10:02 – More kit stuff today, along with year-end business stuff, including orders. I just dropped an $1,800 PO with one of our suppliers, with more to come.
A blizzard is in the forecast for us starting this afternoon and through the night. Temperatures well below freezing with strong winds and gusts up to 50 MPH (80 KPH). We’re to get at least a dusting of snow, with possibly an inch or two (2.5 to 5 cm) of accumulation. It’ll be a good day to stay inside and fill more chemical bottles.
The word “blizzard” for us regular New Englanders means a whopper of a snowstorm, with heavy snow and strong winds throughout, that lasts for most of a day, at least, often several days. A dusting doesn’t cut it. Our local weather liars have us getting maybe a couple of inches today and a couple more tomorrow, with the usual gusty winds that we get here a lot anyway.
I’m OK here even if the power goes out, for probably up to a month. I plan to get that up to three months, then six months, and then a year. Slow going so far.
Overcast now and about 31 degrees.
I call it a blizzard to annoy Barbara. Plus which, in NC we seldom have literal blizzards although in Sparta we may see white-out conditions with 50+ MPH winds.
From the OFD Learns New Words Today Department:
“The board warned students that failing to follow these guidelines could lead them to commit a microaggression, which includes “microassaults,” “microinsults,” and “microinvalidations.””
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8573
Parents’ money and everyone’s tax money going for this commie rubbish. But there I go again, committing a microassault and a microinvalidation. I’m a recidivist offender in this regard, too. Sad.
You know, if I were a genuine Communist, I’d be offended by having these mewling turds lumped in with me.
In other words, congratulations, Dave. You’ve managed to commit a microaggression against Communists.
Thanks! I feel like I owe them something a little more and a bit later than I was able to deliver while working for Uncle.
They, seriously, are still a huge threat to the West, as is, of course, so-called Islam, which has been a threat for much longer and is now feeling its oats again, so to speak. Both must be eradicated from the planet or we will never have peace from them.
Parents’ money and everyone’s tax money going for this commie rubbish.
#1 on the list: Portland Community College to devote an entire month to ‘whiteness’-shaming.
When we left the Portland area, Trader Joes had just pulled the plug on building a store on the east side of town when the locals expressed concern that the chain attracted the “wrong” kind of people (white) to the neighborhood and increased property values.
My guess is that the grocery worker unions were really behind the protests, but the fact that the logic had any traction struck me as “only in Portland”. I see things haven’t changed since our escape.
Of course the intent of these asses is to make everything they dislike a crime. (and everyone)
Being my politically correct self, I will not microannoy any libturds today.
Yup, and along those same lines, we possibly have some really funny chit about to go down in Mordor during the Inauguration:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/12/22/roger_stone_operative_infiltrates_planning_session_for_inauguration_protesters_planning_violent_disruption.html
Maybe it’s just bull-chit or a fake nooz story or whatever, but how would the usual susepects NOT take advantage of the day? And if it’s for real, I’d expect the SS and the Mordor PD to saturate the area with both a visible armed and uniformed presence, but also boatloads of people in plainclothes.
This could also be a State-infiltrated plot to set in motion events which would require a massive LE crackdown.
“Over The Hedge”: “Kneel to your fire ant overlords !!”
http://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2016/12/29
So true.
Fire ant overlords would be preferable to Cankles, by orders of magnitude. They’d be easier to gas or stomp or incinerate and that kinda trumps everything else.
Snow flurries here so fah; snow sky above. We’ll see what we have by tomorrow night. Mrs. OFD due to arrive in Moh-ree-all Saturday AM and then supposedly driving my RAV down here by herself, but I suspect the usual suspect will somehow throw a monkey wrench into that.
Optimist.
Barbara thinks she spotted a snowflake or two, so our blizzard is officially raging. And the wind gusts definitely look like 50+ MPH. I’m pretty sure I just saw a cow roll by, end over end.
You can have some of our snow if you want it.
Are you sure it was a cow rolling by? Might have been a wallyhog. You can send photos to Dave Hardy; he’s the group’s zoologist specializing in wallyhogs.
Our light snow flurries seem to have stopped and the wind is just kinda breezy, not like the other day when it tore loose one of our shutters on the second story, natch. Gotta get up on a ladder for that but will wait for Mrs. OFD to get back so she can spot me and call an ambulance if I fall off and break something. It’s not that high up and I’m very careful. In fact, if she was gonna be gone much longer, I’d just cowboy up and do it by myself.
“Might have been a wallyhog. You can send photos to Dave Hardy; he’s the group’s zoologist specializing in wallyhogs.
I haven’t seen much of the wallyhogs lately, not that I miss them. I heard the one who lives to our immediate east smoking and hacking and coughing late last night outside, though. And I’ve only seen her sister briefly once or twice in the past couple of months since she was taken away in an ambulance for unknown causes.
