08:45 – The morning paper reports that a woman was killed Monday evening by a dog, which of course was described as a “pit bull”. Another woman who came to the first woman’s aid was also attacked. Fortunately for her, a cop arrived just in time to shoot the dog as it was attempting to drag her from the car in which she was trying to take refuge. The dog had apparently escaped from the owner’s home during a thunderstorm by climbing out of a window. No charges have been filed.
World stock markets are still in turmoil, with mixed results yesterday. The Chinese market was down yesterday by more than 7%,for a total loss of more than 20% over the last four days. The US market was down again, but only by about 1.3%. A few markets showed small gains yesterday, but the trend this morning is down. As I said, the real indicator will be the market closes this coming Friday. If the markets haven’t started to recover by then, things could get dire. Apparently, the hope is that investors will be bargain-hunting and start to scarf up these stocks. The problem is, equities are still way overvalued, so there still aren’t many real bargains to be found even at current prices. I make no attempt to predict the stock market. As far as I’m concerned, J. P. Morgan got it right about predicting the market, so there’s no point to wasting time reading predictions by so-called experts. What’s going to happen is what’s going to happen. We’ll all find out when it actually happens.
There it is; I am a rank noob on financial speculation and suchlike but I agree that Friday afternoon close-of-biz will tell us the score.
As fah as I’m concerned, we need to ramp up on the food supplies here; we’re good on heat, shelter, wotta and lights but probably only have a two-persons-one-month stash on hand right now. Plus top off the gas tanks and the oil tank and order more firewood and start building another stash of fiat currency for the short term.
Breaking nooz of yet another shooting, this time down in Virginia; two tee-vee people KIA, apparently.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/26/us/virginia-shooting-wdbj/index.html
No word on the suspect yet that I have found.
I just saw the TV killing. The MSM is paying to Allah the shooter is WHITE!
I’m attending a stock market investment seminar on Saturday. It should be a great discussion on how to make money. Perfect timing! I still think Buffet and Soros are drooling.
Yeah, that incident is curious. It’s also a bit close to home for us, about 100 miles NNE of us.
I don’t much care about bubble-headed bleach blondes, but I’m enough of a dinosaur to feel more keenly the murder of any 20-something girl more so than that of a guy.
I just saw the TV killing.
Unfortunately our local TV stations will now be running stories on how their reporters are protected (or not), could it happen here, etc. Local TV stations never let a tragedy go to waste and figure out some way to benefit themselves.
Anytime something happens here, such as a recent train derailment of hazardous chemicals, there was all manner of useless reporting. Reporters were scraping the bottom of the barrel. Locating the dumbest people they could find to interview with comments it “looked like a war zone”. Seriously? Have you ever been in a war zone? Bimbos with visions of CNN dancing in their heads.
Then a week later the ads for the station where they were first to do something (on location, report, interview, lie, cheat, steal, whatever) and thus you should watch their station. Never let a good disaster go to waste.
“…I’m enough of a dinosaur to feel more keenly the murder of any 20-something girl more so than that of a guy.”
Ditto, but I’m at least as pissed about these scumbags, wackos and hadji pieces of shit blowing away unarmed, defenseless people. They’re now saying no ID yet but they think it was a “disgruntled former employee of the station…” Sounds like he’s still on the loose out there. But it’s not clear. Thanks to media rumpswabs who can’t or won’t report the straight info, as Mr. Ray mentions above. They’re all about aggrandizing their own positions.
Wasn’t there some study where they had “Wallstreet experts” pick stocks and then had some chimpanzees throw darts at a dartboard to randomly pick stocks and the performance in the two sets of picks was pretty much even over a lengthy time period.
What did J.P. Morgan say about the stock market? Google is strangely un-helpful 🙂
@Chad
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel.
When someone asked Morgan what the stock market would do, he replied, “It will fluctuate.”
“…fluctuate.”
That was Jesse Livermore.
If he said it, he stole it from Morgan.
It is probably not a good time to immigrate to Venezuela.
