09:52 – The weather today is about the same as yesterday, as expected. By the end of the week, we’re to have lows in the mid-teens (-10C) and some kind of frozen precipitation.
I finished my NC sales tax return yesterday, but I’m still working heads-down on ordering items for science kits and creating MSDSs. I haven’t gotten to work yet on our federal and state income tax returns, which puts me in a bad mood every year.
I, like most of the working minority in the nation, feel your pain. A head tax sounds like the best plan, where the obligation is to bring in the head of a career politician, welfare queen, or other parasite.
We will probably pay enough tax to buy a house in some parts of Houston this year. Wife works with the accountant on that, so after I supply the details from my business, she collates and tallies, and sends, and all I have to do is review and sign.
Blustery day here today. 63F at 45%RH with gusting winds. Sun is out though, so I’ve got seedlings to plant and cleanup to do.
Messed around on the internet most of the day yesterday, so I’m backlogged…
Better get started, eh wot?
n
Overcast and in the high 30s and expecting light varieties of precipitation all week; on the way down to Burlap yesterday it was pea soup fog everywhere.
I’m on mostly slack time today, as it’s the NFL playoffs, but I’ll keep up with the normal daily grub chores and continue being nice to my little animal friends here.
the obligation is to bring in the head of a career politician, welfare queen, or other parasite
My only problem with that option is that we should be allowed more than one. A better option is to make it like hunting feral pigs, anytime, anywhere, any number, any way.
The career politicians are worried now that Trump is in office. It has been shown that someone with no political connections can make it to the highest office. The lower scum such as congress critters and senate rodents now realize they can be replaced by someone who does not owe them favors. The people are in the process of returning the US to the people rather than elitist politicians.
Eugene, I believe (hope?) most of the hate talk is just that, talk. Most of us will ever go after people that have not threatened us or ours. Note that the definition of who is ours can be broad, however.
We aren’t seriously proposing killing career politicians aor welfare queens. We just want to push them into real, productive employment. Or to at least get their hands out of our pockets.
One of the basic tenants of our founding fathers was that government, while useful, is easily turned into a tyrant. As you yourself have noted, the tyrants are very difficult to defeat. While the US may not have all the problems that Romania has, we have plenty and many of us don’t like where we, as a country and government, are going. We are fighting to take them back.
Good news: the arrested protesters in DC will be charged with felony riot and face 10 years in prision and a 25k fine. See what happens when you trash the car of a media member? (Larry King said his SUV had the windows broken out.)
Thanks for the laugh of the morning, Mr. ech; excellent!
IIRC, there were over 200 arrests there.
Speaking of which…
…I may have come across previously as an old fascist wack job, tediously blathering about the communists and how they’ve been here beavering away since the 1930s…and maybe I didn’t provide enough data. It’s a real chore wading through a couple of dozen fat books on the subject, so try this out:
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/bracken-sends-98/
I remember seeing these assholes around a LOT during the 1960s, and I suspect many here do, too; guess what? They didn’t just stop and fade away after Reagan was elected.
Check out the actual 22-minute vid on WRS site or the Toob. It’s a pretty good overview from a Kiwi outsider.
Ah, here’s some cheering news. One of Barbara’s friends just texted her that there’d been a shooting in one of Sparta’s city parks yesterday. A punk pulled a knife on a 60-year-old guy, who prompted pulled out his pistol and shot the punk. That’s why we don’t have much violent crime up here.
Don’t underestimate us big ol’ guys. And goes to show, chit can happen even in a nice place like that. Ditto up here in Saint Albans; every once in a while, amid the usual mundane cop blotter nooz, there is some real violence. Don’t be caught short, mes amis.
Avoid cities, crowds and events, and remember that our most likely self-defense situation is probably gonna be via handgun, not AR15s or AR10s or shotguns.
