08:55 – Things are a bit hectic here. We discovered a plumbing leak yesterday evening. It’s between the master bathroom, which has a hardwood floor, and the finished area downstairs, which has a standard sheetrock/popcorn ceiling. The floor in the master bath is warped, and the whole downstairs den ceiling and the carpeting is soaked. I called the plumbers first thing this morning and they have someone on the way. I then called the home insurance company. This isn’t a small problem. I suspect we’re going to have to take down and replace the whole ceiling downstairs and rip out and replace the carpeting. I’ve shot pictures of everything for the insurance company. Not a good way to start the week.
Well that sucks. We have a drop ceiling with tiles so all the plumbing is accessible. Had a leak like yours, soaked the carpet which had to be replaced. Big hassle removing all the furniture, tearing up carpet, drying out. Did not use an insurance claim. Good luck.
Subbing today. Lot of Chromebooks in classes. Apple, IBM, Microsoft getting squeezed. Desktops are Dell.
Well wrt prepping last week:
Worked in the garden. Had pests on my new apple trees and on my grape vines. Bought the appropriate treatments and applied them. Will need to reapply in a few days. Hopefully that will work to save the plants. Grid down, you need stocks of pest control and soil amendments. Also got the squash and melons in the last raised bed and repotted some other plants (mainly trees.)
Discovered that some of my flavoring packets in storage in my garage have been nibbled. Tiny little poops suggest tiny little mice or even lizards. I’ve been using ultrasonic pest chasers in the garage and have not had problems in the last few years, but I’ll be setting some of my new mouse traps this week.
My ebay sales fell off a cliff last month. My rolling 60 day totals are less then half of my normal sales. Maybe it’s just because of tax time, or summer getting started, or maybe the economy is catching up with people. I don’t know but I hope things start to pick back up. (or in retrospect it could be because I was sick, then traveling for family, then on the trip to the US VI, and there were birthdays in there too, and I didn’t list much new stuff)
I found a variety of small items at thrift stores and estate sales in the last few weeks, but nothing major. Brita filters, Stanley Thermos bottles, propane cylinders, and some other bits and pieces. Passed on a number of colman lamps and stoves. There are lots of prepping items out there, but I’ve got most of them already.
Hurricane season is coming, so that is a bit of pressure….
And I’ve continued to add food to the shelves, replacement for some things, and a bit of bulk. Somehow we’ve drawn down our TP stocks so I’ll have to make an effort to get that back up. The damn stuff is soooo bulky.
Had a prepper fail. Forgot to repack and freeze a package of pork chops. No matter how cheap they are when you buy them, if you have to throw them out, they were too expensive.
Costco has Foodsaver machines and bags on sale this period. If you don’t have one, they are very handy, easy to use, and will pay themselves back after just a few bulk food purchases. ‘Course, like anything, you actually have to use it.
nick
“Lot of Chromebooks in classes.” 7yo daughter is begging for a chromebook. Can’t articulate WHY she wants one, just that she does.
n
Sorry about the water damage, Bob. A condo we owned here in Vegas before we moved suffered a lot of water damage. It was the bottom of a 8-plex. An upper condo water line broke damaging the bottom four condos. Our master had the entire ceiling taken out, carpet, hallway laminate, and half the kitchen. I had to live here for seven days while all the work was done.
I guess your break could have happened in the middle of a nasty Winter storm.
Shit happens.
Herschel is down in the basement right now ripping out the ceiling. He’s found two separate leaks so far. I told him if we have two leaks he’d better fix/replace all of the joints because we sure don’t want to get everything finished and then have to go back and do it all again when another old joint leaks. He said he wasn’t sure that our insurance would cover preventative measures like that. We told him we’d pay for it ourselves if the insurance didn’t pay for it, and just to treat this project like he was working on his own house. Fix what needs to be fixed, no matter what.
@RBT wins the Worst Monday Award.
@RBT, do you have copper pipe, galvanized, or “plastic”. If you have copper it was most likely installed by a plumber who does not know how to make proper joints (plumbers are not even taught this anymore and must learn it OJT). If it’s galvanized, well it just plain rusts, no matter how “new”. And plastic is another BIG story. IIRC the age of your home is during an era that some really bad plastic pipe was installed in homes. According to our old-school plumber you can count on joint leaks and even burst pipes within 10-years.
