10:55 – Back to work on science kits today. We actually did some work yesterday, despite it being a holiday.
Barbara finished watching season six of Blue Bloods last night. It’s a corny, predictable melodrama. Fortunately Tom Selleck has significant influence on it, and his libertarian tendencies keep it from being a typical prog PC propaganda piece. It’s still prog/PC, but not as much as would be without Selleck’s influence. After the final episode, we went from hideously bad writing to good, sharp writing when we started re-watching Veronica Mars. So much of episodic TV is utter garbage that we’re always in danger of running out of things to watch. Fortunately, Barbara is now willing to re-watch good stuff in preference to watching new garbage.
Email from Jen. She and husband, brother, sister-in-law, and two nephews ran another readiness exercise from Friday evening through last night. She didn’t have much to report, because they encountered no real issues. Jen says the first couple times they did these exercises it was pretty much like camping out, but in the house. Now she says it’s not much different from just having weekend guests. She and Claire have been accumulating and testing recipes, and are getting quite good at cooking from LTS food.
They used their generator because their solar setup is still in boxes. They bought four 100W panels, three charge controllers (one MPPT and two cheap PWM for spares), and two high-capacity true sine-wave inverters. After some discussion, they decided not to install them, but to keep them stored in Faraday cages just in case. They do intend to install and test them, David doesn’t want to roof-mount them. Instead, he intends to build frames for the panels that will allow them to track the sun manually in azimuth and elevation. He believes (correctly, I think) that by re-orienting the panels as the sun moves to keep them pointing perpendicularly at the sun he can do better than the typical 300 Watt-hours per day from a typical fixed-mount 100W panel. I told Jen that I wouldn’t be surprised if David’s mount got them 500 or even 600 Watt-hours from each 100W panel on a sunny day.
While he’s in the shop, David also plans to knock together a simple box solar oven from 1X12’s and Masonite so they can experiment with solar cooking. He’s also salvaged a Fresnel lens from a friend’s dead 50″ flat-panel TV, and intends to build an altazimuth frame for it as well. With that and cast-iron pans, lids, and a Dutch oven, he thinks they’ll be able to get heat equivalent to a standard gas or electric stove and oven. I suspect he’s right. A 50″ Fresnel lens gathers a lot of sunlight and can focus it pretty tightly.
So a 100-watt panel could produce anywhere from around 300 to 600 watt-hours per day; how does that translate into actual usage in the house? i.e., can it run a well pump, fridge, freezer, computers, lights?
In listening to FBI Director Comey I can only state that the Big Fix is in. For him to say no charges should be brought is pure BS. The very least violation he mentioned would put any other government employee in jail.
The FBI is not on our side.
It’s official. Laws are now only for the little people. Disgusting.
I played around with a Fresnel lens the size of a large pizza as a teenager, and I was able to melt holes in pieces of an aluminium soft drink can. I predict the challenge will be getting the heat to diffuse itself over the entire oven.
“It’s official. Laws are now only for the little people. Disgusting.”
+1,000,000
As with the link I posted last night here, we owe them nothing. Not loyalty, not obedience, and I daresay, not taxes. They’ve reneged on their part of the “bargain” repeatedly for a very long time now and are presently laughing at us that we should be in any way discomfited or upset or angry and bitter and clinging to our guns and religion. What ELSE do we fucking HAVE?
As for Comey, I distinctly remember him saying that he’d resign if no indictment was brought against Field Marshal Rodham. As Mr. DadCooks says, the smallest of the potential charges would have any of us here in orange jumpsuits straightaway.
i.e., can it run a well pump, fridge, freezer, computers, lights?
You’ll still need batteries for anything that draws more than a little current. I can charge phones, tablets, 18650’s right off the controller of my cheapo 90W Harbor Freight system. I keep a 12V battery connected for running small appliances for testing, like one of those mixing “sticks”.
As with the link I posted last night here, we owe them nothing.
That link is well worth reading. That will be my mantra-saying to any gooberment official/employee etc. “I owe you nothing. You work for me. Do your job piehole!” That includes fukstik civies I have to deal with at mil bases.
I almost forgot those aholes at the Post Office.
The FBI is not on our side.
Pure disgust is what the FBI deserves. A fucking joke! Anyone with a clearance knows what would happen to them. I bet they investigated shit on Cankles. Probably had a 3 hour orgy with Huma during the “interview”. I guess BJ really did a number on ObolaLynch. Plus Cankles wants to keep her. I wonder if that played any part. Hint, hint.
Two days after the “big interview” and no charges even after transmitting Top Secret information. A dog and pony show for the derps. Cankles probably laughed all through Independence Day.
tRump 2016 “Only a dream, I guess, sigh.”
I believe the Fourth Of July is properly called Dependence day, were we celebrate our dependence on the Federal Government.
Who is this Dave Hardy guy and why does OFD disappear when he appears?
Jen says the first couple times they did these exercises it was pretty much like camping out, but in the house. Now she says it’s not much different from just having weekend guests.
No freaking way am I voluntarily camping out in the yard here in the Land of Sugar. God blessed us with air conditioning and I intend to make full use of it.
What do you get with 8 tons of air conditioning ? A big electric bill ! We’ll be bouncing off $300/month in July, August, and September.
An interesting post on CountrySideNetwork today.
http://countrysidenetwork.com/daily/homesteading/emergency-essentials/justifying-extreme-survival-supply-lists-and-toilet-paper/
I put their feed in my RSS Reader and am finding some interesting articles. These are not people living in the burbs telling you how to live a “country life”. They have had some recent articles on goats and chickens which ring true with my farm and veterinarian knowledge/experience.
