08:51 – The morning paper reports that the rioting, burning, and looting in Baltimore has been the worst seen in any US city since the late 1960’s. I wouldn’t have known that from what the MSM news websites are reporting. Something doesn’t add up here.
So much for LBJ’s “Great Society”. After three generations–the underclass breeds much younger and much more prolifically than decent people; why wouldn’t they when someone else is paying for it?–the government has looted most of the wealth of the productive middle class and transferred it to their clients: government “workers” and the worthless specimens of humanity that make up the underclass. This whole house of cards is going to collapse at some point in the not too distant future. Productive people have had enough. I said yesterday that I feared looting, rioting, and burning was becoming the new normal. It’s actually worse than that. I think before too much longer we’ll look back fondly on the days when this kind of crap was restricted pretty much to the inner cities.
I’m still making up solutions for science kits. I needed to make up more than I realized, so I’ll spend today doing that as well.
Weird, I did a quick survey of the majors. CNN, HLN, Fox, Bloomberg.
Most had NOTHING on the front page. Fox and HLN had small mentions and feel good stories.
Where are the pix from the burning? Where are the aftermath pix?
My guess it the majors kept their on scene people in a few areas. That’s what I saw when I watched tv last night. So they don’t have any pix to show.
As a further death knell to the MSM, all the pix are ‘citizen journalists’ and selfies, and are on livestream, utube, vibe, twitter, etc.
nick
UK Daily Mail has the same six pix they’ve had up for a day. Lots of backlit smoke. NO pix of the “massive” fires.
nick
There is a “pot” to be stirred Mr. Nick.
I am reminded of that old witticism from the Russian man on the street in the Soviet era: “There is no pravda in Isvestia and no isvestia in Pravda.”
“Productive people have had enough.”
How do you think this will manifest itself? I don’t see the middle classes rising up in arms against the overlords and lumpen-proletariat. I just see them moving away from cities and being productive elsewhere.
My testing of the Surface Pro 3 continues.
I decided to go with Adobe Creative Cloud at $10.96 (with tax) a month. That gets me the latest version of Photoshop and Lightroom. The upgrade to the new version of Lightroom was almost a years worth of Creative Cloud. You always get the latest version and with the cost of updates this will actually be cheaper over the course of time. Here is hoping that Adobe does not raise the price. I need the latest version of Photoshop as it support high density displays as the older version (CS6) does not making the menus really small on the screen.
I have found that dealing with photographs sucks the battery fairly quickly. My guess is that using Photoshop and Lightroom will get me about 4 to 5 hours of battery life. Lightroom is particularly heavy on the processor when importing and exporting images as that is a large batch process with modifications to every photo. Batch changing a large group of photos to white balance and other adjustments is also a heavy user of power.
I did get a rechargeable Bluetooth mouse. The USB charging port on the small power brick can be used to recharge the mouse (or phone if need be). That port is a nice touch that Apple should consider as the current MacBook Pro has no USB ports unless you want to pay $80.00.
So far I really like the Surface Pro. It works well, is fairly quick and will do what I need quite nicely.
At first, yes. It’s “white flight” all over again. Like more than a few people, we’re planning to relocate to a small town far from the underclass masses. Unfortunately, that’s not an option for most. They’re stuck where they are because of their jobs. That’s why I decided a long time ago to work for myself and to do so in a business that was not location-dependent. Again, that’s not a realistic option for most people.
So what I see happening generally is people moving from the cities to the suburbs and from the suburbs to the exurbs. Anything to put some distance between them and the underclass, even if it means a longer commute. And, as violence starts to spread outside the central cities, I see middle-class suburb/exurb areas starting to do what they can to isolate themselves from the trouble.
The only thing that LBJ’s Great Society and War On Poverty has brought us is war.
The world was not perfect when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s, but it sure was better. While I grew up in both the Southern and Northern suburbs of Chicago, my family spent two weeks every summer “touring” the South and East (visited every Civil War Battlefield). I seen and experienced the ghettos, the shanty towns, the “whites only” signs, the “segregated” schools. I watched as standards were lowered and the family destroyed. Then I became old enough to vote and quickly learned that it is going to take something more serious than voting to bring real change.
