09:19 – Barbara is volunteering with Friends of the Library this morning. They have an actual bookstore downtown, which is the only real bookstore in Sparta. She’s going over this morning to spend a couple of hours learning the ropes. I’m sure they’ll be happy to have an actual librarian volunteering.
UPS showed up yesterday with a new wall clock for the den. The old one had started ticking too loudly, so we moved it out to the garage. The new one is one of those “atomic” clocks, which actually means it’s just a standard quartz clock with the ability to sync with the NIST WWV radio station in Fort Collins, Colorado. So now we know the actual time within a small fraction of a second.
I was making rice for dinner last night when I noticed that we were almost out of rosemary. We’ll be growing our own in pots, but until we can harvest it we need to buy some. I checked the Walmart website, which had choices ranging from $2/ounce to over $100/ounce. Even $2/ounce seemed on the high side to me, so I checked Amazon and found this at $1.38/ounce. Also, it’s powdered, which Barbara prefers to the usual leaf form, which looks like pine needles.
Some dishes are better or require the needles- roman bread, roasted baby red potatoes with garlic and rosemary….
We have observed that rosemary will grow in a pot, but grows better in the ground around here. And it will suddenly just die. Had that happen last year with an otherwise vigorous plant. Neighbor had same thing happen.
Herbs are pretty sturdy, being weeds mostly, but the soft leafy ones are susceptible to freezing, esp basil, mint, cilantro/parsley. Around here they are perenials, but get sickly looking and less productive the second and third year.
Just a couple more reasons to get started 🙂
nick
This morning, at 5:30, a male neighbor was robbed at gunpoint on the street while walking his dog, just TWO BLOCKS from my house. Black man wearing a hoodie.
Situational awareness, it’s what’s for breakfast.
Seems kinds early for thugs to be out, but maybe he’s got plans for the rest of the day…
CARRY folks. All the time. EVERYWHERE. If you knew in advance you’d need the gun, you could avoid the situation. It happens when you DON’T think you need it. I carry all the time, because I don’t want to spend the last 20 seconds of my life wishing I had.
nick
ADDED guy was ok, dog got loose. Wives are freaking out.
And it will suddenly just die.
Root rot. Too much water. Rosemary likes it dry. We have some in a little pocket next to the driveway that we put in 26 years ago when we moved here. Gets nothing but abuse and thrives. (like me)
Turn yourself in for re-education, nick. Reinforcing negative stereotypes is not allowed. It leads to microaggressions, too.
@steveF,
I think a lot of people are getting a re-education from the school of hard knocks lately. They are beginning to see that buying off the 12% isn’t working as they just want MORE and MORE. The FSA have come to believe they deserve it, and demand it, and the cost is getting to be more than the productive % are willing to pay. The more outrageous the demands, the more people will start to say ‘enough is enough.’ That goes for the social experiment in diversity too. It takes a while to deprogram and it’s hard to do it in the face of overwhelming force telling you you are filth for thinking otherwise, but people are starting to realize they aren’t filth, and starting to recognize where the real filth is…
When times are good, there’s lots of excess to spend on stupidity. When times get hard, stupidity gets a hard lesson. I think we’re in the ‘hangover’ of good times, coasting along, but the hard times have already started. Productive people’s tolerance for theft of their hard work drops as the work becomes harder, and it will reach a point where they won’t put up with it any more.
I don’t know how bad that will be, given all the law and custom to counter it, but it is coming.
nick
@dkreck, thanks! given where the bush was, I think that is the answer.
I’ll be careful with the new one.
n
crap it’s raining again, and pretty heavily.
We just got half inch in 15 minutes or so.
I won’t be able to tell if the dam is seeping if there’s rain coming down.
I had a bunch of tasks today that involved being outside in the dry too.
bugger me.
nick
Sorry you folks in Texas, as long as Cruz keeps ranting, speaking in tongues, and handling serpents you are in for it. Cruz’s dad isn’t helping either.
Wow, I thought your neighborhood was better than that. What time was sunrise this morning?