Yep, I just came across an article about the FBI press conference. These tidbits are just astounding:
Comey said that the FBI’s investigation had found 110 emails on Clinton’s servers that had contained classified information when they were sent or received, of which eight contained material at the highest classification level of “top secret.” Noting that this information was being stored on “unclassified personal servers” less secure even than commercial services like Gmail
The FBI, Comey elaborated, had found no example of a prior prosecution ever having been brought in a classified-information case that did not involve intentional mishandling of material, “vast quantities” of mishandled information, evidence of disloyalty to the United States, or efforts to obstruct justice.
Comey also said that investigators had used forensic analysis to uncover “thousands” of work-related emails that were not among the group Clinton turned over to the State Department
So: deliberately setting up your own, personal server is not “intentional”, more than 100 emails is not “vast quantities”, and thousands of emails required to be turned over, but were not, is not “obstruction of justice”. Nope, no basis for prosecution, it was just a little bit of “carelessness”.
Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.
I came across this article on a pretty leftist news site that I read, just to see what the progs are currently thinking. Amusingly, at least for the moment, it is impossible to comment on the article.
Never forget the first rule: Some animals are more equal than others.
Now if I could just find a drawing of Hillary as a pig…..
OFD wears a mask and a utility belt. Dave Hardy does not, so obviously they can’t be the same person.
I wrote Stigmata of Tyranny four years ago, covering much the same ground.
Trivially easy.
https://www.google.com/search?q=hillary+clinton+pig&tbm=isch&sa=G&gbv=1&sei=KON7V9DBHYfdaNnQhpAN
That’s a flat lie. There’s a guy in prison now, unless he’s been released recently, who screwed up when talking to a newspaper person. He was being interviewed about something else, the newsie asked him a parting question about something classified, and the guy answered without thinking. Bam! Two years in jail, loss of clearance. When I heard his radio interview after he’d been in for a while, he didn’t dispute that he screwed up, broke the law, and deserved jail time. He was, however, really pissed off that Patraeus got a slap on the wrist for a worse offense, and he was livid that Clinton “obviously” conspired to break the law and make release of classified information a virtual certainty, but she was virtually certain to get no punishment.
“Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.”
We’ve once again been flipped off with a giant middle finger as they laugh their asses off at us. “You didn’t REALLY think we’d indict HILLARY! did you? Bwaaahahahahahah!”
Now if they wanna rub it in real good they’ll arrest and indict some other low-level drone, maybe the IT guy who was handling the server and who took the Fifth a whole bunch of times. They’ll find him guilty and throw the book at him. And laugh some more.
Not counting the various musloid atrocities, this is the Outrage of the Year, so far. We’ll now see what the reaction is gonna be among Mr. and Mrs. Boobus Americanus.
Fresnel lens from a friend’s dead 50″ flat-panel TV
Those TV’s were hardly flat. They were projection TV’s with deep sides and bottom to hold the projection unit. Not exactly flat panel but more a flat viewing screen. Generally poor picture quality as the beams alignment would drift over time and any sudden shock, such as a small drop, would really whack out the beams convergence. The lens is probably the best part of the entire structure.
Yeah, there’s a pile of people who have been prosecuted for mishandling classified information. I did a brief search, and found around a dozen just under Obama. I’m sure there are lots more that didn’t make the news: people who lost their clearances and their job, but weren’t prosecuted, or who settled for a quiet plea bargain.
I’m surprised they let this hit the news so near July 4th, and at the start of the week when people are paying attention. Granted, I live in my filter bubble as much as anyone, but I find this shocking – the powers that be really expect to get away with this.
Nope. Numb. We’re already numbed to the news, and it doesn’t surprise anyone, so get it out now while folks are thinking patriotic things. In 2 weeks, it will be old news, and “what are you still dwelling on that for?”. We didn’t do anything then, and we won’t do anything now.
See? Now you’ve got me thinking all pessimistic & stuff.
“At this point what difference does it make?” Hitlery Rod’em Cankles
Oh sure, the nooz cycle being what it is, this will all disappear by the next weekend, at the latest. They’ll gin up some other incident, event or even a “black flag” caper to make sure.
“…but I find this shocking – the powers that be really expect to get away with this.”
Oh but they already HAVE gotten away with it. Ya see why I’m so bloody cynical?
It’s now at the point where the division of the country is such that one side wants THEIR criminal psychopath in the White House and the other side wants THEIRS. And neither side gives a blind rat’s ass about the nature of those crimes or the fact that citizens like themselves would be imprisoned for them. Trump is evidently nowhere near as much of a criminal scumbag as Cankles, but again, voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.
One skool of thought = “We gotta vote for Trump because if SHE gets in everything will be horrible and the country will go down the toilet.”
Another skool of thought: “Let her in, and let’s cut to the chase. Better to have it all out now than drag it out for more years; this will motivate more Murkan derps to get off their couches and get cracking on multiple fronts.”
Well if you can get away with this in the face of all the evidence, what would it take?
When IS it time to start shooting?
nick
“Well if you can get away with this in the face of all the evidence, what would it take?”
By “you” it’s not clear who you mean. If you mean Cankles or anyone from that strata who is still in good graces with the ruling elites and fits in with their objectives, then she could slaughter children on the Capitol steps in broad daylight while also selling off our remaining intel to the Norks and she’d still skate. And she’d STILL have tens of millions of votes, anyway.
If you mean you or me, we mos def would NOT get away with any of the chit that she’s been “on the hook” for over the past year. We’d have long since been picking up roadside litter in orange jumpsuits at BEST, and more likely been chained to the friggin’ wall in solitary confinement for a decade or two.