Now my stories of the way it was are dismissed by today’s young generation as the ramblings of an old man who cannot accept change. It’s a sad sad state that so many have abdicated their responsibilities for educating their children. Unfortunately the “ignant” can only breed and teach more “ignants”.
@Ray Thompson – I for one do enjoy reading your Surface Pro 3 experiences. A nice diversion from trying to prep and solving the world’s problems.
“I think before too much longer we’ll look back fondly on the days when this kind of crap was restricted pretty much to the inner cities.”
Indeed. THESE are the good old days. And never forget that this is all deliberate. Everything is going according to plan.
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/turning-america-into-a-battlefield-a-blueprint-for-locking-down-the-nation/
“…dismissed by today’s young generation as the ramblings of an old man who cannot accept change.”
Hey don’t feel bad, Gramps; I’m in the same boat. (I’m also Gramps.) The kidz were raised up thoroughly in the neo-Marxist zeitgeist of the publik skool system, the universities, media, etc., and the Long March has largely been very successful. Didja notice that they don’t even QUESTION any of the crap they believe in? It’s like Christina Hoff Sommers recently said about one of her talks that she tried to give at some university (she’s the author of “The War on Boys” and I knew her thirty years ago when she was a philosophy professor at Clark U. down in Worcester, MA.). She said it was eerily like dealing with some kind of religious cult; they’re the True Believers that the late longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer wrote about long ago.
“@Ray Thompson – I for one do enjoy reading your Surface Pro 3 experiences. A nice diversion from trying to prep and solving the world’s problems.”
+1
He takes nice pictures, too, but needs to be monitored for subversive comments and bad thoughts occasionally.
I’m also looking at the Adobe Creative Cloud solution for some stuff here, not sure if I’ll jump into it yet.
but needs to be monitored for subversive comments and bad thoughts occasionally
but needs to be monitored for subversive comments and bad thoughts at all times.
Fixed it for you.
He takes nice pictures, too, but needs to be monitored for subversive comments and bad thoughts occasionally.
And Ray is also a known carrier of creeping digititus, for which there is no known cure (well maybe cutting up your credit cards but that only lasts until you ask to be sent a new one 😉 ).
The middle class can’t just “move away” if they are upside down on a mortgage, or if there are no buyers. My parents live in a town that is a suburb of Chicago. About half the houses on their street are empty. No matter how nice their house, no one will buy it. Beside the simple fact that there is too much inventory, driving prices down, a quick drive thru town reveals that trouble is on the way. The old main street shopping district is almost entirely hair braiding and barber shops. There are also the requisite chicken shops, and check cashers, payday loan sharks, and title loan places.
There are a lot of small groups of ‘youths’ wandering around looking surly. And while they are dressed appropriately for THEIR culture, it is very off-putting to members of other cultures.
So while they are too old to be part of the productive class, their major asset, the one that would normally finance their change of locale and lifestyle, and ease them into gentle consumption, is literally worthless except as a place to live. At some point, it won’t even provide that well.
I’m not sure how it will play out. I know several productive people who are tapering off. That is, they no longer produce at the level they could. Better to make less, keep more, and become “conservative” in the strict sense of the word.
I do think there will be a backlash against the PC, SJW, racial grievance crowd. You can ignore the yapping of small dogs for a while, because the cost of kicking them across the room is too high. BUT sooner or later, you get sick of them trying to bite you, or sick of them crapping on the floor, or you just get tired of all the F’ing NOISE, and in a fit of ‘just had enough’ you lash out. You may even feel bad afterwards, but it’s too late for the yapper at that point.
The wheel turns, the pendulum swings, things regress to the mean, etc. We’ve tried accommodation and guilt and special treatment, and it will never be enough for them. The opposite WILL come. It always does.
nick
I am about halfway through Bracken’s second book, “Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista”, published in 2006. While he totally screwed up the gun grab (never happened) and the price of energy in the USA, he sure did nail the dumbocrats and republicrats encouraging illegal aliens to come to the USA and make them citizens. The Nuevo Mexico thing is totally freaking me out.
http://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Enemies-Reconquista-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831029/
And, as violence starts to spread outside the central cities, I see middle-class suburb/exurb areas starting to do what they can to isolate themselves from the trouble.