Did a quick little recon tour of the immediate AO and noticed who has radio antennas and firewood stacked up and what kinda vehicles, etc., plus listening to the scanner a lot more and picking up mostly traffic chit and EMS house calls. Gonna play around with the shortwave some more later. I’d really like to see us get at least six inches to a foot of snow so I can get out on the x-c skis and snowshoes and do AO recons that way, while also playing with the Bow-Fungs and the Yaesu FT-60. Maybe that will help accelerate the burning off of the pseudo-beer-gut and take some more pressure off my lower spine and pelvis.
Wow, way to kick the bear…
“President kicks out 35 Russian ‘spies’ and accuses Vladimir Putin of ordering hacking of Hillary Clinton’s secrets in run-up to election”
And still no denunciation of the CONTENT of the emails/etc.
I’m standing by my prediction that Putin will move sometime between now and the Inaugural.
n
Most American wars are started by Democrat Presidents. The piece of shit infesting the White House has only a few weeks to get his war and to secure his legacy.
only in Portland
Optimist.
I know. Since we moved here, I’ve noticed that, for some reason, Austin wants to be Portland, and Travis County is part of the Cankles Archipelago map making the rounds since the election.
Three weeks for something HUGE to happen or maybe nothing at all. But Obola is doing his best to fire up something and the Left’s plans for 1/20 in Mordor could be interesting.
I agree with Mr. Nick that Prince Vlad is probably feeling like he has to do something; he can’t keep getting bitch-slapped by assholes over here like Barack Hussein Soetero and look princely to his Russian countrymen and women.
If some kind of military chit takes place, it will be a nice distraction from the continuing financial shenanigans, which will go completely unnoticed, per usual.
“We elected a black president and begged him to fix the mess we’re told we created. When it got worse, liberals had to fabricate prejudice and hatred out of thin air. That didn’t work and so Trump won. It’s still going to take a while for these mentally ill zealots to realize the jig is up. Their entire existence was predicated on the lie that America is a racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ageist, ableist, xenophobic hellhole. That’s a lot of unraveling to do.”
http://takimag.com/article/2016_the_year_the_left_broke_gavin_mcinnes/print#axzz4UGPzWfW0
A summary of goofy events over the past year.
I agree with Mr. Nick that Prince Vlad is probably feeling like he has to do something; he can’t keep getting bitch-slapped by assholes over here like Barack Hussein Soetero and look princely to his Russian countrymen and women.
Putin is an adult. He’s fixing the Syria mess and biding his time until 1/20.
Sevastopol is once again part of Russia and likely will remain that way. Putin looks plenty princely to the Russians.
Putin is an adult. He’s fixing the Syria mess and biding his time until 1/20.
Yup. Putin is playing the long game. I doubt that Obola considers the effects of his actions for more than two seconds.
After the USA leaves NATO, I suspect that Estonia will become part of Russia again. Putin wants and needs more white Russians.
DH, did you get your guns, etc, back from when Princess lifted your car and drove it over the border?
I hope he has better success with Syria than his predecessors did with Afghanistan, and he has serious problems closer to home, with a simmering Chechnya and Ukraine while the worries over an expanding NATO are always there.
“…did you get your guns, etc, back from when Princess lifted your car and drove it over the border?”
There were no guns in the car; I don’t leave guns in the car unattended. But there was a pistol go-bag in there with loaded pistol mags, and she drove the car all over the greater Montreal area and into Ontario as well, and crossed the border back again, too.
There’s a lesson there somewhere, in addition to me taking all the damn go-bags outta the car, too, when she’s in the vicinity. Another talk with her mom is coming soon.
Less work to pull the spark plug wires.
Addition: Depending on where the fuse and relay box is, it might be even easier to pull one of the major plugs, like the ignition relay.
Make that mistake at the mexican border and you’ll spend a very unpleasant decade in mexican prison.
Americans have been locked up there for as little as one round.
n
President SteveF would make a polite call to whoever’s in charge down in Mexico, because he’s all about the velvet glove over the nuclear fist.
I favor the steel glove over the nuclear fist.
Or install one of these:
http://www.tremcoantitheft.com/howitworks.html
The only difference between models is the plugs installed. You could change the plugs or just hardwire in place.
n
But we LURV our neighbors to the south!
n
But we LURV our neighbors to the south!
Not me, they owe me money.
Oh man, I’ve got a couple of 800 watt metal halide lights inside the warehouse out too. Those are 30 feet off the ground.
http://www.drudgereport.com is down. I wonder if Obola is shutting down all the “fake news” websites.
And so it begins.
@lynn WRT manlifts: As your discussion and others’ comments go on it sounds more and more to me that you might have a justification for buying your own manlift and then moonlighting as an operator (renting it out would be too much of a liability IMHO). You could pick up some nice extra income, discount for cash 😉
““Less work to pull the spark plug wires.