I intend to also advise Princess the same way, not that she’ll listen, but I will have had my say. It’s one thing to go on down to the demonstration to get your fair share of abuse, etc., but if peeps are being really dumb and throwing bricks at armed cops, what are the chances one of them will hurt a cop and he or she or some other cop opens fire? Bear in mind also that they employ “selective-fire” weapons and that rounds tend to ricochet off cement, asphalt and glass. So you could even be half a mile away, minding yer own biz, window-shopping at the cool Apple store, and catch a tumbling round in the face. Or be trampled by a big-ass hoss or get a snootful of tear gas. None of that is pleasant.
Barbara just told me that our friend Mary Chervenak, who got mad at me stopped speaking to us a year or two ago, was at the women’s protests in DC. I hope she wasn’t hurt or arrested, but you pays your money and you takes your chances.
60 year old? Geez, there was a time when I thought that was impossibly old. I’m 16 months away now.
“Getting old is hell” ™
“…our friend Mary Chervenak, who got mad at me stopped speaking to us a year or two ago, was at the women’s protests in DC. I hope she wasn’t hurt or arrested, but you pays your money and you takes your chances.”
I hope not, too. And I also hope Princess wasn’t around any of that chit up in Moh-ree-all. IIRC, Ms. Chervenak was a full-time academic; could that have had an undue influence over the years, even in a STEM field? It’s been 25 years, but that prog atmosphere was absolutely prevalent on the four Northeast college campuses I worked and studied at. It was in the air we breathed, constantly. I, of course, as a war vet having fought actual communists and an ex-cop, was immune to it and felt it to be extremely annoying. Also having been in their milieu during some of my imbecilic teenage years.
“Geez, there was a time when I thought that was impossibly old.”
Welcome to the club. I have a small b&w snapshot of my WWI vet grandfather kneeling in back of me at age four or five, with my pet beagle. He was the same age then as I am now. Yet he looks far older than I do. I thought when I got a little older that 60 was positively ancient and pretty nearly almost dead.
I think her husband was the academic, she worked for Dow/Corning?
Just shows that even smart people think and do dumb things.
who prompted pulled out his pistol and shot the punk
Hope they give him a medal for service to the community. If enough punks got what they really deserve maybe they would think twice. (Oh wait, they can’t think. Never mind.)
Yet he looks far older than I do
I have pictures of my grandfather at my age. I don’t look nearly as old as him. I also don’t feel as old as I think he felt at that age.
Better healthcare? Better diet? Less stress over the years? Less financial hardships? Doritos? All of the above? Or is is just perception and a willingness to not accept I am as old as dirt. I don’t know.
Our physical condition, diet, and overall health is better now, and we don’t spend as much time outdoors subject to the ravages of the weather. And most of us lead much more physically comfortable lives.
Privation and hard work take their toll.
nick
“Or is is just perception and a willingness to not accept I am as old as dirt. I don’t know.”
Better health care. Check.
Better diet. Check.
Less stress over the years. Check. They had both world wars with the Great Depression in between, PLUS raising families to adulthood.
Less financial hardships. Check. See Great Depression above, plus our SS and Medicare and higher-paying jobs for more people with a much larger middle class. OTOH, the working person’s dollar ain’t what it was as recently as the Nixon Administration.
Doritos. Check. In my case Moxie and pretzels.
I think we’re also open to more of life’s opportunities, far more than what they had. So we can easily see, via a wider variety of means, that there could be more to our lives than just an endless drudgery of birth-school-marriage-job-retirement-death. I’m not expressing this well at all; I feel that we owe them tremendously and no one is more cognizant of our history than I am, but I also somehow think we have a chance and a responsibility to do more.
Maybe somebody else can phrase this better than I can.
And gee whiz, someone has, x-posted:
“Privation and hard work take their toll.”
My grandfather lost both parents, one to death and one to alcoholism and collapse, and was separated from his siblings and farmed out (literally) to a Quaker foster farm in what was then rural Bristol County, MA, circa 1890s. He later went off to the wunnerful Great War and then just worked the rest of his life, through the Depression, and saw his only son off to the Good War and his oldest grandson off to Vietnam.
None of the above. The better health, easier lives, and more youthful appearance we enjoy is all due to the beneficent aura from (regrettably) former President Obama.
