08:52 – Barbara is cleaning house this morning. She plans to watch golf this afternoon, and wanted some kit stuff to work on while she did that. So I’ll have her cutting, packing, and labeling fabric swatches for forensic kits. That’s 90 each of six different fabrics, or 540 total envelopes.
I’ve finished our taxes, so I’ll get them packaged up and ready to go into the mail tomorrow.
The Fed thugs are bailing from that site in Nevada, as of yesterday morning, anyway; covering themselves in glory once again, but thank God nobody was seriously hurt or killed. The show went south right after the nooz about Harry Reid and the Red Chinese trying to buy up land for some kind of “green” operation out there. Plus the constant internet coverage, and no thanks at all to the MSM, of course.
Some of us are wondering, however, if this was a Fed operation to identify various players for later, and also to assess the level of public reaction and whatever weapons and tactics capabilities of said players. So they got what they wanted, no matter a bit of egg on their faces, and will be back with a new and improved operation there or more likely, somewhere else.
62 here now and overcast, with rain expected the next couple of days; weather liars speculate that tomorrow it will hit 80. That is as warm as I care to stand it. And not for long, either.
MIL’s birthday today, 85 or 86, I forget which; pretty spry, gets around pretty well, still paints, moves furniture, etc. Probably outlive me.
Now that the thugs have left NV, I wonder if we will ever find out how much they spent to harass this guy. After the FedThugs said they were leaving, the peeps were having none of it and closed off I15 by standing across it making sure they boogied. Of course, the cops responded in force with SWAT battle wagons to keep the peace. Gotta protect the FedThugs. Brothers in arms and all that.
Just FOIA that information, Mr Atoz. I’m sure the government of the people, by the people, for the people will be prompt in their response.
Oh, they’ve spent millions on this caper. Way more than the amount they claim is owed by that family. And how many friggin’ turtles did they squash with all their SUVs and battle wagons in the meantime?
This was all theater, and probably a dry run. Someone was asleep at the switch somewhere and forgot how this chit goes viral on the net, esp. the part about that piece of shit Reid and his shenanigans with the Red Chinese.
If I was in charge I’d put him up against a wall with most of the current and past White House administrations, the Congress, most of SCOTUS, and I’d give that fat old turd Kissinger the Klinghoffer treatment right over the side for shark chum.
Gee, now I’ve definitely blown my apparently ongoing background investigation….
The looming battle, as I think most of us here agree, is states vs. Feds. It is absolutely amazing how many issues Indiana alone has with Fed policies, and is fighting them. The only solution I see is starving the Fed, but since they print the money, that is going to be a near impossible accomplishment.
Who to blame for daylight savings time?
Although Benji Franklin suggested it hundreds of years ago, the Germans, it appears, were the first to actually start it back during WWI.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26935867
We could always repeal the 17th Amendment.
Various states have suggested that they might institute their own coinages.
I’d like to see North Carolina call our primary coin the denarius. It should resemble the ill-fated 20-cent piece of the 19th century: call it 5 grams of a 90:10 silver:copper alloy. That’d be worth roughly $2.90 in US currency at the current silver price.
Smaller denominations could be coined lighter and with lower percentages of silver. For example, a sestercius (one quarter of a denarius) could be a 2.25 gram coin of 50:50 silver alloy.
I like Bob’s coinage idea and maybe various states and regions could hire him on as a remote consultant accordingly. I have a small handful of Roman and Greek coins that I’ve had since I was a kid; a silver denarius with a portrait of Vespasian (who, with his son and future emperor Titus conquered and sacked Jerusalem and made off with a bunch of stuff that is still unknown with current whereabouts likewise); and a silver drachma with Alexander. Plus a few later bronze Roman coins. I may start collecting again at some point but the priority is gonna be pre-1965 “junk” U.S. and Canadian silver.
As for repealing Amendments and so forth; I’d like to see a whole new Constitutional Convention, but in this day and age, it’s anyone’s guess how it would turn out. It seems this country would prefer Bob’s slow slide toward dystopia.
Here’s idiot Harry Reid weighing in on the cattle rustling in NV. It makes me puke him saying “We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over,” What a prick. I guess he’s the Executive Branch now.
http://www.mynews4.com/news/local/story/Sen-Reid-on-Cattle-Battle-Its-not-over/nT5weKnqFkezV14I5GhESg.cspx
Gee, Harry, howzabout you let us examine your financial and otherwise relationships with the Red Chinese? Your day of reckoning is coming you old fart.
But we know this is not the end of it, anyway; the Fed Leviathan can’t stand having its authority even questioned, let alone undermined like this. See William Griggs’s and Karen Kwiatkowski’s essays on this caper. (today’s Lew Rockwell site).