LA SIBUCARA, Venezuela—Hours after they looted and set fire to a National Guard command post in this sun-baked corner of Venezuela earlier this month, a mob infuriated by worsening food shortages rammed trucks into the smoldering edifice, reducing it mostly to rubble.
Insert Detroit, DC, NYC, etc in the above. Could it happen here? Will it happen in our lifetimes? Which way are you betting?
lol. The Mighty Trump ™ throws WhoreHey Ramos out of his presser. Like WhoreHey is a reporter. Now Twitter is a screech with “why didn’t the other reporters walk”. Because they are reporters, not activists like WhoreHey.
Trump 2016! “Pump the Trump ™”
“Which way are you betting?”
I’m betting that that sorta thang will happen in large cities that have large populations of “underclass” derps and further, that the cops and troops will give it a pass and let it rip.
If the rulers wanna run an exercise, they oughta shut off the ATMs and EBT cards and gas pumps for a coupla weeks. Then we’d see real fast how certain areas could look a whole lot like Venezuela or Greece.
And said rulers might not have to actively shut anything off; the Grid could go down regardless; we’ve seen reports that it’s constantly being probed by outside entities; sooner or later one or more of them will flip a switch somewhere.
Maybe we should all do as the federal government recommends, and keep a three-day supply of food and water on hand.
Yeah, three days is all they need to set up FEMA camps and food/water distribution points, lol. All we gotta do is hang on till then.
Do the Feds have any advice for defending our three-day supplies? Oh yeah, that’s right; the latest potential Prez candidate recommended the pump shotgun and warning shots.
We’re all good here.
Oh oh! Not an angry white redneck gun nut. How they gonna spin this? Driven by racial aggressions?
“Oh yeah, that’s right; the latest potential Prez candidate recommended the pump shotgun and warning shots.”
Actually I believe he recommended firing off both barrels of a double barreled shotgun (at the same time?) as warning shots.
I got email the other day from someone who said that money was really, really tight and wanted to know how to get the most bang for the buck in laying in some emergency food. I recommended the following (with walmart prices):
Flour, 50-pound bag (~$15)
Rice, 50-pound bag (~$18)
Beans, one 25-pound sack (~$20)
Sugar, one 20-pound sack (~$7)
Vegetable oil, one gallon ($6)
Non-fat dry milk, 8 pounds ($32)
Assorted spices, garlic, onion, bouillon, imitation maple syrup, etc. ($30)
Generic chlorine bleach, gallon ($3)
That’s enough to feed two people for two months at a total cost of about a dollar a day each. It won’t taste great, and they’ll be eating a lot of pancakes and rice, but it’ll provide basic nutrition for him and his wife for two months, which is pretty good for that price.
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/09/28/market-fluctuate/
“In conclusion, currently the earliest instance of this joke appeared in 1922. The tale was attached to Henry Poor who died years earlier in 1905. Poor supposedly asked John D. Rockefeller about securities associated with Standard Oil, a topic of intimate knowledge for Rockefeller. Hence, the earliest anecdote was not about the stock market in general.
Over time the story evolved, and it was reassigned to J. P. Morgan and William Rockefeller. Since J. P. Morgan did not have special knowledge about Standard Oil the tale was altered so the query was about the overall stock market.”
Both of us are wrong… or right. Anyway, it is a good quote, and a favorite over the decades.
I’ve always thought it was probably Dorothy Parker who actually said it first.
BTW, your brief trial of the (?) skin for this site worked much better on my Android phone.
This one still scales the Post Comment box poorly, and for some reason makes pasting difficult or sometimes impossible. Works fine on the desktop.
If they can at all swing it, they might wanna throw in some bulk pasta and tomato sauce, and a case or two of tuna.
We’re a bit tight on funds here, too, and that is one good way of putting together a two-month emergency supply for a couple of hundred bucks, maybe two bucks a day per person.
“Driven by racial aggressions?”
Ha, good one! The perp, who apparently just shot himself during a police chase, is/was black! Maybe this is a reverse hate crime?? Naw….the white folks at the station messed him over…the Man was down on him…and he’s just a kid…etc.