Now that Trumphitler is in charge, expect to age ten years every year, and to starve to death before that because Trumphitler will drive out all the hard-working Mexican immigrants who come here from a love of picking our vegetables.
Barbara just told me that our friend Mary Chervenak, who got mad at me stopped speaking to us a year or two ago, was at the women’s protests in DC. I hope she wasn’t hurt or arrested, but you pays your money and you takes your chances.
If there was any chance for real violence, the celebrities wouldn’t have shown up. Cher and Madonna are, at this point in their careers, publicity whores, but they must have decent security.
Last week, installing a new PC in a faculty office, I heard the academics next door yakking about the bigotry at Chick-fil-A. Still flogging that deceased equine.
I hope she wasn’t hurt or arrested, but you pays your money and you takes your chances.
By all accounts the womans’ marches were peaceful. The anarchists and commies showed up to smash stuff at the inauguration.
“Now that Trumphitler is in charge, expect to age ten years every year…”
Oh, I thought that was happening to me simply because of marriage. My facial hair has gone white. Yikes.
Watching the Falcons take the Packers to the woodshed in the first half. Wow. It’s like they’re playing the local Pop Warner team. WTF???
After much thought and deliberation I have come up with a simple plan to reduce gooberment, reduce regualtions, and return power to the people (those who have a real education, job, and own property).
First, remove all environmental controls in all gooberment offices. No air conditioning, no heat other than coal heat with each employee/electee required to bring a lump of coal each day.
Second, all gooberment people (elected, appointed, hired) may only travel by horse back (okay, I’ll let them use the bus).
Because of #1 and #2 our public servants will spend a lot more time at home having to deal with their employers, we the people.
This really is not so drastic as it is the way things were back at our founding.
And we had the big protests tonight, all over the country. Turnouts like 1-2-3 thousands in the cities, and almost 30,000 in Bucharest, the capital. These are good numbers for our country, the subject of protest, and conditions. I’m pleased with them.
Here in Sibiu, at -5C (23 F), we have been about 1,500 according to my estimate, or 3,000 as this local news site says. The link contains also a relevant video of the protest here:
http://www.turnulsfatului.ro/2017/01/22/3-000-de-sibieni-protesteaza-centrul-sibiului-foto-si-video/
And for the protest in Bucharest:
http://www.hotnews.ro/stiri-esential-21549403-live-text-nou-protest-impotriva-amnistiei-gratierii-duminica-capitala.htm
[snip] Oh, I thought that was happening to me simply because of marriage. My facial hair has gone white. Yikes. [snip]
If it’s any comfort, I’m in my early 50’s, have never been married, and my hair, whiskers, and eyebrows are amazingly grey. I’m not really surprised, I found my first grey hair when I was 19.
So you can be the archetypal “gray man.”
My dad went mostly bald in his 20s but both grandfathers kept all their hair until they checked out.
Mine is thinning a lot on top but stays dark auburn/chestnut; I may cut it all off pretty soon, I dunno.
And buh-bye, Packers, 44-21, yikes. They were on Rogers like white on rice throughout, plus dropped passes, fumbles, etc.
Now for the Patriots vs. Steelers on New England turf, pretty foggy down on the field.
They were on Rogers like white on rice
Racist!
You should have said “They were on Rogers like gender neutral color on rice”. In your current statement you left out brown rice and you know that excludes much of the rice population who are now offended.
My bad!
Since President tRump is doing everything he can to waive the OfukstikCare penalty, shouldn’t the progs be sucking up to him? WTF, over? It would be cool if PtRump came out Monday with an EO simply stating “I revoke all of Obuttwad’s EOs, so there.”
An interesting week is coming.
tRump 2020! “Drain the Swamp”
Oh, yeah, Mr. OFD, as Mr. Ray says: raaaaaycisssss!
as Mr. Ray says
You did not use a gender neutral title. I am offended and will now demand a safe place, coloring books, a psychiatrist, and will be claiming 100% disability. You will also be paying for my tissues that I am using to cry.
