color who are differently abled and fat. Our military would still be in a recruiting crisis, as normal people would refuse to dive headfirst into a bubbling cauldron of social pathologies. Our generals would look like they belonged in a Columbia faculty lounge as they continued their record of zero major wars won unequivocally in the prior 30 years. If Putin hadn’t already won the Ukraine War, he certainly would be closing in on it. Europe would get a free pass on carrying its weight, just like it got for 80 years until Trump came along and told them to stop being freeloaders. Iran would still have its nukes. Drug boats would still be doing their Miami Vice act, heading north unmolested. Your kids would still be dying from fentanyl at record rates.

As for Israel, Harris would’ve abandoned it. It’s just too Jewish for her coalition. Half the Democrat Party denies the Holocaust anyway, so denying a new one would barely be a stretch. At least Candace Owens would have something to be happy about.

And yes, conservative figures would still be murdered. After all, it would be hard to frame them all, so the compliant regime media would eagerly villainize them so that the perverted weirdos who have gone on their killing sprees would accelerate the process under a Harris administration, knowing that a Department of Justice under Leticia James would’ve been as eager to find the killers of conservatives as Biden’s was to find the RNC/DNC bomber.

That’s all horrific, but here comes the scary part. America would never go down without a fight. I write about it in my new novel, Panama Red, where America has broken into red and blue halves after the left pushes way too far, way too hard, and way too fast. That’s the thing about the left – they don’t understand human nature, they’re greedy, and, above all, they’re ahistorical and stupid. They don’t understand what all these things I’ve discussed would do. They believe that our society is a Jenga tower from which they can pull blocks endlessly, and yet it will somehow still stand erect. They think that the status quo will endure even as they change key elements of the paradigm. They don’t understand that what we have here is a system with duties and obligations, and if you decide that you’re not going to honor your obligations or duties, you don’t get a free pass to enjoy the fruits of the system. The system collapses. It doesn’t just keep functioning as everybody goes along, like you didn’t change anything. 

Would we have resistance? Yes, there would be political resistance in the alternative media and at the ballot box, which they would attempt to suppress using a weaponized federal government because that’s how communists keep power. But Americans are an ornery people, not a neutered continent of eunuchs whose ancestors weren’t man enough to jump on a ship sailing west. The resistance would start being political, but as the Democrats redacted more and more of our Constitution in an effort to keep power in perpetuity, the resistance would rise, and their repression would rise in response. Would we be in a civil war one year on? No, but we would sure as hell be headed there.

But it’s not going to happen, so stop your doomin’. 

The good Lord apparently looks after drunks and Americans, because the election of Donald Trump saved our country as we know it. Now, don’t quit complaining and whining. Being loud and annoying is important. You’ve got to keep the pressure on, because there are a lot of Republicans who would be happy to glide along until that mean Donald Trump goes away and they can get back to the business of walking around like a bunch of puffed-up popinjays being addressed as “Congressman” and “Senator” instead of actually having to do things and endure the Washington Post being mean to them. Never stop demanding more. Never quit pointing out bad ideas and the slow-walking of important reforms. Just understand the reality of the situation, that everything that we want can’t happen all at once. We’ve got three more glorious years to go, and you should be on your knees thanking God for it.

Friday, January 9, 2026

"Tragedy And Reality"


I saw from some of her social media presence that she touted herself as a ""ICE Defense Warrior", and apparently word on the street is that her car made appearance in several cities where harrassment of ICE agents and operations happened.  Well the problem is that these liberals forget that ICE ARE Police officers at the same level as the FBI, yes Virginia they can arrest you on certain statutes like interference and a few other things.  The Legacy media pushed " Legal Observer" angle like that gives her some special status, but it doesn't.  These *AWFUL* "Affluant White Liberal Women" are full of entitlement and believe that they are untouchable and free of consequence.  Well Ms.Good found out that FAFO is a thing.  And the ICE Officer had to react in a split second and you have all these "aaaactivist" and monday morning quarterbacks second guessing his decision, and this is the 2nd time he was put in this position, according to the VEEP  JD Vance, the Officer collected 33 stitches earlier from getting hit from another car from another incident from a "legal Observer".   



