11:46 – Barbara spent the morning cleaning house while I finished the laundry and bottled chemicals. This afternoon we’ll build subassemblies for kits.
Kit orders continue to come in at a good rate. We shipped eight kits Thursday, six Friday, and seven yesterday. If that rate holds up, we’ll have a decent month, assuming we can build and ship kits fast enough to meet demand.
Mrs. OFD spent the morning working on jewelry, baking biscuits, and fiddling with taxes; Mr. OFD went to the Latin low mass at the parish, which was observing the Tenth Sunday After Pentecost. We heard about the sin of Pride and the Devil whispering in our ears and telling us how good we are. That is not a problem with me. The bastard tells me constantly what a effing loser I am.
Then I had a pastrami-onion-cheese omelet with biscuits; in retrospect I shoulda dumped a bunch of salsa over it all; hey preppers, don’t forget spices in your bunker kits!
Intermittent sun and clouds here today; we are told by the weather liars that the week will warm up with more sun.
That’s not the devil, that’s your kids. Distinction without a difference, I’ll concede.
Yep. Not only for my use but as trade goods, if and when. Six ounces of paprika packaged in plastic for five years won’t taste anything like fresh, but it’s a lot better than nothing. At some point I might transfer from the plastic and store in glass jars, but we go through hardly any glass jars in normal use here and I haven’t gotten around to buying smaller canning jars.
The narrative of Michael Brown as innocent victim of racism takes another hit:
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/168698-eyewitness-recalls-important-detail-background-video-mins-ferguson-shooting/
No doubt Holder will conduct as many autopsies as necessary to obtain the results he wants:
http://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-conduct-independent-autopsy-missouri-shooting-victim-153233316.html;_ylt=AwrBEiQBzfBTLAkAIvDQtDMD
Cynical? Moi?
The narrative of Michael Brown as innocent victim of racism takes another hit:
My posting for Friday reflects this. Was Brown high on something? Will Holder’s second autopsy screen for dope? Like I said, that would be proving thuggery, so I’m betting they will look for evidence to make the cop look bad.
I was to guess, I’d guess the first autopsy did check for drugs, and found evidence. The second autopsy will not check for drugs, will contain language to the effect of “no evidence was found”, and will be used as the one-and-only-real-official autopsy.
But I’m cynical that way.
Haters.
No pictures of 12 year old Travian thus time?
Surely they have toddler pics or sumthin they can put all over the media; and then do some photoshopping of the cop and make him look like the Humongous character in the Mad Max flick.
Just tried to check out latest griff via Drudge on two different browsers and it took forever to load and then was messed up anyway and it did that auto-reload thing that is so annoying. The gist I got was that Obummer is cutting short his vay-cay or interrupting it or sumthin; Rev. Sharpless sez Murka is on trial; the Panthers are on the march; the media drew a map to the cop’s house (that’s pretty funny!); and now they have a curfew (wonder how they’ll enforce it…).
Also saw where the Heroine of Tripoli and Benghazi demanded a Presidential suite or sumthin at some Vegas hotel; I thought, gee, WTF; MrAtoz couldn’t put her up at his palatial estate there?? Maybe give her a nice helicopter ride over the desert at about 10,000 feet….
Also saw where the Heroine of Tripoli and Benghazi demanded a Presidential suite or sumthin at some Vegas hotel; I thought, gee, WTF; MrAtoz couldn’t put her up at his palatial estate there?? Maybe give her a nice helicopter ride over the desert at about 10,000 feet….
lol I can’t wait for the 2016 Dumbocrat primaries. All the libturd Presidential wannabee’s will throw this in Hildebeest’s face. I don’t think it will be a coronation for her. Especially if Fauxohontas throws her war bonnet into the ring. She’s female and a *minority* race. Jackson should run again, Sharpless for VP. double lol Dunderhead Plugs Biden, too. Get BJ Klinton out on the campaign trail tarring them all.
Another article on the SWATification of the PoPo.
apparently the “North Hollywood Shootout,” in which two heavily armed bankrobbers held LAPD at bay for nearly exactly 20 minutes before one was killed and the second wounded and left to bleed out on the pavement justifies combat fatigues, MRAPs and the Dallas Independent School District having its own SWAT team.
Who would of thunk a school district needed SWAT. “Attention all units! Food fight in cafeteria #2. All unit respond with lethal force! Spray and pray in effect!”
“Obama heading back to DC in rare vacation break”:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_VACATION?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-08-17-11-37-07
Wow! Things must be getting seriously … serious!
Yup, Barry is rushing back from his golf game and them icy wottuz of the north Atlantic that shriveled up his wittle stick smaller than BJ Klinton’s and he gon make ever-thin alright, praise Allah!
Dat infamous North Hollyweird shoot-fest has long been the go-to scenario for pushing SWAT and upgraded weapons systems for cops, presumably on the basis that such events will be commonplace in most Murkan cities since. This did not take place, of course, so them boyz and grrls gotta do sumthin, I mean, WTF, amirite?? So they bust up organic carrot farms, overdue library book users, and Legion hall poker games. And naturally every little podunk local, county, state and Fed organization has gots to hab its very own SWAT. If I was still a cop I’d keep a huge distance between me and any duties on a SWAT outfit these days. It’d be shameful; quite frankly I dunno how they can show their faces and look all proud and tough and chit.
“I don’t think it will be a coronation for her.”
