Hot and humid. Duh. Extra hot in fact. Dunno what the high in the sun was, but in full shade we cracked 100F. Humidity was down though which helped, and we had a fairly steady breeze.
I spent the day working on sprinklers. I got the manifold working with 6 zones and one ‘always on’ spigot. I hooked up a sprinkler head to an adapter and a garden hose and ran that most of the afternoon. The goal was to get a feel for pressure, capacity, and usage by the big rotating heads, while at the same time, actually watering some of the yard.
Then I started working on the existing ‘trunk line’ to the front yard. I expected some issues, as I could see a break, I needed to get into it somehow, and it ran near where we did a bunch of trenching for the septic- with a Ditch Witch.
I was able to build a mess of adapters to get the water into the pipe. Running water through it got me water gushing up from the ground… So I spliced that. Water gushing up 10 ft further up the hill… can’t find the pipe to splice. So work back from the next spigot. Find a break in the first foot of digging. Yup, pretty sure we ripped out almost 20 ft with the Ditch Witch.
Since I could see the pink lines for the septic drip field in one of the holes, I didn’t want to go digging around. I set up one of the zones with a hose and a pressure wand and spent an hour ‘trenching’ with the wand. MUCH easier than digging with shovels in 100F sun. Yeah, I’ll stand there with a hose and wand for an hour if that’s what it takes. Anyway, cut a trench about 6 inches deep and pretty much exactly as wide as the pipe, for 20 feet. Cut some roots out with pruning shears. DIDN’T find any more septic parts.
Today I’ll think about running into town for some plumbing parts and to see if they have the 1″ poly irrigation line and fittings. If not, I’ll bring it up with me next time. Which will be soon, as I’ve won some stuff to do a temporary deck in back. I’d like to get that in before it rains and turns the red clay dirt and dust into muck. It’ll involve another trailer rental and speed run. Joy. Pickup in San Antonio, drop off a couple hours north of Houston. I don’t think I’ll be doing that in one day but I will be doing it before the end of the week.
It’s a great life if you don’t weaken…
So DON’T WEAKEN.
And stack stuff. Plumbing parts. Electrical repair stuff. Tools. And know how, or reference materials*.
nick
*adding a Hoyle’s book of card game rules to the next trip up. A copy of the Home Handyman might be good too.
Dan Patrick was the point man for The Geico Gecko’s backup turbine scheme in the Legislature, but I don’t think that went anywhere. The property tax “reform” was more important to everyone.
Random recommendations:
From Hoyle’s card games: Spite and Malice, a 2 player game.
From Prime video:
We Love You, Sally Carmichael! with my new favorite supporting actor, Sebastion Roche
Mayberry Man. Not exactly blockbuster production values, but a cute rom-com filled with characters, and the behind-the-scenes backstory is something special.
Both of the movies are mostly white with no obtrusive wokeness. One obviously gay character, and he’s benignly villainous.
Hey, guys can like an occasional rom-com.
Brilliant! Never knew there was such a book. Just ordered a used one on Abebooks.com
I’ve passed this one along before, but it deserves repeating. The German nerd directed the flick, and his usual specialty is rom-coms, not zombies or techno-thrillers.
The marketing is deceptive. Yes, something interesting in terms of time travel is going on with the series – Where is the next one? – but the plan is to make each film unique.
“Army of Thieves” is definitely “rom-com”. Zombie gore is minimal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ith2WetKXlg
@lynn: Your reviews being flagged as AI written might have been erroneously scored by…wait for it…AI.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/why-ai-detectors-think-the-us-constitution-was-written-by-ai/
Yeah, checking quickly the Gecko’s scheme for “backup” gas turbine generators didn’t go anywhere.
Buffett will redouble efforts next session in 2025, when he has full control of Pilot/Flying-J and begins rolling out his related EV charging schemes which will need to source power from somewhere.
I was kinda surprised when I drove by the Love’s in Three Rivers this 4th of July week. The train wreck from Spring Break at the Tesla charging stations didn’t repeat, and we stopped while driving both directions to look.
The circus inside the store and at the gas pumps more than made up for the lack of customers for the EV charging stations, however.
Cue the “Cantina” scene music from “Star Wars”.
