09:48 – It was 39.3F (4C) when I took Colin out at 0645 this morning, sunny and with a stiff breeze. We have the air conditioning on, so the house temperature overnight had fallen to 67F (19.5C), which is a bit cool for me. We won’t bother to turn the heat on, since the house will warm up during the day. With spring temperatures as they are, we won’t bother running heat or air until things warm up enough to make it worth running AC.
We got a bunch of chemical bottles filled yesterday, with a bunch more to do today and the rest of this coming week. For now, we’re building stock of shelf-stable chemicals in preparation for the busy time in late summer and early fall. For example, Barbara just finished filling 240 bottles of ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) tablets, which are shelf-stable for years. We keep much smaller quantities of the less stable chemicals on hand, making them up only as need to build kits on the fly.
We also have a fair amount of bulk food that needs to be repackaged. Last week, Barbara brought home 50-pound (22.7 kilo) bags of white rice, white sugar, and white bread flour from Costco. Until now, we’ve been repackaging that kind of stuff in PET bottles with oxygen absorbers, but I think we’ll do this batch in one-gallon 7-mil LDS foil-laminate Mylar bags, again with oxygen absorbers. Packed that way, the rice and sugar will remain good indefinitely, and the white bread flour for at least 10 years and probably 20.
I’m kind of following the French election. AP would be amusing if they weren’t so evil. They consistently describe Macron, who’s ultra-left, as a mainstream “centrist” candidate, and Le Pen, who’s moderate left, as “hard right”. They wouldn’t know a right-winger if he bit them in the ass, which may very well happen, and a lot sooner than they’d believe possible.
As you noted, the political labels in the UK & EU bear little to no relationship to US models. What we consider a moderate is “Far Right” by UK / EU standards.
Here’s a question for the group brain, on a trivial but bothersome issue.
Is there a way to increase randomness in the windows screensaver photo slideshow mode? On my win7 desktop, I have it set to my network “Pictures” folder. There isn’t a choice to include sub-directories, but it does seem to be including them anyway. The problem is, out of 10s of thousands of photos, I’m only getting images from a few directories, and even those tend to repeat. With that many photos I wouldn’t expect to get repeats for a long time, yet I get repeats every day.
I’ve noticed a real lack of randomness in windows whenever there is a ‘shuffle’ mode. The music player ‘shuffles’ among the same songs just like the photo player.
nick
added- nevermind. some more google finds that this function has been broken for at least 6 years, and MS just dances around the issue.
68 sunny and clear here. Didn’t get much done yesterday so I’m working outside again today.
I’ve got caterpillars eating my grape vines (grape leaf skeletonizers) which can only be effectively treated with a baccillus treatment. I’ve got tiny little black bugs on my new apple trees. Snails eating dark green leafy plants. Damn, if I couldn’t go to the store and buy the right stuff I’d be in trouble.
One more reason that you need to start your garden NOW….
n
we won’t bother running heat or air until things warm up enough to make it worth running AC
Our thermostat picks whether to run AC or heat depending on the temperature. We have set points for highs and lows. Get too warm AC comes on, too cold and heat comes on. Basically set it and forget it. At night heat drops from 70 to 62, cooling drops from 78 to 76 restoring the normal settings about 8:00. Heat will start early so the temperature is a 70 when 8:00 is reached.
53 here in Retroville and steady rain overnight and most of today; driving wife to the airport was kind of a minor adventure as in certain areas the water is running down the road or is standing puddles. I’m a careful driver and did not survive wars and street cop work to die on a friggin’ road back here. So I stayed at around 60 and still noticed some slipping here and there, while others blasted past me regularly like I was standing still, easily doing 75 and up. Do my tires suck or my driving or is it that all those other drivers are clueless and suicidal assholes?
“Snails eating dark green leafy plants.”
I dunno about the other pests but snails and slugs can be disposed of by placing shallow saucers filled with beer near their depredations. They are attracted by it and fall in and drown and you can remove them or just dump it all out and leave the corpses on display as a warning to the others.
