09:33 – As I was getting ready to walk Colin after dinner last night, I turned on the natural gas logs for the first time this season to test them. I expected them to go out, because the oxygen sensor gets clogged with dust and needs to be blown out with canned air every year. I then walked Colin and by the time we got back I’d completely forgotten that I’d turned on the logs. In fact they had gone out, which I remembered in the middle of the night. So today we’ll vacuum out the fireplace and blow out the oxygen sensor so we’ll be prepared for cold weather.
I just got back from walking Colin. It feels like winter out there: 41F (5C) with winds gusting to 30 mph (48 kph). I don’t know what that translates to under the newer (post-2001) politically-correct wind-chill scale, but on my older (and realistic) wind-chill scale it felt like it was down in the teens F.
Using the undocumented temperature adjustments in the computer model from University of East Anglia, the wind-chill temperature is 107F, global warming is real, and we’re all gonna diiiiieeeee!!!!
No, Steve!
This is an odd-numbered week!
The ice age is coming and the wind-chill temperature is -107F, global cooling is real, and we’re all gonna diiiiieeeee!!!!
Meanwhile, back in the Internet Time Sink I
found about an hour’s worth of time sink.
I liked the ones about Obama’s dating profile and electile dysfunction (especially when the incumbent Boehner correctes the mis-pronunciation of his name).
One thing we know for sure is that we’re all gonna dieeeeeee!
Whether it’s hot or cold when we do will likely prove largely irrelevant.
Beeyooteeful autumn day here on the bay but VERY windy. That should take care of most of the remaining leaves. 38 with a “chill factuh” of 28 and looks like Maine will get up to a foot of snow tonight.
‘It’s cold today in Wagga Wagga’
OFD, the experts have spoken. Your observations are null.
Now get ready to shovel that global warming tomorrow morning onto the manure pile.
One thing we know for sure is that we’re all gonna dieeeeeee!
One would think.
However, back in ancient times when my wife was in her second year of college, she and a friend of hers took Anatomy 101 for an elective.
The first day in the course, the professor declared “Due to advances in modern medicine, the death rate has declined dramatically.”
Having identical thoughts, my wife and her friend did the eye-brow waggle thing with each other. While it was never clear to me whether she won the toss or lost, her friend raised her hand.
“Yes?” said the professor.
“Um, professor, about the decline in the death rate. Could you elucidate? The last I heard it was still at 100%, unless you’re Christian, then it’s at 100% minus 1.”
The lady spent the rest of the quarter branded as a smart-ass trouble maker.
Yep, we’re all going to die:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-02/ipcc-say-greenhouse-levels-highest-point-in-thousands-of-years/5861314
I am shaking in my boots.
Mostly from the cold.
Hmm. Putin stopped clock changes in Russia this year. There is renewed pressure to stop doing the clock change worldwide.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/studies-cast-doubt-on-value-of-daylight-saving-time-1414775919?mod=trending_now_3
(That link worked for me and I’m not a subscriber to any Murdock newspaper, nor will I ever be.)
The article maintains that Indiana never changed time until 2006, and that is not correct. During my childhood, Indiana experimented with being on Eastern Time and Central Time, and one year even did ‘double Daylight Savings Time’. My personal take was that we should be in the Central Time zone year-round, not Eastern.
I have long doubted that there was any ‘savings’ to be had by changing time, and my body hates adjusting to new times. It took me months to adjust to European time when we first moved to Berlin, and over the years I had to make that adjustment repeatedly as I had months-long contract work back the US and 2 parents’ passings after we officially moved to Berlin in 2001.
When you live far north, there is a choice: it is dark until you are at work, or it is dark before you go home. Does it really make a difference which it is?
Kids going to school in the dark is an issue? Then stop moving school hours ever earlier. When I went to school, the building opened at 08:15 and the school day started at 08:30. The high school in Tiny Town starts at 07:30 these days, and I remember when we moved to Boston, the town of Natick also began school very early at 07:30, which meant kids were outside to catch the school bus as early as 06:30. That is child abuse, IMO.
The article points out that lighting is now a small part of overall electric expenses, and time changes do not affect commercial concerns at all, because lights are on during business hours, and the time change does not affect that. A pretty thorough Australian study demonstrated that daylight savings time only transferred lighting expenses from morning to evening (or vice-versa). One big difference is that is not true in Europe. In France and Germany, laws require natural lighting to shine on workers, and there was no place I worked where lights were turned on (or needed) during daylight hours — even on cloudy winter days. That is a sharp contrast to America, where workers are forced sweatshop style to work in dark rooms where artificial lighting is the only illumination.