Let’s hear from Reverends Jackwagon, Sharpless and Minister Fartinican on this one, shall we? While Obola rants some more about “gun violence” and gun control.
I don’t recall if this was linked here
http://spectator.org/articles/63873/smoke
Markets are moved by human beings, armed with computers, who move the markets any damned way they think will make money for them. Markets predict nothing. They know nothing. The people who run them just know how to make money and then make up reasons for it besides their own greed.
Wasn’t there some study where they had “Wallstreet experts” pick stocks and then had some chimpanzees throw darts at a dartboard to randomly pick stocks and the performance in the two sets of picks was pretty much even over a lengthy time period.
The Wall Street Journal used to do this to test the hypothesis from Malkiel’s book. They put a bundle of stocks on a wall and threw darts and compared to picks by experts. The experts won 61% of the time. There was one time I saw when the experts got trounced because the dart hit a stock that had a huge runup, the best return in that period for the NYSE. Overall the experts had higher returns than either the DJIA or the darts.
http://www.investorhome.com/darts.htm
Based on preference and not nutrition,
I probably would cut the flour, milk, and sugar in half, as that is a ton of flour and sugar for most people (if the budget could increase, I’d leave it in.)
I’d then add $100 in some canned meat, some koolaid mix (presweetened), and a big bag of onions.
I know it’s not minimal, but the meat will go a long way toward making the medicine go down, and so will the flavored drink mix. Onions keep
foreverlong time in the dark and cool.Spam is onsale at costco atm. 4 bricks = $80
nick
added:
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/preppers-checklist/
10 things to do RIGHT NOW. The first 8 are buying food. I like his mix better than yours purely on taste, I haven’t considered nutrition. He adds multivitamins.
@ech
They put a bundle of stocks on a wall and threw darts
So it was chimps?
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I don’t remember who said it, the best quote on the stock market I ever heard was “someone buying thinking it was going up from someone selling thinking it was going down, only one of them will be right”.
Oh, sure, there are all kinds of things I could do to improve that mix of food, but all of them cost money and this guy is pretty much broke. Broke as in behind on his mortgage, wife just lost her job, etc. etc.
I sent him what he asked me for: maximum nutrition at minimum price. As many calories as possible, with sufficient carbohydrates, protein, and lipids. The protein is amino-acid balanced, which is one of the reasons the dry milk is in there. It’s about a third protein, and it’s animal protein which by definition includes all of the amino acids, including essential ones that our bodies can’t make. The only exceptions I made to the bang-for-the-buck was on stuff like spices, bouillon, etc., which cost relatively little and make worlds of difference in palatability.
I’d have preferred to specify less rice and flour and more pasta and noodles, but the latter cost three times what the former do. I included the sugar because it’s basically the same price per pound as flour or rice, has the same nutrition, but its sweetness makes bland food more palatable.
On a bit larger budget, I’d switch some of the starches to pasta and add some canned soups, tomato sauce, etc. as meal extenders. But this guy can’t afford them. He actually specified two adults for 60 days. I’m not sure how he decided on 60 days, but I gave him a list based on what he asked for.
And in related news:
Venezuela Is Adding More Zeroes to Its Currency to Deal With Hyperinflation
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-26/venezuela-said-to-ready-larger-bank-notes-as-inflation-soars
“Many Venezuelans have to carry wads of cash in bags instead of wallets as soaring inflation and a declining currency increase the number of bills needed for everyday purchases. The situation is set to get worse. Inflation, already the fastest in the world, could end the year at 150 percent, said the official.”
Chad wrote:
“Wasn’t there some study where they had “Wallstreet experts” pick stocks and then had some chimpanzees throw darts at a dartboard to randomly pick stocks and the performance in the two sets of picks was pretty much even over a lengthy time period.”
One of my pals is in free AFL (Aussie Rules) and NRL (Rugby League) tipping competitions. His results aren’t good, so I suggested he start deciding his picks on a coin toss. The coin is marginally ahead.
@nick
That makes no sense. If inflation ends the year at 150%, that just means that what cost someone $10 on 1 January costs them $25 on 31 December. No one would need cash bags for that, or even a larger wallet. Are you sure he didn’t mean “end the year at 150% per day”?
