13:02 – We’re doing a few things around the house today, but otherwise taking it easy.
I just read an interesting article by Jack Perry: The End is Not Near, It has Begun
“The end is not near. The end has begun. You wanted to know how it will end? Well, take a look around. You’re living in it. If you live in a major city, you already know this or suspect this. If you live in a rural area, you already know the federal government could disappear tomorrow and it wouldn’t affect you that much. We’re not going to fall into some dystopian dog-eat-dog future. We’re going to cease to be the United States and become a collection of different countries..”
Read the whole article. It’s not unlikely that things will begin to unfold as Perry predicts, although I think his prediction that the federal government will be able to keep things together for 10 or 20 years is probably much too optimistic. More likely, things will catch fire at some point and then the whole thing will go over like a row of dominoes, in a matter of weeks or at most months rather than years.
IIRC, I posted a link to that Perry article yesterday or the other day here. I agree; the Feds MIGHT be able to hang onto control for another five years, and then, as you say, stuff could tend to speed up like falling dominoes, just like that old Domino Theory of global strategy against the commies way back in the day. Remember how they were gonna be in Alaska and then Kalifornia if we didn’t stop them in SEA?
Then, come to find out, the commies were actually already in Mordor and NYC. We fought the wrong commies. That’s largely why I remain bitter and angry to this day and clinging bitterly to my religion and guns…etc.
And as the old saying goes, when it rains, it pours:
Wife had to spend two extra days out in Kalifornia this week (because our son the high-tech exec is traveling on biz outta-state) to baby-sit the three toddler grandkids, her 88-year-old mother, and our DIL, because the latter was having her tonsils out. Then the latter came home the night before last vomiting, and now they’re all sick, probably some hospital bug. This was the week immediately after wife did a week-long gig in mile-high Denver, and she was already beat. No spring chicken herself at about-to-turn 61. Dunno what her plans are for today, but we’re supposedly headed down to MA on Sunday, so this will be interesting. And meanwhile Princess is already headed down to MA for some music festival thing and will probably need to get back to Moh-ree-all on Monday or Tuesday. Dunno how that’s gonna work, either, unless she takes the bus.
Then I get an email from our middle brother that he had to get an ambulance for our sister because she keeled over unable to breathe. Thanks to months of chemo mixed with her regular wagon-load of meds for epilepsy. So now she’s in the ER down there, at age 55.
And I re-injured my right lower back, an old ailment from over thirty years ago, causing some movement discomfort/pain and numbness down my right leg.
But hey, the weather’s great; warming up with sun and blue skies and still doing a bit of scut and grunge work in the house anyway. Stay busy, wait for nooz.
Read the whole article. It’s not unlikely that things will begin to unfold as Perry predicts, although I think his prediction that the federal government will be able to keep things together for 10 or 20 years is probably much too optimistic. More likely, things will catch fire at some point and then the whole thing will go over like a row of dominoes, in a matter of weeks or at most months rather than years.
Pray that it does not happen quick. That is how we get a Strong Man ™. Think of some combination of Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez. However, maybe we deserve the experience of APCs in the streets.
Like OFD I’m bitter and angry.
When they write the history of the United States it will be written that it was destroyed by an elite ruling class that were educated to the point that the common sense was drummed out of them. Only thirty year ago our country was the envy of the world, but the fools decided that it wasn’t good enough and have pretty much destroyed it with the implementation of their foolish theories.
I have little hope that things are going to get better so now my one consolation is the hope that the people that have done this will eventually pay the price for it.
OFD, all you need to do is visit some of your junkie neighbors and pick up some of the goooood painkillers for your back.
Beautiful outside today, but inside kinda sucks.
A transfer program that took 3x too long to implement due to constant squeaky wheels has been put into production against my recommendation. I wanted 2 weeks of parallel, end-to-end testing to make sure all the kinks were worked out. Overruled. Now I’m scrambling to fix things that we should have fixed before putting into production. Testing is ALWAYS cheaper.
