09:19 – I was reading one of those panicky articles yesterday that claimed there are too many guns in private hands in the US. More than 200 million, it said. My best guess would be higher: between half a billion and a billion. Then I saw this article, which says that 23 million background checks were done in 2015. That doesn’t cover all gun sales, such as private sales between individuals, but it probably covers most sales of new guns. On the other hand, you can’t equate background checks to unit sales. Multiple guns can be and are purchased from one background check. For example, the last time I bought a gun, they ran one background check on me and one on Barbara, and those two background checks covered one shotgun and one rifle for each of us. (Those four guns were later lost when they fell over the side of a boat into a very deep lake, but that’s another story.) I know people who have bought 20 or more guns on one background check, so my guess is that the 23 million background checks done in 2015 accounted for at least 25 million new guns, if not 30 million. Of course, most of those have since been lost in deep water, just like the ones we bought.
Another article I read some months ago claimed that there were a million AR-15 platform rifles in private hands in the US. I almost choked on my tea when I read that one. My best guess is that the real total is about 10 times that. In other words, there are more semi-auto “black rifles” in private hands in the US than there are AR-15 platform rifles in not just the US armed forces, but in all of the world’s military forces combined. Of course, nearly all of those black rifles in private hands have also been lost in deep water. In fact, I’d guess that all of the deep rivers and lakes in the US have their bottoms covered with a nearly solid layer of firearms.
I also read an article about how gun confiscation might be handled. It concluded that there weren’t enough federal employees to get the job done. Not even close. So it’d have to be done by state and local LE personnel. Yeah, right. That’s a non-starter, particularly in rural areas. I can just see the Alleghany County Sheriff and the Sparta Chief of Police being ordered to go around and confiscate everyone’s firearms. If I were they, my first reaction would be, “Are you nucking futs?” In the first place, most LEO’s outside urban areas are gun owners and sporting shooters/hunters themselves. Their sympathies are very like to be with other gun owners like themselves rather than with faceless federal bureaucrats. In the second place, and far more importantly, any rural LEO understands that trying to confiscate people’s guns would decrease his own life expectancy. Sure, a high percentage of civilians would voluntarily hand over their weapons–those that hadn’t been lost in deep water–but enough wouldn’t that the local cops would find themselves working every day in what amounted to a war zone.
So no matter who’s elected in November, I’m not too worried about widespread gun confiscation.
I’m not an atheist, but I completely agree with Thomas Paine when he said, “Government in its best state is a necessary evil, in its worst form an intolerable one.”
I don’t think Donald Trump would make a good President. However, I do think Hillary would be far worse. I think she would do everything she can to reduce the availability of guns and ammunition, and would do outright confiscation if she could.
Yeah, well, we’re not yet seeing its worst state, but we’re a hell of a long way from its best.
“…I’d guess that all of the deep rivers and lakes in the US have their bottoms covered with a nearly solid layer of firearms.”
In California those guns should soon be within reach…
Seems like the Left have been learning new lingo from this forum. OFD in particular might want to ask them for royalties… 🙂
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/a-new-catchphrase-for-the-regressive-left-and-other-simple-thinkers/
Agreed. Under a Hillary administration you will see Federal controls on ammunition like the ones proposed in California. Limits on the number & amount of purchases. Registration and background checks on all ammo purchases. National database to ensure people don’t cross state lines to bypass federal controls. Because while the 2nd amendment DOES protect a right to own and bear arms it says nothing about ammunition. And with a Hillary packed Supreme Court the argument that restricting ammunition will effectively restrict the right to “bear arms” will be laughed out of existence.
Well sure, we can always reload. But the ammunition ban will include sales of primers as they are “explosive” devices.
liberals find all sorts of rights in the constitution, so what’s wrong with finding a right to ammunition in the constitution?
“what’s wrong with finding a right to ammunition in the constitution?”
Technically, the “right” to ammunition flows from the right to bear arms as they are useless for the intended purpose without it. HOWEVER … a far left (Hillary packed) Supreme Court will not see it that way. So no matter how you feel about Trump you can’t allow Hillary in.
