Cool and sunny, another beautiful fall day. Probably.
That was yesterday to a T. I did a bunch of work outside because it was so nice.
Took down and put away all the Halloween decor, both inside and out. I’ll still be finding stuff I missed for a week or more I’m sure. Moved stuff around in the driveway. Moved some stuff in the garage. Cleaned the house.
When I get stressed I clean. Kitchen is clean. And I am stressed.
I don’t see anything good coming out of the blatant and amateurish cheating going on. I see CWII looming. I hope you’ve been factoring that possibility into your plans and preps. I think perhaps we haven’t acknowledged how brutal and vindictive that could be. Lots of old scores get settled in the name of progress.
Think on it. What would you do differently if you KNEW your neighbor thought they could kill you with the power of the state? Think SWATTING on an industrial scale. Think about weaponized IRS audits. Think about ‘compliance’ audits. We’re not going to get there overnight, but those are the sort of thing that happen very suddenly if they happen.
Got some things that you know don’t have a paper trail? Might want to secure them separately from the stuff that does. How about ‘tangibles’ without a trail? It’s worth remembering that the family hiding Anne Frank was breaking the law, and those who betrayed her, and imprisoned her were enforcing it. Only took a couple of years to get to that point too, in a ‘modern’ and industrial country.
I’m not panicked yet, or calling for drastic measures, just pointing out that if you think things might be headed in that direction, the time to act is SOONER rather than later.
In the mean time, keep stacking.
nick
Will Biden appoint Bozo O’Rouke as his gun seizing czar ?
Robert Francis is done. Maybe he runs for Governor in Texas as the token resistance to a third Abbott term.
That reminds me — Wendy Davis got sent packing again. I’ll still occasionally see the “Stand With Wendy” bumper stickers rolling around town from 2014.
Got some things that you know don’t have a paper trail? Might want to secure them separately from the stuff that does. How about ‘tangibles’ without a trail?
Anything sent through the mail or alternative services over most of the last two decades has a paper trail. The Anthrax scare won’t happen again.
Think on it. What would you do differently if you KNEW your neighbor thought they could kill you with the power of the state? Think SWATTING on an industrial scale. Think about weaponized IRS audits. Think about ‘compliance’ audits. We’re not going to get there overnight, but those are the sort of thing that happen very suddenly if they happen.
Among other antics, I swear I had a sneak-n-peek warrant run on me in Florida as part of the Bat Guano neighbors’ psy ops, and that was over *sod*.
Fortunately, Hillsborough County Sheriff is professional law enforcement, eventually leading them to real criminal behavior from this individual, reportedly one of the Pentagon’s leading lights on Korea, caught when DoD thought they could sneak him back into the country through a tiny airport in West Virginia.
https://mugshots.com/US-States/Florida/Hillsborough-County-FL/Brandon/Glen-Alan-Nagy.4695502.html
The Sheriffs will be the last line of sanity, but they won’t last forever.
I think perhaps we haven’t acknowledged how brutal and vindictive that could be. Lots of old scores get settled in the name of progress.
The added modern wrinkle is the “T therapy”, Adderal, and other legal mind altering substances which doctors get pressured into prescribing despite reservations about medical necessity and the anti-social behavior changes.
And don’t forget decriminalization’s downsides. Weed makes people stupid/paranoid, and Oregon just effectively legalized meth, crack, and heroin.
Howdy neighbor!
If Plugs wins, it will be on the Redumblicans to rein him in. You know, the party with no spine or organization. Just losing tRumps tax cut will suck. Then pushing national minimum wages to a “living wage”. Forgiving college debt, Medicare For All, forced mandates of trannys and POCs on every board/dept. If Plugs dies in office, it will only get worse. The FSA will rule the streets. Good think COVID is keeping us home.
When Plugs dies in office, it will only get worse.
Fixed it for you.
Nancy Pelosi floating the idea of using the 25th amendment was never about getting rid of Trump. It was hedging her bets to get rid of Biden and put her buddy Kamala in the presidents seat. And if Trump does win Nancy can still use what she started. She wins in either scenario. That woman is just flat out evil. I fail to understand why CA keeps her in office.
Researchers discover a new way to produce hydrogen using microwaves
Let’s see if I’ve got this right: you use electricity to make microwaves which extract hydrogen from water, then use the hydrogen to create electricity.
Genius!