In other words, Venezuela is heading in the same direction as Zimbabwe (formerly the hatefully white-ruled prosperous nation of Rhodesia).
Hillary Clinton talks about TV crew’s killings: “We have got to do something about gun violence.”
Here is a clue you witless twit, it is not gun violence, it is people violence. A gun has never once committed violence. Banning people, as in low life scum, from the planet would be effective.
Well, it appears that they don’t currently have enough large banknotes, or large enough bank notes so you get this:
“A customer would need at least 1,280 bank notes to purchase a 24-inch Samsung television on sale at a mall in eastern Caracas for 128,000 bolivars. Some banks, meanwhile, have reduced daily withdrawal limits at ATMs because of shortages of the highest denominated notes.”
That’s a lot of notes!
For the inflation rate, they didn’t specify a time, but I think it’s more likely per month, based on what I’m remembering from previous articles.
Even if it was /year, while that wouldn’t mean wheelbarrows of notes, it would certainly suck.
nick
@Ray, that wouldn’t fit the narrative.
Also, it’s a racially motivated hate crime, and black on white violence. If it didn’t go out live, I doubt we’d have seen it reported outside the local area.
nick
From zerohedge
Virgina Killer Sent “Suicide Note” To ABC, Says Massacre Is “Race War” In Reaction To Charleston Shooting
“Why did I do it? I put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15. The Church shooting in Charleston happened on 6/17/15…”
“Yes, it will sound like I am angry…I am. And I have every right to be. But when I leave this Earth, the only emotion I want to feel is peace….”
“The church shooting was the tipping point…but my anger has been building steadily…I’ve been a human powder keg for a while…just waiting to go BOOM!!!!”.
Lots of interesting numbers in this article by bloomy
U.S. Silver-Coin Buyers See Bargains While Investors Dump Metals
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-26/u-s-silver-coin-buyers-see-bargains-while-investors-dump-metals
Well, it’s not an investment, but a way to preserve wealth, or as an alternative currency among some groups, but isn’t it nice that bloomy doesn’t think of silver coin buyers as ‘investors.’ Only the guys trading make-believe electrons and marked up paper are ‘investing’.
And look how late to the party they are with this:
“Solyndra May Have Lied to Get Loan Guarantee, Watchdog Says ”
nick
“Here is a clue you witless twit…”
I’d fix this for ya but it would cross the line of family-type good taste so I won’t.
Plus, why add to your micro-aggression?
“If it didn’t go out live, I doubt we’d have seen it reported outside the local area.”
That’s exactly right. Now picture the event happening in the reverse; a pissed-off white guy goes to a BET broadcast station and blows away the black female anchor and the black camera guy and meanwhile has written screeds about his anger and “race war” stuff.
They’d hear the howling on Mars, for weeks, and Obola and Cankles would be raving and ranting nonstop.
Speaking of ObuttWad, has he chimed in yet? Maybe the shooter’s mother was WHITE! or sumpin’ and he could…oh wait. Never mind.
Just the Press Sec so far.
Again, picture it in reverse; Obola would be all over it like….white on rice? Never mind.
‘….white on rice?’ A micro-aggression if there ever was one!
“Like white on rice in a glass of milk on a paper plate in a snowstorm.” 🙂
So here are the first page of comments on the Hillarity article, from UKDailyMail with some emphasis added. I didn’t skip any or add any. This was what was there. Not to many H voters there….
Johnnyboy, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2 minutes ago
I can actually see her horns.
Leopoldtrench, Maine, United States, 3 minutes ago
Last week here we had a 59 year old woman with her throat s l i t in the ice cream isle at a local grocery store, what are you going to do to stop those violent deaths Hillary?
Michael Jeansonne, Gotham City., United States, 8 minutes ago
She had no problem standing over the dead bodies of the fake Benghazi video victims and now doing the same here to score political points. This woman has no heart, no morals, no standards. No wonder no one trusts her .
Rome3215, Lakeland Fl, United States, 9 minutes ago
Hillary learned from Obama, “Never let a crisis go to waste”!
shesays, Little Rock, United States, 9 minutes ago
It’s mental health issues…….