“When IS it time to start shooting?”
The time draweth ever nearer; my best guess would be, all other things being equal, sometime during her first term of office; she fully intends to double- and triple-down on Obola’s reign of misrule and destruction.
We’ll know more and can make better guesses in the next few months, i.e, for example, what will they do to screw up Trump’s chances? And be advised, that based on their previous history, the Klinton crime family will stop at nothing, including murder.
My solar panels just stopped working last week. No warning symptoms; one day they were charging the batteries just fine, a few days later when I checked the batteries weren’t being charged. Batteries are OK. Charge controller seems to be OK. The array (4 x 100watts) was giving me 11V when in bright sunlight. Normally it should be ~20V. I checked each panel individually, 3 were giving 10V, one was giving 20V. So something happened that took out 3 panels. I’ve contacted the company and they are OK with a warranty replacement, but I would like to know what happened.
This is disconcerting since most of my emergency survival plans involve having that solar power available.
Rule of law is clearly dead.
The election will be a blatant theft, with a dare to prove it. Anyone who tries will be beaten by BLM or the other newly recruited brownshirts, or discredited by the police state. The agencies have already been co-opted. The last hope was that the FBI’s tough talk would amount to something, but it clearly was simply to get the price up.
Even if Trump survives, and wins, he’ll be stuck like Schwarzenegger in Cali, faced with a hostile and recalcitrant professional bureaucracy and a hostile congress, and deadlocked.
What’s next? Harassment of the population outside the major cities? Restrictions on travel? (just underfund the TSA, and see what you get, a practical ban on all but the most necessary air travel) (Tear up a few major highways, with those shovel ready projects, and you restrict discretionary vehicle travel) More ‘enforcement’ checkpoints outside cities, and at state borders? More data sharing, more ‘fusion’, and then more arrests?
The ‘oathkeepers’ won’t save us. Anyone who works for an agency that practices civil asset forfeiture is ALREADY an oathBREAKER. They’ll find some way to live with whatever oppressive nonsense comes next.
I guess I’m Charlie Brown with Lucy and the football. I really didn’t want to believe it had come to this.
Sarah Hoyt says “quit with the doom and gloom, we’ll survive.” Yeah, we’ll survive. There are still Jews in the world, but I don’t think they’d agree that they are the SAME. There is still an England, but 2 world wars killed enough of their best and brightest that they are far from what they were or could have been.
There’s still a USA but 40 years of assault thru the courts and the schools have changed not just the way the people behave but the way they THINK, even if it’s just to look around before making a comment out loud. The vast majority no longer recognize freedom, or want it. Uncontrolled immigration and the creation of the black underclass during the same period have done their part to change the country too. In 40 years we are literally NOT the country we were and we are not BETTER.
nick
I was happy when it first came out. Mostly because I grew up watching Magnum P.I. and was happy to see Tom Selleck back on the air in primetime. I watched the first season or two and I was done with it. The Reagans are a big enough family and the writers are lazy enough that it seemed every episode featured one or another of their lives being in danger. That coupled with its attempts at mirroring current events and I just found myself rolling my eyes too much to keep tuning in.
What brand?
“In 40 years we are literally NOT the country we were and we are not BETTER.”
+1,000,000
Prep for the most likely in your house and car and workplace and travels. Then get to prepping for what HAD been the least likely, if and when the events Mr. nick describes begin rolling. And if we DO get to the events described, coupled with more mass shooting incidents coupled with more musloids invading here and the police either can’t or won’t deal with it, then yeah, we’ll need to get ready for the shooting. And that means PT and getting in at least decent enough shape to maneuver around your property, inside and out, with the weapons and ammo. Beyond that, the neighborhood and town. At that point we’ll probably wish we’d been able to take Max Velocity’s or Mosby’s training courses.
Grape Solar. I picked them because they have high ratings on most sites that sell their stuff (I bought through Home Depot). They have good customer service ratings too. This is almost 1 year to the day since I bought the panels. The warranty is 10 years, I think.
I want to know what happened. I don’t believe 3 panels decided to commit suicide at the same time. If one fails does it send out a surge that the others can’t handle? Can they be wired up differently so that a partial failure does not turn into a complete failure?
A suicide pact is possible.
But that sounds like a murder-suicide. Or a triple murder by the one remaining “good” panel.
I’d have to see it and probably take it apart to give an educated guess about what killed 3/4 of the panels, but I don’t have any trouble believing that three could fail at the same time. Anything from barely-good-enough workmanship which failed at roughly the same time to an imbalanced balancer causing a cascade failure is possible.
Latest ISIS thing is they have commended their boy down in Orlando for the nifty job he did, a true warrior-hero-saint, etc., BUT, he killed mostly Hispanics. So the word is out that future warriors need to target areas where Anglo-Saxons are concentrated and start killing those infidels.
I recommend country-western bars in TX, WY, AZ, etc. Or slide up here to Vermont for the various county fairs this summer.
Grape is indeed a good brand. Any chance there was physical damage?
Is Mike Rowe telling us it is time? IMHO, Yes.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/07/05/mike-rowe-lays-out-the-steep-price-those-1-percenters-of-1776-paid-for-signing-declaration-of-independence/
JimL’s comment about “all that space…” and SteveF’s comment about dropping the Syrian refugees on the taiga reminded me of something that I’ve been thinking about for a while now.