@Mr. nick; make sure your honey knows about this little incident. See if the PD has any additional intel meantime. And yeah, carry or have arms-length access 7×24; it’s only gonna get worse.
“…speaking in tongues, and handling serpents…”
It’s pretty darn clear he’s not eligible to be President (citizenship) yet no one seems to care about that. Of course it’s also pretty evident we don’t need a raving, bloodthirsty psychopathic bitch-on-wheels in the WH, but here she comes. This should be very interesting over the next one to four years.
OFD is hoping and thinking that this bug I caught from wife/grandkids is on its last legs and breaking up and going away in the next couple of days. It has put a huge dent in my ability to work on the to-do-list here. I can go for about 15 minutes and then gotta sit down; pathetic. Sleeping has not been great; I need a solid 8 or 9 uninterrupted hours.
Another beeyooteeful day on the bay and temps allegedly warming up to 70, a mixed bag, when it means more derps roaring around on their friggin’ motorcycles and more activity around here. I’d really like to dynamite the shore road and set up trip flares and mines; is this so wrong?
It’s pretty darn clear he’s not eligible to be President (citizenship) yet no one seems to care about that.
Nope. Child of a US citizen is a US citizen no matter where they are born.
Turn yourself in for re-education, nick. Reinforcing negative stereotypes is not allowed. It leads to microaggressions, too.
Ditto. This is a situation where the ‘Frikan ‘Murkan probably got the drop on the guy. Not sure what you could do then but shoot in the back. 20 years for murder. Oh, wait, that was Tejas, medal for eliminating low life scumbag. Yay!!!
Nope. Child of a US citizen is a US citizen no matter where they are born.
I agree, but a number of articles argue against with a strict interpretation of the bird cage liner. The Dumbocrats tried this with McCain since he was born in Panama (it was even a military base = sovereign soil). I’ve always thought if one parent was a US Citizen, their children are, also. I’m occasionally wrong like Mr. SteveF. 😉
This morning, at 5:30, a male neighbor was robbed at gunpoint on the street while walking his dog, just TWO BLOCKS from my house. Black man wearing a hoodie.
Situational awareness, it’s what’s for breakfast.
Seems kinds early for thugs to be out, but maybe he’s got plans for the rest of the day…
Tough to protect against an ambush.
Time to move Cinco Ranch in Katy. There are frequent sheriff patrols and suspicious looking people walking around get a free ride back into Houston. Sometimes even a free beating by the Katy cops. And you are upstream of the Barker and Addicks reservoirs. And there is a levee (I think).
And that is the late shift for thugs.
@dave,
It IS better than that! Statistically it’s one of the safest in the city of Houston. Some of the Villages have lower crime rates, but there are other factors involved there.
I have noticed a significantly increased number of people who are visibly NOT residents cutting thru our neighborhood. I say that because I know the people who live here. And black men in hoodies are not them. Black men in business casual, yes. Black men in shorts and Tommy Bahama shirts, yes. Black teens of any sort, no. Our subdivision has the standard mix for general USA, mostly white, followed by hispanic, and then in our case, asian, with black and other making up the smallest part. Some of our schools have less than 3% black, right there with pacific islander or native american. (before anyone jumps to the conclusion that our schools have few blacks because they are mostly white, MOST of our schools have between 80 and 90+% NON-White populations. I’ve commented about the public school issues here before.)
We have a hike and bike trail right thru the center of our larger neighborhood. It connects with a major street on one end and a high school on the other. There is a fair amount of foot and bike traffic both from local residents, and people ‘passing thru.’ Most of the crime in this subdivision is petty theft from vehicles and tends to concentrate near that greenspace. Where burglary of a structure occurs, it’s almost always within 3 houses of the greenspace (which provides access, and an escape route.)
Our surrounding neighborhood has recently seen an influx of lower income blacks. Over the past year they have become much more common sight at bus stops, walking down the road, and cutting thru our subdivision. No one seems to know why, but everyone I’ve talked to has noticed it.
So I’m not completely surprised to hear about it, like I would be if it happened in Hedwig Village or Piney Point. It is still a confirmation of what I’ve known, and seems to be shocking to the ladies in the neighborhood.