NeeKoLas, visalia, United States, 9 minutes ago
Maybe it’s the murderers who are too readily available.
Topdr, Orlando, United States, 11 minutes ago
She’s still in the race?
RobertG, Rockville, United States, 12 minutes ago
Typical of a useless liberal to stand on dead bodies to push their evil agenda.
Misfit, SoCal, 14 minutes ago
“…so that whatever motivated this murderer, who eventually took his own life, we will not see more deaths…” — Hillary, it was because of a Youtube video!
ROCK, midwest, United States, 16 minutes ago
He could have murdered without a gun. Hillary is a puke.
Rwestmoreland, Macon, United States, 20 minutes ago
You can’t make this stuff up. HRC would eat a live baby on TV (sponsored by Planned Parenthood of course) to get elected.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3212029/Hillary-blames-Virginia-news-crew-shooting-guns-readily-available-touring-machine-shop-students-learn-gunsmithing.html
nick
It would be funny if it wasn’t so sickening and evil. It’s no joke, the fact that someone might be able to see her horns and possibly cloven hooves and tail. What a disgusting fugly beast, and yet millions of imbeciles in this country would give her the WH For Life.
There’s incompetence, ignorance, stupidity, carelessness, negligence, and then there’s malice aforethought. After that? Evil. Pure and simple.
So for all the Bracken fans out there, here is an interesting tidbit:
Somehow they found his car at the airport, connected him to the per-positioned rental car, and marked it for attention in their network, which was scanning every passing vehicle. Wanna bet they had his car in the database when it entered the airport? Using ANPR is common at airport parking garages. Then how did they tie him to the rental? And then they have a system in place to search for and flag vehicles they are interested in. All very interesting, and if Bracken had put it in a book, 99% of the population wouldn’t believe it.
nick
BTW, I was driving around downtown recently, and noticed that EVERY intersection had 2 surveillance cameras (domes mounted on poles) tied back to somewhere with their own WiFi patch antennas. These were NOT the traffic/intersection control cameras which have their own WiFi net, probably a mesh ’cause the antennas point all over the place. Bracken’s Homeland surveillance scenes coming true right before our eyes.
That is all very good local AO intel, Mr. nick; if I were you, I’d be keeping a notebook of whatever sort, hardcopy and/or digital, and keeping my eyes and ears open for a chance at some point to make use of it, for yourself and/or others.
I’m on the same recon ops, limited though they may be, in this particular Retroville AO, and no shortage of opportunities to observe underclass elements, commo, and multiple “law enforcement” organizations in action.
And speaking of surveillance state matters…the Japanese are digging it:
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/08/transit-system-puts-up-new-high-tech-surveillance-cameras-that-can-tell-if-youre-drunk/
Science peeps more knowledgeable than little ol’ me, what do you make of this?
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/08/willis-eschenbach-and-the-myth-of-the-sixth-wave-of-extinction/
Well, Barry kept mum about one of his sons committing double homicide early this morning but his minion spewed the usual Prog/Fascist crap:
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/08/robert-farago/white-house-react-to-roanoke-shooting-we-need-common-sense-gun-control/#comments
The comments below are fun, too.
And Cankles just had to spout some manure, too:
http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2015/08/robert-farago/hillary-clinton-reacts-to-roanoke-shooting-calls-for-more-gun-control-measure/#comments
Damn. Hard decision to make here, folks.
$900 to spend.
Another AR?
Or one of these:
http://store.xm42.com/category-s/106.htm
I think you are less likely to hurt yourself with the ar….
nick
“Breaking News” on lewrockwell.com tonight:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/08/anne-williamson/weaponizing-migrants/
What our rulers have done makes Pandora’s Box sound like a child’s harmless toy; we sowed the wind and now shall reap the whirlwind.
This is a sound historical summary of the last several decades’ misrule and mischief and it will redound on our childrens’ and grandchildrens’ heads.
OFD wrote:
“…millions of imbeciles in this country would give her the WH For Life.”