Another article I read some months ago claimed that there were a million AR-15 platform rifles in private hands in the US.
Do you want to know the exact number of AR-15s made? Ask your congresscritter. They could get the exact numbers from BATF.
From the 2015 firearms report from ATF, the US manufactured in 2013:
Pistols 4,441,726
Revolvers 725,282
Rifles 3,979,570
Shotguns 1,203,072
Other 495,142
(Other is “Examples of miscellaneous firearms would include pistol grip
firearms, starter guns, and firearm frames and receivers”)
Net of exports and imports added it was:
Handguns 8,073,647
Rifles 5,355,628
Shotguns 2,089,541
Other 472,394
This does not include military production, but does include law enforcement. They don’t separate revolvers and pistols in imports, hence the change in nomenclature to handguns.
The totals net of exports/imports from 1986 to 2013 is:
Handguns 78,935,485
Rifles 58,893,095
Shotguns 33,713,342
Other 1,666,218
Total less other: 171,541,922
In terms of dealers, people with special licenses (full auto, silencer, “destructive devices”, short shotguns), number of machine guns in private hands, etc. Texas leads by far. Nearly 1 in 7 gun dealers in the US are in Texas.
Here are some questions that the political left seems to keep ignoring.
1. How many guns did the 9/11 hijackers have?
2. How many guns did the London subway bombers have?
3. How many guns did the guy have who stabbed the French police commander and his police officer have?
4. How many people did the Oklahoma city bombers shoot?
5. How many people did the Boston Marathon bombers shoot?
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a million AR-15 platform rifles in private hands made from parts starting with an 80% finished lower receiver. I have a cousin who could probably machine a lower reciever out of a piece of solid aluminum. I want to buy a 3D printer which could print a polymer lower receiver and high capacity magazines. I am not interested in making those items on a 3D printer. I wouldn’t print those items, because I’d rather buy a finished rifle and spare magazines than make my own.
Any State or local LEO/agency that would take orders from Cankles et al should be shot on site. Any citizen that would turn in a weapon probably doesn’t/wouldn’t use it anyway.
“I don’t hate guns: a gun is just a piece of metal. I intensely dislike the mind-set that claims we have a right to own guns, including concealed ones and semiautomatic ones.”
So he just hates people. And by making a distinction for “semiautomatic ones” he announces himself as ignorant and a barracks lawyer hairsplitter.
And a hypocrite for putting aside the protections he gets and uses from the OTHER 9 amendments in the BoR, I guess those things are just “claims” too?
nick
(added- just figured out why his name was familiar. Put this article down to a guy who is knowledgeable in one area and therefore thinks he should be able to expound on areas outside of his knowledge and still be taken seriously.)
@dave, if you want to roll your own, the AK platform is the way to go. That receiver is just bent flat metal with a few holes and some joining (which can be welds, pins, rivets, bolts) You can literally make one out of a shovel.
In either case, the barrels are the hard part. It might be wise to stockpile THOSE while they are still legal and unregulated.
nick
(what no one seems to be working on is cheap single uses homemade magazines.)
I’ll happily agree to strict controls on ammunition, as long as the regressives allow strict controls on the purchase & possession of ink. It’s all part of my usual ‘substitute printing press for firearms in your regulation, and see if it passes muster’ platform.
There’s racism everywhere:
http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20160629_Why_police_were_called_to_a_South_Jersey_third_grade_class_party.html
Did you mean AK or AR? No, I don’t want to roll my own, I wouldn’t mind buying an AR-15 off the shelf.
There are now 3D printable AR-15 magazine designs you can download. Evidently they require tweaking to work.
If I wanted some guns I’d definately want to buy them off the shelf from someone who knows what they’re doing.
There’s racism everywhere:
Geeze. Third grade. Game over, man, game over.
lol! I got my first email from the FAA since “registering” my personal drones. Instead of “we hope you are enjoying flying” it’s “Attention Citizen: fly close to a wild fire and you will kill people.”