Every time I see one of those stories Miles points to, cynic that I am, I cannot resist asking myself “How does this person make a living?”
Then, in a blinding flash of light I have a revelation: “He makes his living writing reports like this! If he didn’t do that, he might have to get a real job!”
I did note, however, that the Australian scientist advocating global warming was doing so in Copenhagen.
Can’t help but wonder, though, if true to his concerns about fossil fuels he took a paddle-powered canoe to get there.
Surely he didn’t hop on a fossil fuel burning jet plane.
Note the bait-and-switch: warmingists used to claim that temperatures were incontrovertibly up and that the cause was greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide. And there were all sorts of computer models that conclusively showed the link between CO2 levels and temperature increases. (Never mind that the raw data and the computer models were secret. Because the science is settled.)
Now, because steady increases in global temperatures are increasingly difficult to demonstrate (though that hasn’t resulted in any reduction in unsupported assertions of temperature increases), the warmingists point to increases in CO2 levels and let the audience conclude therefrom that increases must be going up and Something Must Be Done. Never mind that according to the previously settled science, increases in CO2 should inevitably lead to increases in temperature, which, as noted, seems not to be happening.
If climate scientists and their camp followers want to be treated like scientists, they should begin acting like scientists.
The time change thing is a mattuh of little concern to us here, esp. during the winter months, when we go off to work or skool in the dahk and come home in the dahk; by mid-December it’s dahk by 3-4 PM, depending on your location in a valley or up on a hill. Plus Mrs. OFD is routinely crossing time zones; right now she’s three hours “behind” me out in Phoenix. We still find it kinda amazing in mid-summer, well, mid-June, when it stays light out to 8:30-9:00 at night.
I note that when I was working at my last miserable IT drone gig, I’d see the kids waiting for their buses at 6:30 in the morning but it hadn’t gotten that cold yet. As everyone knows here, I’d close down the publik skool system entirely anyway, but this is just more ammo for me. Making children stand out in sub-zero temps in the dahk waiting for a bus to move them to their daily warehousing/baby-sitting prison.
During the busing “crisis” in the greater Boston area in the early 1970s there were kids getting bused two hours each way to satisfy the latest innovations of our commissars, and I’m sure their education was thereby improved immeasurably, probably on several levels, not least an illustration of the venality and hypocrisy of their rulers.
One of my former IT drone colleagues grew up in the Hyde Park/Roxbury area during that era and he told me that Teddy came by the skool one time to wax all statesmanlike and the kids threw cigarette butts and gum wads at him and flipped him off. Said colleague still works in IT down there, for Staples, but his real job has always been that of bookie. He sits on his porch of a summuh evening with a selective-fire Uzi and three Rottweilers. No one bothers him.
Actually, I’m not. My RBT cloning project is going well. I’ve distributed copies of my genome to thousands of people to ensure that there will be a continuing supply of mes. I figured it was the least I could do for humanity.
Does Barbara know about your genome dissemination program?
So did this guy.
@B
Well, she reads my page and this project has been going on for more than 15 years, so I’d say she does.
@F
No, no. I’m not interested in contributing only half the genome of children. I want to contribute 100% of it. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be little mes. They’d be little half-mes.
-gasp-! More global warming! And this is near RBT, so he’d better amp up that human instrumentality project of his.
‘I can infect whomever I please’. Shockingly, not Kaci Hickox!
One notes the hair coloring and facial metal piercing, among other characteristics, and one then has a vision of the Western future.
She’s a natural for the current regime’s leadership cadre.
Joy.
I wonder how the rules in prisons apply to someone on the street.
Here in Alabama, when an HIV positive inmate tries to bite a corrections officer they get an extra trial for attempted murder.
Free Kindle prepper book of the day:
Survival Pantry
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L1HHDP6
Looks like once again, Canadians have better sense than we do.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29861563
“The WHO opposes travel bans as a method of containing Ebola.”
I just spoke by phone with Roger and Pete and they told me this was utter balderdash. And the other day, Halloween, I heard a clash of cymbals and the sound of a drum kit toppling over.