That will be tremendously expensive for huge sprawl cities like Houston. The outer ring being built right now, the Grand Parkway, has a diameter of 60 miles.
http://www.grandpky.com/segments/default.asp
And Ray is also a known carrier of creeping digititus, for which there is no known cure
Not sure what that means. My last test at the proctologist turned up nothing.
“Justice Alito: Why Not Let 4 Lawyers Marry One Another?”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/justice-alito-why-not-let-4-lawyers-marry-one-another
“The question is one of–again, assuming it’s within the fundamental right, the question then becomes one of justification. And I assume that the States would come in and they would say that there are concerns about consent and coercion. If there’s a divorce from the second wife, does that mean the fourth wife has access to the child of the second wife? There are issues around who is it that makes the medical decisions, you know, in the time of crisis. I assume there’d be lots of family disruption issues, setting aside issues of coercion and consent and so on that just don’t apply here, when we’re talking about two consenting adults who want to make that mutual commitment for as long as they shall be. So that’s my answer on that.”
The gay marriage lawyer actually made my argument at SCOTUS. The legal implications from all of this is astounding.
Of course, we could just implement Sharia law.
Related to all of the above, here is a gent down in OZ explaining some stuff….
http://weaponsman.com/?p=22276
Yo, amigos, evvree ting cool, yoo know…
http://www.today.com/series/viva-today/pitbull-reveals-most-important-lesson-his-mother-ever-taught-him-t18166
https://westernrifleshooters.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/22080-poster_immigrants_welfare_270.png
Like I said, everything going according to plan.
Not sure what that means. My last test at the proctologist turned up nothing.
Well that’s good. It used to be a regular topic on the Hardware Guys Forum (now Hardware Guys II: http://www.hardwareguys2.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi). As far as I can tell Cowboy Slim is Patient Zero.
“The middle class can’t just “move away” if they are upside down on a mortgage, or if there are no buyers. My parents live in a town that is a suburb of Chicago. About half the houses on their street are empty. No matter how nice their house, no one will buy it.”
Sorry to hear that, but anyone can just move away. People walk away from underwater mortgages all the time. As to your parents’ home, sure there are buyers. Your parents won’t get anything close to what the home used to be worth, but their house will sell at some price.
Yet another manifestation of the government looting the middle class.
Mr. nick; your folks really need to get out of there pretty darn soon, as you probably know. Bad times comin’ and all that. As Dr. Bob sez, they’ll take a bath on the house but better to leave it and go somewhere safer. And of course I think you and Mr. Lynn are way too close to Houston, but here I am up here just 70 miles south of Montreal and tank of gas north of Boston.
We hope things don’t get too dicey too fast but Mrs. OFD and me are still gonna keep that cottage in northern New Brunswick in mind and probably start stocking that up as well.
“Yet another manifestation of the government looting the middle class.”
They’re killing the goose that lays the golden eggs and don’t seem to know or care, and this has happened before in other times and places in history, but of course they don’t read history.
People walk away from underwater mortgages all the time.
My brother did just that. He had a small place in California for which he paid $400K at the height of the real estate market. As the market crashed his place was now worth about $200K. So he took the keys to the bank holding the mortgage, placed the keys on the desk and said “The place is yours” and walked out still owing about $390K.
What astounded me was that he was able to get a new mortgage on another place.
“People walk away from underwater mortgages all the time. ” I’ll grant this, and even that good people do it. But we are lamenting the plight of the responsible, hard working, industrious class. THEY don’t walk away from their obligations. At least not without extreme need.
