09:46 – Barbara is off to the gym this morning. She’s volunteering all afternoon at the Friends of the Library bookstore.
Yesterday, wanting to make sure she was aware of the FDA rules change on livestock antibiotics that takes effect January 1st, I asked Lori, our USPS carrier, if she routinely treated her beef cattle with antibiotics. She said she didn’t, and used antibiotics only if one of her cows actually became ill.
In passing, I asked her if, with less than two weeks until the election, she’d made a run yet to stock up on food. She said she’d made a big Sam’s Club run over the weekend, and now had a bunch of canned goods as well as bulk dry staples sitting around in sacks waiting to be repackaged. She washed/sanitized a bunch of two-liter bottles, and is now just waiting for them to dry.
Nick posted a comment this morning that’s worth reading. It links to a Daily Mail article that describes just how ill-prepared the authorities in Washington and Oregon are for the catastrophic earthquake that may occur at any time. Depending on how powerful that quake is, its epicenter, and when it occurs, it might easily kill millions of people, particularly in heavily-populated coastal areas. The authorities are now suggesting that people store two weeks’ worth of food, up from three days. That may help a bit, but of course less than 10% of the population are likely to follow that advice. As always, the authorities want to avoid scaring people, when scaring people is exactly what they should be doing. What they should have announced is something like: “There is going to be a catastrophic earthquake. It may not happen for years, or it may happen later today, but it IS going to happen. When it does, it will be too late to evacuate, and this earthquake and its aftereffects will kill many people, at least tens of thousands and possibly millions. The government will do all it can to render aid, but our ability to do so will be very limited. We strongly recommend that you prepare now by making provisions to provide water, food, heat, sanitation, and other essentials for yourself and your family. You may be on your own for weeks to months.”
@rbt, rick – site admin question-
why does the comment template strip out all the whitespace? Well, not exactly ‘all’ but some.
When I paste a bullet list from Daily Mail, the list shows as indented text in my comment box, but posts without the indents.
When I did that long comment a couple of days ago, I used a blank line between each point to separate the thoughts, but after a few points, the template stripped out the blank lines, which resulted in ‘wall o text’.
I’ve noticed too, that the template strips formatting html from bits of comments that are copy/pasted into new comments. Probably nothing to be done about that…
nick
I have no clue.
Prudence or fearmongering, and who benefits most from moved polling places, or discouraging voters?
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Fearing Election Day trouble, some US schools cancel classes
By: PATRICK WHITTLE and DAVID SHARP, Associated Press
Posted:Oct 25 2016 11:52AM CDT
Updated:Oct 25 2016 06:20PM CDT
FALMOUTH, Maine (AP) — Rigged elections. Vigilante observers. Angry voters. The claims, threats and passions surrounding the presidential race have led communities around the U.S. to move polling places out of schools or cancel classes on Election Day.”
“But state and local officials say voting has been removed or classes have been canceled on Election Day at schools in Illinois, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and elsewhere.”
Think of the children!!!1111!!11
nick
BTW, my 5 and 7 yo are asking questions about voting and the candidates. The 7yo thinks BHO will be killed (as part of the normal routine) when he leaves office. (“but he hasn’t been killed yet Daddy”)
You should listen to your 7yo. I’ve always advocated that all presidents, senators, and other federal elected officials should be executed immediately upon leaving office. Think how much taxpayer money we’d save in not having to provide full security for them for who knows how long.
WRT WA and OR being unprepared:
That is really only true for everything West of the Cascades. That area is so infected with Entitled Liberturds that they is no way they will ever take care of themselves. AFAIAC the whole country would be better off if the first 100-miles of the West and East Coasts slide into the ocean, basically all “blue” counties.
WRT to voter fraud:
Unless a person’s vote starts as some form of a paper ballot there is no way to truly verify the vote. Yes, paper ballots do have their problems, but fraud is more evident when someone shows up with a trunk load of “found” votes. Those printouts on the electronic (or the few remaining lever style) mean absolutely nothing. Those votes are like throwing marbles in a bunch of bowls where the machines are designed to regularly dump a portion of “R” votes into the “D” votes bowls. Your printout may show how you voted, but there is no assurance that is how the machine recorded it. Those voting machines are probably made by the same folks who make the games at the Carnival, and we all know how “fair” those games are. The Chicago voting system cannot be beat.
Before WA State went to all mail-in ballots I did a few stints as a poll watcher. I was finally asked to never return as each year I documented many cases of voting irregularity. You name a way of cheating, I saw it. Remember, I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, I’ve seen it all.
More rain today, I only hope that it rains like crazy all day and night on Oct 31 (Halloween) to keep the goblins inside. Bah Humbug, get off my lawn.
Vote Early and Vote Often. Trump 2016
Yeah, funny that no one ever calls on the elected leaders to “sacrifice” the way they call on the productive people…
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Buncha haters. And no trigger warnings so I could get to my safe space in the attic. Or is it the cellar?
The sun is now making an appearance and I need to put more $ in the MIL’s account and get back to cleaning up and organizing chit here.
Scared people tend to panic. What they should be doing is creating concern not panic. Concerned people take prudent actions. Panic causes either paralysis or irrational action.
Modern day “concerned people” start a hashtag campaign, thinking it’s exactly the same as doing something.
#storefood
#storewater
#youareonyourown
Add a selfie of you holding a sign for bonus points
See, problem solved!
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and to be more serious, there are so many alerts and precautions “out of an abundance of caution” that you gotta shout pretty loud to be heard over the constant noise. But then you get “you’re all gonna die if you stay, your kids will DIE!!!11!!1
1!!111!” and the storm turns out to sea. Next time, the villagers will let the wolf get the boy, and the flock, and themselves…..
People who are inclined to panic will freeze and do stupid things, and will be more likely to die in a crisis. Their deaths improve the species. Do you see this as a bad thing? I sure don’t.
Virtual online protests are the ultimate in feelz without actually risking yourself or spending money or, you know, getting out of your chair.
I had four old fighter jets pass overhead this morning at around 3,000 ft altitude in two by two formation in the Land of Sugar. One forgets how loud that those planes were. Sounded like they were flying through the house. They were painted red with yellow ? orange ? highlights with straight wings and tanks on the wingtips. I guess that they were leftovers from the air show last weekend:
https://wingsoverhouston.com/
Kinda looked like these P-80s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_P-80_Shooting_Star
Or maybe these T-33s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_T-33
Modern day “concerned people” start a hashtag campaign, thinking it’s exactly the same as doing something.