KEEP YOUR DRONE AWAY FROM WILDFIRES
There are lots of great places to fly your drones, but over or near a wildfire isn’t one of them. In fact, drone operators who interfere with wildfire suppression efforts are subject to civil penalties of up to $27,500 and possible criminal prosecution.
Here’s why it’s important: Aerial firefighting aircraft, such as airtankers and helicopters, fly at very low altitudes, just a couple hundred feet above the ground and in the same airspace as hobby and recreational drones. This creates the potential for a mid-air collision that could seriously injure or kill wildland firefighters in the air or on the ground.
As a result of unlawful drone operations near fires this year, fire managers have temporarily grounded all aerial firefighting aircraft on several occasions for safety reasons. Shutting down firefighting operations could cause wildfires to become larger and can threaten lives, property, and valuable natural and cultural resources.
The bottom line is “If You Fly, We Can’t.”
Please fly responsibly – keep your drone away from wildfires.
“KEEP YOUR DRONE AWAY FROM WILDFIRES”
That was actually a pretty good explanation of why the regs are in place. Much better than the usual legalese
I agree with keeping drones away from wildfires. If you want to kill people with your drone, load it up with explosives and steer it into a government office.
(That assumes you consider government “work”ers to be people, not an assumption I’m comfortable with.)
@dave, AK. Kalishnikov “the people’s weapon”
The receiver kit consists of a flat piece of metal, and a marking jig. Everything can be done with hand tools (easier and better with real tools.) A guy literally made one from a shovel, just ‘cuz. Mountain people in the contested areas have a long tradition of hand making rifles…
Buying is certainly easier, and the AR platform is almost DESIGNED for assembly from parts, but making one from raw material is much harder (well, requires more tools) than the AK. So for total ‘roll your own’ the AK receiver is doable from base metal without a lot of machine tools.
In the AR platform, 80% lowers (not a firearm, just a lump of shaped metal) are available cheap and without regulation. They can be completed with ordinary woodworking skills and tools. Add the parts kits, and you are good to go.
A budget compromise is to buy AR “stripped” lowers. They ARE considered to be a firearm by the ATF so require delivery thru an FFL dealer, but they are just the bare metal of the receiver “stripped” of all the add in parts. They are much cheaper than buying whole rifles and you can build them into rifles at some later date by adding only unregulated parts. (ie a ‘lower parts kit’ and a complete upper (or build the upper from parts too))
Some people think stripped lowers are just as much a risk to you in a tyranny as a complete rifle since they are ‘firearms’ in their own right and their sales are tracked. They are much cheaper than a rifle if you are stacking them against future need.
I feel that if it really comes down to it, all the jackboots need to do is follow the barrels. If you buy 10 M4 barrels, and you can’t account for them, you are going to get the rectal exam and all the official force of the oppressive regime anyway. Same for AK barrels.
In the fight against tyranny, even the nastiest single shot weapon can help you get better equipment, if applied in the right time and place. All those diversity hires are just gonna be ‘mobile resupply points’ if things get really sporty.
nick
“There’s racism everywhere:”
I’ve lived in 5 countries and in each, the native population is racist toward one group or another. Racism is a normal human trait sadly.
Hey, from an anti-tyranny point of view, it is great to hear that those invincible war machines are in fact super fragile and can be brought down with just a couple of pounds of carbon fiber. Thanks for the tactical update FAA.
For low flying helos, I’m thinking line launching gun. http://www.navalcompany.com/navalproducts.htm or the potato cannon equivalent. Some light weight stainless steel wire rope or some 7mm spectra cord should do the trick…
nick
“There’s racism everywhere:”There are idiots everywhere: — FIFY
Prosecutorial overreach, criminalization of ordinary behavior, fodder for the ‘schools to prison pipeline’, take your pick. And what law did the pantie wetters think got broken anyway? Even if someone got called a ‘n!gger’ it’s NOT illegal and the cops should have hung up the phone after telling the school to quit wasting their time.