There is a new generation of high-tech plastic pipe, joints, and connectors that is supposed to have a 100-year life. We had some installed about 5-years ago when the hot water line, which runs under a concrete floor, started to leak. Re-routed the piping to not go under the concrete (would have added several thousands of dollars to the cost). The manufacturer and the plumber guarantee the material and work/labor for the lifetime of the house.
That’s a big messy problem to start off the week, damn. Let’s hope the plumber can fix it all at a reasonable cost and we find out what the exact cause was. Best wishes for a speedy solution.
I’ve experienced flooded cellars several times, not here, thankfully. And our last house had a small stream running through the cellar but it had been there since 1806, evidently.
41 and very bright overcast/clouds, very slight breeze. This temp seems a tad unusual for the time of year in this AO; I’m notifying Algore immediately and also expressing my support for his organization’s request for $x-trillions of dollars to solve this dastardly problem that threatens the human race.
On a paperwork detail for the Planning Commission and taking breaks to do chit outside in the yard. The nasty cough lingers on and on and on….reflexive, involuntary spasms…but at least I slept most of the night this time.
I just asked Herschel. We have PEX with brass joints, which is what he said he’d have installed. Copper piping doesn’t last long up here because of the minerals in the water. He said PVC quickly goes brittle.
@RBT – If copper is not good for pipes in your area, would not brass also have some of the same problems? Brass has “electrolytic” properties.
Now that you said PEX pipe prodded my brain to remember that is the type we had installed. But, all the joints/connections and 90-degree bends (PEX has a radius specification) are a special plastic that is designed for the PEX pipe. There are also special crimp clamps that require a special tool and the one our plumber used also had a “torque” function that ensured the clamps were properly crimped.
I’m just asking “homeowner dumb” questions. But if the joints leaked, was it improper crimping or a problem with the joints/connectors.
On a quick Google, here is a reference:
https://www.familyhandyman.com/plumbing/pex-piping-everything-you-need-to-know#1
Did y’all know we’re living in Pat Buchanan’s world?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/books/review/nixons-white-house-wars-patrick-j-buchanan.html
I probably won’t buy the book because I’m already very familiar with the history involved, personally, and through a chit-load of reading. But it’s probably excellent reading for someone born after the 50s and 60s who’d like to know what all the fuss was about and why we’re still hassling with it.
Yeah, I thought about the brass issue, but I trust Herschel to do things right.
Andrew Bacevich has a couple of dozen questions for our “journalists” to work on currently, yet, amazingly, none of them are, for some strange reason.
https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/forbidden-questions/
I’d go way out on a limb and hazard a guess: it’s because continuous war suits the purposes of the ruling corporate fascist oligarchs. Solves a bunch of major issues for them, like what to do with an increasingly unemployed young male population, upon whom war has been waged in the publik skooks for generations already anyway.
Also continues to generate massive and obscene profits for themselves, most especially the arms industries and supporting entities. Keeps the Deep State and “shadow government” hale and hearty, particularly the “intelligence community.” And also jazzes the mob with flag parades and jets flying over NFL stadiums; “SUPPORT THE TROOPS.”
All his questions are serious, bona-fide queries that most likely will never be answered. And he, like other older conservatives, still believes that the system can be made to work successfully. I’m an old fart who quit believing in that a while back.
He is also a fellow ‘Nam vet, infantry officer there, and his son was KIA in Afghanistan, our longest war by far and currently. For what, exactly???
War has been used as a matter of policy for thousands of years to dispose of excess young men.
“Solves a bunch of major issues for them, like what to do with an increasingly unemployed young male population, ”
I’m gonna say that this is based on traditional thinking and unexamined assumptions, and it’s important.
We don’t do cannon fodder anymore. We no longer engage in set piece battles, with massive losses of life among our troops.
Our tribal enemies might be using war to bleed off excess males, but we aren’t, nor is anyone in the West. And given the nature of how they fight, I’d be surprised if there was any real impact on the size of their male population either.