FWIW, wife was the one who passed the news to me. Her comment was “hurry up with those cameras.” She is tied into the jungle telegraph, so for local issues, she’s MY go to resource. (‘Course now the jungle telegraph is on FB, rumor and info at the speed of light) If you have FB groups for your neighborhood, subdivision, mom’s club, church, or town, they can be a great source of raw intel.
I DO need to get busy with the new cameras. And SO MUCH other crap. Instead, I’m going to look at a dam since the rain stopped.
nick
@lynn,
Katy and Cy Fair are both no longer what they were only a few years ago. Many people who moved to Katy to get away from “vibrant cultural issues” are moving back inward, just to more upscale subdivisions. Funny how the “magic dirt” theory of behavior doesn’t work, and instead poisons the good that was there before. Throwing turds into the bowl doesn’t make the punch taste better.
nick
Before I go out, here’s bit of the joy of diversity, that I’d rather avoid having in my neighborhood.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3551979/Video-fight-led-arrest-ten-Tennessee-children-aged-11.html
“‘How does it feel to get your b***h a** beat?’: Video emerges of the off-campus fight over a basketball that led to the arrest of TEN Tennessee children aged under 11
Ten children aged between six and 11 were arrested on Friday at the Hobgood Elementary School in Murfreesboro. They were taken to juvenile jail and charged for not intervening in the fight. The video shows a group of children ganging up on one boy (pictured in the purple and blue hat in the filtered video). They can be heard screaming ‘Beat him! Slam him! Go get him!’ and at least two boys (pictured) are shown punching the boy the back and head. ”
There is so much fail in this story that I’m left sputtering and shaking my head.
nick
Moving further out works out here in Sugar Land. Of course, now I want to move to Wharton.
My brother lives inside 610 off North Braeswood. The 1950s knockdown homes in his area are selling for $500K+ (the ones not under water that is). And then you spend $500K to $800K building a mini-mansion. His area is wealthy, mostly doctors working in the med center. They have off duty cops driving around who are paid by their neighborhood association.
My son lives outside 610 off A90 (South Main) in a new neighborhood where the developer brought in 5 ft of dirt so it does not flood. Got a great deal on a new house back in 2009. He is the only white person that he knows of in his neighborhood. But all of his neighbors are cops, firemen, or work blue collar in the med center. Many of them have two jobs and work hard, very hard. They do not tolerate any crap in their neighborhood from the section 8 apartment complex with 500 people living in it next to them. Their subdivision entrance got tagged a couple of years ago and the cops went over to the apartment complex off duty, found out who it was (everyone knew), and made them repaint the entrance.
Sorry to hear that Katy is going down. Sugar Land is dropping a little bit too. I moved across the river because of that back in 2001.
Before I go out, here’s bit of the joy of diversity, that I’d rather avoid having in my neighborhood.
Those darn White kids.
@nick,
With regard to your advice to carry, I don’t have a permit. I don’t have a carry weapon. I don’t own any guns. I haven’t fired a gun in years. I’m the one guy in the NRA who doesn’t own a gun. The next thing on my to do list is to get fingerprinted for a permit. I’m hoping I can squeeze that in on my lunch hour tomorrow. But still I’m thinking that my first gun should be a shotgun. And that I should get a grasp of the basics of shooting a shotgun before I move on to a handgun.
Prince dead, Chyna dead. RIP. Who is number three?
Yep, rode his little red Corvette into the sunset where he can party like it’s 1999.
@dave,
If you will get a CHL and a handgun eventually, I’d suggest doing that first.
If your only gun is strictly for home defense, a short shotty is good, but not a magic bullet.
The CHL class and a defensive handgun class or 2 will get you up to speed on awareness etc.
The handgun is easier to practice with (MANY more ranges where you can shoot) probably cheaper to shoot (in 9mm anyway) and will work at home, on your person, in the car, or anywhere you can carry it.
You don’t have one pair of shoes or one jacket, so you shouldn’t limit yourself to one gun. Guns are a tool, and it’s important to have a tool that works well for the job you are trying to do.