      The DOJ needs to find out his these professional protestors are getting paid, and get their intelligence to interfere with operations.  Kill the money, you kill the interference.    Activist rarely work for free unless they are independently wealthy, and if they are, good, let them use their own money,


 

I Clipped this from "Townhall.com"

AP Photo/Tom Baker

Renee Good died on Wednesday in Minneapolis. She had been attempting to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents engaged in federal law enforcement activities. Along with other protesters, Good involved herself in what federal agents were doing and used her car to block them. Confronted by federal agents, Good accelerated with an agent in front of her car. He pulled his gun, she accelerated and struck him, he opened fire and shot her. She died.

Watching the video footage, it is clear she accelerated with an agent directly in front of her car and struck him. Close observers noted her front wheel appeared to be turned, so not intending to hit the agent. The agent who shot her was not looking down to try to see her tire. The car came toward him on an icy, slippery road. He pulled his gun. She kept accelerating. He fired.

The Democratic Party sent out a tweet that federal agents had murdered an American citizen. The agent, in a very tense situation, operated in self-defense. The whole thing is tragic. Good is neither a hero nor a martyr. She tried to obstruct a federal operation. When confronted, she tried to flee the scene, hitting an officer who drew his gun and shot her.

For four years, Americans witnessed an overrun southern border. Democrats repeatedly denied there was a problem. They falsely claimed the border was secure. Voters decided to vote for President Donald Trump, a man whose supporters had stormed the U.S. Capitol just a few years before, because the voters decided Trump was preferable to the status quo.

Progressives did not handle that rejection well. Despite Mr. Trump winning the popular vote, progressives swung into action to not just obstruct every presidential initiative, but to harass federal agents and protect the very illegal aliens that most Americans want ejected from the country.

Going back to 2019, the local Minnesota press has documented a massive welfare fraud operation. Eighty-nine percent of those indicted are from a Somali community that has failed to assimilate into the United States. In 2019, the Minneapolis Fox affiliate reported Minnesota welfare money was being used to fund Islamic terror. Just a few weeks ago, another report came out documenting that Somali fraud in Minnesota had flowed to an Islamic terror group in Somalia.

Governor Tim Walz has decided not to run for reelection, in part because of the scandal. The fraud, which some estimates put at several billion dollars, happened on his watch. Walz has insisted there is no scandal and it is all racism. Walz and Jacob Frey, the Minneapolis Mayor, both insist federal agents are acting as a Gestapo.

The incendiary rhetoric from Democratic politicians fired up progressive activists. ICE agents have been fired upon. In Texas, several illegal aliens were killed when a progressive activist fired at ICE agents. ICE agents have been hit by cars, assaulted, and vilified for trying to clean up the mess created by Democrats.

Progressive activists have turned violent, interfered, and now one has been killed. We cannot observe this tragedy without acknowledging not just the incendiary rhetoric of the Left, but also the repeated assassination attempts on federal agents. It is a tragedy that Ms. Good is dead and leaves behind a son whose father died a few years ago. But Ms. Good should not have been attempting to obstruct ICE agents. She should not have used her car as a barricade. She should not have ignored the ICE agents. She should not have struck an ICE agent with her vehicle.

The ICE agents are there because Democrats have allowed an illegal alien problem to fester. They are vilified by progressive politicians and have been targeted by progressive activists. Ms. Good would be alive today except she believed the hysteria of people like Tim Walz. She substituted politics for religion and decided to involve herself in political protest and opposition. She is now dead because of it.

This is a tragedy. It was avoidable. But Democrats have grown more shrill and hysterical since she died. There will be more attacks on ICE agents, all of whom are simply doing the job of deporting those the Democrats let flood the country.

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

"8 of the smallest Handguns you can Own"

The smallest pistol I have is a G-43 in a "DeSantis Superfly Holster"  works well for me, but having a "mouse gun can be beneficial having something smaller although the superfly doesn't print and is comfortable, there would be time that a smaller pistol would be better, although finding one that would fit my needs and work when necessary is the trick.