We certainly aren’t taking our undesirable, unproductive young males and slaughtering them wholesale. [and the covert effort to arm them and let them sort it out amongst themselves isn’t working on any grand scale either (assuming there is such a thing)]
We aren’t waging war against civilian populations wholesale either, eliminating massive numbers of people.
War as population control hasn’t happened since WWII (except in third world shitholes amongst the native populations.)
Anyway, that’s how it looks to me….
n
“War has been used as a matter of policy for thousands of years to dispose of excess young men.”
I refer to it as retroactive birth control.
We were first owners of this house moving in 50 years ago. Plumbed with iron pipe. Three leaks in the first 10 years and the plumbers said: “…. more to come.”
We had them redo the whole house with copper…no leaks in the next 40 years.
“War has been used as a matter of policy for thousands of years to dispose of excess young men.”
And to provide the hierarchy in muslim aristocracies with multiple wives (female slaves).
Perhaps every “refugee” that the FUSA accepts should serve 5 years in our military. If they are sick, lame, and lazy out of the box, they don’t get a discharge. They get lead discharged into their heads. Also make it a requirement for legal immigrants, minus the discharge into the head. Instead they get dropped from the back of a cargo plane back to their originating shithole. Gotta give the Reserves sumpin’ to do.
“We don’t do cannon fodder anymore. ”
Yep, which is one of the problems. It used to cost almost nothing for a country to dispose of each excess man via war. That reached a peak in WWI, with machine guns and over the top. Mass waves of excess young men charging machine guns is, from the policy makers’ point of view, an ideal, cheap solution.
Nowadays, all we have is nerve gas, neutron bombs, and so on.
“I’m gonna say that this is based on traditional thinking…”
Guilty as charged. Half a century of reading military history, going back to Sumer.
“We don’t do cannon fodder anymore. We no longer engage in set piece battles, with massive losses of life among our troops.”
True. We feed them slowly into multiple meat grinders over many, many years, generation to generation. Like the Suck and the Sandbox shit-holes. With new “opportunities” for that in Ukraine, Syria, and the Korean peninsula and environs, plus the 1,000 or so total bases and mil-spec installations around the world. Do we trust the casualty figures DOD and the various service departments supply us?
I don’t think it’s massive loss of cannon fodder so much as bleeding off excess pressure, as perceived by the ruling class (no, I’m not a commie).
“We aren’t waging war against civilian populations wholesale either, eliminating massive numbers of people.”
Various civilian populations around the world would beg to differ, because that’s certainly how it looks to them in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and during the Good War, Germany and Japan. During our own War Between the States by Generals Sherman, Sheridan and Grant.
Governments have waged war on civilians, their own people mostly, since ancient times, and there are a bunch of places on the web where stats are compiled to show this, usually by totalitarian states of one sort or another. The most egregious examples of this, of course, were in the old Soviet Union, Nazi Europe, and Cambodia, but FUSA has not shirked at this task, at least overseas. And pretty much the bulk of information we’ve had on FUSA’s attacks on civilians around the world has come from….FUSA media.
Anyway, I thought Bacevich had absolutely germane questions but the world where the USA system would work for him, and Patrick Buchanan, and Ann Coulter, no longer exists. We all saw that in the last series of national administrator “elections” and subsequent sock puppet rule.
I thought Obola was an “ex-President”. Why can’t he keep his gob shut? His SS detail must really hate him. Maybe they just won’t show up one day.
Well, Larry Klinton and Jimmah Carter are ex-national administrators, too, and they ain’t STFU yet.
By contrast, one rarely hears from either ex-national administrator of the Bush Crime Family. Or ex-national administrators Nixon and Reagan, for some odd reason.
By contrast, one rarely hears from either ex-national administrator of the Bush Crime Family. Or ex-national administrators Nixon and Reagan, for some odd reason.
Sadly, Reagan spent his pre-Alzheimers declining years planning his funeral. If you haven’t been out to the Reagan Library, it features a very impressive view, especially late afternoon to sunset, looking west from the grave sites.
41 and very bright overcast/clouds, very slight breeze. This temp seems a tad unusual for the time of year in this AO; I’m notifying Algore immediately and also expressing my support for his organization’s request for $x-trillions of dollars to solve this dastardly problem that threatens the human race.