“The deadly EV-D68 enterovirus epidemic, which struck thousands of kids this fall, was likely propelled through America by President Barack Obama’s decision to allow tens of thousands of Central Americans across the Texas border, according to a growing body of genetic and statistical evidence.”:
http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/31/obamas-border-policy-fueled-epidemic-evidence-shows/
And rumor has it that BHO wants to import foreign Ebola patients ….
ObolaWadfuck will finish off the US with his amnesty executive orders. A surreal novel of a Dystopian future couldn’t read better.
Death by global ejaculation is now scheduled for 2100. If the libturds move it any further to the future, nobody will give a shit and it will fade away.
The use of fossil fuels must be phased out by the end of the century, UN scientists have warned despite growing concerns over energy supplies.
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued stark predictions that continued greenhouse gas emissions will cause ‘severe, pervasive and irreversible’ impacts around the world.
In its latest assessment of global warming, which was published yesterday, it urged governments to cut carbon dioxide emissions by up to 70 per cent by 2050.
When does the US intend to use its veto power over all these grandiose plans, the way Russia or China do to any plan we come up with?
Though that story doesn’t go into it, somehow all these UN thingies require technological countries like the US, England, Japan and others to just ban all this stuff overnight and never take it back up despite sinking back to the stone age while having special exemptions that allow the third world countries (China and Russia included) to have zero cut backs and even increases of exactly the same technologies.
Next it’ll be “well, yeah, you’ve switched to wind farms and nuclear and that has cut your CO2 emissions. But, you see, now we have a different problem. Your windmills are chopping up birds and heat emissions from your nuke plants are too high, so shut them down, too.”
The US ambassador to the UN should be instructed to sit through all those long speeches with ear buds inserted, listening to their ipod.
The only verbal response the ambassador should make to anything is “VETO”.
That combined strategic vision/attack will have CONUS without anyone left to drive any vehicles, and thus will conclude the days of Happy Motoring.
The SteveF notebook page again: if an enemy power sought to render North America and western Europe null and void, how would they have gone about it differently? (be sure to add in the waves of hadjis who’ve inundated Europe over the past thirty years and our own kow-towing to this faction and that over the same period)
@medium wave – in my little corner of paradise in Washington State there have been several EV D68 deaths in young children who have recently arrived from “the South”. Since these are “travelers without portfolio” their deaths are not being recorded in the usual fashion, hence only the health care providers know what is really happening (my wife is an RN at the “county hospital”, read where all the GOMERs/no-pays are sent).
There is an opportunity for a Pulitzer here. Oh, I forgot, there are no more real investigative reporters.
There are a few investigative reporters remaining, but anyone looking into an Obamess would immediately be branded a conservative and thus ineligible for a Pulitzer. (Not ineligible under the stated rules, but ineligible in practice.)
Does anyone know of well-regarded alternatives to Pulitzer prizes? Digging around a bit didn’t find me any, which is suggestive.
All prizes, medals and decorations have long been suspect to this correspondent, whether military, civvie or athletic/sporting. They mean nothing whatsoever to me.
I just finished “The Beauty and the Sorrow,” an “intimate” history of the Great War, and journal and diary accounts of a couple of dozen ordinary people caught up that war, from both sides and all walks of life. Highly recommended. A reading of this and/or the late Paul Fussell’s two books about the world wars should suffice to shatter any long-held myths or stereotypes inculcated in us by our publik skool teachers and media.
Oh, and any attempt to report on the death of immigrant children and the spread of their diseases will result in massive backlash from the usual suspects, so a word to the wise. Especially if it comes from the fascist troglodyte conservatives and Nazi Republicans. Who are all rayciss, of course, plus xenophobes and nativists.
Here’s an interesting use of DNA to catch (possibly) father/son crims:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-03/father-son-dna-link-irma-palasic-bashing-death-and-break-in/5861888
Out of Afrika:
The “Spanish” influenza outbreak and mass deaths of 1917-19 worldwide.
HIV/AIDS
Ebola
Would one be terribly politically incorrect to also mention slavery, cannibalism, and genocide? And to advocate that *all* travel to and from the entire continent cease?
One might also advocate a similar course of action for most of the “Middle East.”
Free and open trade and relations with them as what wants to likewise, on a even playing field. And give the rest a good leaving-alone.
Looks like this is gonna be the coldest night of the week, at 29, with zero precip.
And the media are reporting predictions of general Repub victory in the elections, but who cares? What difference does it make, as somebody said recently?
Run for office Dave…
President OFD? Town dog-catcher OFD?