As must be known by now, the French voters chose continued communism and future sharia. The new guy is so out of his depth as to beggar belief, but the fix was in good and hard, despite any alleged machinations by the Russians and now the French people will get it good and hard. This should speed things up a bit, just as if Cankles had won back here. Western Europe and the UK are probably lost; but some of the eastern European countries still show signs of life and leaders having some ballz.
The only thing that just died in Europe was the populism. Vive la France!
Added: I’ve used populism in the pejorative sense as demagogy (I’ve checked the Wikipedia article on it).
Cool! 8 to 10 million more migrants coming to Europe, and they won’t have to worry about evil populism in France or Germany anymore!
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10307/europe-more-migrants
No end in sight, either. It’s called “replacing the native population” or in other words, “ethnic cleansing.” A feature of the late Koba the Dread’s administration in the former Soviet Union and then again in the former Yugoslavia.
They’ll just need some “education” and all will be fine.
Next up: The FUSA. Will be Hispanic or Mooslim?
lol!
3, 2, 1…
Libturdians screeching “I’m moving to France because #RESIST and fuck tRump.”
Buh Bye.
FUSA will still be vast-majority Cock-A-Soid, with half a billion to a billion firearms.
The rulers can mess with us but sooner or later will come some sort of triggering event that lights up the piles of old newspapers soaked in gasoline in a room full of 55-gallon drums of jet fuel and pallets piled with bundles of dynamite.
If only one libturd celeb moved to France or O Kanaduh maybe I could generate some interest for their integrity and honesty but so fah no takers, amirite?
“Cool! 8 to 10 million more migrants coming to Europe”
Yeah, how fast? The article just say they are “on the way” and doesn’t assume they will actually enter Europe.
I dunno, how ’bout a million per month? Too many? A million per year? What’s right for Europe? How soon to “educate” them all? Maybe first educate the troglodyte populists who seem to want to keep their own countries, well, their own countries. Without being overwhelmed by hostile swarms who will never assimilate and who in fact will conquer them eventually, through demographics alone, if nothing else.
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=10228
Watch what happens with France carefully over the next couple of years.
Gee whiz, this warn’t on da nooz:
“In the middle of the night this past April 24, Mayor Landrieu finally sent in crews of masked construction workers who received protection from armed snipers perched in a nearby parking deck to remove the Liberty Place monument. It is now gone.”
http://takimag.com/article/the_week_that_perished_may_7_2017?utm_source=Taki%27s+Magazine+List&utm_campaign=db8df6203f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f7706afea2-db8df6203f-379417973
The lefties have ballz, apparently. Here’s a hypothetical: what if their “armed snipers” on that parking deck saw that there were OTHER armed snipers on yet another parking deck? And what if their “masked construction workers” were suddenly confronted by a bunch of other guys in masks and also wielding crowbars and shovels?
The comments after the “The Week…” are as always quite amusing. Worth the price of admission alone.
Yay, the more to Europe the less to the FUSA!
@OFD — I saw that info (about the statue removal under cover of darkness and with masked construciton workers) in several places in the news when it happened. Pictures too.
My main news source is from the googles.
@OFD The following are plain lies from the thezman.com article:
And about the migrants, nobody in Europe is happy to receive economic immigrants and Europe tries to return them and prevent their access. War-refugees are a different thing and they found refuge in Europe. Take it as a humanitarian help given in a tragic situation. Please don’t confuse these things.
Humanitarian or not, it’s fundamentally changing the composition of europe, and particularly france and germany.
France has long had a problem with un-assimilated moslem men, just google car fire france. They are accepting thousands, no matter their origin or circumstances, so the result is the same.
This will not end well for the native people of the countries being invaded. It’s ALREADY not going well for France, UK, and Sweden, among others.
n
nobody in Europe is happy to receive economic immigrants and Europe tries to return them and prevent their access. War-refugees are a different thing and they found refuge in Europe. Take it as a humanitarian help given in a tragic situation.
Just ask the American Indian how well that worked starting about 400-500 years ago.
Problem is that Europe cannot determine who is a political refugee, war refugee, economic refugee. What is happening is that large chunks are Europe are turning into muslim strong holds that produce nothing and in fact significantly drain a country’s resources, at least what they don’t blow up.