An ice age is coming. Soon.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/611671/ice-age-britain-freeze-climate-change-weather
Or not. I don’t trust any weather forecast past three days in the future. Too many unknowns.
I just asked Herschel. We have PEX with brass joints, which is what he said he’d have installed. Copper piping doesn’t last long up here because of the minerals in the water. He said PVC quickly goes brittle.
We have PEX in the new addition from two years ago. The plumber claimed that PEX can withstand multiple freezing cycles. The older portion of our house is copper pipe in the attic that had a pinhole leak two years ago (probably the workmen stepping on it).
My Dustbuster sits on a shelf above the washing machine. Not because it’s handy… because they cheaped out on the charging base and it sagged with age enough to not work. So, on the shelf.
I used it today. Put it back on charge and could not get the charge indicator to turn on. Picked up the Fluke and it’s dead. Hmm, I don’t recall ever changing the battery.
No voltage on the Dustbuster charging base. PITA. Recall it’s above the washer. And so, the transformer is plugged into the same outlet as the washer.
I’m not in the mood to take everything off of the shelf, pull the shelf and then climb over the machines to reach the plug. Sure, that stuff could use dusting too. I don’t care.
I have a working dustpan and brush set. 🙂
The link about PEX was interesting. I’ll look into it if I have a plumbing project.
This place is all PVC and CPVC. I’ve had two leaks since moving here in 1992.
One was just stupid… they made a joint with scraps to make it work. No! Don’t use a proper joint! Just scrap it together and slop on a lot of glue! I cut the joint out and took it to the hardware store to show what size parts I needed. The guy looked at it and said “Reagor idiots”. Which, from my dealings, I have to agree.
The other leak was just sloppiness. Sometimes the PVC pushes out of the joints before the glue melts it together. That it held for so long with just an eighth of a inch into the joint amazes me. I’m sure glad it failed in February (about five years ago) while it was 20F outside. Not really… but I didn’t have to sit under the house in a huge mud puddle. A small and cold puddle was enough.
Plumbing is fun.
Before I ran pipe from the pump house to the EDC and beyond, I called the county ag guy and asked what is the frost line. This was before Google. He laughed and laughed and laughed. “Bury it six inches down to protect from car tires.” I buried it as deep as the Ditch Witch could dig. No problems.
I’m sure glad it failed in February (about five years ago) while it was 20F outside. Not really… but I didn’t have to sit under the house in a huge mud puddle. A small and cold puddle was enough.
My brother had his sons fixing some piping under their old house in Luling, TX in the winter a couple of years ago. My nephew looked over his shoulder at one point and noticed there was a hibernating copperhead half buried in the dirt next to him.
“Secret Space Plane Lands in Fla. With Powerful Sonic Boom”
http://www.pcmag.com/news/353539/x-37b-space-plane-lands-after-2-years-orbiting-earth
Time to put in a special payload for the norks ?
“Time to put in a special payload for the norks ?”
We could at least knock out their satellites, maybe before they light off an EMP overhead.
Working outside today, still cool and partly cloudy.
finished 2 more of my fence “window box” planters. Came up on e board short so I haven’t hung them yet.
Had to dig out and replace 2 sprinkler heads. They are the rotating type and would have been expensive, except I bought them for a couple of bucks each at a yard sale. I was pretty sure I’d be replacing the heads at some point, and today was the day. Went pretty well, and now I have a chance of keeping grass in the front yard…which the HOA requires.
It’s not “real” plumbing, but I’m still soaking wet.
n
“We could at least
knock outsteal their satellites,”FIFY.
n
“…now I have a chance of keeping grass in the front yard…which the HOA requires.”
Does it matter what kinda grass you keep there? Also, do they allow the display of the Murkan flag? What about other, decorative plants or bushes? Just curious; I’ve never been party to one of them thangs. We’re just subject to whatever zoning stuff the town has, like checking with them before we put in a garden/tool shed or a garage or something.
As a related note; I’ve tried flying various flags here in different locations and they invariably get ripped to shreds by the wind within a couple of weeks.