It’s gonna be in the 50’s at night in Vegas. I’m flying south for the Winter. It’s too cold here. 🙂
re Africa: Let Africa sink.
re temperature: Watch it, OFD. Any more statements about this not being short-sleeve weather will see the UN black helicopters heading your way. The UN Intestinal Panel on Creeping Crud just said that climate change (read: global warming) is real and man-made, and that the vast majority of scientists support their findings. Dissent will not be accepted. The science is settled!
re slavery: To be fair, that’s been a blight all around the world since before history began. Can’t blame that one on Africans. (Though it’s perfectly fair to point out that black Africans enslaved other black Africans and sold them to Europeans and Arabs. Plenty of blame to go around on that one.)
If OFD makes Prez, I want to be Secretary of Velvety Diplomacy and International Feelz. The US hasn’t had a Secretary of War since my mother was a little girl. With all the Wars on This-n-That being declared, we obviously need a Secretary of War again … but with a kinder, gentler title.
(You’d think that the Secretary of State should be the Secretary of Diplomacy, but one of my first acts as Secretary of Velvety Diplomacy and International Feelz will be to bomb the crap out of the Harry S Truman Building. The Department of State is hopelessly inept and corrupt at the same time, and no effort should be made to salvage it.)
” It’s too cold here. :)”
20s at night here, too warm; I’m heading north.
“Town dog-catcher OFD?”
The town dog-catcher with the same first name as me here showed up again at our back door yesterday to report our dawg had been “shitting” on a neighbor’s lawn the day before. Which was bunkum. The first time this gummint stooge showed up was to bitch at us for our dawg not being on a leash and he was roaming the ‘hood and sniffing around and not causing a problem and being friendly to everyone. The complainant ass-hat in both cases is a doddering old fucktard who walks his English Springer Spaniel up and down the streets here, a very high-strung and nervous basket-case young mutt, on a forty-foot leash and he has zero control over it while he yells at it and lets it crap all over everyone else’s lawn. He makes a big huge show of walking the dog on that leash and causing a damn ruckus with our dog (in the house or on his run in the back yard) or the next-door neighbor’s dogs (behind a fence in his garage). The noise and ruckus causes all our dogs to bark so this nitwit hollers at our dogs and waves his cane at them, causing them to bark even more. Then he tattles on us to the State functionary that our dawgs are outta control.
A couple of weeks ago we noticed he wasn’t walking his dog past here anymore; come to find out in the local paper, his mutt had been attacked by an American Pit Bull Terrier and a pit bull mixed-breed, allegedly, on another street a couple of blocks away. So the state goon took away the pit bull and moved it outta town and issued a citation to the owners and $50 tickets. Nitwit’s dog got a few cuts, nothing serious. And dollars to doughnuts nitwit and his mutt provoked the other dogs by being on that long leash and crapping on their lawn and yipping at them first.
Anyway, wife told me she had the dog out in the yard with her the other day and didn’t let him out of her sight; and I take him out now on a leash and/or tie him up to his run by the back door. Nitwit probably saw another golden retriever that lives a few blocks away on his lawn, not ours. So tomorrow I gotta write a note to this asshole with a cc to the selectboard about our nuisance wack job neighbor and his nutty mutt. Yes, big doings here in northern Vermont!
“…the UN black helicopters heading your way.”
Charles and his little buddies in SEA showed me how to take out helicopters.
“…bomb the crap out of the Harry S Truman Building. The Department of State is hopelessly inept and corrupt at the same time…”
Back in early ’89 my first wife and I were in Mordor visiting The Wall and I happened to glance up at one point and see that building. I had no control over this; my vision turned green-black and my head felt like it was on fire. I’ve never felt that level of visceral hate and loathing as I did on that day in that moment, and fantasized very strongly about blowing that building up. And I’ve never forgotten that.
Read a trade treatise somewhere on the state of journalism recently. It chronicled how investigative journalism is dead and gone, as is a whole lot of ordinary reporting. Deaths are no longer reported for free. Either you can pay to have your plaudits printed for the deceased, or — if you are unwilling to pay, — then the undertaker will provide the info and pass the newspaper’s charge along to you, buried in his bill.
Reporting on education and school boards is now non-existent — even in the biggest cities. One thing that is happening, is that some former journalists are finding funding from various sources (similar to public radio and TV) to fund online cooperatives that specialize in things like education reporting. Newspapers then pick up these stories, like they once did from cooperative news bureaus, and print them for a bit more exposure than online would give them. Chalkbeat.org is one that does educational reports in a number of states, including Indiana and Indianapolis. Similar organizations are forming to report on other topics, including business news.