#storefood
#storewater
#youareonyourown
Add a selfie of you holding a sign for bonus points
See, problem solved!
Plus add a selfie of you in front of your food and water stash in the house / garage to facebook / nextdoor.
“CBS4 Investigation Finds People Voting Twice”
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/10/25/cbs4-investigation-finds-people-voting-twice/
Time to bring back the stocks in front of city hall. These people just do not get it.
We don’t get the jets overhead up here but they sure do down around Burlap and Williston near the International Airport where the Green Mountain Boys fighter-interceptor squadron is stationed. Treetop level and DEAFENING. What? I said DEAFENING. What?
What we get are OD-green choppers over the lake and village, probably spying on me and intercepting my keystrokes and me talking to myself as I move around the house and yard, much of it cursing. Eventually they’ll have orders to lob a rocket through the building and that will be that and y’all won’t get any more of my complex literary analysis of epic medieval poetry, you poor bastids.
I think the a ten year old phone number may be the most shocking…
“I’ve always advocated that all presidents, senators, and other federal elected officials should be executed immediately upon
leavingtaking office. Think how much taxpayer money we’d save in not having to provide full security for them for who knows how long.”FIFY
We get fast-movers flying very low. Yesterday, there were seven of them. Only two so far today. Scares Colin badly. They’re low enough to vibrate my desk enough to make my coffee ripple in the cup. I’ve never seen one because I’ve never happened to be outside when one passes. Barbara has seen them a couple of times, but can’t describe them other than that they’re fighter jets. I asked her if they had one engine or two, but she wasn’t sure. On the one hand, the noise is annoying. I’m sure they frighten a lot of people, especially when they come over at night. On the other hand, I’m glad to know they’re there.
@Nick ; WRT formatting in comments:
When you paste something into the comment box, you are pasting text only. There is no formatting (HTML tags) that gets put into the comment.
The comment box works like a text editor. If you pasted formatted text (text with a bulleted list, for example) into Notepad, all you will see is text. Only the text is pasted. The HTML tags, such as ‘li’ (list item) are not part of that text.
If you want formatted text in your comment, you have to put those HTML codes in the text. And only basic HTML tags, nothing fancy.
The comment-processing code will convert URLs into clickable links. But any HTML tags that you want will have to be typed into the comment box.
Separation between paragraphs is just a blank line. You press Enter twice at the end of a paragraph, and you should get a blank line between paragraphs.
It’s been some time, but all our sectional navigation maps had restricted and training airspaces marked on them. Your local FAA should have some you can view to see if you are in a low level jet training area.
I use the WP editor on my free account when I need to put a lot of links or tags in a post. I then copy it from the HTML and paste here. The advanced view in the WP editor has all the basic tags. In Visual it’s WYSIWYG.
I had four old fighter jets pass overhead this morning at around 3,000 ft altitude in two by two formation in the Land of Sugar.
When I was in SA before I dropped by for a visit there was all kinds of small plane activity in the Lackland area. Unusual because Kelly AFB generally only has large tankers and transports, not small planes. Some of the those planes were propeller driven with piston engines and were flying in a formation of two or three. I figured it was for some type of air show.
When I lived near Randolph AFB I used to see nothing but small jets in the area as RAFB is a training base. None of the big stuff until you got to south SA.
Maybe the planes were looking for me after all my nasty comments about the Hildabeast.
My Mom has had swelling in her lower legs for about 10 days. She can’t elevate them due to back pain, so her doctor told me to get her to the ER. The ambulance just left. Hopefully they will admit her and then send her to a rehab facility which Medicare will cover to get her legs treated.
I’ve decided it’s too much for me to care for her anymore. I’m up multiple times during the night to give her meds, get her changed etc. A social worker is calling me next week with options and help me plan the best place for Mom.
A depressing situation, but it has to be done. Dr. Bob’s and Mr. Ray’s experiences, that they graciously posted here, have been a great help.
Some of the those planes were propeller driven with piston engines and were flying in a formation of two or three.
Lackland and surround bases are on of the AF’s primary pilot training bases. I believe the basic trainings are now all single turbine props.
“Google Fiber Halts Expansion, Lays off Employees”
http://www.pcmag.com/news/349044/google-fiber-halts-expansion-lays-off-employees
That is odd.
I’m sorry to hear that. It’s never easy, particularly if there are mental issues involved. We were fortunate with my mom. She was sharp as a tack, doing the NYT crosswords until a couple days before they put her in intensive care. Barbara’s mom and dad both suffered some dementia issues toward the end, but fortunately they weren’t severe. I don’t know how people deal with parents who have severe Alzheimers. I hope you’re not in that situation.
Good luck, and our thoughts are with you and your family.
Fortunately, my Mom’s mind is pretty sharp. We play cards every day and I get called a cheater when I win. She’s just too frail for me to care for anymore. It’s only a matter of time before she tries to use her walker and falls.
Thanks.
My Mom has had swelling in her lower legs for about 10 days. She can’t elevate them due to back pain, so her doctor told me to get her to the ER. The ambulance just left. Hopefully they will admit her and then send her to a rehab facility which Medicare will cover to get her legs treated.
I’ve decided it’s too much for me to care for her anymore. I’m up multiple times during the night to give her meds, get her changed etc. A social worker is calling me next week with options and help me plan the best place for Mom.
Sorry to hear that Mr. AtoZ. In selecting a place, be sure to visit them during the day (weekday ?). If the place smells like urine, turn around and walk out.
The Lewisville nursing home that my FIL lives in is $5,000 per month. He is on “rehab” status still (since April 2014, 2.5 years) but Medicare no longer pays for that. Being on “rehab” status does mean that he gets a room to himself, no room mate. He has been in two other nursing homes, the first in Carrollton smelled of urine and his girlfriend moved him after three months. The second was in Addison and cost over $6,000/month so my FIL got my wife’s older sister to find him a cheaper nursing home where he is now. My FIL does get $3,100/month from the VA since he is a 100% disabled vet (he was forced to take medical retirement from the Army after 17 years).
There was no way that my wife was going to let her father live with us. He was not a very good father to her growing up and I am amazed at times that my wife even speaks to him. However, she is a faithful daughter and calls him three times a week. Plus now she is taking care of all of his bills, his house, and his rental properties. A lot of freaking paperwork.
His girlfriend still calls my wife and begs her to take him out of the nursing home. I am not quite understanding that as we live 300 miles away from them. The girlfriend goes to see him every day so that would go away if we moved him down here.