I shamelessly clipped this from "American Rifleman"

Smallest Pistols Handguns

One of the very first handguns that I ever saw up close was my dad's Belgian Baby Browning chambered in .25 ACP. I was fascinated by the fact that it was small enough to fit in the palm of his hand, and yet it was still a fully functional pistol. Once I was old enough to start buying handguns of my own, my enthusiasm for the smallest-of-the-small didn't waver.

In pursing this littlest handgun hobby of mine, I've enjoyed opportunities to evaluate a variety petite pistols ranging from 9 mm defensive-carry models to unique, rimfire “utility” guns. Whether you are looking for a more compact daily-carry pistol or something spiffy to add to your collection, here are a few of the smallest handguns currently on the market:

8. Taurus GX4 T.O.R.O.: Double-Stack Micro Nine
Although sub-subcompact, double-stack magazine 9 mm pistols have been available since 1995, it was the launch of the SIG Sauer P365 in 2018 that triggered the latest concealed-carry trend colloquially known as “micro nine pistols.” These handguns are intended to fill the niche between the double-stack subcompact and single-stack 9 mm pocket pistols. Over the last few years, these semi-automatic guns have become a new standard in the concealed-carry market. In addition to their slim frames and 10- to 13-round magazine capacities, the micro nines are about as small as you can get while still retaining the option to configure the slide for a red-dot optic.

Taurus GX4 micro nine pistol red=dot optic smallest handguns pistols 9 mm
The GX4 sports useful upgrades often reserved for more expensive pistols, including metallic sights, front and rear cocking serrations and interchangeable grip backstraps.

Several micro nines are the right size for this slot, but I opted for a Taurus USA model that I've worked with more than some other guns. The Taurus GX4 is shown here with the T.O.R.O. optics-ready slide. While the SIG P365 set the standard for this category, the GX4 is sized to match, accepts 11-round flush-fit, or 13-round extended magazine, and it provides a useful set of features at a lower price point than most of its competition. MSRP starts at $399. TaurusUSA.com

7. Diamondback DB9: Single-Stack 9 mm Pocket Pistol
No matter how you slice it, modern single-stack 9 mm pistols designed for pocket carry are slimmer and lighter than the micro nines. Diamondback Firearms offers one of the smallest currently available. When I worked with the DB9 for the first time more than a decade ago, I was surprised to handle a 9 mm semi-auto pistol that was dimensionally similar to subcompact pistols chambered for the more diminutive .380 ACP cartridge. The fact that the DB9 could handle the more potent 9 mm cartridge in such a small package meant that had to purchase it when the evaluation timeframe was complete.

diamondback firearms db9 pistol
The DB9’s small size makes it easy to carry but more challenging to master.

Today, single-stack 9 mm pocket pistols are fairly common in a variety of configurations and price points, but the DB9 remains as one of the smallest available. The pistol I have on hand tips the scale at 12.8 ozs., and that includes an empty magazine. The tradeoff for DB9's feathery effect is a stiff level of recoil when using standard-pressure 9 mm ammunition. It is manageable, though not exactly enjoyable. Recently, Diamondback released the Gen 4 version of the DB9 with updates to the slide's cosmetics and the grip's texturing. MSRP is $305. DiamondbackFirearms.com

6. Bond Arms Stinger Series: Double-Barrel Pocket Protection
Bond Arms’ claim to fame is offering some of the smallest and most powerful handguns available. The company's stainless-steel, standard-frame guns live up to this boast with dual barrels chambered for cartridges including .357 Mag., 10 mm Auto, .44 Spl., .45 Colt and .410 bore shotshells. As small and potent as they are, the all-steel construction and big-bore, swing-up barrels can make these pistols a bit chunky for pocket carry.

stainless steel bond arms singer derringers on wood log
The Stingers were developed in answer to customer requests for a slimmer, lighter pistol.