“Time to put in a special payload for the norks ?”
We could at least knock out their satellites, maybe before they light off an EMP overhead.
EXCLUSIVE – Congressional Expert: North Korea Prepping EMP Catastrophe Aimed At U.S. Homefront
http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/05/08/exclusive-congressional-expert-north-korea-prepping-emp-warfare-aimed-u-s-homefront/
“TEL AVIV – While the international community and news media focus on North Korean missile tests and the country’s nuclear program, one expert warned on Sunday that North Korea may be secretly assembling the capability to take out significant parts of the U.S. homeland via an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack.”
“Pry was referring to the KMS 3-2 and KMS-4 earth observation satellites launched by North Korea in April 2012 and February 2016 respectively.”
“He warned: “They are positioning themselves as sort of a nuclear missile age, cyberage version of the battleship diplomacy in my view. So that they can always have one of them (satellites) very close to being over the United States or over the United States.”
We should knock down the nork satellites. Today.
Never let anyone take the high ground over you.
regarding HOAs, while many people, esp in Cali and Fla are subject to absolutely ridiculous rules, ours are pretty straightforward. Mostly that’s because ours are over 40 years old, before the HOAs got full of jackbooted grey hairs.
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D. Grass and weeds are to be cut on all residential lots so as to prevent an unsightly appearance, and all lawns are to be well maintained. This is the obligation of the owner of the lot and is done at his expense.”
pretty basic.
n
“We should knock down the nork satellites. Today.
Never let anyone take the high ground over you.”
+1,000,000,000
If we can do that, and I think we can, we should do so. We have them covered over there currently with naval forces that could reduce the whole of NK to smoking molten glass. (although I’d just whack wherever the top maniac and his top echelon are sited). So why not pre-emptively smack those satellites out of our sky?
“pretty basic.”
Well alrighty, then; sounds good.
” jackbooted grey hairs.”
Excellent! There seems to be a lot of them around these days. J’ever notice how the womyn and some of the metrosexual menz like to peer over the tops of their specs at ya? What’s that about, anyway?
If the NORKS have an EMP space based capability, it’s because the Chicoms/Russkies gave it to them.
I agree, with Doughboy’s rhetoric, take out the capability NOW. It’s the only way to be sure.
“That’ll Fill Your Mirrors: 2018 Ford Expedition SSV Cop Car”:
http://blog.caranddriver.com/thatll-fill-your-mirrors-2018-ford-expedition-ssv-cop-car/
“Modifications for police duty include a higher-output alternator, an electronic limited-slip differential in the rear, a single rear bench in place of the standard Expedition’s eight-seat layout, and vinyl flooring and upholstery in the back—no cushy quilted leather for the perps. It also does away with the new console-mounted rotary shift knob in favor of a good old-fashioned column shifter. The Expedition SSV otherwise shares its new aluminum body, twin-turbo 3.5-liter V-6, and 10-speed automatic transmission with the civilian model.”
I am in love. How do I get one of these ?
“If the NORKS have an EMP space based capability, it’s because the Chicoms/Russkies gave it to them.”
Ya think? Like Afrikan troops giving an AK, as can be seen in several Tube vids, to a chimpanzee and laughing while he sprays the landscape, until the rounds start coming closer….major boffo laffs then…
“I am in love. How do I get one of these ?”
Take the civil service exam or whatever the TX thing is, pass it, get through the academy training, go out on patrol and then wait a few years until the captains and lieutenants and sergeants have beaten the chit out of one and it’s handed down to you.
We should knock down the nork satellites. Today.
Maybe that’s why the X37B suddenly came home this week. Landing at Kennedy instead of CA makes sense if they are turning the vehicle around quickly with a new mission and payload.
I am in love. How do I get one of these ?
Sorry, not available to derps like us. Arnold Sausagehanger will have a new model delivered to his driveway, though.
“I am in love. How do I get one of these ?”
Wait 6 years then buy one at auction, like I did with my Expy.
It’s an SSV with the “blood package” ie. vinyl seats and floor mat, no third row seat.
Course I bought the leather package on ebay, and a new carpet, and got the 3rd row seat at the junkyard… I still have the push guard and a hole in the door trim for a spotlight.
n
“…now I have a chance of keeping grass in the front yard…which the HOA requires.”