Alas, my Mom has few assets and will be at the mercy of Nevada. She took my Dad’s SS after he passed since hers would be paltry. The SS is $864/mo, about $400/yr in a pension (yeah per year). She has a long term CD worth $30K, but that will be gone fast. I can keep her in sundries and comfort stuff.
Alas, my Mom has few assets and will be at the mercy of Nevada.
My friend who investigated 60 nursing homes for her mother came up with the urine smell rule. Her mom had Alzheimers, was in a lockdown home, and ran out of money in Colorado. So my friend investigated nursing homes for six months and then moved her into a nursing home about 100 miles north of here that took Medicaid. But the home did not smell of urine. Also her older brother is the sheriff in that county so he was stopping by every other day to visit their mom.
She moved her down here on a commercial flight from Denver to Houston with her mom asking her “where are we going” and “who are you” every ten minutes. It was trying and heart breaking for her. My friend is the youngest of five kids and her mom forgot her first.
TNLU O-T-D: https://gma.yahoo.com/police-oklahoma-double-murder-suspect-hit-list-may-094905873–abc-news-topstories.html
And it’s always amusing to me to read comments about military planes flying overhead. All Navy (and Marine & Coast Guard) flying is taught 100 miles to my west. All Army flying is taught 90 miles to my north. An AFB on the east side of this county, and the largest AFB in the world is 45 minutes to my west. When do I NOT see & hear Uncle out flying?
I’ve decided it’s too much for me to care for her anymore.
There comes a time when it becomes necessary to place a person in a facility. It is not your lack of dedication, it is your lack of skills and equipment. Moving an adult around is difficult even with the lifts and such. And nursing home people have the skills to move an adult properly. They also are able to clean the person with the proper materials.
A depressing situation, but it has to be done.
It is not an easy decision but one that you have to know is correct. And you have to keep telling yourself that your decision is in their best interest.
She moved her down here on a commercial flight from Denver to Houston with her mom asking her “where are we going” and “who are you” every ten minutes.
My wife brought my aunt back. Same scenario, every 15 minutes or so was the questions. The flight was at night so part of that was fortunately spent sleeping. Flight was non-stop from Seattle to Atlanta. Then my wife had to drive her from Atlanta to Oak Ridge. Aunt spent one night in our house then we took her to the assisted living the next day under false pretenses (we lied our asses off).
Medicare will not pay for assisted living, only a nursing. That $30K will disappear fast so start your shopping for a nursing home as soon as you can. She will get to keep $50 (TN, may be different for different states) of the SS and retirement each month for sundries. We would buy my aunt flowers each month for her room.
Also you need to be prepared as you might receive significant wrath from your mother. Moments of clarity will result in rage against you for what you have done. You have to remember to ignore the anger as you are doing what is best.
Lackland and surround bases are on of the AF’s primary pilot training bases.
Lackland has no flight facilities at all.
Some flight training used to be done at Randolph. They used both propeller planes and jet planes (T-38’s if memory serves me correctly) for training. But those planes stayed north of San Antonio for their flights. Seeing small planes around Kelly AFB was not normal when I was there. Perhaps Kelly AFB has changed their role or added to the role of transport planes.
@MrAtoz:
Yes, the WP Admin Editor (what you see when you create a post via an administrative login) has a ‘Rich Text Editor’.
But the Comment box is just an [input] box in a form. It does not have a Rich Text Editor. It’s more like Notepad.
You can put HTML commands in the comment box, and they will be saved and used. (Well, some basic HTML code; not everything is supported.)
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@MrAtoz, you and your Mom are in my thoughts and prayers. Being here you are getting wise counsel. The reality is that the gooberment is not here to help you, they will just do everything to get all of your Mother’s assets and more. The “system” will try and reach into your pockets. You will do what is right, do not second guess yourself.
My Dad was fortunate to be in a good assisted living facility with an attached nursing home and finally a hospice. My Sister and I were constantly being challenged by the “State and Feds” to contribute more, with the Catch 22 being that if we did he would lose all “State and Federal” assistance. My Dad had used up all his assets taking care of Mom, so there was nothing left for him.
Peace, fair winds, and following seas.
WRT planes flying overhead:
Our little airport is attached to an airfield that was created in WWII that served as a pilot training base. Today it is still used for training, things like touch and goes. It is also a base for a flight a various size Tankers so there is daily activity around here with mid-air refueling of all sorts of all services aircraft.
Lackland has no flight facilities at all.
My bad, I meant currently Randolph. They use the Texan I believe. Lackland and Kelly were active when I was there in my sooper secret job. The Space Shuttle on the back of its transport plane landed at Kelly while I was there.
All Army flying is taught 90 miles to my north.
Ah, Fort Rucker, The Home of Army Aviation. I love the smell of JP4 in the morning. My initial training back then was in the Hughs 300 piston tinker toy chopper. Now they go most of the way through in the beefed up Jet Ranger. Jet fuel and turbines all the way, baby.
@RickH, it’s the stripping out of white space that buggers me the most.
This line is right justified.
This line is indented 5 spaces
So is this
This line is down one space from the next.
This line is down 5 CR from the last.
And this one is 10 CR down.
nick
@nick
You have privs to post articles. Don’t hesitate.
My Dad had used up all his assets taking care of Mom, so there was nothing left for him.
I gather that this happens a lot. I have no good answers here other than checking for a urine smell.
BTW, I was told by my father a month ago that if I ever put him in a nursing home that he would disinherit me. This was after we visited my father in law in his nursing home.
I’ve decided it’s too much for me to care for her anymore. I’m up multiple times during the night to give her meds, get her changed etc. A social worker is calling me next week with options and help me plan the best place for Mom.
BTW, have you checked into Visiting Angels to see if they can forestall the moment ?
http://www.visitingangels.com/
It is not cheap, I know that. Another friend has his 92 year old blind father being visited for lunch and dinner 7 days a week. $4,000/month.
We used https://www.homeinstead.com/ for my mom. Twice a week for 4 hours each. They charged ~$19 per hour.
Mostly to go shopping at Wal-mart (because that’s about all there is here), hair and nail salon stuff, girl talk, and then sit around bored because mom got to where she would go outside to smoke and totally ignore the woman. Help mom bathe? Oh, hell no way mom was going for that.
So, yeah, do laundry once a week and play candy crush or whatever the rest of the time.