Almost everyone is familiar with the expression “secular Jew” referring to someone who identifies with “Jewish” culture but not necessarily religious belief. I think that, in the same manner, most of the people here are at least nominally “secular Christians”. European culture and values are inextricably bound up with Christianity and it is impossible to make sense of the last two thousand years of European history without a good understanding of Christianity and the social structures (churches) that have grown up around it. Even if you don’t believe in “God” (I don’t) Christian values and concepts impinge all almost all aspects of our lives.
There are also “secular Muslims”. I think we may be able to accommodate them but it’s going to hard to identify them. Right now, ISIS and their cronies are trying to wipe them out so it might be difficult to get them to identify themselves.
For those that don’t identify themselves (and act accordingly) as secular, I’ve found an island in the Arctic that would be an ideal location to settle them. It ‘s Meighan Island. I would suggest that we drop them there with some tents and a few cheap Chinese solar panels and let the see what Allah has in store for them. I would suggest dropping them off sometime around September 14. We could check up on them sometime around the following April.
I think this would work out well for all concerned.
We’re all around to witness a fundamental shift in American society. It’s been teetering on the edge of a knife for years. That’s why we’re strongly divided on every major issue. That deep 49/51 or 51/49 division that has been haunting issues for so long is beginning to tip in favor of the liberal/progressive viewpoint on everything. Soon, it will be 60/40 in favor of the progs and there’s no coming back from that.
When it all blows up in their face they will simply pick up the pieces and create it again. It’s not going away. Ever.”Social Democracy” is the growing desire of the growing masses. You cannot empower people to vote themselves money out of the treasury and out of other people’s pockets (or elect sympathetic representatives to do it for them) and not expect them to happily do it despite the consequences.
The best defense for the rest of us is to probably flock together. Sort of in the same spirit of the Free State Project. Then, perhaps we can create a tiny libertarian island in the midst of the SJW/FSA ocean. Of course, that sounds like a great plan when discussing it with your like-minded buddy while you sip beer in the garage, but in reality people just don’t have that level of motivation and commitment anymore and many of the ones that do lack the resources to make it a reality.. So, we’ll all just be the 1% minority in our respective districts.
Unfortunately, libertarian-minded folks are a minority and probably a shrinking minority. The best we can do is stock the castle and prepare for a long (endless?) siege.
I’ll start worrying about the secular musloids when they start actively disavowing and violently resisting the hadji scum on a regular and continuing basis. It’s not secular or religious Jews, Christians or Buddhists who are blowing up unarmed and defenseless people and shooting them, beheading them, and burning them alive in cages.
As for free state and libertarian island projects, our experience seems to indicate that we enjoy fighting among ourselves and excommunicating each other while our enemies all operate from the same playbook, even unconsciously. We are probably gonna have to resort to a wide model of noncompliance and passive resistance as best we can in our own AO’s, and as “gray” men and women, and it’s a crap shoot as to whether it will ever come down to actual firefights and suchlike.
There is also the speculation that there will be a one-time major event and reboot that will cause widespread chaos and panic over a 30-60-day time frame and that afterward things will slowly get better, but we’ll always have the onerous State and the FSA to contend with.
The Free State Project is full of single issue people, issues that are trivial and anarchical in the worst ways. You cannot get order out of chaos. They have also planted their flag in a very progressive state, but they don’t seem to realize it.
I occasionally listen to https://www.freetalklive.com/ to see what they are up to.
These folks are hung up on “are you the right kind of Libertarian” and are more exclusionary than inclusionary.
YOMV
We’re all around to witness a fundamental shift in American society. It’s been teetering on the edge of a knife for years. That’s why we’re strongly divided on every major issue. That deep 49/51 or 51/49 division that has been haunting issues for so long is beginning to tip in favor of the liberal/progressive viewpoint on everything. Soon, it will be 60/40 in favor of the progs and there’s no coming back from that.
Wow, you are reading my mind. I am 56 years old as of last week. I feel that as my generation starts to pass away, the progs are going to complete their mission of converting the USA to the dark ages. Note, the best definition of the dark ages is not that people have forgotten how to do something. The best definition of the dark ages, from Jerry Pournelle, is that people forget that they ever could do something.
Unfortunately, libertarian-minded folks are a minority and probably a shrinking minority. The best we can do is stock the castle and prepare for a long (endless?) siege.
Unfortunately, you just cannot build a castle without a moat. And something against air attacks. And remote locations that are difficult to find. All of that requires millions of dollars which few people have access to.
So when the FSA crowd notice that you have water and food, they will come visiting in the middle of the night to get some. Because, you gotta share. Progs are all about sharing stuff, especially when you’ve got more than they do. I don’t mind sharing a little but the FSA crowd is going to take it all. And if there is a fella at the leading edge of the crowd wearing a badge and a gun, that may be a bridge too far to come back from.
I understand that some of these athletes have been training literally their entire lives for these games, and due to age, won’t get another chance. BUT why on earth would a sane person go to Rio for the Olympics?
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Former Guantanamo detainee disappears ‘while visiting Brazil’ – prompting fears for the Rio Olympics less than a month away
Abu Wa’el Dhiab, 44, was one of six former detainees resettled in Uruguay
The alert was issued internally to employees of Colombia-based Avianca Airlines and warns that Dhiab may be using a fake passport
Uruguayan authorities have insisted for weeks that he is visiting Brazil
Brazil has said there is no record of Dhiab entering the country
It comes less than a month before opening of Rio Olympics
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3674287/Brazilian-airline-issues-alert-former-Gitmo-detainee.html
US Olympic rowing team will suit up in anti-microbial outfits…but will it be enough to protect athletes from Rio’s sewage-infested waters?