The company has answered customer requests for a slimmer, lighter version of these tough little guns, 12 ozs., with the double-barrel Stinger series. Shown here are the new Stinger RS (Top) and the original aluminum-frame Stinger (Bottom) released in 2021. Fitted with a 3” barrel assembly, the Stinger RS, which stands for Rough Series, features stainless-steel construction but at about half the frame width of the standard version. This shaves the weight down to 16 ozs. Barrels are interchangeable, too, and Bond Arms offers versions in .380 ACP, 9 mm Luger and .38 Spl., and apparently a .327 Fed. Mag. option is coming. The pistols ship with a set of rubber grips, as well as ultra-thin polymer grips. MSRP starts at $279. BondArms.com

5. Ruger LCP Max: Double-Stack .380 ACP
In 2008, the launch of Ruger's Light Carry Pistol, or LCP, sparked an American sub-compact arms race, which set the standard for .380 ACP pocket pistols for years to come. But with a single-stack magazine and a capacity of six or seven rounds, some folks wanted a boost in performance. In 2011, the company launched the LC9, an upsized version of its LCP chambered for 9 mm Luger with more capacity. Though it was slightly larger and heavier, the LC9 retained a slim and trim profile for everyday carry. That wasn’t enough, as folks always want more if they can get it. So, in 2021, Ruger presented the Max-9, a micro nine that accepts double-stack magazines.

Ruger LCP Max pistol handgun in hand left side view black gun
This version of the LCP can hold nearly double the rounds of the original version.

The company could have left off there, but it made sure that the LCP would not be left behind in the trend of double-stack upgrades. As such, 2021 also marked the arrival of the LCP Max chambered for .380 ACP. Just like its micro-nine compatriot, the most noteworthy change to the new LCP came in the form of a new frame for increased ammunition capacity with only a nominal change to the grip’s width. It accepts a 10-round flush-fit, or 12-round extended magazine, which makes for a significant increase. The LCP Max sports a night sight with tritium and has a smooth and light trigger pull. MSRP is $479. Ruger.com

4. KelTec P32: Single-Stack .32 ACP Micro
Prior to the .380 ACP pocket-pistol rush of the late 2000s, there was the petite .32 ACP dust-up of the late 1990s. The .32-cal. contenders for American holster space at the time included the Seecamp LWS-32, Berretta 3032 Tomcat, North American Arms Guardian and the KelTec P32. At the time, the P32 was the odd man out. It had one of those “newfangled” lightweight, injection-molded polymer frames with an internal aluminum chassis instead of an all-stainless-steel or aluminum frame. With an unloaded weight of 6.6 ozs., it was the lightest and least-expensive model in the running.

Keltec P32 small black pistol handgun right side view
The P32 may be part of a dying breed, but it still offers a balance of size and performance that's tough to beat.

Still in production more than two decades later, the P32 fits right in with the today's defensive semi-automatic pistols with polymer frames. There's no question that the .380s are more powerful, but the P32 is surprisingly comfortable to shoot for its size. And when compared to the Ruger LCP II chambered in .22 LR, the P32 is slightly shorter, a bit thinner and weighs a noticeable, 4.2 ozs. lighter while also packing centerfire cartridges. Although the .32 ACP is no longer a hot topic, the P32 still comfortably fills a niche between the .380s and .22s. Who knows? The cartridge just might make a comeback. MSRP is $360. Keltec.com

3. Trailblazer Lifecard: Folding Single-Shot .22 WMR
Trailblazer Firearms offers what I would consider one of the smallest guns available today. The single-action LifeCard is a folding, single-shot utility pistol. Its unusual form factor makes it one of the easiest pistols to carry that I've worked with so far. The flat, squared-off folded profile is comparable in size to a tin of mints or a credit card holder. It can be tucked into just about any pocket, including the watch pocket of a pair of jeans.