Me, neither; I suspect she’s just being used out there as a sort of stalking-hoss, see what reactions she gets (mostly negatory; the Progs desperately want Fauxcahauntus but “will settle for HILLARY! and all rich white wimmenz want her, natch.) The Dems may well end up in the same situation the Repub dumkopfen have been in for many years now: a slew of loser creeps, nutjobs, wacky cartoon characters, and outright maniacs (like McNutter) and it should be, as Ed Sullivan used to say, ‘a rilly good shew…’
We got us some fun times coming here in Vermont along those lines, too; nicely coiffed Repub bimbos running against Dem hags with a nice seasoning of radical Prog nutters. If I ran for anything in this state and was truthful about my political beliefs, I’d have a snowball’s chance in Hell, believe me.
@OFD:
Something with which to while away the idle hour:
http://www.amazon.com/Beowulf-Translation-Commentary-Christopher-Tolkien/dp/0544442784/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408337395&sr=1-1&keywords=0544442784
H/T to Jerry Pournelle:
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/once-more-to-the-er-but-alls-well-notes-on-good-reading/
Yet more holes in the narrative:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/us/michael-brown-autopsy-shows-he-was-shot-at-least-6-times.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=3
There’s all sort of things wrong with Ferguson. As near as I can see, there are three separate cases, that – by all rights – ought to have nothing to do with each other:
– Least important: Scumball huge black guy, who likes to use his size and race to intimidate little store clerks into letting him walk off with merch. When he isn’t stealing, he’s living off welfare, because he has no useful skills and no interest in acquiring any. He’s a parasite. An individual parasite is harmless to society, but you’ve got to keep the number of parasites down or they’ll drag you under. For people like him were the military-style workfare ideas made: there’s no other way he would ever do anything useful for society.
– Middling importance: Incompetent cop who let a jaywalking incident turn into a shooting. Even if the guy really did attack, the cop is incompetent for letting something simple escalate out of control. To add to the picture of incompetence, when it came to shooting the cop couldn’t do better than spray’n’pray.
– By far the worst: Vandals and looters. These are the jokers pulling down civilization, and they deserve the harshest of punishments. Round em all up, every time, and put them to breaking rocks.
There’s an annual “protest march” in Bern every year. No permit, of course. The city boards itself up, but every year it comes to violence and looting. Those involved always say “we had no idea”, or “we meant well, but people came in from somewhere else and started the violence”. Riiight. Everyone on the street knows what’s going to happen; simply being present on the street ought to make them accomplices.
My first few months at my first job was during the LA Riots. There was a very racist assistant manager that worked there at the time. I mean downright racist and not too secretive about it. He made the other managers interview any black applicants because he refused to. Despite his obvious failing of being a bigot he was a pretty funny guy and generally fun to work with when he wasn’t on some racist rant. Anyway, I can remember he had the TV on (small one they kept in the office for playing training videos) and tuned to live news coverage of the riots. He was standing there making food, directing the shift, and literally laughing out loud and saying something to the effect of, “Look at all those stupid n*gers burning and looting their own neighborhood! They’re pissed off at whitey so they’re going to trash the black part of town?! Hell, pull the police and National Guard back and let it burn!!!” He also had a whole prepared speech he could give about the difference between “black people” and “n*gers” and how he liked “black people” but hated “n*gers.” In my experience he didn’t seem to like either.
Quite shocking for a 16 year old me to overhear. I was a military brat and, amongst other things, we’re known for having a pretty diverse group of peers as a result of the melting pot that most military bases are. So, I mostly stood there in quiet disbelief at the stuff that would come out of his mouth. I kept thinking, “This is Nebraska not Mississippi and it’s 1992 not 1962. Is this seriously happening?”
His career with that particular employer didn’t last long (Shocking, I know.).
I can’t add much to Mr. brad’s summary; other than we dunno exactly WTF is going on with whomever makes the various decisions on use of force, etc; saw on my WSJ nooz squirt this morning that the gov, as I predicted here, did in fact call out the National Guard. I remarked to Mrs. OFD that if it’d been white people rioting, the Guard woulda been called out a week ago and told to shoot to kill. But it’s a false analogy because white people don’t riot like that, generally, and yeah, there are a couple of historical exceptions to prove the rule, Occupy and Seattle being jokes, really, and the next previous events occurring before WWII.
I’ve got a couple of Beowulf translations already that I’ve had for years; the most recent one done via facing-page modern English by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney. I’d also taken a grad school course in it at Rutgers twenty years ago, where the prof had us translate back and forth and also do it with Latin, but as the old saying goes, you lose it if you don’t use it. Hard to reconcile/dovetail very well with PowerShell and bash.
I would rather be behind the Guard boys than in front of them. I am not sure that the rioters are smart enough to figure that out.
I wonder if the Governor is going to let them have bullets?
In previous Guard deployments, relatively untrained and inexperienced kids were sent into these conflagrations, thus eventually necessitating the deployment of active-duty Army soldiers who knew what they were doing and had good officers and NCOs. But now? We have Guard units who’ve had multiple overseas combat deployments themselves, so this will be an interesting test case.
I will maintain that Guard units know how to kill people and break things. I doubt that they have explicit training on crowd control. Except maybe for the MP companies and I have no idea how many of those exist.
One of the young men in my church is a Lt in a Guard MP unit. He has been to Iraq three times and Afghanistan twice, all one year deployments. I would hate to see him put into this situation.