A PC that I’ve been begging to replace for 4 years died, just as its predecessor did. Blown caps on the MB, and not worth the trouble to fix. So instead of upgrading (to work with Windows 7), I’m putting together another shelved XP machine to run the software. The vendor is throwing fits because “we” ended maintenance in 2008, but they’re obligated to let me reactivate the software we bought & paid for in 2005. Sheesh.
And finally, I got a telemarketing call. At the beginning he slipped in “this call may be recorded for quality purposes”, and proceeded to talk for a full 45 seconds before pausing. The first words out of my mouth were “You may not record the call”. He said goodbye & hung up.
At least I got out at lunchtime and enjoyed the 45 degree sunshine for a while.
“However, maybe we deserve the experience of APCs in the streets.”
No, WE do not not deserve that. More of us out here are damned sick and tired of being treated like feudal peasant subjects and pushback is coming eventually. APCs can be disabled and destroyed, and their operators and crews and their families likewise, if it comes to that.
“I have little hope that things are going to get better so now my one consolation is the hope that the people that have done this will eventually pay the price for it.”
+1,000
The little offenders will pay the price, but not the high rollers; that justice will come in another phase of existence, not of this earth. My additional consolation is that there are still a LOT of good and decent people in the world, and in this country, and many of us are not gonna lie down to be trampled.
“…all you need to do is visit some of your junkie neighbors and pick up some of the goooood painkillers for your back.”
Pretty good idea, except I think they suspect I’m some kinda cop, so not likely. I’ll just have to rob them, I guess.
“…but inside kinda sucks.”
Yeah, all that sounds eminently familiar; PHB manglers interfering and creating mayhem and problems where there shouldn’t have been any. Then it’s up to YOU to fix it all, and now there is an additional pressure of time, because of time lost. And they act like it’s somehow YOUR fault, and if you don’t or can’t fix it completely with the new deadline for whatever reason, the bad boy slip goes in YOUR file.
Actually, all OFD has to do the next time he in Quebec (or anywhere else in Canukitstan) is drop into a pharmacy and pick up the generic version of 222 or Tylenol 1. These are standard doses of ASA or acetaminophen with 15mg caffeine an 8mg codeine. These are over the counter here although a pharmacist must be involved in the sale.
On the other hand, the DEA may just blow him away on his return. Just think of danger a bottle of 200 presents to the republic!
Anyway, it’s a thought. They certainly are a help (sometimes) with my back pain.
“…Princess is already headed down to MA for some music festival thing and will probably need to get back to Moh-ree-all on Monday or Tuesday. Dunno how that’s gonna work, either, unless she takes the bus.”
Don’t they have planes between Boston and Montreal?
“Anyway, it’s a thought.”
And a good one, too. So noted. Although the pain is not too bad and I know how to deal with it by now. I’m mainly concerned about wife and sister at this point today.
“Don’t they have planes between Boston and Montreal?”
Sure. But she has her car and is driving down and back up in that, back up to this house, that is. It still has current and legal MA plates from when it was her brother’s, but her dual citizenship and student status and place of residence in Moh-ree-all and the cars always cause some kinda problem at the border, either going up or coming back. So we’re stuck having to either drive her back or down ourselves, sometimes in combination with her taking the bus, which is a long and miserable ride, and at the end of it, they bring dogs on it at the border and tie everyone up one by one there for another hour. You’d think it was fucking Checkpoint Charlie at the old Berlin Wall gate back in the day. I never have any problems, but I have VT plates and an Enhanced License. She uses either her U.S. or Canadian passports.
This will change when we simply register the car in her mom’s name and put VT plates on it, but by the time we get around to doing that, she’ll only have a few months of college left up there anyway. Nobody wanted to do this when I brought it up many moons ago; “oh, the MA plate’s still good, she can use it with that, no problem, we’ll save a few bucks.” Yeah.
re getting Princess to Canada, what’s wrong with a trebuchet?