84F and sunny this am. I brought a bunch of “clean out the stacks” coffee up here, mostly orphans and one off purchases bought in auctions for deep discounts. As such, they aren’t always what I would choose if I was at the store. Since I’m not a coffee snob, and will drink whatever is on offer if I’m someplace other than home, it’s not a problem to have some variety. Today I’m enjoying a lighter “blonde roast” starbucks verona blend. It’s surprisingly tasty.
WRT the Hoyle’s, I have a couple in my ‘apocalypse library’ at home, but haven’t really started bringing books up here. I’ve got an old one and a modern one at least, but don’t know if there is much difference for most of the classic games.
FWIW, I’ve also got a couple of simple musical songbooks. One of the striking things about the Little House on the Prairie books is the number of songs Pa knows and can play. Diversions and entertainments. Group activities. You might need them… (without access to the intarwebs. Besides, some questions get so many scraped and aggregated responses that they are almost useless.)
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I might have to try and cobble some pipe into place to continue looking for gaps in the run. It’s probably more efficient use of time to find all the gaps and THEN do the fixes. If I even can. On the other hand, I might come up empty in town and have wasted the time trying to get parts. Ah management and choices. At least no one’s paycheck is on the line.
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Lots of cleanup work here if I choose to do it today. I’ve been pushing it off to get power and sprinklers going, but if I’ve hit a stopping point, there is always cleaning. There is a LOT of dirt in places where it shouldn’t be. Not having the skid steer for that extra hour is going to cost some sweat…
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and with that, I should probably get to it. It’s already risen to 85F.
n
@ EdH & JimB: My SIL had such a great time on June 10th weekend going to Lone Pine with a stop at Indian Wells Brewery to meet Jim that he was thinking about going up again this month or July. However, due to the current hot weather, we are now looking at a weekend in September.
I’ll keep you informed.
Its this time of year again already?
“Country roads, take me home …”
https://www.tampabay.com/sports/2023/07/18/texas-am-jimbo-fisher-bobby-petrino/
Cue
John DenverDavid Hasselhoff.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9gb30mGe4k
The Manning family returns to the SEC next year, but I don’t think Jimbo’s seat is nearly as warm as Seven Wins Steve at UT. Of course, I’m no expert — I thought “Coach Sark” was done last year, with an interim coach ready to go in the building, but then he won that shiny hat trophy in Dallas which means *everything* to the alumni.
Dan Patrick was the point man for The Geico Gecko’s backup turbine scheme in the Legislature, but I don’t think that went anywhere. The property tax “reform” was more important to everyone.
“Fossil fuels got a boost from lawmakers aiming to fix Texas’ grid, while renewable energy escaped stricter regulations”
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/05/texas-bills-energy-natural-gas-fossil-fuel-renewables/
“The bills will give owners of natural gas power plants incentives to build more capacity, but they don’t go as far as originally proposed to change how electricity is created and sold in the Texas market.”
Wow, the wind turbines and solar panels are making 30,000 MW right now. ERCOT has not fired up all the gas turbines yet. But, they will, oh they will come 6pm when the Duck Curve starts it wounded duck scene.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
Looks like we are going to hit 84,000 MW demand today in Texas. I am ready for this heat dome to go away, I don’t think that we dropped below 84 F last night.
95F in the shade. I’ve been doing little things. And slowly. We will be heading home tonight, so stuff needs to be put away and secured.
Boy it’s hot in the sun.
n
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1681358659622780939/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1681358659622780939¤tTweetUser=RNCResearch
Mumble mumble mumble
Israeli President: “Why, yes, thank you. We will take some cluster bombs and backpack nukes, too.”
The Gecko can wait. Next year will be uglier in terms of power demand and other issues heading into the election, and, hard as it may seem to believe right now, Texas could always freeze next Winter.
Maybe the freeze will happen before the primary registration deadline in December for the US Senate race and make things interesting.
All right, all right all right?
Nah, he wants to be Governor.
drwilliams…
Link no worky.
I bought a three pound package of sausage links at HEB last month. The price looked good so why not?
https://www.slovacek.com/products/ “Hickory Smoked BBQ Seasoned Link Sausage” The link is so you can see what the package looks like. Fully cooked. Put on the grill to heat and make grill marks. Tastes good.