And then how to handle the immigrants? Do you have a better solution?
Refuse them entry. Expel all who are already in your country. If any aren’t willing to leave, shoot them.
All of my relatives paid their way to come to the USA. Three of my great-grandparents came here in 1901 to 1903 years. They loved the USA and wanted to get away from the oppression in Belgium and Germany. My great-grandfathers business was burned to the ground in Belgium one night because he refused to follow the orders of the Guild. They earned their way here and did not live off of welfare.
Today, the USA government is bringing thousands of muslims in using my tax dollars every month. And dollars borrowed from the future. And, they are giving them free food, free apartments, a cash allowance, and free schooling for their kids. These people kill my fellow citizens and trash the USA as filled with infidels. This cannot go on. These people do not love the USA.
These people do not love the USA
They want to turn the USA into the shithole they left. It is the only life they know. Barely above ignorant savages.
Just found some data from the Eurostat – the official EU statistical office – regarding refusing/expelling of immigrants from EU. The data are only up to 2015, and 2016 should be available later this month:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Statistics_on_enforcement_of_immigration_legislation
Another interesting site is that of Frontex – the EU border agency – which has this migratory route map with numbers, nationalities and routes:
http://frontex.europa.eu/trends-and-routes/migratory-routes-map/
As relating to France, Tom Kratman’s book “Caliphate” is becoming true. Sad, that is.
https://www.amazon.com/Caliphate-Tom-Kratman/dp/1439133425/
“All of my relatives paid their way to come to the USA.”
Haha, mine, too! And when they got here it was a friggin’ howling wilderness! A hahd winta down there in Plymouth and prior to that, an even more rotten time in the Virginia delta.
But this was a great country once…before the cities and lawyers…
(line attributed to a biker character in some long-forgotten thriller-diller crime flick ages ago…)
Details from the The Central Mediterranean route ( http://frontex.europa.eu/trends-and-routes/central-mediterranean-route/ ):
I cannot remember who it was here who recommended the “We Are Legion” book to me. Anyway, here is my review of the sequel book.
_For We Are Many (Bobiverse) (Volume 2)_ by Dennis E. Taylor
https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Many-Bobiverse/dp/1680680595/
Second book of a three book space opera trilogy. I read the POD (print on demand) trade paperback version which has nice paper and fonts. The author is promising the third book in the series late this year. I will purchase and read it.
The Von Nuemann space ship probes captained by the Bob AI have multiplied into 40+ and have now explored over 100 star systems. Things have gone both good and bad. And the “Others” now know about the Bob probes and Earth due to their capture of the Chinese Von Neumann probe.
The evacuation of Earth due to the fast moving ice age is not going well. The fifteen million survivors on Earth are slowly starving to death as the crops have now totally failed and all of the food is coming from orbital farms.
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (250 reviews)
Gee whiz, this warn’t on da nooz
It was all over the news. CNN, etc. The monument being removed was to commemorate the white supremacy movement in NOLA. Of the 4 they plan to remove, this one is unquestionably, explicitly offensive.
Well, if we’re gonna be revising history, we better bulldoze ol’ Abe. What he did to the constitution was horrific and arguably started us down the road to socialism, everything for the state, nothing outside the state, and if you don’t like it we’ll kill you.
n
Next up: purging all those monuments in DC featuring WHITEY! Replace them all with effigies of Obuttwad. The point is, this is OUR history, good or bad. Preserve it all and educate the chillin’s with truth, not fake news of todays education system.
“It was all over the news. CNN, etc.
Probably why I didn’t see it. I sit corrected, therefore. Did they cover how it was a nighttime stealth op with masked construction workers and snipers poised on nearby parking garage decks? And no one batted an eye at that?
Well, I guess we did learn something from the Soviets after all; how to airbrush history, and from the musloids, how to topple statues. Very American of us.
“…we better bulldoze ol’ Abe.”
And take his ugly puss off the five-dollar bill. Replace it with the even uglier Harriet Tubman, why not? I will gladly accept Frederick Douglass, however. Talked the talk and walked the walk. Or Jefferson Davis.