Does it matter what kinda grass you keep there?
Yes. I lived in a neighborhood in FL that specified St. Augustine grass in the deed restrictions. The restriction is not uncommon in the state.
regarding HOAs, while many people, esp in Cali and Fla are subject to absolutely ridiculous rules, ours are pretty straightforward. Mostly that’s because ours are over 40 years old, before the HOAs got full of jackbooted grey hairs.
The HOA board problem in our neighborhood outside Tampa was active duty military and contractors who were associated with the freak show commands at Mac Dill. They seemed to have no clue how to turn “off” at the end of the day, and that sod had better be watered and mowed to 1 mil of spec … are you listening Private?
Sir! Yes Sir! 1 mil spec Sir!
The Neidermeyer types survived the Gulf War and Iraq whereas they were shot by their own troops in Vietnam.
Wait 6 years then buy one at auction, like I did with my Expy.
It’s an SSV with the “blood package” ie. vinyl seats and floor mat, no third row seat.
I want the vinyl seats, the new rotary shifter on the console is stupid, and I want vinyl floor coverings instead of carpet. After 180K miles, my front carpets are getting torn and dirty. And I’ll bet that I have used the third row seat twice in 12 years.
Ford used to make an stripped version of the Expedition with two vinyl seats, vinyl floor covering, etc, the XL trim package. But they dropped it years ago when they discovered that they could put all kinds of goodies on it and make 100% profit on the additional options.
“Maybe that’s why the X37B suddenly came home this week.”
I thought of that, too; could just be a little warning flag for the NORKs and anyone else. We’ll see if they re-launch.
“…with the “blood package” ie. vinyl seats and floor mat…”
And puke. Don’t forget puke. And any other strange and potentially dangerous fluids.
“The Neidermeyer types survived the Gulf War and Iraq whereas they were shot by their own troops in Vietnam.”
Or fragged. I actually once stopped a couple of “inner-city youth” troops from fragging a second looey who wanted us to do all kinds of Rambo chit out beyond the perimeter that was totally unnecessary. I also stopped a couple of other guys from butt-stroking an old woman who didn’t savvy their loud-ass barking at her. Probably the best work I ever did over there, come to think of it…
I’ll have to ask our younger guys about that stuff over in the Suck and the Sandbox, when they deign to show up.
“Maybe that’s why the X37B suddenly came home this week.”
I thought of that, too; could just be a little warning flag for the NORKs and anyone else. We’ll see if they re-launch.
Lots of activity at Kennedy when we were there six weeks ago. The X37B has its own processing hanger next to the VAB, and construction crews had just finished taking 39B down to a “clean” pad that could be used to launch anything brought out on a crawler.
No, we gave it to them and we should use the “secret” backdoor we included to get it to fall from space onto LittleBigFatKim.
BTW, why do you think LittleBigFatKim can’t seem to get it up these days. Just might it have something to do with the “missile” technology (along with the nuke) that slick Slick Willy gave the Chi-Coms. And long forgotten is that the Peanut Farmer also gave certain Military Technology to the Chi-Coms, in fact the “gifts” to the Chi-Coms goes all the way back to Nixon.
It would suck, though, if we launched and the dang thing missed or something. We would lose face bigtime.
“…in fact the “gifts” to the Chi-Coms goes all the way back to Nixon.”
True dat. And Patrick J. Buchanan was along for Nixon’s trip there and was not happy at all, at all. Before all that, we gifted Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang quite often but the smartypants white-shoe dickheads at State saw the writing on the wall and gave it up as a bad job.
An interesting character, as is our history with him:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek
Madame also an interesting actor on the world stage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soong_Mei-ling
The X-38 might have landed in Florida for two reasons:
– to test landing systems at Canaveral AF Station, which is right next to KSC. Previous landings had been at Edwards or Vandenberg.
– Boeing has a processing facility there, IIRC, and they may be doing repairs/overhauls there.
As for a NORK satellite doing an EMP attack, as I mentioned before, they can only put very small payloads (200 kilos) in orbit. No nuclear device built by them is going to be that light. It’s not clear they even have a weaponized bomb at this time. Their missile tech exchanges have mostly been with the Iranians, btw.