Unfortunately, homes on my parent’s street aren’t selling at ANY price. The banks don’t want to recognize the losses, so they are just sitting on the empties, paying service companies to keep the grass cut. I suppose that at some point, a slumlord might buy them from the banks for some nominal sum, but that won’t buy food or clothing, let alone the traditional travel of retirement for the previous owners. My parents will probably stay there, riding it down to the bottom, as at least they don’t have a payment on the house. Or they could just abandon it like their neighbors have. A significant portion of their net worth was poured into that house. Value that was supposed to be accessible in their twilight years. Until it gets too dangerous to live in it, it still provides shelter. Who knows, maybe there will be a renaissance in the area. It’s not Detroit after all.
nick
The Surface Pro recharges faster than it discharges. Time to go from 10% charge to fully charged was about 4 hours. Might have been a little less if I had not been using the device some during that time. I really don’t know how much current from the charger gets used by the device when charging.
I have ordered the wired network adapter and the HDMI adapter so I can connect the device to a larger monitor when at home or work. Curious about how it will all work. I can only connect one at a time which should not be a problem as everywhere that I work has wireless.
I need the wired network adapter to connect WIFI access points at my church for configuration changes. We change WIFI passwords every two months on all six access points. The configuration does not allow changes through wireless connections. Necessary as the person that had my job at the church before me hacked into the sound amplifiers through the WIFI. So now we keep him guessing and use very complicated WIFI passwords.
And of course I think you and Mr. Lynn are way too close to Houston
If Nick lives where I think that he lives, he is definitely too close in. He lives between I-610 and Beltway 8, the two inner rings. My son lives in that war zone also but in a much new neighborhood in a five year house, probably only ten miles away from Nick. I live out at the third ring and across the Brazos River, what some people now call an exurb. I am OK for now. Their area is scary to me.
But, I just do not think that Houston will have riots. Until the EBT cards die. Houston is an extremely diversified city and getting more so each day.
“Windows 10 won’t save the PC”
http://www.infoworld.com/article/2914152/microsoft-windows/windows-10-wont-save-the-pc.html
“Let me be clear: Windows 10 is a decent OS. Its problem is that it only partially repairs the damage done by Windows 8 while offering no compelling capabilities for those who wisely skipped Windows 8. That means demand will be low, both as OS upgrades and — more critical — for new PCs running it. Basically, if you have a decent Windows 7 PC, you’re fine as is.”
I’ve gone Galt. Oh, I’m still working a regular job, but it’s been in government offices for years; almost by definition not productive. I’m fed up of 50% of my income going to taxes of one form or another, and being told to “give” more and to feel guilty about my “privilege” and all the rest.
I’m still doing my writing and various odd jobs, but they’re only a few thousand dollars per year. I do more than that value in providing free services or tutoring or whatever. I suppose it’s adding value to the economy or the population or whatever, but it’s not taxable and that’s what I care about.
…Basically, if you have a decent Windows 7 PC, you’re fine as is.
IMHO, that is until Microsoft says no more updates for any version other than 10. They’ll say we should have taken advantage of the “free upgrade”. Now it is time to pay the piper, again and again. Mark my word, Microsoft is going to the subscription model.
Who’s broken the social contract?
There is going to be a home battery in our future. Can we afford it though?
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/29/tesla-is-set-to-announce-a-home-battery-tomorrow-ars-will-be-there/
Yup. Lynn is correct, although I’m closer to the outer ring than the inner. I have 2 sneaky routes out of the ring zone if needed.
I don’t think we’ll see riots since we’re so spread out. There would have to be a large build up of people, and HPD doesn’t mess around. That doesn’t mean that I have any intention of going into crowds though. The most likely scenario is local pockets of unrest. There are LOTS of mega-apartment complexes all thru the area, and Houston in general. The complexes do a good job of concentrating the hate in one place. Unfortunately, you are more likely to have a Reginald Denny moment where you drive into something unexpected. Good reason to carry all the time.
My experiences during the hurricanes bears this out. We had some drive by ‘window shoppers’ after the last one, but in my neighborhood, we were all out raking our front yards when it happened. They got a very cool response and we were obviously armed… No one made a second pass thru. I had to move around during the immediate aftermath to check on our other properties, and you can bet we were strapped and in condition Red the whole time. Thanks to HEB (local grocery chain) and local officials, we had food and water to people before it got really tense.