Not greasy. Ok, not “slimy greasy” when you eat a link you grilled yesterday and eat it cold from the fridge. Tastes good cold, too.
The stuff is missing the whatever most sausages have that make my stomach ache. I’ve had a few packages of their other flavors and they are all good.
A three pound bag grilled all at once is too much for two people. Today I bought four bags and I’m about to divide and vac seal everything into two days worth for two people. Then into the freezer.
Last month the price was $11.98. Today $13.98. Ow.
I stopped by the lumberyard joint for a few bags of pellets for the wood stove. Yeah, I’m not unloading this today, not when it’s 105F. I’ll add today’s 16 bags to the stack to make a pallet full of 50 bags. I used 16 bags last winter and 27 the year before. The price per bag is up a dollar from last year. Electricity for the heatpump /might/ cost less but nothing beats backing up to a wood stove on a cold day.
Try https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1681358659622780939
I wish I could have done that with my current house. When I bought it, the plumbing was a wreck, after having frozen the previous winter, then flooded. Tenants of the previous owner didn’t pay their power / gas / utility bills, but the water was not shut off when the electricity was. So I had to fix what I could see, then turn on water, fix what leaked next, turn on water… and so on. I think I did four iterations before I found all the split pipes and separated joints.
“’Massive US Oil Caverns’ Are Now Empty, Will Take ‘Decades To Refill’ Thanks To Biden”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/massive-us-oil-caverns-are-now-empty-will-take-decades-refill-thanks-biden
“While it took the Biden administration the better part of six months to drain the US oil supply down to a precarious 20-days of emergency reserves (a 40-year low), it will take decades to refill – if that happens at all, Bloomberg reports.”
“The Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) now sits at 346.8 million barrels – a level unseen since 1983 – out of a total authorized storage capacity of 714 million.”
Hunter bought it all and resold to his friends in China.
Will the Gecko jump on the NACS bandwagon and abandon CCS?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stacynoblet/2023/06/23/nacs-versus-ccs-its-more-than-a-connector/?sh=cf09eb7bddc8
And are there any “incentives” being slipped under the table at the local Ruth’s Chris?
Four 3# packages at $13.98 each breaks down to seven packages containing eight links. That’s two meals each package for the two of us plus four extra links for tonight. Rounding it out, 15 meals at $3.73 each. You can get picky and add on the price of the vacuum sealer bags and my time to round up to $3.80 because I work cheap.
Tonight’s four links are going into a frying pan to heat. The high temp today was 111F and it’s all the way down to 110F. Brr!
Nothing is under the table. The Gecko is open that he will apply for grants from the Federal Government under the Inflation Reduction Act to build charging stations at all of the Pilot/Flying-J locations.
The charging standard supported really doesn’t matter to him.
What’s unknown is if he’s still planing to control the Texas electricity market and eventually make another pass at owning Oncor and, thus, effectively, ERCOT.
Ruth’s Chris? Buffett?
Gorat’s in Omaha. T-bone with onion rings (drained twice) and a Cherry Coke. The Billionare’s Blue Plate.
“I sometimes get the feeling I’m talking to a brick wall…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/07/i-sometimes-get-feeling-im-talking-to.html
“… when I keep warning about the dangers of living in “big blue” cities, because few people appear to take my warnings seriously. Nevertheless, I’ll keep providing evidence, in the hope that at least some of my readers may see the light in time, and get the hell out of them before it’s too late.”
Tough to move at this point. We are at least outside the Grand Parkway, 30 miles from downtown Houston.
Google Maps says I’m 39 miles as the crow flies from the intersection of IH-35 and US-183. It’s not far enough but here I am and moving to the sticks in western San Saba County 30 years ago didn’t happen.
Anyway. The looters and all of that crowd have to get here (mostly) via 183 and through Cedar Park, Leander, Liberty Hill, and Bertram. I’m good.
I am worse off than you location-wise, but I think you are being naive about the threat.
It won’t just be random unorganized crowds of Amish. It will be the Honduran National Front Militia, the El Salvadoran Peoples Guard, the Latin League for Social Justice, etc, all aided and organized and led by Antifa ‘advisors’. Think organized troops in companies, battalions, divisions, all youths in their 20s, with absolutely nothing left to lose, and everything to gain.