As for a NORK satellite doing an EMP attack, as I mentioned before, they can only put very small payloads (200 kilos) in orbit. No nuclear device built by them is going to be that light. It’s not clear they even have a weaponized bomb at this time. Their missile tech exchanges have mostly been with the Iranians, btw.
Sorry, I am not willing to take the risk that you are correct. And, you are probably correct. But, there is a small amount of uncertainty there. And the USA needs to fix it right now.
An EMP over the USA could have horrendous consequences. Or not much at all, we just don’t know. The amount of deaths could be in the millions, the property loss could be in the trillions. Any risk greater than zero must be dealt with swiftly and surely, instead we are allowing the nork death cult access to our high ground.
Pry was referring to the KMS 3-2 and KMS-4 earth observation satellites launched by North Korea in April 2012 and February 2016 respectively.
If Pry was referring to those two EOS satellites, he’s blowing smoke. As I said, they are way, way too small. I looked up his “Task Force on National and Homeland Security” and “U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum” in Google. The first has a minimal web site that screams “this task force is just me”. No staff, no working papers. The second doesn’t seem to have a web presence at all.
The threat of EMP is real, but Pry is exaggerating it in the case of the NORKs in order to sell books.
So what is the purpose of those NORK satellites, anyway? What is meant by “earth observation” and do we have any plans for if they cruise over North Murkan air space?
I’m like Mr. Lynn; I don’t cotton to the idea of those buggers over my head after all the threats and their ongoing nukular weapons program.
“he X-38 might have landed in Florida for two reasons:
– to test landing systems at Canaveral AF Station, which is right next to KSC. Previous landings had been at Edwards or Vandenberg.
– Boeing has a processing facility there, IIRC, and they may be doing repairs/overhauls there.”
When I was a Rocket Scientist, we launched from both VAFB and CCAFS for the following examples:
Iridium Satellite Telephone from VAFB as we launched them to the south for primarily polar orbits.
Globalstar Satellite Telephone from CCAFS as we launched them to the east for equatorial orbits.
Perhaps that is why they landed that vehicle in Florida.
WRT the X-38, I did not work on it so I can’t tell you anything about it as I know nothing about it.
OTOH, if I did work on it, I would be precluded from telling you that which I would know about it.
I have an acquaintance in the “Space Missile Systems” group in southern Cali. He can’t talk about ANYTHING. Makes him kind of reclusive and standoffish…
n
I have an acquaintance in the “Space Missile Systems” group in southern Cali. He can’t talk about ANYTHING. Makes him kind of reclusive and standoffish…
Can he get my wife a job there?
Doubt it…
He’s not well loved….
n
I somehow think Mr. Ray was being facetious. Of course I just got off the phone with my wife so I was gonna ask the same question. Being facetious, of course.
And here’s some boffo nooz:
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/dem-progs-muslim-training/
With any luck, they can start taking over states like Kalifornia and NJ, packing the various political offices and getting elected. i.e., use “democracy” to gain dominance and then show their true colors. Like the commies. And our own people will grease the skids for them; ain’t dat sweet?
mooslem tolerance, coming soon to a country near you…
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-09/jakartas-outgoing-governor-ahok-found-guilty-in-blasphemy-trial/8509936
For the I.Don’t.Care people here, since they asked or wrongly assume some data, facts, here are some statistics from the UN Refugees Agency:
http://popstats.unhcr.org/en/demographics
(choose Germany and 2015 for example)
That shows that in Germany in 2015 there were registered a total of 263,744 female refugees and 512,103 male refugees. Per age numbers are shown.
And someone may realize that leaving a refugees camp in Turkey to go to Europe is/was a significant risky/costly/tiresome enterprise that could take 3 weeks, and no warranty of success. And I assume that only a few members of a family risked the trip – the most fitted, hoping to send back money and arrange for the rest to come.
As regarding to the military age of the refugees, and to their “cowardice”, I remind you again that the Syrian Civil War is not about pigeons fighting and stone throwing. Check the dead tolls and the military equipment and who owns it. Check what happened to Aleppo.