Boring job. We really appreciated the help because we could get out of the house for a while.
In other fun projects, I dropped the steering column on the 2004 Freestar. Not bad, 9:30 to Noon from start to wash-up. I’m sore. Whine.
Ford shop manuals are different than Chrysler’s but I’m slowly figuring the different language out.
Freestar has a “foot on brake to take out of park” feature. A Lawyer feature? This particular Freestar still has the feature although now detached from the “shifting gate” (don’t know what else to call it) and so computer will be happy if computer even cares. The solenoid is that golden chinese/japanese color. The terminal pins look like corroded aluminum.
It is now unable to stop me from getting the effing van into gear for 45 minutes when I have a cart load of frozen groceries.
As a bonus, the power locks have worked perfectly every time since. Kind of confirms my bad ground idea. I’m quite sure ShitBox (van’s brand new name) will soon prove me wrong.
As expected, the shifter is still locked with the key removed.
Freestar has a “foot on brake to take out of park” feature. A Lawyer feature?
My 2005 Expedition has this feature also. Probably dates back to the “unintended acceleration” wars that were ruled to be caused by people with their foot on the accelerator, not the brake pedal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_unintended_acceleration
and
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/its-all-your-fault-the-dot-renders-its-verdict-on-toyotas-unintended-acceleration-scare-feature
My 93 Isuzu Trooper has this, and it wasn’t a new feature at the time.
And, of course, MrsAtoz’s Caddy Battlewagon has push button start where you have to put your foot on the brake to start it. And shift out of P. I guess all the button start cars are like that.
Well, it is a 2004. And it pretty much sat in the carport it’s entire life. It’s been here for 3+ years and now has all of 35,ooo miles. Up from 22,000. Yeah, I did replace the factory tires…… they got sorta funny looking.
Dad had a 73 or so Chevy p/u with a flatbed instead of the usual p/u thing. Bought it new. The entire front edge of the hood rusted through in three years. Just the hood. Nothing else rusted. Chevy was like “too bad you live near the ocean”. Edinburg, Texas is not what I consider near the ocean.
My “best” memory of that truck was when dad went to replace a dash lightbulb. And every single bulb socket broke just by being touched. Not removed, just bumped while trying to reach the burned out bulb. That shit right there is a True Sign of Quality.
Why it was my fault, I don’t know. But it was. At least the belt buckle didn’t get away.
lol! I thought my 91-year old Mom had problems:
VIDEO: Hillary grips aide’s hand — to climb one step
Yeah that push button thing had me sitting mystified for 20 minutes. Not my favorite thing.
Cop cars use the ‘foot on brake to shift out of park’ as a security feature. They have a box they add that gets put in between the brake switch and the wire harness. If you don’t activate the secret box, and step on the brake, it won’t shift. And you don’t get to steal the cruiser…
I’m thinking about adding it to my 2 trucks as I often leave them running.
nick
And, of course, MrsAtoz’s Caddy Battlewagon has push button start where you have to put your foot on the brake to start it. And shift out of P. I guess all the button start cars are like that.
I wonder how the remote start feature works on these then ?
“My 93 Isuzu Trooper has this, and it wasn’t a new feature at the time.”
My 92 Dodge p/u doesn’t have this. As far as I remember, my 96 dodge Stratus didn’t have this.
But, I was so drilled during driver’s ed class that you put your foot on the brake before shifting, I really don’t know….
My best wishes and prayers, MrAtoz; it ain’t easy. I have nothing much to add to the very good advice others have posted here. I visited my own 84-year-old mom down in MA last Thursday (she has Pick’s Disease, a lovely variant of Alzheimer’s). She didn’t recognize me at first, but I think she got it eventually when I was able to prompt her with info from the past 63 years. She can remember chit from way back but her faculties of reason and logic and judgment have gone bye-bye. Which is why she’s there and we couldn’t take care of her properly anymore at home, not unless we all took turns staying up all night; it became a 7×24 gig. She was also repeating sentences rapidly three or four times each time she spoke.
They brought her in a nice hot lunch of lasagna, veggies, a roll, fruit, juice and ginger ale and a pb&j sammich. She would only eat the sammich so I ate the rest. Wasn’t bad.
And eventually the visits will result in her not knowing any of us at all, like with my late dad, who got early-onset Alzheimer’s. We’d see him at the nursing home and every once in a while could notice in his eyes that he was back and he recognized you and where he was and then it was gone, only lasted a couple of seconds. He got in trouble a couple of times for knocking people down who got in his face and he was a pretty big boy.
It seems like we go out one of two ways, usually, either with our minds intact and our bodies an unholy mess of pain and suffering, or our bodies are A-OK but our minds have slipped their moorings and we’re out in some other dimension. I keep mine active with a chit-load of interests and projects and challenges but who knows what kinda crap is going on inside.
Ya try to do the right thing and do what ya can. We’re only human.
So again, like Mr. DadCooks says, clear sailing and fair winds, MrAtoz, or in your case, clear flying and no winds.
My Sister and I were constantly being challenged by the “State and Feds” to contribute more
You have to know the rules as the feds and state will not help you and will in fact break their own rules if they can get away with it. State here tried to take my aunt’s VA benefits (her husband was WWII vet) until I got the VA to write a nasty letter to the state.
You also need to watch out for any providers as they will try and bill you. Had that happen with three different providers. I told them to go pound sand in terms that were not so nice. Threats would be a better choice of words.
The Space Shuttle on the back of its transport plane landed at Kelly while I was there.
I was out of the USAF at that time and was working in downtown SA when that event occurred. Drove out to the base to witness the event. Impressive.
Lackland and Kelly were active when I was there in my sooper secret job
Same when I was there. But at some point they deactivated Kelly AFB, moved all the planes out. When I was there last week I saw planes flying out of there again (I think they came from there, low flying with wheels down) so maybe Kelly AFB is active again.
I was stationed at RAFB for six years, lived on base for 1.5 years. Never saw anything big land there, just the training planes.
I’m quite sure S***Box (van’s brand new name) will soon prove me wrong.
My friend called her Aerostar ? Freestar ? a Firestar. It torched off one fine day in her garage. She got in it and backed it out of the driveway down to the street where it proceeded to melt itself down to the wheels. Her kids bedroom was over the garage.
“VIDEO: Hillary grips aide’s hand — to climb one step”
It’s pathetic, truly. She’s a 5’4″ pudgy old fembat creature left over from the Glorious Sixties and steeped in Alinskyism like the Obola creatures, and she is likely kept in motion and barely functional with Lord only knows what narcotics and stratagems and use of at least one body double out there, so the theory and pics and vids seem to show. What a mess.
