08:13 – Things always seem to slow down in February. Not just slow kit sales, but slow everything. Not much email. Not even much spam. Not many comments here. Not much of anything going on.
The fact that we’re shipping only one kit per day or so gives us the chance to build inventory for when sales pick up again. Barbara filled and labeled several hundred RIA vials yesterday with gelatin powder and activated charcoal. Today, I’ll have her fill and label several hundred more with oxytetracycline powder and neomycin powder. Meanwhile, I’ll be filling bottles she’s already labeled. Many of the chemicals in the kits are stable enough that I don’t worry about filling them well in advance. Those will last for at least several years without degrading. The ones that are less stable I fill closer to the time we’ll actually need them.
It’s because of global warming. The warmening makes this month as big as January, but there’s still only 28 days worth of stuff, so the short month’s worth of stuff has to be stretched out into a warmenized-sized month. I’d show you the work supporting that conclusion, but the hard drive with the data was accidentally reformatted and the computer program is my personal secret. But don’t worry, the science is settled.
Not only is the science settled, but should you be so brazen as to question it, they have activist types foaming at the mouth out there to put your ass in jail and maybe bring back public floggings.
As for hard drive troubles, IIRC, somebody did a probability study of all those that got broken, lost or otherwise inaccessible with the Feds over the past year or so, and the odds were astronomically against it being a natural course of events, you know, common wear and tear and accidents. Also, IIRC, the bastards telling us these fables were openly sneering at us while they did and basically flipping us the bird.
We are awaiting a series of snow storms here over the next week, each one followed by increasingly frigid arctic blasts, so we are back to the northern New England wintuh we have come to know and love. The ice fishermen are out there and have been out there for a while now.
Meanwhile Princess watched her Italian opera on our downstairs media center last night from about 10:30 to 4:30 this morning and now has it on again. The tendency of hers to arrive and immediately take over the house continues, and she acts put out if anyone asks her to turn it down or pitch in with a few chores. Nearly 23 and some things have changed and others have not.
the odds were astronomically against it being a natural course of events
I think the Feds don’t even plan backups or replacement drives before failure. Just let them go bad and then start over. Lost all the data? Who cares! They will still get their paycheck with benefits and generous retirement.
Ok, I am impressed. The Jordanian King flew in a sortie against ISIS which actually fought and killed a large number of ISIS combatants:
http://twitchy.com/2015/02/04/hard-core-jordans-king-abdullah-in-combat-gear-and-ready-to-fight-isis-photos/
Can we swap rulers with Jordan? He walks the talk where Obola just talks and talks and talks. I am highly offended by the speech that Obola gave this week at the National Prayer Breakfast.
BTW, Jordan is begging the USA for rearming since they have expended a lot of their munitions against ISIS. We are refusing to rearm them so Israel is considering it. Israel!
Can we swap rulers with Jordan?
How many times have I said it: Obola is the weakest leader evah!
I am highly offended by the speech that Obola gave this week at the National Prayer Breakfast.
I am also offended by this. As an (atheist) Jew, I am also offended by Christians who ignore the evil done in the name of Christianity. The Crusades started as a way to rid France of Christian heretics. The later Crusaders frequently stopped on the way to the Middle East to loot and massacre Jewish communities. Many of the Nazis professed to be Christian. The evil done on behalf of religion is as old as religion itself and is ongoing.
Rick in Portland
Wow, this guy is a gloomer and doomer extraordinaire. “The Economic Collapse Is Closer Than People Think” by the X22report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf-C2kearTw#t=37
From
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/economic-collapse-closer-people/
We are all Greece according to him.
The Jordanian king may or may not be flying sorties but rest assured his wingmen are keeping him out of harm’s way as much as possible.
Obola just had to, of course, couldn’t possibly have stopped himself, mention that Christianity has alleged moral equivalency via the Inquisition and Crusades with the hadji terrorist hordes who have pillaged, raped, tortured and murdered over the 1,300 years since they were spawned from whatever hellish litters of jackals and dogs in the Arabian deserts. I have a somewhat different view on those events but no point going into it here. He hasn’t got a leg to stand on and spews the ‘conventional wisdom’ taught in our skools and media for the past century without question.
There have been much more modern and up-to-date historical researches and books out concerning the Inquisition and the Crusades and we can pretty much toss out the rubbish that we were fed as kidz.
Meanwhile, why the utter silence concerning the countless atrocities and mayhem committed by the hadjis over those thirteen centuries and currently? Even the atrocity from the other day is fading now; mustn’t upset adherents of the ‘religion of peace.’ But open season on Christians and Catholics is A-OK.