Toll lanes are planned all the way up 183 from Austin-Bergstrom International to Liberty Hill. Once those are done, I’ll bet 29 gets tolled from 183 out to I35, connecting at that new (overbuilt) overpass at the cave tourist trap in Georgetown.
Easy access, just like the toll roads which bring the miscreants out to @Lynn’s neighborhood.
Has anybody ever watched a crow fly? Straight lines are not in their navigational system. I don’t know what city-dwelling numbskull came up with that expression.
I created a humorous image, posted to Gab. It’s a woman standing high up on an edge (just the top row of some bleachers, but work with me here). Text: “Every time I think about it // I think about the world I’ll leave behind. // The world would be a better place without me. // AND I CANNOT ALLOW THAT.” And a number of people have comments along the lines of “No! Don’t do it! Permanent solution to a temporary problem!” -sigh-
“Engineering Home: Book 11 of The Survivalist Series” by A. American
https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Home-Book-11-Survivalist/dp/B09TWZFZ2M?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number eleven of an eleven book apocalyptic science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by the author in 2022. I will probably purchase and read future books in the series.
It has been a year since the giant nuke was exploded above Kansas. The resulting EMP destroyed the electrical systems and computers inside the USA without a sound or flash. The nuke was so strong that even England was affected. Since then, 75% of the USA population has died due to starvation and violence.
Prior to this book, a Chinese invasion fleet off the west coast of the USA was nuked by the USA military. In response, the Chinese nuked a military base in Florida, also nuking Tampa as a side effect. The USA military did not continue nuking targets in China. But a Russian invasion fleet has landed on the eastern side of Florida and the Russians are sending out scout units. The Europeans are trying to bring food in via ship but the war footing on both sides of the USA is hampering those efforts.
The USA military has decided to take a more active role in the populace after deposing the USA President who invited the Russians and Chinese into the USA after arranging for the nuclear EMP in the USA, a false flag event. The USA military has decided to come out of their bases and move into the coastlines where they can detect invasions and better protect the citizenry.
My rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,916 ratings)
Well, SteveF, I think you were wide of the mark. Let me explain.
I have never been affected by suicide, directly. During the worst of my traumatic depression when I was taking antidepressants, I did have some suicidal ideation, but I rejected it.
My girlfriend, OTOH, lost her father to suicide when she was 16. It’s a life-changing event. Among other things, we need to be very carfeful selecting shows and movies to watch, since the subject of suicide can be triggery.
My youngest son (34) had a very good friend commit suicide 10 years ago, and my son is still affected by it. He remembers the date every year. He has made special trips up to the Mississippi river bluffs to look over the precipice where his friend jumped.
People who have been shaken like that often don’t see any humor in the topic, and are convinced they need to intervene early and stridently whenever anyone shows any signs.
So their filters are turned off, and any mention of suicidal ideation puts them into mother hen mode. They literally can’t read your humorous content for what it is.
Add to that that MPAI, so many people are incapable of getting your joke, since it requires understanding the punch line.
JB MacDill dominates the south end of the Interbay Peninsula, possbibly the most desirable real estate on the West Coast of Florida and, anymore, very densely populated, even compared to what it was when we left 13 years ago.
Nuke MacDill = Nuke Tampa.
The Chinese should also target the Tampa Airport since the big runway at TPA can accomodate a B52. I’m not sure about MacDill’s runways.
Greg Norton said:
When you’re driving across country, did you ever see a perfectly straight stretch of freeway, 4-5 miles long, that seemed wider than it needed to be? There are hundreds of such places, and the concrete is thick enough to accommodate a BUFF. In the event of nuclear war, fuel trucks and ordnance trucks will be dispatched to some of those places, enough to refuel and rearm a B-52 that makes it back, to perform a second strike.
The real question will be, will enough tankers survive to launch a second strike wave?
The real question will be, will enough tankers survive to launch a second strike wave?
Nope. I asked my uncle that back in the 1980s. He was a bombadier / navigator on a B-52 for several years. He flew from Fort Worth to Alaska and back three or four times a week. He told me that it was the job of the tankers to give them every last drop they could, including their get home fuel. I have no idea if the tanks in the tanker were commingled like that. Then they would ditch the tanker in the Bering Straights.