She’s a mess NOW; how does anyone expect her to withstand the insane pressures of that National Administrator office?
Something is not quite right with this whole “election” picture but I can’t put my finger on it.
Something is not quite right with this whole “election” picture but I can’t put my finger on it.
Rush said yesterday that 2016 looks exactly like 1980 to him:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/10/26/does_this_sound_familiar_to_you
“MOYERS: “Those of you who might speak Spanish, who might be black, who might be women, remember,” said Carter, “who’s been your friend.” And there under the California sun in San Diego at a shopping center, Ronald Reagan was delivering himself of one of those patriotic soliloquies at which he’s been a master since his days at Eureka College. Suddenly hecklers in the crowd started shouting and waving their ERA signs. Reagan took his cue and snapped back, “Aw, shut up!””
“And thousands of supporters roared their approval. Those are the people for whom Ronald Reagan is the apostle of the rollback, the knight who promises finally to slay the dragon of liberal government. Jimmy Carter won four years ago as an outsider, and, if he wins at all tonight, it must be as an insider defending the status quo. Reagan has cast himself as a sheriff who comes riding into town at just in the nick of time shouting, “Enough’s enough.””
I just watched Joss Whedon’s latest fuk tRump ad. lol! “Can we stay, Papi?” Could anybody that hasn’t decided yet believe tRump will throw out citizens who have Mexican heritage? I take it the ad is pandering to crimmigrants to go out and illegally vote. Maybe Whedon is taking the same meds as Cankles.
There is a lot of early voting going on in Texas. We had 18,182 people vote on Monday in a county of over 700,000 residents. That is well over two percent of the residents. I have no idea how many registered voters there are.
https://communityimpact.com/houston/katy/city-county/2016/10/25/fort-bend-county-voters-break-record-ballots-cast-first-day-early-voting/
Harris county (Houston) had 67,461 people vote on Monday. There are over four million people living in Harris county.
http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Early-voting-begins-with-long-lines-in-Harris-10160541.php
I suspect that the pollsters are going to be proven of trying to throw the election. Unless, they do.
Rush said yesterday that 2016 looks exactly like 1980 to him.
I’m old enough to remember 1980. Apologies to Rush, but it is different. CA was a reliable Republican state during Presidential elections, and, among other things, as Governor, Reagan was famous for having cleaned up Governor Moonbeam Sr.’s messes, including putting the UC system on the right path.
There was a kind of inevitability about Reagan that just isn’t there with Trump IMHO. Interestingly, out at the Reagan Library, there is even footage of Tom Brokaw talking about the phenomenon, saying “I told everybody — he’s coming.”
BTW — The Reagan Library has done an amazing job with the 70s/80s Air Force One. If you love airplanes is a “must see” regardless of your political beliefs.
Nick posted a comment this morning that’s worth reading. It links to a Daily Mail article that describes just how ill-prepared the authorities in Washington and Oregon are for the catastrophic earthquake that may occur at any time.
The winter before our sentence -er- tenure there ended, I remember SW WA State being paralyzed by barely an inch of snow. An earthquake in Winter with I5, I90, and I84 snowed in at the passes would quickly turn into an ugly situation in Portland and Seattle. Anyone who thinks Canada would pitch in with spare logistics hasn’t seen the speed with which milk moves north from the Costco in Bellingham — Vancouver BC is probably even less prepared.
Living out there, we heard the earthquake warnings all the time. However, after a while, residents tend to tune it out because it the situation is always used to justify pork barrel stupidity like the $4 million “Tsunami proof” elementary school one small coastal Oregon community wanted to build a few years ago for a couple of hundred kids max.
Update: Oops. My bad — now the cost is $100 million, but they’re relocating four schools. Cheap! I’ll admit that I don’t keep up with OR pork since we moved to TX.
http://www.opb.org/news/article/seaside-schools-tsunami-zone-bond-measure-approved/
Michelle Malkin sums up Crooked Grandma Cankles in her article today.
Hillary’s Climate of Hate
In regard to Rush Limburger trotting out Bill Moyers: Old Nooz. Some of us are old enough to remember how Moyers was the PR flack and waterboy for successive Dem administrations and then moved over to become a sort of enema grease at PBS, you know, the KGB’s Murkan franchise. Old nooz.
Ditto with regard to Malkin’s dissection of Field Marshal Rodham; she’s preaching to the choir, because those of us who’ve known about Cankles since the 1980s have also known that she’s a hateful and psychotic fucking maniac. There’s a guy on here who’s known her since she was in high skool! And I believe him when he says she was the same then! Hats off, Mr. DadCooks!
And the imbeciles who vote for her aren’t gonna be reading or listening to Malkin or Limburger. They mostly seem to get their info from the MSM, FaceCrack, Twatter and other imbeciles around the mythical/virtual water cooler.
Pat Condell is an optimistic son of a gun:
http://bastionofliberty.blogspot.com/2016/10/pat-condell-on-americas-moment-of-truth.html
The Progs will do more than just sulk if Trump “wins;” the cities will explode here: the Progs and SJWs will be fomenting and encouraging that.
He also doesn’t mention the certainty of our “election” being manipulated and rife with fraud and corruption and hacking. It’s becoming more and more like some thieves’ banana republic paradise, ripe for looting, raping and mayhem, like it’s 1930s Havana, run by gangsters and the mobs.
But I give him a C+ for a decent effort as a furriner.
My wife has become “Super Prepper”
since reading a SHTF book about the New Madrid Fault that we live
nearby. She not just supports my efforts but chides me for not doing
more. Hey, I want us to have a life too. She was telling me her
dream this morning that we were at her mothers place and doing an
inventory of all our supplies when the Ward Bishop dropped by. “Oh
My” he said “you seem to have gone overboard”
scanning the piles of boxes and 5 gal buckets. Then he saw the boxes
marked “TOBACCO” and WHISKY” and got upset. “Why do you
have these” he asked angrily, pointing to the boxes. “You know
the church forbids these!” My wife said “For barter,
obviously. When you can’t get a cigarette or a bottle of booze at
the store these will be like gold for trade”. There followed
an argument and the Bishop stormed out. So after telling me this
dream she says “How are we fixed for cigarettes and booze?”