And WTF is CPS getting involved for?
Nuke the site from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
n
Us and Them
no need to be a racist – I’m an equal opportunity hater.
No matter who’s elected in November, I AM WORRIED about widespread government overreach and incompetence. We are after all talking about the people who spent twenty years stressing the importance of a low fat diet, and even longer telling us to limit our consumption of eggs because of cholesterol concerns. Here is the Vice Chair of the government committee that makes dietary recommendations telling us that low fat diets are probably not a good idea. As of 2015 the government’s dietary advice now tells us dietary cholesterol is not a cause for concern. Finally the government is still telling us that we eat too much salt, and that salt is bad for us. This happens to be true if you have high blood pressure and bad kidneys. If you don’t have bad kidneys, you pass the excess salt in your urine.
Processed vegetable fats (eg, Crisco) are better for you than lard. If you eat lard, you’ll die! And we know it’s true because the government said so … after a tiny study conducted by the company which made processed vegetable fats and which then spent more lobbying either Congress or the predecessor of the FDA than they’d spent on the “study”. And it’s sheer coincidence that the discovery that lard is bad for you came just after Sabatier figured out how to hydrogenate vegetable fats, patented the process, and Company X (I’m blanking on who started making and selling them in the US) made them commercially viable.
[snip] If you want to kill people with your drone, load it up with explosives and steer it into a government office. [snip]
Or figure out how to hoist a 2 liter bottle that’s been rigged to unplug on command. Aerosol the nightmare fluid of your choice.
Considering the panic caused by talcum powder sprinkled around, back in the anthrax scare days, I suspect that spraying lemon juice on a crowd would cause people to die of heart failure.
See my drone post of yesterday about Cankles snatch tank.
And we know it’s true because the government said so
I save every drop of bacon grease in my strainer/container. I’m history according to the gooberment. I only fry my daily eggs in bacon grease (with a little butter to make sure I croak).
“All those diversity hires are just gonna be ‘mobile resupply points’ if things get really sporty.”
Indeed. And not as difficult even now as one might suppose; we had a local dirtbag reach into an (unlocked) Vermont State Police cruiser outside the COURTHOUSE in a busy area of downtown Saint Albans and grab a badge, jacket, rifle and pistol, a few months ago. He was caught several nights later having broken into a local auto parts warehouse and shooting up the place (middle of the night, no one there, no one hurt). My guess is that at some point you could simply walk up to one of the LEOs and just take their chit at gunpoint anyway; just make sure you pick the right one; some of them are hardasses.
Also not a bad idea to learn how to, at minimum, clean various firearms and do basic repairs and malfunction recoveries with them. From there, maybe look into assembling an AR or AK and then building them from scratch, more or less; also smart to grab and stockpile parts, tools and ammo whenever you can.
Just had a series of t-storms roll through here over the past 24 hours, with intermittent torrential downpours, not much wind. Everything is soaked, finally, which is good, and we have the jungle in the back yard again, with days of sun ahead.
“spraying lemon juice on a crowd would cause people to die of heart failure.”
specifically illegal in TX to make any fluid, gas, etc dispersal machine that causes fear.
I was thinking about a short story when a defender used air to spray harmless but chemical smelling stuff on the gun confiscation team sent to get him. Seems that’s illegal here. (sprinklers, garden sprayers, air cannon, fogger, automatic aerosol can activator, all kinds of ways to knock them off their game plan) Not to mention a fuel air mix like coffee creamer and a clothes dryer spark machine…… Imagine the confusion when they suddenly get sprayed with an unknown but stinky mist while stacking against your door….. “run away! run away!”
nick
In other words, there are more semi-auto “black rifles” in private hands in the US than there are AR-15 platform rifles in not just the US armed forces, but in all of the world’s military forces combined.
Mine is maroon. Gig ’em Aggies!
Saving bacon fat to cook with is (re)gaining popularity.