Picking WHICH handgun is a subject for whole blog posts, but the simplest advice is “pick one that fits your hand, and feels natural for you to shoot.” Be sure you can easily work all the controls. Get a good holster. Get a quick access lock box. Get training. Get on the range. Most gun ranges (especially if they have an attached store) have rental guns so you can try a couple of the recommendations you get.
Even if you don’t feel an immediate need, start the process now. In TX, your CHL means you can walk out of the store with your purchase, no additional waits or checks needed. Other states may be similar.
nick
and now I really am off…
Maybe, just maybe, throwing names out almost at random … Hillary Bitch Clinton? Her goiter flares up and her thyroid explodes and she’s dead right there.
(Note that I didn’t suggest her having a ragegasm and her heart exploding. I don’t think anyone’s stoopid enough to believe she has a heart.)
What about all the primary voters who voted for her? The stupidity of her voters is only eclipsed by those who voted for Bernie Sanders thinking he has a brain.
“Who is number three?”
Doris Roberts, apparently. My, my, they’re dropping like flies.
“If you will get a CHL and a handgun eventually, I’d suggest doing that first.”
OFD-approved and ditto the rest of Mr. nick’s advice on that.
“…throwing names out almost at random…”
Rather have seen her go than Prince or Chyna or Doris. I seriously think that once she starts her gig in the WH, she ain’t gonna last long; she’s a medical nightmare and the stress of that job will do her in. So it’s gonna be interesting to see who her VP pick is. Larry don’t look too good, either. He might go first.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chyna#/media/File:Chyna.jpg
“Did you water the brains, Igor?”
I’ve always thought if one parent was a US Citizen, their children are, also.
Sure. Otherwise kids of diplomats, overseas military, etc. wouldn’t be citizens of the US. The US is one of the few countries that grants citizenship to almost children born here. IIRC, children of diplomats are not granted US citizenship as they are not “subject to the jurisdiction of the US”. It would probably be constitutional for Congress to pass a law making children of foreign nationals here illegally not citizens.
The Cruz question had to do with him renouncing his US citizenship, as there was a time he claimed the canadian, when canada didn’t recognize dual…. or something like that.
Obviously, when a Kenyan can become potus, a canadian can….
nick
I still don’t think Obola is Kenyan or Indonesian; my take on that is that he lied to Columbia U. when he was applying for admission, claiming he was an international student so as to get preference at that time. Since then, no one can seem to locate his records from there. And we’re not sure who his real father was but we do know his mom was a thorough-going commie. He grew up steeped in musloid and commie stuff, which was then kicked up a few notches in law skool, “community organizing,” and twenty years at that rayciss nutball’s church.
Lotsa fishy stuff with Larry Klinton’s parentage, too.
re Obola, what we know for sure is that he claimed to have foreign citizenship. All else is speculation. Therefore, the obvious course back in 2008 and 2009 would have been to declare him ineligible to hold the office of President. Oddly, every US court turned down every challenge to his eligibility, usually on grounds of not having standing to sue. Odd indeed…
“…the obvious course back in 2008 and 2009 would have been to declare him ineligible to hold the office of President.”
Well before that, when he was running for Illinois Senator.
But the rulers decree what shall be and what shall not be, as we will see this coming November-January.
RBT:
I’ve added a little ‘go-to-top’ button at the lower right of the pages here.
Allows visitors to jump to the top of page after reading comments, in case you want to see the comments links at the top of the page without bothersome scrolling. (Since I come back here several times a day to read all the comments, a quick jump-to-top burron is quite convenient, I think.)
Just a simple plugin I found. If you don’t like it, let me know.
OFD likes it; what about a “go-to-bottom” button? And see the most recent posts.
Looks fine and is not obtrusive. Anyone else have a problem with it?
Works fine with Chrome on Mac. I like it.
Perhaps to the left of proudly powered by WordPress to make it more obvious? For my kindle … on the PC I just hit the home key.
DrudgeReport has purple text to go with the picture of Prince up top.
And Aretha Franklin, world-renowned supergenius and authority on all things, wonders if he died of Zika.