Pray that it does not happen quick. That is how we get a Strong Man ™. Think of some combination of Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez. However, maybe we deserve the experience of APCs in the streets.
BTW, if we do get a Strong Man ™, can I nominate a Charles de Gaulle wannabe? de Gaulle was actually a blessing for France, IMHO. He built the nuclear power plants and the spent fuel processing facilities, gifting their nation with cheap electric power for decades to come. Plus the high speed railroads, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle
Too bad, I do not know of any Charles de Gaulle wannabes in the USA. Maybe one will appear in the USA in the next decade. Trump is possibly close to being one but he is way too old.
“…what’s wrong with a trebuchet?”
Another great idea, esp. in light of how I got my car back this morning: empty coffee cups, lids, other rubbish, not as much as usual, though. But gas tank empty and running on fumes; had to sweat getting it to a station here. Meanwhile, sap that I am, I’d filled the tank on her car yesterday.
@OFD, “VMS Software releases OpenVMS 8.4-2”
http://www.osnews.com/story/29169/VMS_Software_releases_OpenVMS_8_4-2
“As Mark Twain famously wrote, “…the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. So with OpenVMS.”
Old square brackets is still kicking. I figured that somebody would have put it out of its misery by now.
Who needs VMS when there’s NOS/VE and NOS/BE?
I loved OpenVMS and used DCL for CLI and scripting back in the day; last version I actually worked with full-time was 7.1 and that was nine years ago. I’d LOVE to work with it again but sites that use it are few and fah between these days around here, when it used to be pretty strong in New England. It’s still big in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc., though.
“VSI also reconfirmed plans to offer OpenVMS on x86-based servers.”
And as soon as they do, I’m putting it on a machine here.
And I’ll be darned; the HQ for the guys selling and maintaining it now is right down there in Bolton, MA, just off 495 and 117, a route I used to take every night to get to work at the DEC sites in Marlborough from where I lived then in Leominster, former “Plastics Capital of the World.”
Know what? I got nothing to lose anymore in IT. I’ll bone up on it again, find training and docs, put it on a machine here and re-jigger my resume with it, removing all traces of Winblows. OpenVMS and Linux, baby! (spare time deal while I continue to work on other revenue-producing stuff).
In fact, I’ll swing by there on my trip to MA this next week; it’s right near Bolton Orchards and Bob’s Turkey Farm, which has the most delectable turkey pies, plus turkey soup, turkey stew, turkey sausage, turkey chow mein, etc., etc., and beautiful free-range T-Day turkeys. We’ll bring some back with us, oh yeah!
Also near a regular Latin Mass site, which I will also visit again.
You know dystopia is here when Obola is on the front of Popular Science. I’m surprised Bill Nye “The Douchebag Guy” isn’t next to him. Oh, yeah, Douchebag Guy thinks climate deniers should be jailed. Probably wipes his ass with the Constitution.
“…climate deniers should be jailed. Probably wipes his ass with the Constitution.”
1.) Climate change deniers are in the same verboten category as Holocaust deniers, thus the use of the same noun by the communists running the show.
2.) Ask a random sampling of Murkans to summarize our Constitution and/or Bill of Rights and see what kind of response you get. If any of them can even identify them at all. Now drop by the WH, SCOTUS and Congressional bathrooms and check out the stalls. Do the same at the New York Times, Washington Post and Boston Globe. Then slide by the major tee-vee and cable HQ facilities. Report your results here.
The Current Situation Department:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10B9Fc8BmR0
And what OFD would like to do with the whole bunch of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93kGCTOwmow
The Current Situation Department:
Well, that was certainly depressing! 🙁
The question is, will the majority of the US population allow themselves to be run roughshod over by the rest?
“…will the majority of the US population allow themselves to be run roughshod over by the rest?”