On the economic crisis stuff, sure; I think we’ll see some amazing events along these lines by summuh. I don’t need to listen to a 42-minute spiel while looking at the same graphic throughout. What to do, what to do…prepare for having to meet the basic human needs for you and your family and maybe some neighbors for a few weeks. That done, step it up to a few months. And be prepared also to defend what you’ve prepared. We’re working here on being able to survive comfortably during six months of the typical northern New England winter with no juice and possibly roving bands of skells, mutants, and revenants cruising for loot and whatever. Those are likely to arrive first from just a few blocks away or a mile or two up the road. We know what they look like, where they live and what vehicles they use to race up and down and gun their engines all summer here. And we’ll look to develop more friendly relationships with neighbors and the various LEO organizations in the area accordingly.
Catholics and Presbyterians and Mormons and Jews and Baptists don’t generally react violently to criticism. And you know what? I can live with all of those. Most of them make pretty good neighbors. If they stay out of my face, which most of them do, I don’t care what they do on their own time.
But I sure can’t live with muslims. To call them animals insults animals. Hell, to call them pond scum insults pond scum.
There have been much more modern and up-to-date historical researches and books out concerning the Inquisition and the Crusades and we can pretty much toss out the rubbish that we were fed as kidz.
Yep. The inquisitors only used gentle persuasion. “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”
Rick in Portland
Agreed, Dr. Bob. And if you lived in New England, you’d practically NEVER have any Christians in your face at any time whatsoever. Especially not from us Catholics, who are evidently among the meekest and long-suffering of Christians in this country. We take our beatings and say: “Please, sir. Another!” You will never have a Catholic knocking on your front door with one of the Catholic Answers tracts, for instance. Unless it’s me, and I call first, haha.
Hey, getting back to the Euros and Greeks, if we’re all Greeks, our Brussels Gang must be the krew down in Mordor-on-the-Potomac and Babylon-on-the-Hudson. And we’ve had our Fidel in “power” now for six years and counting. We could extrapolate from the Greek situation in some particulars, but otherwise it’s apples and oranges; size alone, plus stuffed to the gills with firearms and explosives. One reason I always ROFLMAO when someone brings up the dread spectre of UN blue helmet troops invading us and taking over. Or the fleeing hordes of zombies from the cities.
Here’s my man Taki on his homeland situation:
http://takimag.com/article/beware_of_brussels_bearing_gifts_taki/print#axzz3R5oVKYj6
But I sure can’t live with muslims.
I work with a lot of muslims. None of them have ever tried for force their religion on me. Unfortunately, there are too many evil things being done my muslims globally. Blasphemy laws are pretty much gone from the Western world. In too much of the muslim world they are a very real issue. In the muslim world, there is no concept of separation of church and state. Of course there are a lot of folks in this country who would love a theocracy.
Rick in Portland
“…. there are a lot of folks in this country who would love a theocracy.”
Not me!
Check out Dr. Gary North on that sorta thang; he’s a Christian Reconstruction believer, derived from his FIL, the late Dr. Rushdoony and the very late Calvin, and I don’t mean the Calvin of “Calvin and Hobbes,” either.
But I also do not believe in the extreme version of “separation of church and state” promulgated by our lefty lords temporal over the past half a dozen decades, either, and the various renegade SCOTUS lords. Usually based on a very tendentious interpretation of a letter Jefferson wrote about a synagogue in Rhode Island. Almost as specious and ephemeral as that infamous “right to privacy” found in the “penumbra” of the Constitution, which is moot birdcage liner now, anyway.
Of course there are a lot of folks in this country who would love a theocracy.
That’s pretty much what we have. Obuttwad is High Priest and the MSM are his acolytes. Odooshnozzle wields his Executive Pen like he is a God.
Odingleberry is the god of calamitous incompetence.
He’s a god like that Zardoz-like effigy in “The Wizard of Oz” when really it’s just a weird-ass little old buzzard behind the curtain. In our case it’s a cabal of hereditary corporate fascist oligarchs who tell Obola and his stooges what to do. For some reason it serves them to have a commie hadji p.o.s. doing their bidding. Probably some kinda inside joke.
This appears to be neither satire nor parody: Former NBC anchor Katie Couric willing to take over if Brian Williams exits, says source
Considering that she single-handedly almost destroyed the CBS Evening News, why wouldn’t NBC hire her?
That’s weird; I recently read a long and adulatory, just about worshipful article about her being the new goddess of Yahoo, not the CEO but a star anchor there, and she was just THRILLED to be there.