“Replace them all with effigies of Obuttwad.”
Well, if you wanna keep/scare the pigeons off, use effigies of Moochelle instead. Or Madeline Not-Too-Bright. Or Donna Shalala. Or Janet Reno. Or Cankles herself. Or Janet Neopolitano…the list just goes on and on…the latter witch once described as a human snapping turtle…
No, like any parasite, there are always more where they came from. And, like any parasite, they’ll breed beyond the capacity of the host to support them.
Turn them back. Shoot them if they keep coming or if they won’t leave. If their countries won’t let them return, then make videos of them dying on the border of their own country.
The monuments aren’t coming down without a fight.
Until Mitch Landrieu stirred things up circa 18 months ago, no one gave the Lee, Beauregard, and Davis statues a second thought. In fact, probably the majority of New Orleans’ natives even now would be hard pressed to identify them in historical context.
“Brave Sir Mitch” is term-limited from running for a third term. This final sh*t-stirring episode will be HIS historical legacy.
Mayor of New Orleans (Parody)
lol! I just read Maxine Waters got a standing ovation at the MTV BJ Awards. Is there any doubt who Hollyweird backs? And I keep reading snippets that Coffin Cankles is going to run in 2020. lol!
Lynn: Glad you mentioned “We are Legion – We are Bob” and the sequel.
For anyone with an interest in good (and I mean good) SciFi and a bit of fandom in their blood, these books are … (trying to think of a fitting adjective) … FANTASTIC. Big ideas are explored with a sense of humor and a little pathos. I can’t wait for the third book due out in June. AND let me HIGHLY recommend the Audible (audio) version as the narrator NAILS the character. Superb. 5 of of 5 at least.
Mayor Landrieu has a purty mouth.
Well, they’ll just keep pushing and pushing. Sooner or later, what good for the goose…etc. Someone will start pulling down other statues around the country, in the dark of night, while masked, and snipers are perched on nearby parking garage decks.
“Maxine Waters got a standing ovation at the MTV BJ Awards…….. And I keep reading snippets that Coffin Cankles is going to run in 2020. lol!”
Gee, MrAtoz is just fulla good nooz tonight. Naturally one of their tribal witches got a standing O, but seriously, will Cankles even live long enuff to run another campaign anywhere at all? Let alone the the big one?
Commentary just prior to the French “election,” w/some “bad language.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6H0cjIN4gw
Sounds about right.
Basically, Paris elected Macron. And fuck everybody else. Just as if Manhattan or Hollyweird alone elected our top sock puppet. We would have had Raul Castro by now.
Five years and the French cities will be “unrecognizable,” if some of them are not already in that shape.
Open up the borders and let in another few million economic migrants, with increasing numbers of young, military-age men. What could possibly go wrong? Nothing some education wouldn’t cure, of course.
Exaggeration? Hyperbole? Well, let’s get some stats from Euro information and publicity organizations run by Euro governments or quasi-official or “NGO” sites. Brussels and Berlin should give us the straight scoop, amirite?
”’ech says:
7 May 2017 at 21:23
Gee whiz, this warn’t on da nooz
It was all over the news. CNN, etc. The monument being removed was to commemorate the white supremacy movement in NOLA. Of the 4 they plan to remove, this one is unquestionably, explicitly offensive. ”’
Plenty of news at the time, without waiting for various commentators to wake up in their basements.
Agreed, that one was offensive. Heard that it might wind up in a museum. Don’t need to utterly destroy all history, but nasty stuff needs to be preserved on other than honored display on public property.
Some other history, major notable characters doing what they thought was right, those guys are actually part of our combined history (North and South, as a Nation) and I reckon they need display, warts and all. Get over that stupid War, a bad part of our history, but keep learning from it!