“you use electricity to make microwaves which extract hydrogen from water, then use the hydrogen to create electricity. ”
–with losses at every step of the process, but you’ll ‘make it up on volume’ I’m sure.
n
“you use electricity to make microwaves which extract hydrogen from water, then use the hydrogen to create electricity. ”
–with losses at every step of the process, but you’ll ‘make it up on volume’ I’m sure.
Up until March 2011, the idea was to use cheap nuclear power to generate the electricity for hydrogen until solar power satellites came online in a few decades. Fukushima changed that in Europe and Japan.
We may, however, have solar power satellites sooner than expected. The obstacle has always been access to low Earth orbit for the cost of fuel, and the private launch entities are very close to solving that without NASA getting in the way like they have for the last 50 years.
NASA will be fine. It will take at least a complete US Government career cycle to dismantle the three launch towers and VAB high bay tooling for SLS at Kennedy after the only launch.
If you have a 25% loss and a -25% gain, don’t they cancel each other out?
Lolz
Nancy Pelosi floating the idea of using the 25th amendment was never about getting rid of Trump. It was hedging her bets to get rid of Biden and put her buddy Kamala in the presidents seat. And if Trump does win Nancy can still use what she started. She wins in either scenario. That woman is just flat out evil. I fail to understand why CA keeps her in office.
Pelosi’s father was the machine politician Mayor of Baltimore for most of the 50s. She learned.
San Francisco has its own machine politics too.
So why do you think Trump voters are so concerned about a Biden steal, ‘cuz THIS…
–I’ll add that the podcast NBC was pushing during every break in streaming coverage of the election was about Kammammal and was titled “Next In Line”….
n
So why do you think Trump voters are so concerned about a Biden steal, ‘cuz THIS…
If you are worried about a rerun of Obama “The Chosen One” ramming policy through with hair trigger accusations of racism, that isn’t happening. No one really likes Harris, but Biden was stuck naming a “woman of color” as his running mate. Kneepads was the least objectionable choice and beholden to the Clintons.
And, in the end, Obama was a failed President after passing ACA with Reconciliation. The 2010 election turned him into a prisoner of his own celebrity. Wall Street accepted Treasuries turning from investments to liquidity tools since the Fed bought all the paper to maintain low rates and keep the housing and stock markets alive.
Biden just has to remain above room temperature for 10 months for the failure to be set in stone. Packing the Court and DC statehood aren’t happening.
Yes, it’s the 69th Law of Thermodynamics, according to AOC.
I volunteer to be in charge of all operational aspects of the orbital death rays, specifically including targeting.
“until solar power satellites”
I volunteer to be in charge of all operational aspects of the orbital death rays, specifically including targeting.
Low Earth orbit for the cost of fuel would facilitate Dr. Pournelle’s “Rods from God” concept. Why mess around with microwaves when kinetic energy from a titanium “telephone pole” with a simple guidance package delivered from a few hundred miles up to a target on the ground would suffice with less collateral damage.
IIRC, Several years ago Jerry linked to an experiment that transferred power from mountaintop to mountaintop showing the feasibility of beaming Space Based Solar Power. I think they demonstrated pretty high efficiencies, as well.
Here’s a scary thought:
Looking at the math, if the decision comes down to Arizona, the split will be either 270-265 (Biden) or 271-264 (Trump).
All that would be necessary for the election to end up in the House would be one faithless Elector. Two faithless Electors on the Trump side switching means the possibility of a Biden win, but they could vote for Bugs Bunny and still wreak havoc.
A few months ago, outside the contract USPS facility near our house, I saw a “Reagan 76” bumper sticker. I didn’t catch it until I got home and then the realization struck me — the last faithless Elector. Not impossible.
The bumper sticker was on a nice vintage 70s Cadillac, the kind of toy a wealthy individual would have in Texas. I took pictures around the car — no rust. Things that make you say “Hmmm…”
Yuuup! And here is the one that transfers solar power from mirrors on the ground to absorption receptacle in the tower:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Project
Oh yeah, and the mirrors were renamed heliostats so the screwed over taxpayers would think that there money was well spent on newly invented devices.
Yes , generations before Greta Tunebrg would tell us life saving it would be.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8918073/College-student-22-went-missing-going-walk-dead-Illinois-forest.html
–This is near where I grew up. We ALL knew not to go into the Forest Preserve alone, or you were never coming back out. I still get shivers the prohibition was so strong.
There’s a really tasteless joke in there too. “you think you’re scared, I’m going to have to walk out alone!” It was mom and friend I suspected before reading that she walked off alone.
n
That was out at Goldstone, circa 1976.
People criticized the size of the receiving arrays then, but now with the huge solar photoelectric fields about it doesn’t seem so crazy.