“Flat out” I reply. “Well we better stock up this
weekend.” She says. So Saturday we will buy a couple cases of
booze. Will wait till we can hit an Indian Tobacco stand for the
Cigarettes. She also wants a small RV to pack our extra supplies in,
a trailer to carry the overflow if we want to bug out. Good ideas
all but my budget will only stretch so far …. <sigh>
Man that is AWESOME!
Get busy!
Ain’t nobody happy if momma ain’t happy….
n
A friend reminded me that some time back he stashed a lot of mylar packages of tobacco with rolling papers, the LTS version, I guess. Anybody know where to get these?
One advantage of tobacco for barter is that it’s less likely to turn around and bite you, unlike bullets and booze.
Condell lays it out perfectly. When you scrape away the fecal stain of MSM, you can clearly see how Boobus Americanus has been bamboozled. As Mr. OFD says, the commies took over without firing a shot through our stupid public school system and political elite. He gives me more hope than most of ‘Murka.
I’m old enough to remember 1980. Apologies to Rush, but it is different. CA was a reliable Republican state during Presidential elections, and, among other things, as Governor, Reagan was famous for having cleaned up Governor Moonbeam Sr.’s messes, including putting the UC system on the right path.
But there were 49 other states in 1980. And nobody predicted that Reagan was going to carry 44 states. Jimmy Carter was widely seen as incompetent (remember the Iranian hostage rescue mission that burned in the desert ?) but was thought to be unbeatable by most people that I talked with. And I was in school at TAMU at the time but TAMU was fairly conservative back then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1980
I voted for Reagan in 1980 but was not even sure that Texas was going for him. After all, just about every state official in Texas except the governor, Bill Clements, was Democrat in 1980. And we replaced Bill Clements with Mark White, a Democrat and a loser, in 1983.
“He gives me more hope than most of ‘Murka.”
Who, me? Hahaha. Or Pat the Brit?
Hey, I was a dope all through skool, too, but working for Uncle and then doing the cop job on the streets woke me way the fuck up. And I realized I was fighting the wrong commies in the wrong place. Still a dope.
Condell lays it out pretty well but it’s with the assumption that the system can still be made to work the way it was designed. Same as my hero Pat Buchanan. But I don’t agree with them; I think it’s too late and we’ll need a full defrag, format and reboot.
I’m reminded of my kids relaying what they learned from their classmates in school. The typical nugget was a grain of something real coated in 10 times its weight of nonsense.
Only if you put up with that shit.
We are surrounded by millions of imbeciles, mostly now married to their pixels and otherwise illiterate and innumerate and ignorant of history and geography and logic or reason. And at LEAST half a billion firearms.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Hey, came across this little gem; the Donald does the ALC ice bucket challenge; only it’s not a couple of the office drones there dumping the ice water on him, or fellow billionaire clowns, no, the Donald gets Miss Friggin’ Universe and Miss Friggin’ USA to do the gig:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxDAyUiXphg
Life is hard.
Reasons we probably won’t go to war with Russia (you can sleep comfortably tonight, Mr. nick):
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2016/10/oopsa-world-war.html#more
Our constant poking at the Russians and the MSM reports on it seem to be nicely designed to distract us from the “election” stuff going on back here, which, in turn, keeps us away from any close examination of the ongoing financial chicanery in Mordor and Babylon.
I’ll continue to sleep like the dead at night until such time as we do have more goblins be-bopping around here on a regular basis. Or Russian paratroopers dropping from the skies.
Condell lays it out pretty well but it’s with the assumption that the system can still be made to work the way it was designed. Same as my hero Pat Buchanan. But I don’t agree with them; I think it’s too late and we’ll need a full defrag, format and reboot.
But, to use your comparison, I think that if we go to that state then the master boot record is fragged. And like the French revolution, we will get something different this time. After all, most revolutions back then got the guillotine instead of the wise hands of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin. With all of their faults, they were head and shoulders above what we have now.
Life is hard.
Yeah, I know, you think that life today is easy. So do I. The coming life is going to be hard and the gen xers / millennials have got some tough times ahead of them. We are spending our accumulated capital in the USA (some call it seed corn) and are just about out.
I continue to believe that there are Russian patriots who will try to prevent fool moves that will assure the destruction of their country.
I sure hope we have American patriots who will also do nothing stupid that will make the Russians (or whoever) try to destroy us.
I’m not talking about giving in or surrender. I’m talking about just keeping on with something like diplomacy (with appropriate threats) so we continue some sort of (relatively) peaceful co-existence on this small planet.
There was a Star Trek original series episode in which the Enterprise and a Klingon ship were surrounded by some alien entity that fed on hatred and aggression. The Klingons and Kirk and the boys figured out to have a big hoot, laugh it all off, and the violence and hatred feeders starved out and left…
Why nuke us now when they are getting what they want? Unless they are afraid of trump it makes no sense. Wait until after the election. Then decide.
“Or Russian paratroopers dropping from the skies.” –“Wolverines!!!!!”
” prevent fool moves that will assure the destruction of their country.”
What makes you sure that would happen? Our CIC doesn’t like violence or the military. Our command and control has been weakened and replaced by political and affirmative action hires. Our people would not support a war short of nukes. Too tired of the last decade…
He won in Ukraine.
nick
Meanwhile, duh, for potential local issues, I’m continuing to stock up on beans (short on rice, in proportion; need to catch up), bullets (probably more than I can fling before I have to take a nap), and water (do need to fill the big jugs)…
I’m finding the 11/9 date for potential madness bothersome, since it resembles 9/11… and why not be ready for that?
“I’m talking about just keeping on with something like diplomacy (with appropriate threats) so we continue some sort of (relatively) peaceful co-existence on this small planet.”
Orlov mentions that as ongoing at the middle levels of both governments; they have a vested interest in not becoming vaporized because of higher-up insanity and foolishness and stupidity and ignorance.
“…most revolutions back then got the guillotine…”
I think of it, what we’re trying to do, as more of a counter-revolution, actually, where we restore the original operating system after wiping the current monstrosity off it.
“Yeah, I know, you think that life today is easy. So do I. The coming life is going to be hard…”
I was just funnin’ at the Donald’s expense. Two drop-dead gorgeous dolls dump the ice wotta on him; Obola does it by himself, what a loser. As for life being easy today, yeah, compared to our parents and grandparents and further back, and most of the rest of the world. Most of us live better than Renaissance and medieval royalty did. Including our terribly oppressed minorities.