“Basically, Paris elected Macron. And fuck everybody else. “
Let see the results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_presidential_election,_2017
First round results, Paris department:
Macron: 34.83%
Le Pen: 4.99%
Fillon: 26.45%
Melenchon: 19.56%
Others: 14.17%
Second round, Paris department:
Macron: ~90 %
Le Pen: ~10%
Second round, final results:
Macron: 66.1%
Le Pen: 33.9%
Here are some polls that shows that Macron would have easily defeated any other candidate, and Le Pen would loose against the other main candidates:
Macron – Fillon 65% – 35%
Macron – Melechon 60% – 40%
Le Pen – Fillon 43% – 57%
Le Pen – Melechon 46% – 54%
Which clearly suggests Le Pen got to the second round by accident (see the close results from the first round).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_French_presidential_election,_2017
“Open up the borders and let in another few million economic migrants”
Macron:
http://www.lefigaro.fr/politique/le-scan/citations/2015/09/07/25002-20150907ARTFIG00063-macron-l-arrivee-de-refugies-est-une-opportunite-economique.php
“Exaggeration? Hyperbole? Well, let’s get some stats from Euro information and publicity organizations run by Euro governments or quasi-official or “NGO” sites. “
If you prefer some of your obscure websites full of plain lies, that “sounds about right”, go ahead but don’t be surprised if you are proved wrong.
“Turn them back. Shoot them if they keep coming or if they won’t leave. If their countries won’t let them return, then make videos of them dying on the border of their own country.”
I’m trying to show some facts here. Syrian war refugees fleet their country to avoid been killed by heavily armed ISIS forces or Assad regime ( who didn’t stopped using even chemical attacks against them).
The neighboring countries didn’t shoot the refugees but installed camps that soon were over populated. That conditions made many of them to try to reach better places, like Europe or die trying! No, they didn’t want to subjugate or kill Europeans.
Many drown but much more reached the Greek islands over saturating them, and overwhelming any kind of authority. Greece, Italy or other NATO forces were unable to shoot unarmed war-refugees too or let them drown in the seas, so they ask for help for the other EU countries.
That’s when Germany decided to receive and offer refuge for those war refugees calculating that they could accommodate about 800,000 of them. Many authorities were unprepared initially, but in time they managed to organized transports, especially by trains and accommodations.
And as you know, other migrants started profiting about the situation.
To protect the EU borders an accord with Turkey has been settled, paying it to protect Turkey’s border and dismantle the smugglers networks, and paying for the costs of the refugees camps in Turkey. Also Turkey agreed to take back economic migrants that crossed the borders if EU would receive instead the same number of war refugees from the camps. A NATO mission was established to help to guard the coasts.
The Mediterranean route from Libya to Italy never exceeded 200,000 migrants per year. The boats are confiscated or destroyed. Efforts are ongoing to stabilize the failed state of Libya, so smugglers and coasts be under control, and migrants prevented to cross the sea. Many of those are economic migrants and most are refused asylum and procedures (costly and lengthy) followed to return them to the original country or country of entrance (if those countries are functional and relative safe).
If the Turkey’s president put in practice his threats to flood Europe with immigrants, I suspect his regime will soon fall as Turkey would have much more to lose than Europe in that case (considering the probable EU reactions).
I agree with Eugen in a sense: Populism is no way to run a country, because it basically means “rule by an uneducated mob”. However, when the political elite have done such a lousy job that even the uneducated mob notices…populism is what you get.
On the subject of migrants and refugees, the problem is this: Surveys in Africa have shown that there are hundreds of millions of people who would like to make it to Europe. The more people who successfully make it here, the more people who will decide to try. We cannot accept hundreds of millions and survive. Hence, we need to discourage the masses, and that means closing the borders.
Once the borders are closed, we can discuss what sort of immigration process is appropriate. The thing is: it must be a process controlled by Europe, not one controlled by the migrants. Anyone who arrives unannounced must be turned away.
The simple truth is that muslims are invading Europe, and not for the first time.
The proper way to respond to so-called immigrants arriving by boat is for the European navies to fire upon and sink those boats.
Even Eugen’s own sources note that MOST of the invaders are young men of military age. This is different from EVERY other refugee flow.
Also, the sources note that a large percentage of ‘refugees’ are from areas other than syria, which breaks the argument that “we need to take them in since we meddled in their country” and for the ones coming from Ukraine, Albania, and various other places (and anyone coming from Africa) it breaks the argument (put forth at various times) that this is all the US’s fault.