New suits are made with anti-microbial finish, but arms and legs will still be exposed to the water
Rio’s waterways are extremely contaminated because most of the city’s sewage is untreated, flowing into the Guanabara Bay
Sailing and wind-surfing events will be held in the bay during the Games
One researcher said: ‘They will literally be immersing themselves in very high levels of pathogens’
Rio won bid to host Olympics on promise to improve sewage sanitation
But Brazilian officials have since acknowledged that won’t happen ahead
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3675891/US-Olympic-rowing-team-suit-anti-microbial-outfits-protect-athletes-Rio-s-sewage-infested-waters.html
The Olympic GERMS: Drug-resistant ‘super bacteria’ is discovered on Rio’s beaches and sailors say filthy water turns their boats BROWN and ‘looking like a toilet’ weeks before Games begin
Bacteria found after sewerage leaked from hospitals into city’s waterways
Rio authorities have already faced calls to clean up dirty Guanabara Bay
Sailors in test events earlier this year said they were made sick by water
It’s emerged US rowing team will use sewage-proof suits at Rio Olympics
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3674239/Oil-turns-white-boats-brown-Rio-Olympic-sailing-venue.html
Amid Zika fears, bug repellent supplier named for Rio Games
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3675798/Amid-Zika-fears-bug-repellent-supplier-named-Rio-Games.html
Australia team manager expresses games security concerns
SYDNEY (AP) — The manager of Australia’s Olympics team says Rio de Janiero organizers haven’t answered her concerns about security in the leadup to next month’s games.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3674628/Australia-team-manager-expresses-games-security-concerns.html
Mayor of Rio warns officials are doing ‘a terrible job and completely failing’ in their duty of policing violent crime just weeks before the Olympics… while hospitals begin to RUN OUT of medicine
Mayor Eduardo Paes said Rio State Government doing a ‘horrible job’
Murders in the first quarter of 2016 up 15 per cent on same period last year
Police claim they have not been paid properly in months and are protesting
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3673877/Mayor-Rio-warns-officials-doing-terrible-job-completely-failing-duty-policing-violent-crime-just-weeks-Olympics-hospitals-begin-RUN-medicine.html
I mean, holey cr@p, that’s a lot o mess.
nick
oops, too many links, got one stuck in moderation…..
n
Aren’t you an editor now, nick? Can’t you go into the admin panel and manually kick it loose?
Well it appears that I will be passing through the land of sugar on August 6 of this year. Have to take a trip to San Antonio to deal with MIL issues. Have not been to SA in about six years, flying on those trips. This will be the first drive in 15 years through the area. Will be taking the southern route on the way to SA which will take me through Chattanooga, Birmingham, North of New Orleans, Houston and on through the land of sugar to SA. Northern route home will take me north on the east of Dallas, Texarkana, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville and then home. 1,100 mile drive and about 16.5 hours of driving. Distance difference between the northern route and the southern route is about 20 miles.
We will make the trip in two days as there is no way I am driving that far without stopping. Accommodations of choice will be at the Hyatt as they have really nice beds. I will wave to Mr. Lynn as I pass by. I will be a red F-150 on I-10 so keep your eyes open.
-blink- You will be an F-150? What are you, a Transformer?
BUT why on earth would a sane person go to Rio for the Olympics?
$24 threeways? That’s what the Daily Mail is reporting. Hookers holding up signs since nobody’s buying. Ugly hookers, too.
The Olympic GERMS…
Not to worry. When Cankles is crowned Queen Bitch of the World next year, she’ll deploy our military to protect the athletes (except our own of course). Then spend billions on medical support and drugs. Fly it in on a fleet of C-17s.
You will be an F-150? What are you, a Transformer?
Indeed I will. After about 13 hours in the seat I will have become one with the machine.
“Aren’t you an editor now, nick?”
Not yet.
n
I wouldn’t even fly over Rio at 40k feet; the place is a huge toxic mess of biological pathogen soup. Ironically, Princess here lived in Brazil for a while and is fluent in Brazilian Portuguese. Nein, danke. (she’s fluent in German, too, lol).
I thought I’d set you up.
I just checked and I did set you up with admin access. You should have gotten an email at your aol.com address with your password and such.
So I gather that the Parisian constabulary, les gendarmes, as it were, les flics, as it were again, discovered to their chagrin that one of the weapons used by the musloid terrorist scum (but I repeat myself) came from the former AG’s “Fast and Furious” caper down in Old Mexico, wherein he and his minions sought to hand out ASSAULT RIFLES to narcotrafficantes there and then blame it on legit firearms dealers up here. While getting a Federal agent killed. This seems to have vanished from the nooz cycle, natch, and in any case, Mr. Holder is also made of fucking teflon and basically smirked his way through his contempt of Congress guilty finding.
Gee, what’s Eric doing nowadays?
“In July 2015, Holder rejoined Covington & Burling, the law firm at which he worked before becoming Attorney General. The law firm’s clients have included many of the large banks Holder declined to prosecute for their alleged role in the financial crisis. Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone opined about the move, “I think this is probably the single biggest example of the revolving door that we’ve ever had.” (Wiki article)
Nick’s notification email was probably routed through Crooked Hillary’s email server and the Russians intercepted it.
Well it appears that I will be passing through the land of sugar on August 6 of this year.
We will make the trip in two days as there is no way I am driving that far without stopping. Accommodations of choice will be at the Hyatt as they have really nice beds. I will wave to Mr. Lynn as I pass by. I will be a red F-150 on I-10 so keep your eyes open.
I-10 is in the Land of Katy. About 20 miles north of here. So, wave slowly and I might see you. Mr. nick lives close to I-10 (prolly less than a mile), he might see you also. I give you a 40% chance of moving at rated speed on I-10 on a Saturday. Stay out of the middle 4 ? 6 ? lanes on the Houston west side, they are tolled. As for the Beaumont – Port Arthur area, good luck with those as I-10 there is under serious construction.