But then the “radiation” in microwaves freaks a lot of people out.
Suck on THAT, Fox News! Per data firm, Trump ‘in line’ to overtake Biden in AZ
h/t twitchy.com
So that explains it!
forced mandates of trannys
Are we all going to have to become trannys ?
What if I do not want to ?
And I saw the “Mean Girls” movie, I am not interested in that at all.
At least I am 60 and won’t have to have a period.
Reminds me of a car dealership ad I heard in Vegas years ago.
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I remember it well. The whole Orbital Solar Power thing was shut down by the USSR who saw that it could easily be used as an orbital directed energy weapon and wouldn’t allow it.
Well, duh. Orbital solar power is one of those great ideas with a teensy weensy problem or two. In this case, the “orbital death ray” bit is maybe a little bit more than teensy weensy.
Unless I’m in charge of targeting, in which case it’s not a problem.
Says the man who took over Bob’s anti-Santa arsenal…
I did no such thing! Firearms are all noisy and messy and ick, and anti-aircraft artillery is worse. No, get me some reindeer laxatives and I’ll put an end to the jolly fat man’s reign of terror, or at least make him less jolly.
Sleigh flying overhead…
Splat Splat Splat…
Re space power, I used to know some folks who were working on a scheme to beam energy UP to orbiting satellites from the ground, using lasers. It was one of those high risk way out projects, supposedly with no immediate application. Three of the principal folks died, and AFAIK the project also died, but probably for other reasons.
I always questioned the practicality of it, but was told it was definitely feasible. The optics had been worked out, which would have been one of my major concerns. Interestingly, the other hurdle was getting enough peak power to our remote location to power the dang thing. I didn’t want to know any more. I always suspected that peak power would not have been a real challenge for someone with the right background, but sometimes it is best to leave things alone and not get involved.
Regarding kinetic energy weapons, it always struck me as limited to the amount of stuff that could be lifted to orbit. At least a beam device could fire lots of rounds, limited only by the ability to recharge its power source. Hey, I wonder… 🙂
Paul, I suppose you have considered something that could detect a delivery truck and open the gate at the end of your driveway?
You might even add a lighted WELCOME sign. Or, maybe DELIVERIES AHEAD TO PORCH.
Yeah, I can see some problems. Gates are there for a reason.
Also, did you know that in some areas a gate has to be openable by fire trucks, and some of them have RFID devices on them for gates so equipped. Lacking that, the resident has to give the fire department a key. Really.
Finally, some places require a separate pedestrian gate.
Thankfully, none of that applies here. The fire department could just easily drive through my wire fence, but they would probably damage the gate. When I put one up, that is. Another thing to check on. The fun never stops.
until solar power satellites
I volunteer to be in charge of all operational aspects of the orbital death rays, specifically including targeting.
Starting with certain points of the USA not including Texas ?
“until solar power satellites”
I volunteer to be in charge of all operational aspects of the orbital death rays, specifically including targeting.
Low Earth orbit for the cost of fuel would facilitate Dr. Pournelle’s “Rods from God” concept. Why mess around with microwaves when kinetic energy from a titanium “telephone pole” with a simple guidance package delivered from a few hundred miles up to a target on the ground would suffice with less collateral damage.
Yup, we are heading towards one million satellites in orbit.
Fire trucks usually carry universal master keys – bolt cutters or K-12 saws.
Fire trucks usually carry universal master keys – bolt cutters or K-12 saws.
However, the county fire trucks in Fort Bend County do not carry much water, only 500 gallons. The city fire trucks carry 4,000 gallons.
Fire trucks usually carry universal master keys – bolt cutters or K-12 saws.
Yup. When my uncle was LAPD, there was another family that had several members of LAFD. That was a long time ago, but I remember some interesting conversations about equipment. I would update my knowledge before making any major decisions.
With five acres to fence, it is impossible to have even a modestly secure fence. Hedges like Bob used to suggest are out of the question because of water requirements. Rocks are plentiful; but with a half mile perimeter it would be a major cost for just the fuel to move enough rocks to do the job, even if I had some heavy equipment.
My approach is to just be friendly and cautious. One thing I really like about living here is knowing most neighbors, especially those who will mutually keep each other safe.
A question for the deep thinkers and political watchers here: If we don’t get our way in this election, do we get to burn, loot, and murder?