BTW, my uncle doubted that his B-52 would make it to Moscow. Too big, too slow. Everything was a suicide mission.
BTW2, the Air Force was going to put four 737 bypass jet engines on the B-52s back in the 1990s to replace the eight Pratt and Whitneys. It would cut the fuel usage by over 30%, reduce the weight, and make the Buffs last a lot longer. The program was canceled because it was $6 or $8 million per plane and we were getting ready to retire the B-52s. Like that ever happened.
A few days ago I posted about my electric rate being 24 cents per kilowatt hour for my house. (This number is very wrong.)
What I didn’t show was my rate for the shop. It was very different, and I didn’t know why. So, I went online and looked at their rates to see why. Here’s what I learned.
Central Alabama Electric Coop has several rate schedules. I use two of them, Residential and Small Power Service. Both charge a Daily Access Rate, a Distribution Charge and a Power per kilowatt used fee. The Daily access charge is the cost adding every customer to the system divided by the number of customers in this category of customers. The Distribution Charge is the total cost of maintaining the distribution system to this class of customer divided across the customer base.
The Residential daily access rate is $1.64 per day. The distribution charge is $0.01534 per kilowatt hour. The Wholesale power fee is $0.09318 per kilowatt hour. There is also a fuel adjustment fee of $0.00315 per kilowatt hour. The total per kilowatt hour is 11.167 cents per kilowatt hour plus $1.64 per day for the house.
The Small Power Service (Shop Power) daily access rate is $1.21 per day. The distribution charge is $0.05409 per kilowatt hour and the Wholesale power fee is $0.07958 per kilowatt hour. The fuel adjustment is the same, $0.00315 per kilowatt hour. The total per kilowatt hour is 13.682 cents per kilowatt hour plus $1.21 per day for the Shop.
I had two options when adding the shop: Install a new line directly to the shop which I did – no fees from the Co-op for the connection. The other was to add a new main panel rated at 400 amps connect the house to this new panel and add a line from the house to the shop – buried was almost a requirement as the cost of setting three poles (three because I didn’t want one in the middle of my driveway) was more expensive. I would not be able to easily break out the power usage without additional equipment (cost) – meter bases and meters and wiring by an electrician. I didn’t realize there are two different rate schedules. If I went to the 400 Amp service, I could have used the Residential rate for everything. However, if I later wanted to rent the house but not include the shop, the electric bill would have been awkward to write into the lease.
Probably a lot more that most of you really wanted to know about this …
“BAY AREA HELL: San Francisco Stores Now Chaining Their Freezers and Bathrooms Shut to Stop Shoplifters – One Store Has Been Robbed 20 Times in One Day (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/bay-area-hell-san-francisco-stores-now-chaining/
“The Daily Mail reported Tuesday that shoplifting crimes have now reached such startling heights in the city that grocery stores are now resorting to desperate measure including chaining their freezers shut to stop criminals from cleaning out their places of business.”
You know, the old shotgun squads in the 7-11s in the 1970s would clean this problem up in a hurry.
@Lynn; They’re finally re-engining the BUFFS to give greater range and reduced maintenance costs. Some will be in service to 2060 and beyond. We’ve already seen airplanes flown by both father and son, and it won’t be long before there are some grandfather/grandson combinations in people’s log books.
Question I asked a couple months ago now answered:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/so_sam_brinton_was_stealing_ladies_luggage_from_airports_while_on_the_government_clock.html
@Paul
Thanks for posting the mumble link.
I think Israel’s prez looking like a deer in the headlights is priceless.
“The real question will be, will enough tankers survive to launch a second strike wave?”
Tankers won’t be any good if Uncle Joey finds the fuel and sells it.
@Bob Sprowl
“Probably a lot more that most of you really wanted to know about this … ”
Useful for me. Don’t live in Alabama, but need to ask questions so I don’t get any surprises.
Home safe. Family too.
Cleaned up and did little things. Trimmed a tree, raked, put some stuff away. Made the new stairs a bit more level. Set up sprinklers on hoses and programmed the controller to put some water on the yard. Chatted with my fisherman buddy. Loaded the trash in the bed of my truck. All little tasks that could be done slowly in the heat and sun. And there was HEAT and SUN. 98F in the shade on the dock, with a breeze making it comfortable for just sitting there chatting. Not comfortable anywhere else, doing anything else.