OFD: re the ‘go-to-bottom’ button: you could use Shift+PgDn to get to the bottom of most pages. Or just use the different color of the last link that you used (in the comments list on the right side) to get to comments you haven’t read yet.
I do that, but at the end, like to get to the top of the page so I can click on the top item of the comments list. So next visit I’ll know where to continue reading the comments.
I suppose I could look for a ‘continue to next rant’ feature to continue reading comments here….
I’d like to reiterates @nick’s comment “pick one that fits your hand, and feels natural for you to shoot.”
The local gun shop that gets my business has an indoor range and encourages try before you buy. In fact more than once I have seen them refuse to sell a person a firearm who just came in and said “I want that one”.
It’s never too late to start building a relationship with your local gun shop and ranges.
A short history lesson from Ann Coulter.
So that you won’t be fooled by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow claiming Second Amendment supporters were celebrating the Oklahoma City bombing this week — as she has on April 19 in years past — Tuesday was the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, a date all Americans used to know.
“… just use the different color of the last link that you used (in the comments list on the right side) to get to comments you haven’t read yet.”
Yup, that’s what I do now, too. Actually, that suffices.
“…‘continue to next rant’”
There’s another WP plug-in that just came out, where you hit it and it goes to the latest of OFD’s boring and tedious rants, in a class by themselves for sheer narcolepsy and immediate entrance to the Land of Nod.
“It’s never too late to start building a relationship with your local gun shop and ranges.”
True, that; with the caveat that many of them are, how shall we put this, ah…gun-shy, of customers and potential customers, thanks to recent incidents that made the nooz. I wouldn’t bum-rush them; give a relationship time to grow, and build trust, as with anybody new you meet. We had a minor celeb female lawyer up here last year who exhibited no hinky signals whatsoever and walked into a gun store down in Williston (right near Burlap) and bought a handgun. She then went home and killed herself. No one saw it coming. Allegedly. And we had another case at that range where the super-duper Murkan sniper got whacked by another former soldier; no one saw that coming, either, though I would have been very leery of any fellow vets who were acting or talking funny, and my little alarm bells go off almost immediately.
All that tax money Mr. OFD is paying is finally put to good use. lol!
Today, FBI director James Comey noted that the cost to the bureau tounlock the iPhone used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook was more than what he would make in the seven years and four months before his retirement. Reuters busted out its calculators and determined that he would make $1.3 million in his time left as head of the government agency. So you know, more than that.
Yet, the FBI can’t bring Cankles to justice for egregious violations of laws on classified information.
“A short history lesson from Ann Coulter.”
OK as far as she went. Two additional points:
1.) Yes, Revere was momentarily detained by Brit cavalry but they let him go and he continued on foot the rest of the night rousting the AO. True American hero and patriot all the way.
2.) Coulter doesn’t go into it, but the retreat march of the British from Concord back to Boston was horrific for them; they got sniped to East Jesus and back from behind walls and trees all the way, a friggin’ turkey shoot. So by the time they got to the outskirts of Boston they were scared and extremely pissed off and there were more pitched skirmishes and massacres. This was one of those scenes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Russell_House
“Yet, the FBI can’t bring Cankles to justice for egregious violations of laws on classified information.”
Priorities, MrAtoz, priorities. Now we have a good idea what they are for this regime. They want access to our phones 7×24 and the various felonies and treasonous acts committed by such as Field Marshal Rodham are as dust in the wind, already forgotten in the MSM nooz cycles. Is the Feebie director still gonna resign if she’s not indicted? I guess we’ll find out.
I’m pretty sure by now that our “shadow government” operators get to these people, even in very high places, and tell them how things are gonna be or else.
Just keep in mind that the militia sniping at the Brit regulars were violating the rules of civilized warfare, as determined by the European powers of the time. The colonials were terrorists, to use their standards and our word.
Unlike pretty much anyone else I’ve talked to, I’ve never blamed Arabs for using splodeydopes and IED mines and the rest of their unconventional — “unlawful” — tactics. They use what they have, and there’s no way they’d last more than a few minutes against American troops in formation. By tribal standards, Americans are using illegal tactics with drones and snipers and even with all the materiel that Americans can manufacture but Iraqis can’t.