Vast majority, but you’d never know it by the last half-century of events. Slow suicide, if you ask me. So we have the SJW and BLM types, the army of grievance whores and pimps, and that other army, the FSA. And then we have a case coming up Monday:
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/04/to-be-decided-will-america-be-a-banana-republic/
Habla Espanol, hermanos y hermanas? Or هل تستطيع التحدث بالعربية؟
Is it just me, or does the use of the BLM acronym make you wonder whether the evil bastards being referred to are Black Live (don’t) Matter crowd or the Bureau of Land Mismanagement?
“Is it just me…”
It’s just you, dude. Committing multiple micro-aggressions with no trigger warning and no indication of a safe space. Hater.
choose OFD, but, is español, not espanol (alt 165 or 164), rememeber, anglo saxon is only a brief time between latin world since 453 BC
The Current Situation Department
Victocrats. Coined by Larry Elder, I believe.
BLM is Bureau of Land (mis)Management. That’s always the first thing I think when I see it, until I recognize the content.
Which begs the question – what the heck does “OFD” stand for, anyway?
Ññ. Funny how American English has disposed of all the accent marks. Makes typing in English a whole heckuva lot easier.
Old Farmer Davey
Old F*rt Dave? 🙂
Offensively Flatulent Dave?
“…choose OFD, but, is español, not espanol (alt 165 or 164), rememeber, anglo saxon is only a brief time between latin world since 453 BC…”
Yeah, but I’m too lazy to punch extra keys to get those punctuation marks, when we all know English is the Master Language of the Universe. The brief medieval time of the Anglo-Saxon Renaissance, was, yes, between “fall” of Roman Empire and then the invasions by the pseudo-Vikings in 1066. But the A-S DNA lives on and rolled forward through the Tudors yea unto the present day and those times when the Rand-McNally globe showed the British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations in all the regions colored pink, a huge slice of the planet then. The A-C continues into the American Empire and your humble northern correspondent has a major dose of it in his bones, blood and DNA, not to mention cultural upbringing, with a dash of the Celtic mania and nonsense, some of that Norse murderizing stuff, and ditto Algonqian.
“Victocrats. Coined by Larry Elder, I believe.”
I like it. May have to steal it.
“Funny how American English has disposed of all the accent marks. Makes typing in English a whole heckuva lot easier.”
Indeed. It is the language God Himself speaks.
“Offensively Flatulent Dave?”
“Often Fucked-Up Davy” Which was the case for way too many years, and now only exists as a condition due to advancing senility and decrepitude.
In my head, I read it to include both “old” and “dude”. Likely due to my upbringing. But I always defer to the owner of the name, as it is his to mangle as he sees fit.
AFAIK yes, but English is a mess sometimes to write with modals (only brute force to learn), german is easier, joint words and voila!
And the old pink map, 100 years, but remember, south is nearer culturally than east, England, as example, always is looking for their roots, Roma, the latin world always pushes against the pictos and parthia (and sendig silver to China for gadgets).
My ancestors (Compañia Catalana) knew a bit about it
but, joking, dont be upset
We don’t need no stinking accents.
(or other curvy queer marks)
“…but, joking, dont be upset…”
Not to worry, sir. I joke all the time here. Languages are fun to play with.
“german is easier, joint words and voila!”
Our daughter is fluent in German; plus Russian, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French French and Quebecois French, Greek, Turkish now, and some Mandarin Chinese. Her behavior and attitude are another story.
“… but remember, south is nearer culturally than east…”
Geographically, but not so much culturally; we are still (barely) a British Protestant country, with around 75 million Roman Catholics. And 200 million of us non-minority. Though one would never know it, and visiting Martians must think we’re about 50% Afrikan-Murkan and 90% gay or tranny.
Our Latin antecedents have mostly to do with language and law. And the latter picked up a good chunk of Germanic tribal law along the way, plus that Norse “Thing” and “Althing,” which became our New England town meetings, like the famous Norman Rockwell painting. We have a largely Germanic language with big pieces of Latin, Norman French and Greek. And it is like unto the Borg; it assimilates everything.