{"id":6821,"date":"2020-10-12T05:33:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=6821"},"modified":"2020-10-16T12:36:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T16:36:45","slug":"mon-oct-12-2020-columbus-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2020\/10\/12\/mon-oct-12-2020-columbus-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mon. Oct. 12, 2020 &#8211;  Columbus Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   Hot and humid.\u00a0 Because why not?<\/p>\n<p>Happy Columbus Day.\u00a0 Without whom we might still be serfs in Europe.\u00a0 And because FYTW.<\/p>\n<p>The air was saturated all day Sunday, to the point that water in the driveway didn&#8217;t dry.<\/p>\n<p>I worked on little things all day.\u00a0 Got ready for the roofers.\u00a0 Did some stuff in the house to make my wife happier.\u00a0\u00a0 Did a little bit of stuff in the garage.\u00a0 Set another rat trap for whatever is roaming my food shelves.\u00a0 There was gnawing on a bucket overnight so the visitor is still coming.\u00a0 Nothing in the glue traps, so I moved them around a bit.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll add more if the problem doesn&#8217;t resolve itself in a day or two.\u00a0 I may add more anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Spent an hour in the pool with the family.\u00a0 It was a good day.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to see stuff online that is adding to my concerns about the insurgency.\u00a0 People are noticing and identifying the Command and Control structure for the socialists driving the protests and riots.\u00a0 Well, not the structure, but that there is one.\u00a0 Things are starting to show up in the live streams, and during the incidents that are clear indicators to people who know what to look for.\u00a0\u00a0 There is an organization at work.\u00a0\u00a0 They are training.\u00a0 They are supplying.\u00a0 They are escalating.\u00a0 They are exploring tactics. \u00a0 The latest incident is the &#8220;security guard&#8221; shooting a &#8216;patriot&#8217; protester in the face and killing him.<\/p>\n<p>There is evidence that the security guard\/ bodyguard is more than he seems, or at least a fellow traveler.\u00a0\u00a0 There is some video that looks suspiciously like the event was instigated and controlled and provoked.\u00a0 What happens with the guy next should be revelatory.\u00a0 Spicy times are here for some people and in some places.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t be there applies.<\/p>\n<p>What would your life look like if your movements were constrained by real, well considered fear\/concern over being physically attacked in public if you just happened to be in the wrong place?\u00a0 The baying mob can make your supermarket a no-go zone.\u00a0 Or your bank.\u00a0 Or the mall where your kid works.\u00a0 Or your block.\u00a0 What if they decide your day care or private school has too much &#8216;privilege&#8217; and mobs it?\u00a0 Can&#8217;t happen?\u00a0 There are places where the private school kids don&#8217;t wear uniforms anymore because it marks them for kidnapping.\u00a0 There are places where having a sticker for your kids&#8217; school on your vehicle can set you up for all sorts of bad things.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a company parking sticker or hang tag on your vehicle?\u00a0 Does your neighborhood have parking stickers?\u00a0 Do you have a school or team sticker on your car?\u00a0 What about your license plate trim ring?\u00a0 A school sign in your yard?\u00a0 Any political slogans?\u00a0 Vanity plates that are easy to remember?\u00a0 How easy would it be to dox you from a picture of you or your car?\u00a0 There are people on the right making note of campaign signs in people&#8217;s yards, I&#8217;m certain the left is doing so too.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> to believe that is the direction we&#8217;re headed, but I see escalation wherever I look.\u00a0 We all know the end state of marxist\/socialist government- people kneeling next to an open grave.\u00a0 As I pointed out at dinner to my kids, it has happened within living memory and on this planet.\u00a0 100 Million dead.\u00a0 There are wealthy and powerful forces at work here trying it again.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, resist.\u00a0 No, don&#8217;t stick out.\u00a0 The best partisan is the guy no one would ever suspect.\u00a0 It may come to that.\u00a0 I hope not, but because hope isn&#8217;t a strategy, I&#8217;ll keep working to improve my situation, and to keep stacking.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>added- note too that whenever there is an incident like this now, someone finds the pics that link X person to other protests, other gatherings.\u00a0 Often it&#8217;s their own social media that provides the link.\u00a0 The cops and three letter agencies are using social media as the world&#8217;s most pervasive intelligence gathering tool, even our locals mention it on the scanner.\u00a0\u00a0 Don&#8217;t feed the beast.\u00a0 And don&#8217;t be complacent.\u00a0 If your smartphone, vizio tv, or alexa can hear you talk about vacations and you start to see targeted ads, it can certainly hear political speech too.\u00a0 Is anyone doing that today?\u00a0 Will they be in 6 months?\u00a0 6 years?\u00a0 The recordings never go away.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>   Hot and humid.\u00a0 Because why not?<\/p>\n<p>Happy Columbus Day.\u00a0 Without whom we might still be serfs in Europe.\u00a0 And because FYTW.<\/p>\n<p>The air was saturated all day Sunday, to the point that water in the driveway didn&#8217;t dry.<\/p>\n<p>I worked on little things all day.\u00a0 Got ready for the roofers.\u00a0 Did some stuff in the house to make my wife happier.\u00a0\u00a0 Did a little bit of stuff in the garage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2020\/10\/12\/mon-oct-12-2020-columbus-day\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Mon. 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