Some amusing moments as I adjusted sprinklers. Amusing for onlookers anyway.
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I’ve been listening to audio books to stay awake while driving, particularly the Nikki Heat books from the TV show “Castle”, which are over the top, larger than life, and funny, especially if you are a fan of the TV show. I finished the disks I had on the way up, so I picked up something else for the drive home- “Cold Days” which is one of the Jim Butcher ‘Harry Dresden’ series. It’s REALLY well read and produced. I finished two discs on this trip, and sat in the car after arriving home to hear the chapter finish. If you are a fan of the Harry Dresden books, the audio books (assuming the same reader) are probably great. This one is. I wish I had the ones before it in the series… (I listened to some of the Academ’s Fury audio book but wasn’t interested enough to replace the missing discs and continue listening, but then I didn’t love the series in book form either.) The Harry Dresden series is 20 books long, 17 or 18 having been written and released already. Some are better than others, as you’d imagine, but I like the series overall. There is a lot of growth and a huge story arc. If a human wizard working openly as a private detective in Chicago, in our world (plus magic) sounds interesting, you’ll probably enjoy the series.
Now for a bit of snacking, and then bed, if the Dr Pepper I drank on the way home doesn’t keep me up.
n
@Bob Sprowl, interesting to see the alternatives that other places use for billing models. I had another place where I had a ‘demand meter’ and got charged different rates when I used more power (lower rates for more use, btw.) I haven’t crossed out of the base rate in a long time though. Running 7 tons of AC there in the summer used to cost around $300 / month. We’ll see what it is this year with seriously curtailed AC usage.
n
“Illegal immigrant kids with tuberculosis infections released into 44 states”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/jul/18/health-department-released-thousands-of-illegal-im/
“The government is releasing thousands of illegal immigrant children with latent tuberculosis infections into American communities without assurances of treatment.”
“Nearly 2,500 children with latent infections were released into 44 states over the past year, according to a court-ordered report on how the Health and Human Services Department is treating the children.”
“About 126,000 total were released, indicating an infection rate of 1 in 50 migrant children.”
What are these people thinking ?
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
What are these people thinking ?
– that THEIR kids are in private schools.
n
They hate you and want you to die.
And they safe from the contagion they’re releasing on you, between gated communities, guards at the front desk at work, private schools, and the rest of the elites’ perqs.
I don’t know if the Western (so-called) elites literally hate you and literally want you to die, but what would they be doing differently if they did?
Yeah, at some point you have a right to defend your property with lethal force. That goes for businesses as well.
Vaguely related: I was watching a building program yesterday on BBC. They had just installed the windows, went home, came back the next day to find multiple windows destroyed (frames pried open with a crowbar – why they had to pry more than one window open is unclear). Anyway, it was just thieves looking for tools to steal. The builder commented that this was the fourth time this year that it happened to him. Multiply by the number of builders active in London, and…
Scum, enemies of civilization. They need to be presented with Darwin awards. That not only eliminates the immediate problem, it will also serve to deter others from taking the same route…
There are differences between moral right and legal right, and practical considerations.
I live in Texas, the only state in the Union with the legal right to use lethal force to defend property.
I would not do so, prior to a SHTF situation, because the cost is too high. Decades ago, Massad Ayoob pointed out that the first time you pull the trigger, you’ve just spent $200,000 in legal fees defending yourself in court. Cheap at that price to save your life or a loved ones life, pretty expensive to keep your car from being stolen. I imagine the price has been increased since then due to inflation.
Killing unarmed shoplifters is an extreme view. It might be necessary to stop the decay in Western values, but there are other steps that could avoid the necessity. Like Guiliani’s broken window policing, for instance. Or allowing police to arrest, and then prosecuting, the thieves. Or ex-officio things, like allowing police to administer “educational beat-downs”. Much as I hate jack-booted thugs in uniform, maybe if we let them whale on thieves, they’d back down from the rest of us.
Once the community has given up enforcement of robbery laws, you’ve shifted the window to where violence may be one of the few remaining options. It’s a pity.
Or the crims start just killing cops.
n
Tankers won’t be any good if Uncle Joey finds the fuel and
sells itgives it away.Fixed.