1. Get a male calf.
2. Put up an “invisible fence” around your entire perimeter.
3. Put the collar on the calf.
4. As he grows, he’ll learn where the boundary is.
5. When he’s done growing, your bull will provide security.
We could use electricity via hydrogen cracked from water by microwaves. Genius!
I remember that scheme. And also a plan to power solar sails, IIRC.
However, the county fire trucks in Fort Bend County do not carry much water, only 500 gallons. The city fire trucks carry 4,000 gallons.
I can’t remember how much water our local trucks carry, but one guy told me that they have enough to deal with almost all house fires. If they have to use a hydrant all is usually lost.
Of course we don’t. We’re gentlemen, not sore losers.
A tinge of nostalgia passed through me this morning when it appeared as though Biden will win. Nostalgia meaning “pain in the past”. Felt that way when Obama was elected, and then re-elected. This isn’t the America we once knew, but in the words of my Subcontinent friends, “What can you do?”
Get a male calf…
I like your thinking, but cattle are not for me. Geese… I have heard they are pretty good. Dogs, too. Not doing anything rash.
Another question for the house: Are the people counting the ballots the same people who counted the Chinese Flu cases? I’m seeing a number of similarities.
Well, I hate to tell ya, but certain parts of Texas — certain urban blots, or perhaps blights — look an awful lot like targets.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/11/05/the-2020-election-fuckery-is-afoot/
Larry lays it out.
Also, pretty much all the articles on thegatewaypundit.com The links are already broken, video removed for “breaking the rules”. Why isn’t every content creator or everyone posting links to the big three not hammering the message about gab and lbry and bitchute? FFS, don’t just whine about them killing the posts take the opportunity to make people aware of the alternatives.
@jimB “but sometimes it is best to leave things alone and not get involved.”
Umm, especially when 3 of the 4 lead investigators die.
n
Because it’s easier to piss and moan?
But yah, I’ve been pointing that out for months and get one of a few responses: a) No response b) “I’ve been meaning to look into it” c) “But I have a thousand followers and I’d have to start all over again!”
I’ve looked into this problem. My solution would be, place a few ditches, hedges and boulders to create a funnel effect to place attackers into predetermined fire lanes. Also any large rocks or trees that could be used as cover when assaulting the house can be set with claymore equivalent devices to eliminae opposition when they take cover under fire.
Replaced four more ceiling light fixtures in the warehouse.
https://www.winsim.com/ceiling_of_warehouse_1.jpg
and
https://www.winsim.com/ceiling_of_warehouse_2.jpg
and
https://www.winsim.com/inside_of_warehouse.jpg
I have replaced 9 out the 16 light fixtures now over the last year and half. The old 1,000 watt metal halides are about half burned up. The new 150 watt and 200 watt LED fixtures are 1/10th the size and 1/5th the weight. And turn on instantly instead of ten minutes to warm up.
My new F-150 4×4 tows the 5,000 lb boom lift effortlessly. And when one drives too far off the side of the warehouse to back the boom lift inside, the four wheel drive is nice when you get stuck in a feral hog wallow.
https://www.winsim.com/truck_and_boom_lift.jpg
But there may come a point when stringing politicians up on every light pole will look like a reasonable solution.
@jimB “but sometimes it is best to leave things alone and not get involved.”
Umm, especially when 3 of the 4 lead investigators die.
To be fair, they were up in years. Trying to remember, but all were near, and one was over 80YO, I think. I know two had serious health issues. Why people work so long, especially after a full career, is beyond me; dedication comes to mind. Not gonna think about conspiracies, or even unknowing accidents like what happened to early x-ray investigators. Lasers are perfectly safe. Just don’t stand in front of one.
I never saw any of this, just heard stories about the challenges, which were very large.
“certain urban blots, or perhaps blights — look an awful lot like targets. ‘
— they are colored blue on the map 😉 *
n
*note that unlike certain media personalities, I am NOT advocating the death of my political opposites. I’m merely noting the high degree of correlation between those areas and blight…
“Dilbert – The Knack “The Curse of the Engineer””
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8vHhgh6oM0
“”The Knack” clip from Dilbert S01E09: Dilbert is diagnosed with “The Knack” at a young age and is destined to become an engineer! Oh no!!!!”
ROTFLMAO !
I volunteer to be in charge of all operational aspects of the orbital death rays, specifically including targeting.
Starting with certain points of the USA not including Texas ?
Well, I hate to tell ya, but certain parts of Texas — certain urban blots, or perhaps blights — look an awful lot like targets.
Well, IIRC, the design size of the orbital array is 10 miles by 10 miles. And that the ground receptor (just a bunch of special solar panels) is one mile by one mile, I won’t get worried since we are 35 miles away from the center of Houston downtown.