I’ve been looking at getting some property further out. The Brazos river area is nice, and still close. Victoria, Seguin, Bastrop, Bryan, somewhere….. Preferably an old county seat, with some small town nearby.
WRT M$ and a subscription model, I’ve had their subscription service, as an MS Partner for several years. If you have a lot of machines in the house (and build them so you need os’s), and use several of their products, it’s a good deal. I’ve tried our host’s plan a couple of times, but every time I think I can get away, they pulled me back in. My convertible tablet was one time, and the last time was a piece of industry specific software that I needed, that needs native Windows. I currently have not renewed my subscription. I’m pretty sure I have independently licensed os’s on all my machines, and the few machines that have office installed. I now install a whole suite of FOSS, and really only need genuine office on one or 2 machines. I’m looking at my other desktop, and I never put office on it, nor my lappy. This machine is my primary desktop and has office installed, but I only use word, excel, and visio, and then only occasionally. I prefer wordpad or a text editor for simple text. Open Office would be fine, except for visio. I only use a few of the advanced features in visio, but the ones I do use are dealbreakers vs FOSS that I’ve looked at (and I’ve been using visio since before MS bought it.)
It’s funny and awesome how far we’ve come. We have very powerful hardware now, but mostly use it as a thin client for web services.
Gotta get dinner going,
nick
Am running Windows 10 on my new 480 GB SSD at the office. This sure ain’t Kansas no more …
Am downloading build 10074 since I installed build 9841 which told me that it is timed out. So, gonna have have to reinstall from scratch. Man, I hate computers!
Yup. Lynn is correct, although I’m closer to the outer ring than the inner.
You mean the middle ring. AKA, the war zone (the area between I-610 and beltway 8). My son lives near Main and Hiram Clarke which is a blue collar neighborhood of cops, firemen and med center workers.
The Grand Parkway (99) is the new outer ring. It will be 50% complete by the end of this year. I live two miles inside the third ring.
I’ve been looking at getting some property further out. The Brazos river area is nice, and still close. Victoria, Seguin, Bastrop, Bryan, somewhere….. Preferably an old county seat, with some small town nearby.
Are you taking about a bugout place? If so, El Campo looks real nice. Too far out to walk for 99.999%. Has water and plenty of land. Victoria is 100,000 people. Bryan/College Station is 250,000 people when TAMU is in session. Centerville is going to be too hard to get up I-45. Lufkin is 100,000 people. Wharton is walkable otherwise it would be perfect.
My parents live in Port Lavaca which is 13,000 people with a county population of 23,000 or so. Very subject to hurricanes though and too close to Victoria.
“Who’s broken the social contract?”
That linked article about sez it all; they’re gonna keep pushing and poking us, until we finally blow up. And they that have sown the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
Nooz from the Great Lone Star State:
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/04/daniel-zimmerman/f-plan-tactical-promotes-firearm-safety-and-preparedness/#more-357585
So much for LBJ’s “Great Society”. After three generations–the underclass breeds much younger and much more prolifically than decent people; why wouldn’t they when someone else is paying for it?–the government has looted most of the wealth of the productive middle class and transferred it to their clients: government “workers” and the worthless specimens of humanity that make up the underclass. This whole house of cards is going to collapse at some point in the not too distant future. Productive people have had enough. I said yesterday that I feared looting, rioting, and burning was becoming the new normal. It’s actually worse than that. I think before too much longer we’ll look back fondly on the days when this kind of crap was restricted pretty much to the inner cities.
I’ve reread this statement a few times. So, are you thinking that the USA future is Dystopian or Apocalyptic now?
@lynn
“Are you taking about a bugout place? ”
Well, technically it would be a weekend place in the country. It would need some local attraction/ or activities. Something simple like swim-able water, country life, camping, etc. During the week we’re tied to here by my wife’s job.
It would be somewhere far enough inland to be a retreat from hurricanes. There needs to be trees and water.
One of the reasons I’m considering the Bastrop area is that after the fires it looks nasty. Prices are down. If I’m buying for the long run, I can wait for the trees to grow back. One of the reasons I’m thinking about down 59 is that I’ve driven thru there a lot and it looks like physically what I want. I am becoming aware that there are a LOT of poor people thataway though. Out 290 toward Brenam would be interesting as the hills start to get going, mainly because of the rail line that goes from here, out there along 290.