Just search amazon for bacon fat storage and see the new choices. I got a nice airtight stainless can with handle and built in strainer. It’s great having tasty fat on hand for cooking.
n
Oh and Tom Kratman has his defenders using jugs of ammonia against the APCs and other hopped up armored trucks sent against them.
Break one on the vehicle, and the crew bails from the stink sucked in. Kinda assumes there isn’t any filter for ammonia. (Don’t know if it would get thru, but that was a plot point. The vehicle filters didn’t stop ammonia.)
n
Well, then, if it’s against the law anyway, you might as well spray bleach or anthrax or whatever. In for a penny, in for a pound.
Yup, or gasoline. Once you’ve bought the first death sentence all the rest are free…..
n
“In for a penny, in for a pound.”
I LIKE the way you think! I believe those armored UN vehicles that peeps have been reporting sport filters to keep out most stuff; not sure how ammonia would fare but if they keep out gases…? The gun ports are also open holes, large enough to get a soda can through so there’s that…if they’re firing out those ports an enterprising and athletic individual could slide on up under there and toss in something.
I still maintain, however, that it’s gonna be important to ID people and get all their pertinent intel; why engage in sporty activities against armor and aircraft and suchlike when you can simply visit where they sleep, eat, pee, or otherwise recreate? If they’re not home, well then, maybe family members are; they’re acting against YOUR families, amirite? And thus we have a nice little civil war, always nasty and brutal. But they’re the ones who keep pushing and pushing and pushing and evidently believe they can win one.
Regarding ARs and AKs and building them, etc.
http://preparedgunowners.com/?p=1544
What they say about ARs is on-target, haha, yeah, that was intentional, my bad; but also applies to AKs, which, incidentally, can be after-marketed six ways from Sunday to make them more accurate and have decent optics, etc. But not nearly as customizable as the ARs, which, also incidentally, means AR10s as well as AR15s. Most of y’all probably know this, but you can also swap various caliber uppers on and off your ARs. And there are “hybrids” out there now, like AKs running on AR lowers, basically, and all the AR “pistols” and the growing trend with silencers, now legal in Vermont, probably our one remaining fly in the ointment here, along with the Castle Doctrine that needs to be beefed up.
“TransCanada formally seeks NAFTA damages in Keystone XL rejection”
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-transcanada-keystone-idUSKCN0ZB0R9
“TransCanada Corp is formally requesting arbitration over U.S. President Barack Obama’s rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, seeking $15 billion in damages, the company said in legal papers dated Friday.”
“TransCanada submitted a notice for an arbitration claim in January and had then tried to negotiate with the U.S. government to “reach an amicable settlement,” the company said in files posted on the pipeline’s website.”
“Unfortunately, the parties were unable to settle the dispute.””
Hey Obola, actions have consequences!
Pat Buchanan was absolutely right (again) years ago when he said NAFTA and GATT were very bad ideas.
And Brexit and Germany:
“Granted, Dr. Merkel claimed that she had to destroy Europe to save it. But, to a Brit, what was the point of 1939–1945 if a German chancellor still wound up ruling over Europe?”
http://takimag.com/article/game_of_states_steve_sailer/print#axzz4D0CkWy5H
On a completely different front, I discovered the most expensive of the single board computers. The Red Pitaya is a single board computer with two high speed digital to analog outputs and two high speed analog to digital inputs. So it can function as a digital oscilloscope, signal generator, freqency counter or spectrum analyzer among other things.
I want one, but at the moment I’m too cheap to buy one and too busy to do much with it if I had one. But I’m filing this for when I get less busy and have a little more free cash.
“Woman wins $10,000 judgment against Microsoft for forced Windows 10 upgrade”
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/230794-woman-wins-10000-judgment-against-microsoft-for-forced-windows-10-upgrade
Doesn’t MS have deep pockets ? Don’t ambulance chasers like deep pockets ?
I see a growth industry.
“I want one, but at the moment I’m too cheap to buy one and too busy to do much with it if I had one. But I’m filing this for when I get less busy and have a little more free cash.”
