90% of the participants in my Saturday Pistol classes are women. There are also a fair number of young men, who were raised in households without guns, buying firearms and seeking training.
I buy bacon ends from the butcher to render the fat and collect the lean “bits”. I always have a pint jar of grease in the fridge and a pound or so of bits in the freezer. My Mom always had a crock of old grease on the back of the stove. That practice scares me.
Fry or season stuff in the grease or use it to replace lard/”Crisco” in baked goods. Add the bits to vegetable sides, cornbread/biscuits, salads, etc...
Doesn’t surprise me. I was a contractor for them for a few years. I was mostly safe from the politics because I was not on their payroll and benefits. That said, contractors were easier to dump (no severence to pay out). I learned a great deal from the experience.
Don’t get too excited. This trend has been going for at least 5 years.
I am also seeing an increase in retirement aged males who are retired/former military who have decided to take their service arms out of “mothballs” to re-learn how to use them. My past Saturday pistol class was 75% from this group.
"I was heartbroken and very thankful that Rose was not aware of what was going on," Connie Cochran, who is married to the senator's brother, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Thursday.
"Breaking news: Conservative organizations suddenly have found common cause with one of their favorite objects of contempt the benighted Mainstream Media ...
That's technically backwards. The press is suddenly aligned with us. We've been here all along.