Water leaks suck, no question. Good you’re having him “do it right”. There’s just no point in half-measures.
We have the joy of iron water pipes, but no leaks from them (yet). However, lots of the drain pipes are lead (?!). Apparently, the old sink drains used to be soldered to the lead drain pipes. Try getting a modern, plastic drain pipe to seal properly with lead – what fun.
We have roofers out, replacing all the metal flashing on the roof. After 80 years, it’s just not fixable any longer. I make a point of checking in on them every day, multiple times if possible. They’re nice enough, and competent, but trying to keep them on-task and doing things right. Geez. It dumped rain the last couple of days, and they had left two spots on the roof open. Which I spotted and covered with plastic, but – that’s kinda basic, no?
You always, always have to check up on workers – it’s kind of ridiculous…
EMP in-orbit attack from a Nork satellite over USA?? I think Kim Jung Un (whatever his name is) would laugh his ass off to read these articles/comments. A very successful satellite program so far: worth the laugh.
My nephew’s place had the asbestos roofing replaced in January (our summer). On Day 1 they removed the roofing and on Day 2 they were going to put the new roof on. Trouble was, there was a terific thunderstorm with mucho rain in parts of Adelaide on the night of Day 1, including where the roofing people lived. Not a drop at my nephew’s place. Phew.
Sounds like water treatment would be a good investment, just to save the pipes and fixtures. What would that cost?
“Sounds like water treatment would be a good investment, just to save the pipes and fixtures. What would that cost?”
I asked Herschel about that yesterday. He said we COULD install a whole-house demineralizer unit, but they were so expensive that he didn’t think it was worth it. When I asked how much, he hemmed and hawwed and said it’d been so long since he’d installed one that he’d have to check prices, but the last time he installed one it was $7,000+ plus labor.
That’s when he suggested installing a drop ceiling. He said it didn’t really matter what kind of pipes and fittings he installed. Anything was going to leak eventually, including PEX with red-brass fittings. I trust Herschel. He’s former USMC and a straight shooter. He doesn’t have to drum up business. He could work 168 hours a week if he wanted to.
So what is the purpose of those NORK satellites, anyway? What is meant by “earth observation” and do we have any plans for if they cruise over North Murkan air space?
The purpose? Propaganda. Development of missile tech and command systems. Take a few low resolution images of the Earth.
The two that reached orbit are in retrograde sun-synchronous orbits. They pass over the US several times a day.
As for either of these being EMP weapons, I did some research. The latest generation MIRV warhead the US makes are estimated to have a low end mass the same as the latest NORK satellite, 220 lbs. There is no way that the NORK nuclear program could approach that low of a mass for a warhead. The first two US bombs, used on Japan weighed about 10,000 lbs. The NORKs can probably reduce that by a fair amount, but missile weaponizing is more complicated than a gravity bomb as the launch environment on an ICBM can be pretty harsh. The acoustic loads are a particular problem. Sure a more massive bomb could be lofted on a ballistic trajectory, but they still don’t have reliable results from ground tests of their weapons.
Oh, and I had one of those “can’t talk about it” jobs for a while. Saw some amazing stuff.
I see you do not understand all the “things” we have “given” China, and Russia, over the years. There is a lot of nuclear material that the tree-hugger/enviro-weenies would not let us process or “bury”. We had to send it somewhere. Guess where?
BTW, all that stuff has micro-tags identifying that we made them in them so after the TEOTWAWKI, if the few remaining survivors get tired of scrounging for food and shelter and can find a microscope they will find that we destroyed ourselves.
Purple Rain?
There is a lot of nuclear material that the tree-hugger/enviro-weenies would not let us process or “bury”. We had to send it somewhere. Guess where?
It’s not over there. The high level nuclear waste from reactors is stored at the reactors right now. Unless they can get the Yucca Mountain repository restarted, that’s where it stays.
In any case, it’s not the nuclear material that is hard to get for a bomb, it’s how to build a reliable one that works as a weapon. That’s the problem that the NORKs have.
Bingo. While successful detonations would be nice, they’re not essential. He’s got the Stupid Class yammering their heads off and wetting their drawers.