None of this is to say that I wouldn’t kill everyone in the Middle East, given the chance. Understanding where they’re coming from does not lead to sympathy for their position.
Haha. Drudge beat Google to the purple text.
Just keep in mind that the militia sniping at the Brit regulars were violating the rules of civilized warfare, as determined by the European powers of the time. The colonials were terrorists, to use their standards and our word.
Has warfare ever been civilized? I believe not. The exception might be the European Land Wars (The War of the Roses, the Hundred Years War, etc) which can be more viewed as chess games between the landed nobility rather than actual wars. The World Wars in the 20th century were brutal affairs with the last major event being the nuclear bombing of two Japanese cities.
Ok, checked the dam. No noticeable change, which is good. Still squishier on the part that is below water level, than the part above, but there is a difference in angle, which might be contributing given all the direct rain.
Got some more info on the armed robbery this am. Victim had opened the door of his house to ?let the dog in? (he’s 80 and there is confusion in the 3rd hand details) when surprised by the robber who entered the house, and grabbed a DVR and then fled. Still not good no matter what the details end up being.
Lots of rattled folks in the ‘hood today.
And for the other WTF savages moment this news from Delaware:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3552127/Police-Girl-16-critically-injured-assault-school.html
“Girl, 16, dies after being ‘jumped by a gang of bullies’ in her school bathroom
A 16-year-old girl at Howard High School of Technology has died after being attacked by a gang of other girls at the Delaware school
Witnesses say the unnamed victim got into a fight with another girl over a boy when she was suddenly jumped by a group of others
It appears she was knocked unconscious when someone banged her head against a sink”
The school is about 70% black, and the rest evenly split between hispanic and white. About 45% low income and 10% special ed.
nick
“…which can be more viewed as chess games between the landed nobility rather than actual wars.”
Yeah, but the heaving, grunting, sweaty and filthy peasant yeomen didn’t view it as a chess game OR civilized.
“Unlike pretty much anyone else I’ve talked to, I’ve never blamed Arabs for using splodeydopes and IED mines and the rest of their unconventional — “unlawful” — tactics. They use what they have…”
Ditto. But I’d get all our troops the hell away from those countries and go back to minding our own business here, where we have PLENTY of stuff on our plate as it is.
Just finished the first season of “True Detective.” I’ll tell ya what: you would never catch ol’ OFD be-bopping around them bayou jungles in a white shirt, tie and dress shoes and only toting a crunchenticker pistol. And I’d hit places like that in the wee hours, too, not during broad daylight.
Yeah, but the heaving, grunting, sweaty and filthy peasant yeomen didn’t view it as a chess game OR civilized.
Well said.
“…which can be more viewed as chess games between the landed nobility rather than actual wars.”
Yeah, but the heaving, grunting, sweaty and filthy peasant yeomen didn’t view it as a chess game OR civilized.
To be sure. But that is where those crazy rules came from about standing in opposing lines, synchronous fire by ranks, and sending in the pikes. Of course, the grapeshot was the joker to everything. Absolutely freaking horrible except to the King sitting in his garden drinking tea and getting daily reports from the generals. So, chess.
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2016/04/it-is-trumpkins-they-fear.html
Additional comment by the guy who runs the WRSA site:
“Close.
But no cigar.
What the sentient .gov folks fear is the combination of terrific declines in the quality of American lives, coupled with what happens when traditional Americans fully embrace the permanent demise of the Rule of Law.
Those reasonably-bright taxfeeders grok that there are not enough LEOs to stop what is coming.
The career government employees also know there is no room in the Continuity of Government bunkers for more than a sprinkling of GS-11s – let alone their families.
The apparatchiks also understand that their bosses will be too busy trying to elbow their way in the shelter queue to do one damned thing to protect their formerly-loyal underlings.
They are terrified of that moment of silence – when the Elites and their body servants have fled, and they are left to face the wrath of a wave of people who are beyond reason.
Welcome to Consequenceville.
Population?
Them.
And you.