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When folded, the Lifecard will fit comfortably in just about any pocket.

lifecard .22 WMR pistol on wood

The .22 WMR (magnum) version of the Lifecard, with its steel and aluminum construction, weighs in at just 6.4 ozs., features a simple trench-sight system, a three-round ammunition compartment in the grip and is available in a variety of colors. The company also offers a .22 LR version with a polymer grip, which reduces the pistol's weight and cost. MSRP starts at $299. TrailblazerFirearms.com

2. Ruger LCP II: Single-Stack .22 LR
A few years ago, I penned a respectful eulogy for the small-caliber pocket pistols sometimes referred to as 'mouse guns'. However, in 2021, Ruger chose to breathe new life into the rimfire pocket pistol market. The LCP II Lite Rack chambered in .22 LR is based on the popular LCP II chambered in .380 ACP. It has the same external dimensions and trigger pull. But the slide is configured for ease of use. The magazine holds 10 rounds of .22 LR ,and this version of the LCP has a thumb safety lever on the left side.

Ruger LCP II LIte Rack pistol with ammunition magazine art
The LCP II is a modern, polymer-framed take on the classic 'mouse gun' pocket pistol.

A close contender for this slot is the Beretta 21A Bobcat, which is a well-made and reliable rimfire pocket pistol. The LCP is about 0.25" taller and 0.25" longer than the Beretta. However, the LCP weighs less, 10.9 ozs., has a thinner grip, 0.92" at the widest point, and holds up to 11 rounds of ammunition instead of 7+1. The LCP II also has a suggested retail price that is $40 less than the 21A Bobcat. For those who wish to shoot this pistol with a sound suppressor, Ruger offers a drop-in threaded barrel and recoil spring kit on the shopruger.com website. MSRP is $439. Ruger.com

1. North American Arms Mini Short: Single-Action .22 Short Revolver
North American Arms' (NAA) diverse series of mini single-action revolvers has represented the smallest multi-shot handguns available for quite some time. These delightfully tiny, stainless-steel revolvers are well-made with an attention to detail that shows this is a company that takes its products seriously. I've seen these revolvers put together at the factory in Provo, Utah, and I have to say, the process seems more like watchmaking than gun assembly.

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The Trailblazer Lifecard may be the size of a tin of mints, but the NAA Short can almost fit inside that tin.

The NAAs are available in three frame sizes, with the version chambered in .22 Short (NAA-22S) being the smallest of all. This revolver weighs in at 4.2 ozs. and has a profile that comfortably fits on top of a Trailblazer Lifecard. With its small grip, tiny controls and the mild recoil produced by the pill-sized .22 Short cartridges, this diminutive revolver provides an utterly unique shooting experience. However, the .22 Short-chambered Mini should be respected for what it is, a proof-of-concept handgun of which pushes the limits of size and shootability right to the edge of practicality. MSRP is $255. NorthAmericanArms.com

Tuesday, January 6, 2026

Monday Music Brothers Johnson "Stomp"

 Yeah well today y'all get Monday's Music on a Tuesday....



Yep, I waz sick and didn't put anything up....Hey it happens.   Still rolling with the 70's stuff. 




The Brothers Johnson were an American funk and R&B band consisting of American musicians and brothers George ("Lightnin' Licks") and Louis E. Johnson ("Thunder Thumbs"). They achieved their greatest success from the mid-1970s to early 1980s, with three singles topping the R&B charts ("I'll Be Good to You", "Strawberry Letter 23", and "Stomp!").


Light Up the Night is the fourth album by the Los AngelesCalifornia-based duo Brothers Johnson, released in 1980. The album topped the U.S. R&B albums chart and reached number five on the pop albums chart. The single "Stomp!" became a dance hit, reaching number one on both the R&B singles and disco charts and top ten on the pop singles chart.

Light Up the Night was the final Brothers Johnson album to be produced by Quincy Jones. When Jones left A&M Records, he was contractually barred from having contact with the brothers.


"Stomp!" is a song released by The Brothers Johnson from their fourth album, Light Up the Night, in early 1980. It reached number one on the Dance singles chart. It reached number one on the R&B singles chart and peaked at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1980. It was a bigger success in the UK, where it entered the singles chart at number 65 on February 23, 1980, and climbed to its highest position, number 6, by March 30, 1980. It spent a total of 12 weeks on the UK Singles Chart. The song also reached number one on the New Zealand Singles Chart, staying in this position for six weeks in 1980.