With the grand parkway development, 290 and 99 is going to be a big edge city in 10-20 years. Hockley is already starting to develop. Land in that area is priced for new subdivision developers. And, except for the area right at the county line, there are very few trees, little water, and no hills. I have to remind myself that the new outer ring is 99, not 8. It’s weird to have highway construction that finishes!
nick
A lttle behind the times, but I read of your troubles transferring NaOH to smaller conatiners.
Seems to me you could stick the dehydrator in a shower taped up with duct tape, along with the containers, run until humidity is low, then transfer. Of course if there’s drywall in the shower, that wouldn’t work, but it’s just an idea.
>>Well that’s good. It used to be a regular topic on the Hardware Guys Forum (now Hardware Guys II: http://www.hardwareguys2.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi). As far as I can tell Cowboy Slim is Patient Zero.<<
Anyone in contact w/ Stu/ AKA Cowboy Slim? Tried calling him a few days ago and got no answer.
A couple of his email addresses received no reply, either.
Wondering where Slim is, Mr. Chuck, the other Steve out in Colorado, et. al.
Hope everyone is OK.
OK, Windows 10 x64 is better than Windows 8 by far. But, Windows 7 x64 is better. I may reinstall Windows 7 x64 in the morning.
And, I cannot find Solitaire much less Spider Solitaire. Oh wait, you have to download them from the Microsoft Store. And the stupid piece of junk is not taking my Microsoft given account and password.
And I cannot get Windows Update to work either. Buggy, buggy, buggy.
I had Windows 7 Ultimate and I liked it and it worked fine for at least two years, and then the box got some kind of severe power surge, probably from a t-storm, and fried the mobo. Hard drive was OK and I still have it. When I got new HP desktops, they came with Windows 8, and though it took a little getting used to, the one remaining Windows 8 machine, now 8.1, has been fine. I won’t bother with Windows 10.
I have the Microsoft Solitaire Collection from the Store and I play a lot of Klondike. I also play Lost Hope, a zombie killer, when I need to pretend I’m blowing away lawyers, banksters and politicians. This is, of course, desensitizing me to it so when I have to do it for real it won’t bother me very much. Wait–who am I kidding? It doesn’t bother me NOW! Hahaha…
And let’s not forget financial wizards and other such geniuses…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=41&v=yge311sFhC8
Bernie to the rescue! Bet OFD is pretty excited… 🙂
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-30/us-socialist-to-seek-2016-democratic-presidential-nomination/6433658
Haven’t heard from Ron, Slim, Jeff/Geoff or Chuck lately.
Steve from Colorado (“Anti-liberal filtering enabled”) probably thought this place was getting too left wing and anti-gun and gave up on us.
Even though I’m probably one of the younger guys here, I just don’t like Windows 8. What goes next in this sequence: Windows ME, Windows Vista and ___________?
If I had to use it, I would.
“I’ve reread this statement a few times. So, are you thinking that the USA future is Dystopian or Apocalyptic now?”
Dystopian.
“A lttle behind the times, but I read of your troubles transferring NaOH to smaller conatiners.
Seems to me you could stick the dehydrator in a shower taped up with duct tape, along with the containers, run until humidity is low, then transfer. Of course if there’s drywall in the shower, that wouldn’t work, but it’s just an idea.”
Oh, it’s transferred. It’s just a PITA to deal with. I gloved/goggled up, pried the lid off the sealed pail, and used a 1-liter scoop to transfer the free-flowing crystals to smaller containers. They weren’t exposed to air long enough to absorb any water vapor to speak of.
WRT protests in Houston:
“About 50 people gathered Wednesday evening at the intersection near the south Houston campus of historically black Texas Southern University.”
The photos on tv had more cops than protesters, and the only issue was they were on private property (a Denny’s) and the manager was yelling at them to get off his lot. The HPD had a chopper, and at least 2 trailer loads of horses for the mounted division. Not taking any chances there.