But yup, hard times is a’comin’ for us all, us before we croak, and then our kids and grandkids. This 50- or 100-year window of seemingly endless prosperity and freedom is closing fast. Let’s face it: it’s an anomaly in the historical record. My ancestor Franklin said “…if you can keep it.” Well, quite obviously, we can’t. We needed the moral backbone to keep it going and that’s gone now, mostly.
“” vested interest in not becoming vaporized “”
Uh, yeah.
“”Most of us live better than Renaissance and medieval royalty did. Including our terribly oppressed minorities.””
+1
Type 2 Diabetes has gone from a disease of the wealthy to a disease of the poor. Looking like a woman in a Renaissance painting and not Ann Coulter took real resources. Probably more resources than women today spend dieting and in the gym trying not to look like a woman from a Renaissance painting.
Update: Which is not to say there is anything wrong with Ann Coulter that wouldn’t be solved by her gaining 10 or 20 pounds.
“My wife has become “Super Prepper””
So I guess the shoe is on the other foot. I know a lot of couples who are both on-board with prepping, but almost invariably one is more gung-ho than the other. You need both sorts, just like every marriage needs a keeper and a thrower-away. Barbara is on-board but less radical about it than I am. That serves to moderate my prepping activities.
I’d forgotten that you’re LDS, if I ever knew it. Doesn’t the Church strongly encourage moderation in all things, including prepping? IIRC, they discourage such actions as going into debt to prepare, and so on, and encourage being financially responsible. Good advice, as is most advice from the LDS Church.
Which side of the NMSZ are you guys on? Obviously, if a catastrophic earthquake occurs there, it would damage or destroy many/most bridges and pipelines, cutting off the eastern half of the country from the food and fuel produced in the western half, so it’d be better to evacuate west if possible. But there are a lot of rural/agricultural areas east of the Mississippi, and many of those have a significant LDS presence. For example, there’s an active LDS church in Sparta, which is a branch of the Winston-Salem stake. I’ve been meaning to get into contact with them to volunteer for their emergency preparedness group, but I just haven’t gotten around to it.
Incidentally, as far as nuclear war with the Russians, I don’t think it’s going to happen. All of that news about CD preparations in Russia is true, I’m sure, but I don’t think they’re planning to attack us. I think they’re concerned that we’re going to nuke them.
Some further thoughts on the coming war…
Consider the big picture.
The US has retreated from the world stage
–we have reduced our military
–we have exhausted our warfighters, worn out our equipment
–we have worn out the patience of the populace for war
–we have a president who despises the military and fighting, and has no personal courage
–our economy has been weakened to the point we can barely feed ourselves
–our leaders focus on the short game
–our military has been refocused from fighting first worlders to third worlders
Russia is in many ways ascendant
–did not like being sanctioned
–took steps to counter that
—-began de-dollarization of the world
——set up alternative banking clearing system to SMART
——attacked the petrodollar and began doing deals in rubles and yuan
–took a stake in middle eastern politics
–tested the waters with NATO
—-attacked Ukraine, secured their port
—-NATO blustered but took the “out” offered
–has mobilized and aligned their population for war
—-recall of families
—-war drills, nuke attack,
—-has BUILT SHELTERS and PRACTICED with them
—-unveiled new missile, new warhead
–has been building military forces and USING them, practice and tempering of troops
–is positioning troops and naval assets AS WE SPEAK
Some “Big Picture” considerations
–Vlad conquered a neighbor and GOT AWAY WITH IT
–the US has the election and transfer of power coming up
—-no matter who wins, there will be discord and strife
—-the “will of the people” will be very unclear
—-with a TRump victory, foreign policy will be unclear
—-Obammarama the Nobel Peace Prize Winner will NOT be willing to initiate anything and would be grateful to accept any “out” offered to avoid strife
–any delay in response to Russian aggression is a WIN for Russia
—-it becomes harder to pry them loose, and harder to fight the ‘fait accompli’ mentally
–NATO and other Eastern and Euro countries are responding to Russian manouvering with troop movements of their own
–the more troops in place and the more time, effort, and money spent, the more there will be a willingness to USE them.
–Potential allies of Russia, or at least opportunistic countries are riding Vlad’s coattails and de-dollaring.
So, timing…
If Russia makes their move before the election
–what happens here? Martial Law? Obamma fights for control?
>>not likely
If after the election, with a Hillarity victory
–she’s a scary old bitch, and unpredictable, with poor judgement
–she’s not afraid to spend military lives on pointless and counterproductive response- dead soldiers = bonus in her book
–look for some violent but wasteful response
–Vlad wins anyway
If after the election, with a Trump victory
–transition of power is going to confuse and delay any action
–if T really is Vlad’s man, who knows??
–T is going to be unwilling to start a war before he’s even sworn in
— O set the precedent of the “President-Elect” having and office and influence, T will use that
–our house will be divided- this is a win for Russia as every delay is in their favor
In short, Russia has a window to act without response from the US of about 2-3 months. No reason to do so before the election, and different plans depending on who wins. But a lot of reasons to act before Jan 20. The nuclear posturing is intended to delay our acting, and keep us at arms length. We won’t have a nuclear exchange, but Vlad is saying “I’m preparing my people, and I’M willing to consider it, are you??” “So much easier and safer to sit this one out NYET?” – no way the American people would countenance an attack on Russia in defense of a non-British NATO ally.
What it means for you and me
–this is the $1M question
–expect immediate and devastating effects on the western economies.
—-markets will crash, banks will fail (this is the whole point of Vlad’s banking moves, to insulate Russia and allies from the crash as much as possible)
—-our enemies will be cashing out of US investments, selling treasuries, stocking up on oil and food while dollars are still worth something
–your bank accounts won’t be accessible for a while, possibly never
–the dollar will lose value RAPIDLY
—-as soon as the world loses faith, the whole house of cards falls
–your stocks will lose value RAPIDLY
–your retirement income will be eliminated
–imports will become VERY expensive
–scarcity and disruption in the supply chain will lead to strident demands to “DO SOMETHING”
–people will be hungry, desperate, violent
What I think you can do
–get real assets and HIDE THEM (from re-distributionists, formal or ‘informal’)
–if you are in the stock market or invested in paper stuff, get out. Any theoretical potential gains are overshadowed by the real downside risk. When the pros bail, you’ll be stuck
–basic preps—- do more of them
–prepare to live under siege
—-increases in criminality and violence will keep you in your home more.