By voting for her, or by not voting for her opponent…
Yeah, that’s right, Mr. Greg, I give up. You just ain’t never gonna git it, are ya?
Well, at least we can still own and shoot guns here and we’re not about to be smothered by the Chicoms.
“Walmart Bars Sales Of AR-15s, Self-Defense Shotguns”
http://www.grandviewoutdoors.com/guns/walmart-bars-sales-of-ar-15s-self-defense-shotguns/
Walmart has drunk the koolaid. Again.
“Reports indicate the retail chain will sell off the rest of its inventory of AR-style rifles and self-defense shotguns at deeply discounted prices.”
Might be a good time to buy a Remington AR there though. Or semi-auto shotgun.
Then how did they tie him to the rental?
They could get DHS to see if he had flown out. If not, look for a car leaving on security cameras at the right time. Or simply check with the auto rental desks. Flash badge, “Did you rent a car to this guy?”
Dave, I understand that I wouldn’t want HC in the WH if I was a Yank. And unlike you, I haven’t imbibed deeply of the anarchist Kool-Aid.
How much cheaper could they get? Deep discounts sounds great but I’d be shocked if they were less than $550. Since there are places selling them for ~$650. Deep sounds like $350 but I am pretty sure we won’t see that.
I’m pretty sure if wal*mart wasn’t selling ARs it’s because who the heII thinks of shopping there when it’s time for an AR? And they’ve had real problems stocking inventory.
nick
@ech, the badge and picture won’t work. He rented it a month ago, and who knows which staffer gave him keys?
‘course it’s early days, and most of the reporting is likely wrong, so we’ll see.
nick
And how did they get him at the garage? Easiest answer is ANPR and a ‘fusion center’ database. I know our airport uses ANPR on entry and exit, because the cameras are distinctively placed, and somewhat distinctive looking.
“…I haven’t imbibed deeply of the anarchist Kool-Aid.”
Well drink up, my good man!
As the late Murray Rothbard (a libertarian guru) once said: “The State is a band of thieves writ large.”
And the late Randolph Bourne said: “War is the health of the State.”
Which is why, no matter which party is in power or which bozo is in the White House, we have a war in every generation here, since the beginning. And looting of the nation’s treasure in the form of taxes and seizures of property. While treating citizens like serfs and subjects.
Elections and parties and voting don’t cut it anymore. The system is broken beyond repair. It’s format and reboot time.
Yeah, that’s right, Mr. Greg, I give up. You just ain’t never gonna git it, are ya?
I’ve got it. Trump 2016! Trump 2016! Trump 2016!
Walmart flacks told the truthaboutguns.com site that it wasn’t a political decision; it was based on sales figures and inventory issues, and that they were looking to stock up big now for hunting season firearms.
We can take that however, I guess.
The Land of Sugar has many license plate readers, both fixed and mobile. As in dozens of them. Many of the cop cars and SUVs now have automatic license plate readers, front and back.
“I’ve got it. Trump 2016! Trump 2016! Trump 2016!”
Yeah, OK, Mr. Lynn. Geez, even the lewrockwell.com site has been doing favorable PR on the guy, as has my man Patrick J. Buchanan.
I just think the whole mess is more entertaining than usual and that the system is too far gone now to save anyway. Let it burn.
Meanwhile the Euros and us have our own versions now of ‘Camp of the Saints’ and it is gonna be really bad for both places for a long time to come.
Yeah, constantly scanning traffic and parked cars, looking for anyone flagged.
But we were born free.
nick
BTW, how in the heII did we end up in a situation where citizens have to pay rent, to use a street they paid for with taxes? Parking, not toll roads.
“But we were born free.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov6aef8DTqg
What a joke here now.
“…how in the heII did we end up in a situation…”
We got fat, dumb and happy, and fell asleep at the switch, and then periodically would report to ELECTION precincts and VOTE for somebody from some PARTY and figure we were doing our civic duty and everything would be SWELL. If things turned out not to be SWELL, we’d VOTE again. Rinse and repeat. Or not vote. Didn’t really matter. Elected bozos come and go but the BUREAUCRACY endureth forever.