“…you can pay to have your plaudits printed for the deceased…”
I’ve noticed that about obits for the past several years, at least; they’re always maudlin and adulatory about whomever, and how wunnerful they were. I’m writing my own, about what an asshole I was, plus war criminal, pervert and thief, and a menace to society from early childhood.
And Mrs. OFD better see it published or I’ll be back to haunt the dickens outta this house.
“Reporting on education and school boards is now non-existent…”
Not here; it gets coverage in excruciating detail, as does high skool sports, the latter with lavish photo spreads daily; I gotta quit lookin’ at the pix of the grrlz’ lacrosse and track stars.
Maybe, on a serious note, haha, the new tech ways of reporting stuff will bring some truth and light to the world, but then again, knowing human nature, probably not.
Speaking of truth and light…
“However, the near-certainty is that those elections will be swiftly eclipsed by issues of war, peace, immigration and race, all of which will be moved front and center this November.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/patrick-j-buchanan/the-november-wars/
When both of us are working full-time, we’re in the top 10% of U.S. households for income, yet even then we were basically just getting by, how to explain that??? While still paying exorbitant state and Fed taxes and owing state and Fed taxes and being punished repeatedly and continuously and apparently forever for not filing state and Fed taxes for a few years.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/charles-hugh-smith/are-you-a-top-10-household-or-just-getting-by/
With me outta work, we’re still in the top 20% and yep, still struggling.
Yet my dad could always buy a house every time we moved; we had a car; my mom never worked outside the house; and there were five of us kids, all with clothes, toys and three hots and a cot. This was on $13,000/year.
WTF???
A small glimmer of hope from Gary North this week:
“In five years, we will be in the middle of the next President’s first — and probably last — term. We will probably be in a major recession.
Five years is hardly any time at all, unless we are in a depression or a world war. We have not seen either since 1945. Both are distant memories for those over 80. For younger people, they are high school textbook events, or History Channel events.
In terms of socially disrupting events, we have not seen anything too bad for two generations. The crises are familiar in intensity and duration. “This will blow over soon.” It always has.
What if it doesn’t? That is when there will be serious reconsiderations of the way the world works and ought to work.
Big changes are based on big changes. Big long-run changes are based on big medium-term changes. Big long-term changes are not based on big short-term changes. We have seen big short-term changes, such as 2008-9. But we have not seen big long-term changes. Harry Truman created the national surveillance state. Everything since then has been an extension of that change. But it came out of World War II.
First, the state:
The public schools of today are an extension of Massachusetts in 1837.
The higher education system is an extension of the G.I. Bill of Rights of 1946, which extended the Morrill Act of 1862.
The tax system is an extension of the 16th Amendment of 1913.
The banking system is an extension of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
Network broadcasting: KDKA, 1920, followed by federal licensing in the 1920’s.
Keynesianism is an extension of the implicit Keynesianism of Herbert Hoover and FDR.
Second, the free market:
The best way to assess the extent of any change is the shift in time budgeting. Better put, this is a shift of practical education: how we learn, how we teach.
Movies: 1903?
Computers: 1945?
Cable TV (semi-regulated): 1980’s
The World Wide Web: 1996 (Netscape graphics browser)
Wikipedia: 2001
Facebook: 2004
YouTube: 2005
Khan Academy: 2006
My point: significant changes are speeding up only outside the jurisdiction of the state. The state is trailing in the key areas of thought control. The state is losing leverage.”
“Town dog-catcher OFD?”
I don’t see it. What I see is “Town speed ordinance enforcer OFD”.
When your favorites up the street break the speed limit, break out the other ordinance and cut loose. Just make sure your neighbor and his dog are caught in the cross-fire.
All perfectly legal, you having a badge and all.
During a recent password audit by Microsoft & Google, it was found that a blonde was using the following password:
“MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofySacramento”
When asked why she had such a long password, she said she was told that it had to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one capital.
From
http://stories-etc.com/password.htm
“What I see is “Town speed ordinance enforcer OFD”.”
I want that job. Along with enforcing my arbitrary speed limits, however, no wait–screw that–we have currently reasonable speed limits already, and they still can’t deal with it apparently. But yeah, along with speed, noise level enforcement, by decibels and time of day.
“All perfectly legal, you having a badge and all.”