(I had to use google to find any reporting of the protest.)
nick
One of the reasons I’m considering the Bastrop area
I too have considered relocating back to Texas once I retire from full time. Bastrop is one of the areas I would choose. I lived in Live Oak (Northeast of San Antonio near Randolph AFB) for 15 years. My wife has her mother in South San Antonio near Lackland and a brother in Bryan near College Station. Bastrop is far enough away from both of them. I like Bastrop as a place to live. I also like Bryan but is too close to my brother in-law.
Bastrop was really nice before the fire. Spent some time camping in the area. After the fire the place really looks bad as it took a significant hit from the fire. But it will grow back, and probably burn again. Such is the cycle.
Where I grew up about 15 miles outside of Rogue River Oregon consisted of many ranches where people raised and sold cattle. There was also extensive logging in the hills around the ranches. In the late 60’s there was a fire that was several miles from our place. The forest service used our irrigation pump (largest within 10 miles) to fill their trucks. Paid us quite well for the use. The fire was not terrible difficult to battle because there were lots of logging roads in the area.
Then about 25 years after I left there was a massive fire that consumed a large part of the hills around the area. The fire was large and difficult to battle because the logging roads that used to exist were now impossible to traverse by vehicles. The logging companies had been run off by the greenies and the roads just washed away or otherwise became impassable. What would have been a small fire became massive because there was no way to get equipment into the area. The actions of the greenies resulted in a much larger fire and of course the greenies complained about the fire fighters inability to fight the fire.
This has happened more than once in the southern Oregon area. Areas that were accessible with logging roads that could be used as natural fire breaks or access to the fire no longer have passable roads. Fires that would be small are now large because the greenies and some liberal judge will not allow the areas to be managed.
The saga of Surface Pro 3 continues.
Installed Malwarebytes as I have a lifetime subscription. Got that for $15 when Newegg had a sale. I installed Office 2013 and it works quite well on the Surface using the stylus or the mouse. I don’t like the flat ribbon but it probably works better for a device such as the Surface.
The pen has a button on the top that when clicked will open OneNote even when the device is locked. This allows you to take a quick note. When locked you cannot see other notes, just a new note when using the pen button.
The more I use it the more I like it. I will still take my iPad with me on my trip to watch movies and for content consumption. The Surface will be used to process pictures which is almost impossible on the iPad. Then the lack of USB support on the iPad means I have to have a computer running iTunes to get the pictures off the iPad and that just flat out sucks. So the USB port on the Surface is what I need.
Haven’t heard from Ron, Slim, Jeff/Geoff or Chuck lately.
Geoff is still around and kicking as once in awhile he will respond to one of my posts onf FB. Can’t vouch for the others. Slim was getting up in years and perhaps took a turn for the worse.
RayT
Who posts this in reference to Geoff.
Lefties and progs and greenies will be the death of us all. Everything they touch turns to shit, eventually.
Yes, but they invariably mean well…
“About 50 people gathered Wednesday evening at the intersection near the south Houston campus of historically black Texas Southern University.”
Yawn. Call me when there is 5,000 people protesting and breaking stuff. Oh wait, you should be sheltered up or bugging out at that point.
Yes, but they invariably mean well…
No they don’t. They are all busybodies. In bad times they will come to your house and steal all your food by force of numbers and guns. Then they will give to the people who have never worked a day in their lives.
My CHL instructor said that each time that he goes into a place, he finds the back door. In case of trouble, he has trained his wife and kids to get behind him and head towards that door as he covers them. He figures that his responsibility is his family and that everyone else should have been carrying also.
And that’s all that matters. That, and their feeeewings.
I think a tiny minority of them actually do mean well and also the numbskull legions of “true believers” out here probably actually believe that good will come of all this crap.
But the main drivers of it all do all that they do with malice aforethought and many of them are truly evil. In some cases it almost seems as if Satan himself gave carte-blanche power to a couple of them during the 20th-C, and I have Koba the Dread particularly in mind for this scenario. Lesser demons worked with Mao, Pol Pot, et. al. Read Stalin’s bio sometime and see if you don’t find some pretty eerie shit going on from childhood on.