Yeah, dat’s me, rayciss to da core! Why I had the brothers wid me in SEA and again doing the cop beats in the cities. Hmmm….
See, the problem wid a lotta peeps is they judge other peeps in the aggregate and not as individuals. Most of the assholes I’ve known in my life have been WHITE. Amazing but true dat.
More fun here:
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/schlichter-and-now-the-lefts-war-on-normal-americans-truly-begins/
http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2017/01/19/and-now-the-lefts-war-on-normal-americans-truly-begins-n2273101
Bismallah!
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/day-by-day-101/
YIKES!
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/reeking-of-box-wine-cat-piss-despair/
Was somebody snickering up in the cheap seats?
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/very-likely/
And the Patriots demolished the Pittsburgh Steelers, 36-17. A rout. They could have run up the score some more but took a knee right after the two-minute warning. Class.
And when the AFC championship trophy was presented at the end, owner old man Kraft took it immediately to the edge of the stage and handed it to the players. Class.
My fun time was watching tight end Bennett (6’8″ and 280) dancing with the Patriots cheerleaders.
Patriot Nay-shun is happy tonight and I bet Route 495 is bumper-to-bumper in both directions.
And another wacky week has come to an end:
http://takimag.com/article/the_week_that_perished_takimag_january_22_2017/print#axzz4WYMtho2z
Watched a new show on the tee-vee tonight: “Hunted”. Premise is that 12 pairs of people in SE (4 state area around Georgia) are given a one-hour head start to evade LE-type ‘hunters’ for 28 days. If they do, they win $250K. Sort of like the “Amazing Race” meets “Law & Order”.
Reality show, so some forced tension, etc, but interesting in all of the tools that the Hunters use to find the targets: cell phone tracking, ATM, social media, traffic cams, etc. The Hunters are not only LE, but ex-CIA/NSA/Military etc.
First episode was interesting; continues on Wed night on CBS. So far, the score is 1 for LE; 3 other pairs still on the run.
I seriously doubt any of the hunted pairs can last for 28 days. Unless they know what they’re doing, they’ll be picked up ricky-tick.
If it was me, I’d change my appearance as much as I could to fit in with the pop in that AO and mix in with them in some large town or city and forgo all the pixels entirely. With a one-hour head start I’d bring enough cash to eat and sleep in different places every few days. Among other things. But I bet I’d still get grabbed fairly quickly. If the LE forces have all the tracking advantages, it’s not really that fair.
@Dave: there are some limitations on the ‘perps’: one is they only have access to $500, and must be through an ATM, which are easy to track. In fact, that’s how they caught the first guys: ATM withdrawal at bus station, where they bought a ticket to get to Atlanta (where they have family and friends). So both actions not too smart.
And, the perps only get one-hour head start, although they are aware of their participation ahead of time. They just don’t know when they become instant fugitives.
There doesn’t seem to be a limit on $ they can get from friends. And some other rules that are not clearly mentioned. And there is some ‘re-creation’ of events for the camera, so not fully realistic.
But interesting enough to watch the techniques used – by both the LE and perps. I’ll watch the next episode (well, will DVR so I can skip commercials).
Well that’s just bull-chit; they HAVE to use an ATM? Why not just give up immediately? Yikes.
I’d be ready to go at an hour’s notice with a hiker-type BOB, nothing mil-spec, $500 in cash and my basic human needs good to go. With parks and woodsy areas and motels mapped out. No pixels or phones. And maybe I’d have friends at various points to hand me more cash or whatever or a place to stay.
‘Watched a new show on the tee-vee tonight: “Hunted”. ‘
A relative of mine was approached to take part in the UK version of that show. As it transpired, he couldn’t justify taking a month off his day job (he is self-employed with a business to run and staff to pay) to participate, but he and I had a lot of fun working out how we would do it. We were pretty certain that we would have beaten the trackers and, having seen the subsequent TV show, we became more certain – those who were caught generally did something absolutely moronic. Just in case he ever gets a second bite at the cherry, I am not going to reveal our techniques – suffice it to say that prior caches of cash and materials are primordial, along with prior agreement as to tactics with one or more intelligent helpers. Another point is never, ever go to ground somewhere you have been before – it’s far too easy to predict.