There’s a pretty funny meme floating around the net now with Williams shown as talking about getting the Ring from Frodo, etc.
Of course there are a lot of folks in this country who would love a theocracy.
Not me. Nor any of my Christian friends that I know of. We have seen theocracies and it always ends bad. But, we all feel strongly about freedom of religion. Some friends of mine just got booted out of China for being Christians. They were teaching English to students and were told XXXX asked to leave by the authorities for having a church in their home.
My variant of Christianity is considered a cult by many other other Christians. Kinda sad if you ask me. Makes me very scared of theocracies as many of my forebears left theocracies in Europe to come to America for freedom of religion.
http://www.chocd.org/
Yeah, I read recently that the Red Chinese Party bonzes are cracking down on any authentic Christians there and that the big state-sponsored “Christian” churches are being built up and pushed on the locals.
My own variant of Christianity is here:
http://www.catholic.com/
And here:
http://w2.vatican.va/content/vatican/en.html
I’m going to set myself up as a god. Probably a minor one, until I work out the procedures.
I’ll be the God of Good Parking. Place your faith (and donations) in me and you shall never want for a good parking spot at the mall. Unbelievers shall have half-mile walks, and their cars will suffer minor damage because they were on the end of the row. Fear my power!
To the extent I have any, it’s here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
You have faith in Science and Reason, sir.
As do I, to a point.
There are some theocratic Christian groups out there. One is the Dominonist/Reconstructionist movement, as mentioned above. Unfortunately, it got control of the Republican party here in Houston for a long while. A local doctor, Steven Hotze, and his brother in Dallas are leaders in it. They are also big Huckabee supporters. When they got control of the party here, they purged some Roman Catholic officers because, well, they were Catholics. And therefore suspect.
Hotze promotes “natural hormone replacement therapy” for women and is very, very anti-vaccination.
Those uber-Prod fundie groups who advocate theocracy seem to rely heavily on Old Testament sins and punishments; they have a list of capital crimes, one of which is “lying about one’s virginity;” and, of course, being homosexual. The method of capital punishment they wish to reinstate is stoning, ’cause stones are everywhere and free for the picking up and throwing. It’s a particularly nasty way to do somebody in, and in countries that still use it, the executed ones are mainly women.
They tend to dislike Roman Catholics more than Jews, muslims or other Protestants.
Oh well, can’t please everybody ALL the time, LOL.
I’ll be the God of Good Parking. Place your faith (and donations) in me
Will you accept copper encased lead traveling at 1200 fps as donations put into you?
-shrug- I’ve been shot twice. I killed one of the people who shot me. The other was when I was 17, hadn’t killed anyone yet , and was comparatively soft and innocent. I broke his rifle over his head. I’ve also been shot at a number of times, and have a good, though not perfect, record of killing those shooters.
Feel free to shoot at me, but be prepared to be smote.
I’ll take that as “creating new orifices to deposit ones’s donations is not recommended bordering on no.”
If one is to be the high priest for the God of Good Parking, one must know what to teach new converts.
Question 2: Once one has placed their donation in you, will you turn the handle or must the supplicant do that? 🙂
The Crusades started as a way to rid France of Christian heretics. The later Crusaders frequently stopped on the way to the Middle East to loot and massacre Jewish communities.
It is my understanding that the Crusades were a response to Muslim aggression in Europe. I have not verified this timeline but it fits what I know:
http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/crusades_timeline.htm
And the supposedly Christian crusaders were equal opportunity looters. The fourth crusade were the first crusaders to make it to Constantinople (modern day Istanbul), home of the Orthodox Christian church. They sacked and looted Constantinople (named after the Roman emperor Constantine, the first Christian emperor) since the Orthodox church committed the great sin of using leavened bread for their communion instead of unleavened bread. Or, that was the excuse that justified them killing half the city, stealing all the gold altars and leaving the city open for future Muslim crusaders?
Sigh. Jesus would never condone any or all of this killing in his name. Never. Fallen man continuously fall furthers by invoking his supposed honor. But Jesus gave up any and all honor on the cross to die for our sins.
It’s a particularly nasty way to do somebody in, and in countries that still use it, the executed ones are mainly women.
I’ve noticed that fact that most of the stonee’s are women. And the men who committed the act with the woman usually seem to be part of the stone throwing crowd. Amazing.
Mrs. OFD has opined, in various ways over the years, that among certain cultures, like these, there seems to be a visceral hate and loathing for women, as though they were inferior beings, entirely subject to the will of men, period.
I am lately coming to think she’s right. And that a large part of it is fear.