What if…???
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/08/andrew-p-napolitano/hillarys-2-secret-wars/
[snip] $900 to spend. Another AR? Or one of these: [snip]
To quote the late, great Lewis Burwell Puller “Neat, but where do you mount the bayonet?”
@ech, the badge and picture won’t work. He rented it a month ago, and who knows which staffer gave him keys?
They had his name. The clerk types it into the computer and out pops the rental record. In addition, the rental agency may have a gps tracker on the car that law enforcement could use to track.
Hmm, I thought the gps trackers were only recorders. If active or remotely query-able that would make sense. I know onstar is but I don’t think the little shltbox he rented had that. That’s an awful lot of cellular data plans.
Didn’t see that they had his name, but I guess as soon as the screed came to their attention they would have. The timeline was a little fuzzy for me.
Interesting thought problem to see what he could have done differently at each of those points.
Also, with the screed, he clearly wasn’t trying to evade detection, so why run at all? More targets on his list? That’s the only thing that makes sense to me. Wonder if we’ll hear about those?
nick
“Wonder if we’ll hear about those?”
Stop wondering, kemosabe. If he was a redneck fascist, you bet there’d be a trail and speculation about other targets and a conspiracy and plots laid, inductions dangerous, etc. This will be quickly dropped into the Memory Hole.
Oh look! A squirrel!
!! SQUIRREL !!!
A ball, a ball, oh boy a ball!
nick
And a classic from the past:
The Dog’s Diary
8:00 am – Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am – A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am – A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
10:30 am – Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
12:00 pm – Milk bones! My favorite thing!
1:00 pm – Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
3:00 pm – Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
5:00 pm – Dinner! My favorite thing!
7:00 pm – Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
8:00 pm – Wow! Watched TV with the people! My favorite thing!
11:00 pm – Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!
The Cat’s Diary
Day 983 of My Captivity
My captors continue to taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other inmates and I are fed hash or some sort of dry nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat something in order to keep up my strength.
The only thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In an attempt to disgust them, I once again vomit on the carpet. Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly demonstrates my capabilities. However, they merely made condescending comments about what a “good little hunter” I am. Bastards!
There was some sort of assembly of their accomplices tonight. I was placed in solitary confinement for the duration of the event. However, I could hear the noises and smell the food. I overheard that my confinement was due to the power of “allergies.” I must learn what this means, and how to use it to my advantage.
Today I was almost successful in an attempt to assassinate one of my tormentors by weaving around his feet as he was walking. I must try this again tomorrow, but at the top of the stairs.
I am convinced that the other prisoners here are flunkies and snitches. The dog receives special privileges. He is regularly released, and seems to be more than willing to return. He is obviously retarded. The bird must be an informant. I observe him communicate with the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. My captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is safe. For now …
@nick – liked your classic from the past.
As I type this one of my cat’s is here on the desk giving me the stink-eye of disgust, just waiting for me to leave my computer unattended so he can update his Facebook and Twitter 😉
“my favorite thing!’
My wife and I still occasionally yell this out.
nick
Hmm, I thought the gps trackers were only recorders. If active or remotely query-able that would make sense.
LoJack.
http://www.lojack.com/Products/Stolen-Vehicle-Recovery-System
Our senior female cat vomited on one of the back porch chairs yesterday. The junior female has been bringing in bird cadavers, which she eats (most of). We haven’t seen any rodents in quite a while now, like two years. I’m training them to beat up the dog and also run in front of speeding motorhead douchebags on this street and maybe cause them to swerve into a tree or guardrail or something.
Hmm, I thought the gps trackers were only recorders. If active or remotely query-able that would make sense. I know onstar is but I don’t think the little shltbox he rented had that. That’s an awful lot of cellular data plans.M
There are systems that use satellites to interrogate the tracker remotely. Used by trucking and railroads.
Day 983 of My Captivity
@nick, that was hilariously funny!
Yep, an oldie but a goodie. It holds up very well, better than a lot of early memes.
nick
“dogs in elk” was another one that will still crack you up.
(formating is atrocious but worth it)
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/dogsinelk.html#dogs