I might resort to that if necessary. But Mom and I are having another conversation when she finally gets back here again.
“…Make that mistake at the mexican border…”
I have zero intention of ever going anywhere near the Mexican border, and in any case, probably within our lifetimes, that border will mostly disappear anyway, like the zombies knocking down the chainp-link fences in “The Walking Dead” as La Nueva Aztlan takes shape, with Mexico sorta sliding on into the southwestern states up to Colorado. See also “The Camp of the Saints.”
” You could change the plugs or just hardwire in place.
Thanks for that link; bookmarked. Good thing to have in the winta up here, too, when the car is warming up and you’re inside wherever doing other stuff for 15-20 minutes. Didn’t have them kinda gimcracks and geegaws back in my day…
““http://www.drudgereport.com is down.
Well, that’s interesting; I was just on there maybe an hour ago. I’ve never seen it down as long as I’ve been going there, years now. Interesting.
Drudge is back up, no explanation as yet, that I know of.
Geert Wilders convicted, as was expected, by yet another spineless judge on bullshit charges. He stands tall.
As does the Romanian President:
http://freedomoutpost.com/romanian-president-responds-to-social-democrats-who-nominated-muslim-woman-for-pm-pick-somebody-else/
Yeah, got to be somebody else in the country qualified to do the gig; don’t be like us over here, with all our “nationwide searches” for a bag-job crony or PC diversity candidate.
Disconnecting spark plug wires just means that the culprit will likely crank the car until the battery dies. To some extent, that cop car lock-in-park device has the same problem, with burning all the gas, for example, a potential issue.
There are simple cheap battery disconnects that clamp on the battery, and they are pretty effective… except against somebody who knows how to open the hood and look (which is still an issue with plug or coil wire removal). Most battery disconnects have some sort of simple key or a bolt with a knob that is pretty easy to carry away or hide. The big advantage of disconnecting the battery is that nothing at all can be turned on, saving the battery. One catch is that all computer settings will be lost, which can make a car run funny for a while when finally started.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Schumacher-Electric-Swan-Terminal-Disconnect/25955599
So where does jug ears get the authority to steal the russians’ property?
And those must be the first foreigners he’s kicked out in 8 years. I guess he won’t be using Customs and Border Patrol, having emasculated that agency…
n
Looks like we’re gonna need a bigger RV.
“And those must be the first foreigners he’s kicked out in 8 years.”
No chit, amigo. While he works his narrow ass off bringing in more musloid rapefugees, crimigrants from the Southern Hemisphere, and letting out many scores of felons from the prisons.
Know what he/they is/are doing now??
They’re rubbing our faces in it for the last month of this particular regime.
Because they can.
And if they do bust all the toilets and steal all the silverware from the WH before they leave, fewer peeps out here will be at all surprised, including some of the black people who got suckered by this piece of shit chump and voted for him. A virtually unknown young black senator from Illinois, and they couldn’t find a much better one somewhere in this big wide ol’ country???
Well, it’s like my ol’ pal Sebastian Ronin used to say on FaceCrack, and probably still does: “Everything always happens right on schedule.”
US Government Attacks Drudge Report? Conservative Website Down Because Of Distributed Denial Of Service Attack, Matt Drudge Tweets
Add to the above, Lurch’s long, irratic and insulting speech on “peace” in the Middle East. “Israel can be Jewish or Democratic, but not both.” What a capstone sentence to an indistinguished career. Add Cankles’ “Rest Button” and the destabilization of Libya and murder of our Ambassador to 8 years of the worst SoS’s in history.
Hey, don’t be dissing my homeboy, Vinegar John! Plus he’s a distant relative! Ain’t I lucky??
As I’ve said before here recently, I have no dawg in that fight over there and we needed to give it a good leaving-alone, but we apparently can’t keep our noses out of anything, ever.
Three more weeks of these assholes, but they’re wrecking as much as they can before they leave. I sincerely hope tRump is not a disappointment and that he somehow manages to reverse a bunch of stuff. But he’ll be lucky to make even a dent in the Deep State that exists in Mordor, Wall Street and Silicon Valley (and Utah) and as long as the Grid stays up, they have eyes and ears on all of us. Yottabytes of data, even our dreams, probably.
I’m way too small for them to bother with so here’s my New Year’s greeting for them:
Fuck all you muthafuckas; you’re going down. Maybe not this week or next year or the year after but it’s coming.
Its funny, Southern hemisphere, AFAIK it begins on Ecuador, leaving anything from Colombia to Venezuela up to Rio Bravo (including a lot of sites) belonging to Northern Hemisphere, looking on the other side of the pond (British terminology for oceans) includes Vietnam, Philippines, China, Libya, etc etc etc
funny