That’s right: having a badge now means the sky’s the limit; default setting=taser/firearm, the threat level as allegedly perceived by you. Funny, I don’t remember having this much lethal power back when I was on The Job….
“…why she had such a long password…”
That’s actually not a bad password.
Must…think…only…approved…happy…thoughts…
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2814896/The-mindreading-machine-listen-voices-head-let-paralysed-speak-again.html
From SteveF’s article on Africa, I particularly liked this:
“My favorite African story actually happened after I left the country. An American executive took a job over there, and on his very first day, the newspaper headlines read: “Three Headless Bodies Found”.
The next day: “Three Heads Found”.
The third day: “Heads Don’t Match Bodies”.
You can’t make this stuff up. “
SteveF wrote:
“…we obviously need a Secretary of War again … but with a kinder, gentler title.”
How about “Secretary of Politics by Other Means”?
Or, in The Culture universe of the late Iain M. Banks, the military was called “Special Circumstances”.
What part of the term wilderness preserve do these fools not understand?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/yellowstone-park-considers-bumping-bandwidth-26645887
Bad enough the Park Service has put in roads. Now people want electric poles to power their AC and microwaves, high-speed internet and cell towers. What next? Why not build some high-rise office buildings and apartments so the skyline will look just like being in the city.
Oh, give me a home where buffalo welfare moms roam
Where the Crips and the Bloods fray
Where often is heard a disparaging word
And the skies are smoggy all day
Home, home on the city streets…
How about “Secretary of Politics by Other Means”?
Miles, considering my previous post about Teddy Roosevelt’s pet project, I nominate the name:
“Quiet Secretary of the Big Stick”
Of course, considering today’s inept leaders, he’d probably step on it…
I keep thinking of Alexander Haig and his “I’m in charge…” statement. Seems the State department completely forgot about the little technicality of the Veep and a couple of others in the line of succession still being alive…
Too busy to even keep up with the discussions here. Another two weeks of craziness, then probably a week to catch up on everything – ok two – then it’s almost Christmas, which is a crazy time for my wife’s business. This time of year, I just take a deep breath, and hold it till sometime in Janaury…
I haven’t been following the elections much. Swiss news is saying that the Republicans will take over the Congress, but who cares – it’s just the other side of the same coin. Obama never got rid of any of the stupidities put in place by GWB (Patriot Act, etc.), he just built on top of them. The Repubs won’t get rid of any of Obama’s programs, they’ll just pile more on top.
Meanwhile, as OFD notes, even those who ought to be upper middle class are struggling to make ends meet. Between taxes, official inflation and the real inflation the government doesn’t admit to, well…
Here, we are currently seeing an unholy alliance between the clueless-left and the conservative-right: They have put forward a really bizarre initiative to limit immigration to almost nothing (that’s the “right”), and to justify this by sending aid to 3rd world countries (moral justification for the “left”). They came up with a catchy name “ecopop”, which is almost more important than the content, so there is a real danger of this brain-fart actually passing the popular vote.
I see they’ve caught Eric Frein, after all this time. Dunno why he holed up and stayed around. Leaving all sorts of traces of himself around, holing up in a – frankly – pretty obvious spot. If he were the survivalist people claimed, he would have been long gone. Hmmm…
I figure the chances are 50/50 that he’s a nut-case, or that there is a real issue here that we are not hearing – and will never hear. He will get a “fair trial”, the outcome is already a given, and then he will be locked away for life. There is zero chance that we will ever hear anything other than the official story.
Don’t forget Frein could get shot and killed in an “escape” attempt.
Hey, RBT!
I just noticed! According to the time stamps on posts, either Dreamhost doesn’t believe in the time change, or they’ve transported you an extra time zone east.
It’s all so… relative …
Yeah, the Frein story is full of holes; he was bagged within 30 miles of his starting point and the cops made a big hoopla about bringing him in the dead cop’s cruiser and handcuffs, sorta like Hitler with that railway car thing back in the day. Took our warrior-heroes seven weeks to catch him, too. Typical.
If he was a bonafide and experienced survivalist/soldier he could have been long gone and likely not found again, if ever, for decades. There is still plenty of “wilderness” left in North Murka and the State doesn’t have it all covered by drones and satellite imagery yet. It is still possible, but increasingly difficult for a person to utterly disappear in today’s world; takes a lot of planning and preparation and the person would have to completely cut off any and all relations with family, friends and colleagues pretty much forever.