The Land of Sugar has I-69 splitting it in half. Used to be Texas / USA Hwy 59 but it got redesignated I-69 when they made it “The NAFTA Highway” from Monterrey to Montreal about a decade ago. Also nicknamed “The Lloyd Bentson Highway” after the last real democrat in Texas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_59_in_Texas
In another couple of years you will be able go east – west on the new I-14 in Texas which I would heartily advise. But that may be 2020 at the earliest.
http://www.chron.com/news/transportation/article/Interstate-14-on-its-way-across-Texas-6684403.php
You will be an F-150? What are you, a Transformer?
Indeed I will. After about 13 hours in the seat I will have become one with the machine.
Isn’t that rage against the machine ?
Nick’s notification email was probably routed through Crooked Hillary’s email server and the Russians intercepted it.
Isn’t AOL owned by the Russians nowadays ?
@RBT, the last email I got from you was the 30th. I just checked and checked the spam folder but nothing there.
I just figured you were busy….
nick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Ernst
Me like! We could do worse. You always want the backup to the candidate to be more abhorrent for the other side (assassination) and she fills the bill.
But, against Hillary and Fauxcohontas, this may not be enough for Trump 2016. Looks to me like the fix is in already. HillWa may already be set in the voting machines to get 90% of the vote in Florida and Ohio.
“Mr. nick lives close to I-10 (prolly less than a mile)”
A bit more than 2 miles north, somewhat less than 3….
Kids’ school is only 1/2 mile, and depending on what errands I’m running, I’m usually on the feeder road or just a bit north.
So wave as you go by! I might see it on a traffic cam….
I’m bidding on some salvage auctions in the San Antonio area, but won’t be there for pickup for at least a week or 2. SA is a nasty dirty sh!t hole. If you are low on gas, stop at the Buckey’s or the truck stop east of town. If you pass that, there is nothing on the 10 until you are way into town, and most of that is sketchy. I always make sure I have enough to get into town, and back out again– after that one time I was sweating the gauge and ended up stopping where I REALLY didn’t want to. I consider a trip to SA to be a “most of a day’ trip just from Houston and back. I definitely wouldn’t do that long drive in one go… Check the TxDOT site for lane closures before hand.
nick
Always stop in Texas at the Buccee’s for the finest restroom experience. The Buccee’s in Luling, Texas on I-10 is the largest Buccee’s in the known world (around forty gas / diesel islands). There is a toilet in each gender appropriate restroom for each gas island and it has been cleaned that day, sometimes that hour!
https://www.buc-ees.com/locations.php
Lotsa good intel here for TX-bound travelers; sadly, neither OFD nor Dave Hardy expect to ever be in TX again in this lifetime, having already served several sentences in east TX a very Long Time Ago.
And from the Haven’t We Got Bloody Well Enough to Worry About Department:
http://freedomoutpost.com/bizarre-portal-shaped-clouds-form-over-cern-during-the-awake-experiment/
Obviously Larry Klinton and his lovely wife Bruno have been summoning the forces of darkness.
I saw it as a giant middle finger while they laugh at us; Bracken sees it as a gauntlet slap across the face:
https://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/bracken-coward-comey-takes-a-dive/
What if he’s right? Next few months could be CRAZY.
Mr. Ray: In the not too distant past, I was westbound on I-10 / I-12 from Florida to Southern California. (For those who don’t know, I-12 goes around the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, bypassing New Orleans, while I-10 goes right through the heart of the Crescent City. They rejoin at Baton Rouge.) I-10 west of Baton Rouge, all the way to the LA / TX border, was without doubt the roughest stretch of road in my entire journey. Certainly a check of the various state’s web sites in order to check road conditions is in order, but be warned. The Atchafalaya Basin route will try to shake your teeth loose.
SA is a nasty dirty sh!t hole
Parts of it anyway. I lived in Live Oak which is the northeast section near Randolph AFB for 15 years. For 10 of those years I worked in downtown, mostly on Soledad. When I was a tech with Burroughs my main account was the bank downtown whom I eventually became employed.
stop at the Buckey’s or the truck stop east of town
Familiar with that location and the lack of quality fuel stops. I figure to fill up somewhere west of Houston and that will be more than enough to get to my destination. Truckzilla has a 500 mile range.
Check the TxDOT site for lane closures before hand
GPS does a fairly good job at that task including traffic backups and offers alternative routes. Traffic is real time from a side band on many FM stations picked up by the GPS receiver.
goes around the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, bypassing New Orleans
Having made the journey on several previous occasions I always bypass New Orleans.
I-10 west of Baton Rouge, all the way to the LA / TX border, was without doubt the roughest stretch of road in my entire journey
Been that way for years as it was so on my last journey many moons past. I don’t think it as bad as some of the major roads in California, especially state highway 99. Concrete highway with chunks missing every few yards. That long bridge west of Port Allen over the swamp tends to freak me out as I have never liked driving over that thing.
I musta been channeling Bracken:
“After July 5th, 2016, and the Soviet-style forced humiliation of the FBI director, bad actors at all levels of the government will feel emboldened. Expect armed EPA Special Action Teams to take over ranches over a puddle which was mismanaged according to the EPA. Imagine the craziest things, like the second term of Hugo Chavez. Imagine them steering violent anarchists and Leftists at the conventions as their surrogate Brown Shirts. This is a very dangerous time, just on the basis of actions that can be expected from the Left.”