—-you may not be sending your kids to school
—-you may not be going to work
—-basic life tasks get WAY harder, ie shopping, Dr visits, school,
–increase your physical security
—-arm and ammo up
—-harden your home
—-harden your vehicle
Some of the effects will be sudden, some will be mid-term and some will be long term. Financial disaster is likely to be sudden. Changes in the macro economy take longer, but will happen. The changes in violence and security will probably take the longest.
Look at Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina for practical examples of what life will be like. People still live there, they still conduct business, they still raise kids, go to work, etc. but their day to day is very different from ours. Security is always a concern. Getting food takes more time and effort. Kidnapping and personal violence are much more a concern than here. Theft is rampant, as is official corruption. (if security lights are enclosed in concrete and a rebar cage, you know the situation is grim- ie MEXICO for the last couple of decades) Utilities and municipal services become unreliable as there is no money or skilled labor to maintain them. Expect gangs and criminals to take control of areas and fill the power vacuum created by the retreat of officialdom.
Some parts of the country are going to drop to Africa levels. Some are damn near there now, and won’t be getting better. BUT, given mobility and freedom to leave, the affected masses won’t STAY there. They’ll bring Africa to you…
Lots of behind the scenes actors are waiting to step in and profit from the whole mess.
What to look for…
–who is selling out of US and dollar based assets?
–who is positioning to profit from war? (buying assets like weapons makers, others who contract with Uncle?)
–who is talking? Social violence almost always comes with a warning – “If you don’t shut your mouth, I’m gonna shut it for you.” War is the ultimate in social violence.
–who is stocking up on food and fuel?
We’re gonna have a war, and it won’t be a proxy war. Russia will move on someone. They’ll have a ‘reason’ and they will follow Sun Tsu’s advice and give the US a bridge to retreat across. For domestic reasons, the US will ‘take the out’ and allow the aggression. The nuclear posturing is the stick behind the carrot. We are told to “follow the money” and ask “who benefits” and when you look, you can clearly see signs of big movements just below the surface. War will suck for the average person, just like it always does.
Get ready, we’ve got time, but it’s getting short.
nick
(oh, and there are always opportunistic actors who are waiting for us to weaken. Look for a huge increase in attacks that wouldn’t have even been considered 5 years ago. ie. on the level of harassment)
Here’s an idea, get the RV and drive all over the country have your wife tell the reluctant wife of prepping interested husbands that they are grossly underprepared. I’d pay at least $100 or $200 for an analysis of my preps and an explanation to my wife that we need more.
Or vice versa.
In my experience, the pro-prepping half of any given couple is as likely to be the wife as the husband. That was certainly true initially of Jen and David, although the more he read the news the more in favor he became.
Normalcy bias isn’t just a refusal to accept that bad things can happen. It’s also an unconscious assumption that normal routines will continue even in a catastrophic emergency. That’s particularly true of food storage, because even if he/she sees the desirability of doing some prepping, the non-prepping half of the couple unconsciously estimates required quantities based on current practice.
I’ve mentioned this specifically with regard to Barbara’s comment that a 10-pound bag of Krusteaz pancake mix was a year’s supply. Yes, it is for the two of us when we’re having pancakes once every couple weeks. If there are no more supermarket trips, eating out, convenience/frozen/fresh foods, etc. etc., and if we’re feeding more than just the two of us plus Colin, that one-year supply of pancake mix could easily become enough for just one or two weeks.
” I’d pay at least $100 or $200 for an analysis of my preps and an explanation to my wife that we need more.”
+1,000
Excellent idea!
F2F works better than Skype!
“For domestic reasons, the US will ‘take the out’ and allow the aggression.”
If Field Marshal Rodham is in the WH, I make it 50-50 that she’ll tell the military to light ’em up, but I also make it 50-50 again that mid-level military won’t cooperate.
“–she’s a scary old bitch, and unpredictable, with poor judgement
–she’s not afraid to spend military lives on pointless and counterproductive response- dead soldiers = bonus in her book
–look for some violent but wasteful response
–Vlad wins anyway”
Exactly. The upside is that she might get taken out one way or another before we all slide off the precipice. Pray fervently for that, even if you’re an atheist.
Basic preps + DEFENSE
I think the short term for DEFENSE is most likely gonna be for us to get squared away on handguns for EDC everywhere we go and at home, and get comfy with shotguns at home. Beyond that, probably rifles and SUT for those of us in good enough shape. (not me, at present).
Incidentally, Pat Condell is a radical atheist and very liberal socially. Much like me in fact. IOW, “Normals” and “Deplorables” cross all lines (other than progressive/SJW), so don’t count someone out as an ally simply because they’re not religious, favor gay rights, freedom of choice, etc. etc.
The real enemy here is progressives, including neocons, which are simply progressives under a different name.
Nick, sorry, the same row to Mexico Vzla and Argentina is similar to use the same row for Spain, Austria and France, I know those three
Detroit is worst than some sites of Vzla, I live in one, I worked in Vzla
@ayjblog, the world seems to have no shortage of shitholes that were once very nice. What changed? WHO changed I wonder?
Detroit is literally unbelievably bad, so far has it fallen. If you don’t look at the pictures you would never know, but it is at African levels of existence.
nick
Detroit was fine until the progs took over, starting around the time of FDR.
“The real enemy here is progressives, including neocons, which are simply progressives under a different name.”
Agreed. And of course, anyone to the left of ME!
*I’M* to the left of you.
Just hackin’ on ya, as the Billy the Kid character sez in “Young Guns.”
We all know who are our enemies are.
I doubt there is anyone to the “right” of me here, lol.
Lynn wrote:
“remember the Iranian hostage rescue mission that burned in the desert ?”
That was poorly maintained choppers, etc, wasn’t it?
Lynn wrote:
“remember the Iranian hostage rescue mission that burned in the desert ?”
That was poorly maintained choppers, etc, wasn’t it?
The Iranian hostage rescue mission was a typical dumbocrat military mission. Underfunded, undermanned, untested, untrained, and half-assed. The guys did not have enough support, tools, and manpower. They sent 8 helicopters, a reasonable commander-in-chief would have sent 100.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw
And a reasonable commander in chief would have nuked the place on the way out.
“They sent 8 helicopters, a reasonable commander-in-chief would have sent 100.”
Given the exact location of the hostages was known, I would have sent a dozen choppers and had AC-130 gunships and Warthogs suppressing any and all enemy activity for a couple of hundred miles around. And you gotta make allowances for weather and stuff like sandstorms.