As one WRSA reader said a while back:
Bipartisanship is simply a noose at both ends of the rope.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2509007/posts
And interesting timetable, considering the original piece was done six years ago…”
” I fully expect that our virtual secession will break out into the open in approximately the same time frame that those bouncing checks drawn on the banks of envy and phony self-esteem reach critical mass – any time from right now to another 8-10 years. There will be no turning back once this starts, and the cost in lives and property will be truly staggering. There is absolutely no guarantee that we will ever be able to recover from such a scenario. But then, and only then can we successfully engage in our own ‘long march’ back towards a society where human dignity and freedom aren’t mere bagatelles to bartered away for a mess of liberal socialist pottage, but are fundamental values worth living, striving, fighting – and dying for.”
So, 8-10 years at the OUTSIDE, starting back in 2010. Or anytime up to that period. By my mathematical genius reckoning, that’s 2018-2020, coming up real fast. By then Cankles will have had a full one to three years of working her demonic black arts on the country.
@Mr. Dave, or anyone else interested:
http://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/fewer-guns-more-expertise/
http://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/the-frugal-expert-part-2-revolver-efficiency/
http://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/frugal-expert-part-3/
Still firing on all cylinders here at 22:36…
“Politically-correct speech would have us falsely proclaim that a human person can be whatever gender they want, whenever they want. There is even a gender designation called “gender fluid” in which the human person can flow from one gender to another as effortlessly as water flows down a stream. One hundred years ago the claim to be “gender fluid” would have merited a straight-jacket; today it may yield international approbation and acclaim.”
And once again, tedious all spelling/grammar Nazi OFD points out that it is “straitjacket” not “straight-jacket.” Damn.
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2016/04/born-that-way-evolution-humanity-sex-and-gender.html
And once again, tedious all spelling/grammar Nazi OFD points out that it is “straitjacket” not “straight-jacket.” Damn.
+100
(I don’t think anyone here minds being corrected. I for one, am equally driven by the poor spelling/grammar I see elsewhere. This site is of course almost flawless.)
I make a special effort to use complete sentences, good grammar, decent spelling, and some better than 4th grade vocab. My last few comments had poor capitalization, and I almost couldn’t hit send without fixing it…. but time was short.
Funnily enough, it’s easier to use complete words and proper grammar when texting on my phone too. Swype makes it simple, as does Dragon Naturally speaking.
No TXT spk 4 me.
nick
“This site is of course almost flawless.”
It is, and has been. I also catch my own typos and grammar mistakes right after I’ve posted something and within the deadline to fix it.
“I for one, am equally driven by the poor spelling/grammar I see elsewhere.”
Ditto. And sadly I see it nowadays more than ever, in magazines, books, newspapers, and previously during my sentences at all the prolecube farms.
The reason I’m such a nitpicking son-of-a-bitch about it is that I learned to read by age four and do book reports a couple of years later. There were always books in the house and when I was old enough, my parents got me library cards at every town we lived in. I’d take out my limit and then use my mom’s card limit and typically stagger out with a dozen books at a crack. Then I took all the AP English courses in high skool and majored in it for “college.” Plus several years of grad skool studies.
And I still read a LOT, so stupid little things just jump right out at me constantly. But it happens so much now, and coupled with the lack of any historical or geographical knowledge on the part of the younger generations, I put it down to the lousy publik skool system which is much more concerned with PC bullshit and self-esteem than the three R’s.
No doubt those nice young men in their clean white coats will be coming to take me away, haha…because I’ve finally flipped out crabbing about someone’s spelling or grammar; hell, they’ll put me in a STRAITJACKET.
There could be HOPE and REAL change.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/americans-revolt/
It’s nice to think so, anyway, late at night, just before crashing and burning.
“pick one that fits your hand, and feels natural…”
Sounds good 😉
On the transgender subject, I think Mr. Bayou Renaissance Man put it best:
“I have real sympathy (and I really mean that) for those who suffer from gender dysphoria. They are, indeed, in need of help – but that help should not be to enable, encourage, legitimize and reinforce their dysfunction. It should rather be to treat it, cure it if possible, and – since a cure is seldom medically possible – provide them with coping mechanisms to help them live a more normal life. Furthermore, such approaches should not involve forcing the rest of us to pander to their dysfunction”
I don’t think anyone here minds being corrected. I for one, am equally driven by the poor spelling/grammar I see elsewhere. This site is of course almost flawless.