As to the accuracy of the source numbers, the sources quoted themselves note that the numbers changing could be from changes in reporting or enforcement and not changes in refugee flow, and that there is no mechanism to track the flows accurately. Point is that all numbers are going to be a guesstimate, some will guess low, some high, usually based on their political agenda.
And to Eugen’s point that the ‘refugees’ are fleeing strife, not wishing to subjugate europeans, that might be true AT THE MOMENT, but as soon as they arrive they start making demands and as their numbers grow, history shows that they will continue making demands until and unless they are the dominant polity.
nick
In any case, it is only our problem in so far as Western Europe is the home of our civilization and our traditional allies, and what is currently happening there is a harbinger of what could happen here. In other words, it’s their bed, and they’ll have to sleep in it.
Throw in non-assimilation and Germany and France are down the toilet.
Why don’t the refugees stand and fight? There are millions of them and only thousands of the mooslems. The mooslems are fighting with whatever they can lay their hands on. Why do the refugeees not do the same?
There is no white knight or supreme being who is going to come down and save the refugees. And we cannot do it either. It is up to the refugees.
Stay out of the way.
Am I the only one who sees a problem here? We are doing no freedom loving people any good by allowing people who will not stand for themselves to enter this country.
The World Oligarchy is set on destroying the world. They, mistakenly, think that they can preserve their privileged life with a large serf class. The Oligarchs have not learned from history either.
To repeat yesterday’s point, I don’t care.
As nick and DadCoooks note, overwhelmingly most of the “refugees” are young men. There’s the army needed to fight Assad if you think that’s needed, or to fight IS/Muslim Brotherhood/flavor of the week. Instead, they’ve run away, leaving their parents and wives and sisters and children behind, in the allegedly intolerable and dangerous home countries or refugee camps. Either the “refugees” are cowards, running away from danger while leaving their families behind, or they’re lying about the danger. In neither case should Europe or the US accept even one of them.
As RBT notes, this is yet another Islamic invasion of civilized lands. The invaders should be killed, in as horrific a manner as possible, pour encourager les autres.
I have read the recent posts by Mr. Nick and Mr. DadCooks and Mr. SteveF and:
I APPROVE!!!
There is no reasoning with these people and they can be trusted about as far as we can throw them. Once in, they burrow deep and bide their time; bombs, bullets, or demographics, whatever it takes. A lot of the same tactics used by the commies since the 19th-C. We know how it works by now.
But still, too many accommodationists and apologists behind our own gates, who, yet, won’t take in any of these so-called refugees themselves.
And they’ve left their wives and children behind so they can breed with European women and have their children; as Matt Bracken has prophesied; in a couple of generations we’ll have musloid Teuton and Gallic soldiers banging on the gates.
Nice to have the two oceans but shit, when we’ve been letting them in via airplanes and our joke of a southern border anyway….
Patrick’s latest:
http://buchanan.org/blog/nixon-trump-now-126940
Again, he’s rah-rah for tRump and still believes in elections, voting, parties, etc. Like Coulter.
I do, too, but only for very local stuff. Does the town need to move the highway department garage and build them a new salt shed? Do we extend the sidewalks from the Rail Trail down to the lake? Chit like that.
The only major thing I’d like to see at the state level if for our governor and all governors simply refuse to activate National Guard troops for overseas adventuring. Yet all fifty governors routinely do it. I find it infuriating.
I’d also like them to back off the aggressive law enforcement on pot users and growers, obviously angling to get some kind of corporate-government-tax scheme up and running eventually, like with booze and ciggies. How ’bout more aggressive busting of meth and heroin fab shops and purveyors? One-shot rehab for junkies. After that, boot ’em out. Maybe Kalifornia will take them in; they’re all hot to put musloids in office out there, so why not junkies?
Off to the Land of Nod..
Pax vobiscum, fratres…
Ha! Hadda guzzle some more cough syrup.
Temp here right now is 34. Two degrees above freezing on May 9.