That is not actually very reassuring. I’d much rather that people were saying ‘oh but you are wrong, and this is why….’
nick
So I see a motel clerk who was fired for reporting something that led to the wrongful arrest of an arab business man may face criminal charges for the wrongful report.
I suppose it’s possibly that the wrongful report could have been a lie, not a simple mistake, but I am skeptical given our current climate. Aren’t police capable of investigating a report before making an arrest?
Update: Having read a bit more it appears there is something to investigate, as the clerk may have stated one thing and recanted it.
A couple years ago a McDonalds (or other convenience restaurant) manager was arrested for calling 9-1-1 about an abusive customer. The in-store cameras indeed showed that the customer was “agitated” but he was let go and the manager was arrested for making a frivolous call.
An acquaintance used to be a 9-1-1 operator. He says they’re specifically trained to filter out the non emergencies and that at least in his city when he was doing it the vast majority of calls are non emergencies, and nothing much comes of it unless the same person calls repeatedly or something.
Meanwhile, we’re all encouraged to call 9-1-1 if we have any doubt about the “danger” of a situation. Plus “see something, say something”, of course.
Oh, and the growing movement to criminalize failure to render assistance, at least to the extent of calling 9-1-1 if someone is in trouble. Or might possibly be in trouble — in at least one state, the proposed Bad Samaritan law doesn’t excuse not recognizing a problem. If you “should have known”, you can be found guilty.
Thing is, I doubt that the legislators and judges and stupid pigs and most everyone else in the ruling class are deliberately setting up conditions where ordinary citizens can be jailed no matter what they do. But what would be different if it was deliberate?
This policy with regard to fucking musloids was established long ago under the catchy name Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
The motel clerk obviously violated policy, so it’s only fitting that he should be persecuted criminally.
Any time an American citizen shoots a musloid, the presumption should be that it was in self-defense. As has been established by events, upon spotting a musloid, any reasonable person might be in fear for his life, so the cops shouldn’t even arrest the person, let alone file charges. As far as I’m concerned, Shoot on Sight is the appropriate response to any musloid seen anywhere. If they don’t like it, they should get the hell out of the US and any other civilized country.
“That is not actually very reassuring. I’d much rather that people were saying ‘oh but you are wrong, and this is why….”
Indeed. “Hey Dave, WTF is wrong with you?? There’s nothing to worry about and here’s what the real scoop is…”, i.e., with good supporting evidence..
And as Mr. nick AND Bracken have pointed out several times; if they’re currently serving in the armed forces or LE organizations and agencies, they are in violation of their oaths:
https://brushbeater.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/injustice-for-all/
Mr. brushbeater also says to GTFO of suburbia because that window is closing. It’s always a major undertaking and a royal PITA to uproot oneself and one’s family and move somewhere else, but gee whiz, the alternative of staying there is looking pretty grim. All of my siblings live in eastern/central MA suburbia and if any of them have any ideas about moving at all, it’s to some other suburbia, ’cause the spouses gotta have THEIR families close by, plus all the stores and shopping and “things to do.” And VT is “too cold” and “there’s nothing to do.”
To which I say, it’s nice to be warm and cozy and the mall is just down the road, but when those noises you hear down the block ain’t firecrackers, it’s gonna be too fucking late to move.
This policy with regard to fucking musloids…
I don’t fuck musloids*, but I wish I had a big “Staples” button I could press and they would all go to Hell.
*Probably not what you meant 🙂
What “cities” are there in north Texas?
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2016/07/05/dallas-police-assoc-says-low-pay-morale-trigger-several-police-resignations/
Apparently a bunch of Dallas LEOs have seen the ‘writing on the wall’ and are bailing outta Dodge. Or is it just “low morale” and “better pay” elsewhere?
“when those noises you hear down the block ain’t firecrackers, it’s gonna be too fucking late to move.”
I hope not. As I keep saying, I’m not really expecting anything catastrophic to happen any time soon. But if I’m wrong, I don’t want to be in a heavily-populated area like Winston-Salem, which is the main reason I wanted to move up to the mountains.
And if the S does HTF, we’ll have unprepared or poorly-prepared family and friends in Winston. I hope they can get out and get up here. We’ll take them in and manage somehow. If the SdHTF, I’d be a lot happier if we had 12 or 15 adults in the house anyway. Water, we can deal with, if only via rainwater capture. Food is more a concern. My original goal was to have enough food for the three of us for a year, at 900,000 calories each for Barbara and me and 300,000+ calories for Colin. Next is to get the total boosted to about 4,000,000 calories to provide for Frances and Al. Next is to boost that incrementally with bulk storage to increase the one year to at least 18 months and/or provide extra for more people.
All of this is a tough sell to Barbara, who thinks we already have more than enough food in stock. Our next Costco run, I’ll be replacing what we’ve consumed since the last time we did a major LTS run more than a year ago. That’ll be a tough enough sell. Going beyond that will take some convincing. Fortunately, the flood of news stories will help with that.
Unfortunately events are getting serious enough that spouses are coming around. This is not a Good Thing(tm) as it means that things are getting sporty, and it’s not just some nebulous future we are preparing for, but RIGHT NOW.
Even I get a frisson when the hurricane is actually predicted to hit land. There are a bunch of things to do to get ready for that, even with the general state of readiness around here. Same with general unrest levels. The current situation is triggering my “hurricane is definitely coming, better get the gas cans filled” feeling.