On the other hand, we would have a ringside seat for the death rays from space.
If we don’t get our way in this election, do we get to burn, loot, and murder?
Of course we don’t. We’re gentlemen, not sore losers.
But there may come a point when stringing politicians up on every light pole will look like a reasonable solution.
The problem is that most of the people who really care are over 50. Many of the 20 and 30 somethings are proud members of the FSA. 50 and 60 year olds do not go to war. So not much politician stringing is gonna happen at this stage. In fact, I am not sure that 50 and 60 year olds will go to war at any point.
” I am not sure that 50 and 60 year olds will go to war at any point.”
— it won’t look like the street fighting. The rioters will go back to their busses and find them in flames or disabled. They’ll find their leaders and organizers being sniped. Their comms jammed. Houses will catch on fire. Cars will blow up.
Sneaky and smart will be more important than chest beating.
n
“Dilbert – The Knack “The Curse of the Engineer””
There’s an interesting twist in that episode. The doctor “shrugs” in a Rand-ian sense and returns later to empty Dilbert’s garbage cans and dispense wisdom. I won’t spoil the best exchange.
The “Testing” episode is still my favorite. Bob Bastard.
https://monsterhunternation.com/2020/11/05/the-2020-election-fuckery-is-afoot/
Larry lays it out.
Man does he ever.
And the big question is, how do we reverse the fraud ? That is assuming that the courts will uniformly force the vote counters to reverse the fraud. If they have co-mingled the ballots then the chance of this being reversed is not good.
Replaced four more ceiling light fixtures in the warehouse.
https://www.winsim.com/ceiling_of_warehouse_1.jpg
and
https://www.winsim.com/ceiling_of_warehouse_2.jpg
and
https://www.winsim.com/inside_of_warehouse.jpg
I have replaced 9 out the 16 light fixtures now over the last year and half. The old 1,000 watt metal halides are about half burned up. The new 150 watt and 200 watt LED fixtures are 1/10th the size and 1/5th the weight. And turn on instantly instead of ten minutes to warm up.
Stuck in moderation again !
Note to self, do not put four URLs on the same posting !
@lynn …. the settings for ‘too many URLs’ in comments is set to ‘5 or more’. So four should be OK.
Not sure why comments with 4 URLs is not working. But Nick should be getting alerts when a comment is held for moderation.
I released yours.
I don’t think it is appropriate for either side (any side) to advocate violence for any reason.
Including folks here.
“Nick should be getting alerts ”
–should I? I never have. The only email I see is Rick’s message to me about search performance for Oct…
And as it happens I had my craigslist email open not my flandrey email, so I wouldn’t have seen it anyway…
I mostly just notice them stuck on the dashboard when I’m doing my post…
Also weird because I KNOW we set the number of links at or above 4 several times. Updates messing with things maybe…
n
Barbara is home from her knee joint replacement surgery, and doing well. Pop over to her site and say hi if you get a chance.
n
@lynn …. the settings for ‘too many URLs’ in comments is set to ‘5 or more’. So four should be OK.
Not sure why comments with 4 URLs is not working. But Nick should be getting alerts when a comment is held for moderation.
I released yours.
Thanks !
I’m afraid the violence is going to continue, and get dramatically worse when the right joins the fight. So far it’s been almost entirely coming from the left. Skirmishes have increased, the leader of the Proud Boys got cut up in a knife attack only a day or two ago. There will be shots exchanged, and then ambush attacks, then sniping, bombs, and fire. Always fire.
One of my coworkers and friends got sent to Indonesia for work during one of their ‘uprisings’. A car bomb blew up in the street in front of his hotel. Another coworker and friend was there during a particularly bad time, and he said the corpses were stacked like firewood along the road to the airport. If things get bad, there will be a lot of angry people with nothing left to lose, and looking for some payback.
On a separate but related topic, of comms and info sharing, might be time to look into setting up BBSs again, accessible by radio or IP…
Backups.
n
The end is Nearer!
An analyst might ask what you did to deserve such a fate, but I won’t.
“Voter Fraud Logo”
https://gunfreezone.net/voter-fraud-logo/
The logo says it all.
They’re starting to eat their own…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8919195/House-Dems-cry-feud-wild-conference-call-leaks-live-Twitter.html
n
Gee, who would have thought this could happen? /sarc
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8916791/Emmanuel-Macron-warns-French-districts-terrorist-breeding-grounds.html