FTA:“Spicer said: ‘This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period – both in person and around the globe.’
This article sumerize the incorrect data that Spicer provided:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4146736/Incorrect-information-press-secretary-Sean-Spicer-used.html
Ok, he might be excused for not taking enough time to verify what he is saying. The low angle might fool someone to see a bigger crowd than what can be seen from the aerial view. And so on. Assuming he was acting honestly.
But how that Kellyanne Conway tried to defend Spicer was really lame. It reminds me of people here, who, after being caught with a lie, are acting agressively against the interlocutor, try to minimize the importance, try to change the subject, start accusing everybody else, portrait themselves as victims and so on. And not for an instant do they admit the mistake or the lie.
See her “performance” here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSrEEDQgFc8
Something that has been bothering me, in the back of my mind since Friday.
How did the rioting in DC END? The live tweets I was watching just stopped at a point. The news coverage was recycling the earlier clips.
How did it end? Why isn’t there video? Did the riot just peter out? did they all get somewhere, stand around, then the whistle blows and they all walk off?
Anyone got links?
n
Watched a new show on the tee-vee tonight: “Hunted”.
What is scary to me is that the “hunters” are no longer employed as government, LEO, or whatever agents. Yet they still have access to ATM records, cell records, surveillance cameras? When did private citizens have such access. What may not be explained is that the fugitives may have given the producers access to their online bank accounts and cell phone accounts. I don’t know.
As for the first pair that got caught, what a couple of idiots. What they should have done is purchased the bus ticket to Atlanta, then sold the ticket to someone else, and then headed to a completely different city. Diversion.
I figure I could elude the “hunters” for at least 28 days. There are parts in the hills of TN here where I could stay for a month with friends. No phone, no electricity, nothing that would indicate that anyone is living in the place. Just go there and sit.
But that would not make for watchable TV.
Sorry no links, but I heard it ended when all the Port-A-Potties filled up. The amount of trash left behind also set records.
Stupid for the press secretary to nuke his own credibility on day one. Equally stupid are the people who tweeted pictures of other crowds at other events, and claimed they were pics of the inauguration.
From all I’ve read here, the riots were unexpectedly tame. I expect the massive police presence helped. What little violence there was came “protesters” whose sole motive is to smash shop windows and burn things. They don’t care about politics, they just take advantage of the crowds to break stuff. I hope those are the ones who were arrested and are now facing felony charges.
Ray wrote:
“I figure I could elude the “hunters” for at least 28 days. There are parts in the hills of TN here where I could stay for a month with friends. No phone, no electricity, nothing that would indicate that anyone is living in the place. Just go there and sit.”
They’d trace you by your FLASHLIGHT purchases…
I’d just stay home. As long as they didn’t check there, I’d be fine.
They’d trace you by your FLASHLIGHT purchases…
Damn, you may be right. Or follow the bright lights on the horizon like the old advertising spotlights in the 50’s and 60’s.
Damn, you may be right. Or follow the bright lights on the horizon like the old advertising spotlights in the 50’s and 60’s.
Sinful admission: I bought two Red BigLarry’s on Amazon. Thanks alot, Mr. Ray.
One hour head start. It all depends how much time you’re given to prepare, really. You just need two things: (1) a way to get out of town anonymously, and (2) enough money to basically go on vacation for 28 days, paying cash for everything.
If you’re given prep time, then (2) is easy. I expect (1) is harder, because probably the searchers have also had time to prepare, for example, they may well have watchers at bus and train stations. If you can get out of the immediate area to someplace you’ve never been before, the rest should be easy.
I expect a lot of people who manage the first steps will get caught, because they will post stuff to Facebook or Twitter, or even making classic phone calls to friends and family, giving away their location.
There’s not much reality in reality TV shows.