The way I see it their is only won way to do it correctly. So your spot on and I except you’re statement.
The way I see it, there are two ways to do it: my way and the wrong way.
@OFD, thanks for links to The Frugal Expert. Added to my daily reading list.
That Bayou Renaissance Man quote sounds about right to me.
@Mr. DadCooks; yeah, that Lucky Gunner site has some good info, and also good prices on ammo, like one or two others.
The way I see it their is only won way to do it correctly. So your spot on and I except you’re statement.
Stop with the Ebonics, already.
“I have real sympathy (and I really mean that) for those who suffer from gender dysphoria. They are, indeed, in need of help – but that help should not be to enable, encourage, legitimize and reinforce their dysfunction. It should rather be to treat it, cure it if possible, and – since a cure is seldom medically possible – provide them with coping mechanisms to help them live a more normal life. Furthermore, such approaches should not involve forcing the rest of us to pander to their dysfunction”
I note that according to the news, Cait has not inverted her penis yet. And, her reality show producers are urging her to start dating guys. So, are we faking here or do many transgender people not go all the way?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3502186/Caitlyn-Jenner-admits-t-bring-dating-men-children-docuseries-Cait.html
While we fret and worry about Bruce’s plumbing and whether he’s gonna go on dates with actual men, our rulers are laughing their asses off and watching us like ants in a maze that they turn topsy-turvy every few minutes to be entertained by the ensuing chaos. Same deal during the so-called Prez campaign/election circus.
The big question, which is not even a question anymore, is whether our rulers will allow Field Marshal Rodham to apply the coup de grace to this country, in its writhing death throes soon enough.
Yet, the FBI can’t bring Cankles to justice for egregious violations of laws on classified information.
If you track what has leaked from the investigation, they are doing this from the bottom up. You talk to the low level grunts, work up the command chain, find a vulnerable person and get them to talk, then talk to the people at the top. This seems to be what they are doing. The fact that the guy who set yup the server has been offered some kind of immunity means that there may be a grand jury and that the lawyers at justice are definitely on board. The FBI needs and air tight case to hand to Justice so that indictments can get handed up.
So, are we faking here or do many transgender people not go all the way?
Some can’t for health reasons. Some can’t because the surgery is not covered by most insurance and is expensive. Also, you generally have to dress and live as the sex you identify with for at least a year to get considered for surgery, although hormone treatment can be started and is cheap.
“If you track what has leaked from the investigation…”
Which is kind of problematic, is it not? How do we poor rubes and bumpkins out here distinguish anymore between what is truth (Pilate’s question), cui bono (Cicero’s), and what is just boilerplate agitprop and disinformation?
http://www.luckygunner.com/lounge/fewer-guns-more-expertise/
I like “The Outlaw Josey Wales” highly unrealistic but cool movie. Josey Wales carries one rifle and four pistols.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075029/
I watch the Josey Wales flick every year, along with “The Man Who Would Be King,” “Barry Lyndon,” “Breaker Morant,” “Doctor Zhivago,” and “The Exorcist.”
Faced with roughly the same circumstances only in modern times, I’d carry two rifles and two pistols. Assuming I wasn’t humping it all on foot across a hostile landscape, that is.
I was perfectly happy with my small collection until I accidentally lost all of them.
Faced with roughly the same circumstances only in modern times, I’d carry two rifles and two pistols. Assuming I wasn’t humping it all on foot across a hostile landscape, that is.
In the time of “Josey Wales”, weren’t 99.9% of all rifles single shots? The Henry repeating rifles were not introduced until the 1860s and were jealously guarded by their owners. Whereas that Colt .44 black powder revolver was a six shot. And the Colt Navy .36 black powder was a five shot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_rifle
Stop with the Ebonics, already.
I’s dun’t member axing yo pinion.