Last night I commented to my wife out of the blue that ‘rule of law in this country is dead.’ Not only did she know immediately what I was talking about, she agreed based on her own media exposure and understanding of the issues. Now, she’s pretty savvy, and generally supportive esp. when framed as ‘hurricane preparedness’ because she’s seen the value first hand. She was a bit more skeptical when it came to stockpiling food (esp since stable food is not what we normally eat and most of it is not as good as fresh). Having your 6 yo ask if you will ever run out of food (no idea what brought that on) and being able to answer that “that is why we store food, so we’ll always be able to eat”, might have been a turning point for her. Last night I said we were headed down the road to Venezuela and she (spouse) quoted an article about Venezuelan women crashing a border check point to cross over and buy food. Food is scarce there, and people are starving. The thought of your own kids starving can be a powerful motivator.
It didn’t hurt that our Fourth of July friend works in the supply chain of a major convenience food manufacturer and he was talking about how they no longer warehouse ANY food. It all comes from the plant directly to the stores, sometimes several times each day. They have MUCH less than 3 days of food in the pipeline. (although he did think they had excess capacity at the plant to increase production if there was a problem. I asked if the corn comes in by train, and what it would mean to have no trains for a week. “No food” was the answer.) [in a hurricane they pull all the trains out of the affected area in advance of the storm]
So things are increasing. A larger part of the population is seeing what’s going on, and waking up to the idea that bad times are coming. At some point, (like every hurricane evacuation or warning) it will occur to MOST people that they ought to do something. Of course it will be too late at that point to do much.
nick
I’m not really expecting anything catastrophic to happen any time soon
One word: Election.
The choice of idiots with which we have to select will almost guarantee problems. Neither one is qualified to run a toilet plunging service.
Neither one of them is qualified to be USED as a toilet plunger.
There, FTFY.
Hah, both of them are so full of sh!t that they could only be used to CLOG a toilet, not clear it…
n
Do you know the difference between a real and a drugstore cowboy? A real cowboy has the shit on the outside of his boots.
Couldn’t resist with all the scatalogical posts above.
I use Google Maps with the traffic check feature when driving and it has rerouted me around bad traffic multiple times. On a recent trip back from Austin, there was a big wreck on 290 and it rerouted me south on the Grand Parkway to I-10 and saved 20-30 minutes.
And from the Haven’t We Got Bloody Well Enough to Worry About Department:
The pictures there are thunderstorms, pure and simple.
“If the SdHTF, I’d be a lot happier if we had 12 or 15 adults in the house anyway.”
You may revisit how happy you are after a few weeks of that many adults (and maybe chillunz and other pets) in the same space where only you two and one pet have been, and under constant stress and worry.
As for spousal buy-in: I can say to mine that “the rule of law is dead in this country” and not even get a raised eyebrow, as she knows full well but doesn’t seem too fazed by it (might be more fazed if it was a fascist Repub regime doing it, as was the case with Bush Junior right after 9/11. But if I said that we’re headed the same way as Venezuela, she wouldn’t believe it. And it was commies instigating their FSA down there that brought that about, so the parallels are definitely apropos.
It’s getting harder to predict stuff now; who woulda thought the Brits would bail from the EU? Or that our AG would actually meet on a plane with one of the parties being investigated by the Feebies, and then the very next day the DOJ would apply for a 27-month extension to all of it and less than a week later, the primary target of the investigation would be let off scot-free? Who could have predicted savage atrocities by musloids in San Bernadino and Orlando? And many of us thought BallMore would erupt once those cops were being found not guilty, but so far, nada.
Four months until the “election” and anything at all can happen now. They’ve made it very clear that they can do whatever they want and get away with it, from this latest outrage to Obola’s “Executive Orders” that supersede everything else, including the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Congress and SCOTUS. A gigantic middle finger and a huge gob of spit as they openly laugh at us now. Faced with various threats, many will kneel, and many will kiss their jackboots, and drop a dime on their neighbor, brother or grandma in a nanosecond. The skeletal framework of a full-fledged STASI is in the works, kicked up a few notches since the original, via new technologies.
But the anger and bitterness grows, firearms and associated gear are selling like the proverbial hotcakes, and the multitudes of FLEAS, as Bracken describes them, cannot actually be counted on by the regime in all circumstances.
It may just all spin down gradually and sporadically, or there may be some trigger event which catapults us all into a ‘brave new world’ and major SHTF scenarios. YMMV, as ever.
“The pictures there are thunderstorms, pure and simple.”
No way! U can C FACES and they’re giant portals to HELL!
“You may revisit how happy you are after a few weeks of that many adults (and maybe chillunz and other pets) in the same space where only you two and one pet have been, and under constant stress and worry.”
Maybe so, but the two of us and Colin aren’t enough to do everything that will need to be done, including keeping an eye on a 360-degree perimeter 24 hours a day.
This is true, and us two here will have our work cut out for us on our tiny little property for that sorta thang. We’re gonna have to set up a genuine neighborhood and town watch config at some point, I reckon.
Nah. I’m just going to kill everyone I see, except for blood kin of course.
That’ll take care of the potential starvation problem in two ways: I can loot any supplies they had, and I can eat the interlopers. Mm-mm! Long pork is gooood eatin!
Though that’s likely to lead to aggravation from my daughter when she’s a bit older. “Daddy! How am I supposed to get a boyfriend if you keep killing and eating everyone I meet?” Meh, cross that bridge when I get to it.
“Nah. I’m just going to kill everyone I see, except for blood kin of course.”
Note to self: Avoid Capital District when SHTF.
Additional note to self: Continue avoiding Mr. nick’s ‘hood in TX.
I’m just going to kill everyone I see, except for blood kin of course
Most of my blood kin would not qualify for that exception.
Ray took my remark and turned it up to 11!
I approve!