+1
I’d like to play around with the SDR apps and the HamLab boxes at some point, but got other priorities here in spades.
“I see a growth industry.”
Many upgrade horror stories, but then again, BILLions and BILLions Served! With most having no reported problems or stuff that peeps are ready and willing to accept without complaint, evidently. Not interested. Running this 8.1 box into the ground and then going to Linux OR OpenVMS, when it’s ported to x86!!! VAX/VMS got me outta cop work thirty years ago and I wouldn’t mind coming back full-circle for my last years on the planet. Also, a couple of sw engineers took pity on me and got me up to speed on it, down in wunnerful Gardner, MA, where, as one of the Iranian sw guys said, “the teenage girls push their baby carriages downtown at night, smoking cigarettes…” And South Gardner back then looked like a poor version of some Appalachian shit-hole; probably much worse now; I’ll recon it next time I’m down that way.
Lordy B Gordy! How much does your State pay for crimigrant support?
The crazy thing is, the number $84 billion only includes the expenditures by state and local governments. When you include federal spending, that cost balloons to $113 billion.
Gee, only $63 million here in the great Green Mountain State….oh wait….there are only around 600k peeps here, about the same as the city of Boston, only spread out a bit more….let’s make it 630,000 peeps, makes calculations easier….
….a hundred bucks each me and the wife are paying…wait…we didn’t authorize these payments…oh wait again…they don’t need our stinkin’ authorizations….
OFD wonders who will be the first Vermont taxpayer paying for this chit who gets raped or murdered by one of the illegals….wait…wait…yup. Already done. Couple of years ago some Somali piece of shit raped and murdered a young woman down in Burlap. Let’s bring in a few thousand more here. They tend to locate the “legal” immigrants in Burlap, a city of about 50k, and the predominant ethnicities are Bosnian musloid, Serbian, and Somali. Lately they’ve been bringing them in from other Afrikan shit-holes, and they get here and are showered with all kinds of assistance and then bitch, bitch, bitch.
When the pendulum swings the other way in this country it ain’t gonna be pretty.
[snip] I suspect that spraying lemon juice on a crowd would cause people to die of heart failure. [snip]
I was thinking dimethylmercury. Duct tape a firecracker to the side of a soda bottle, ignite over a large crowd (say a Death To America demonstration somewhere), and enjoy.
Me2Hg is one of a short list that no sane chemist would get anywhere near. I wouldn’t want to be in the same county with it, let alone the same building.
That’s what makes lemon juice and talcum powder such a great terror weapon. No risk, lots of panic.
And if you want extra terror, sprinkle baker’s yeast around. Eeeeeek! Spores!!!!!!
Evil haters.
I dispute the concept of “evil”, because all belief systems are equally valid, and who are you to judge?
I dispute the applicability of “hater”, because the calibration knob seems to have slipped. If foreign invaders come here in violation of our laws and national sovereignty and commit crimes and especially sexual crimes far out of proportion to their numbers, and that’s defined as “coming here out of love”, then the concepts of love and hate have become meaningless until, as I say, they are recalibrated.
[snip] no sane chemist would get anywhere near. [snip]
What if you’re a chemist who’s *not* sane? Or one so dedicated to whatever cause that you’re willing to die? Or one who last week was told that you have pancreatic cancer, and a life expectancy of less than six months?
Two words: Zombie Patriot.
Two more words: Kamikaze Redux
Two extra words: Bingo Dauber cause I’m at Bingo.
Off to Dallas tomorrow on the 6:00am flight. Gonna play bingo with MrsAtoz until midnight. I’ll sleep when I’m dead. Zombie Patriot dead.
I’ve only played bingo once in my entire life, and that was at a military hotel in Krung Thep (Bangkok), Thailand a long time ago; it was me and a couple of Army guys who were tired of the bars and clubs and poo-ying in the city and just wanted to hang out and we actually had a pretty good time. Bunch of military wives, mostly, and I don’t think we even drank anything other than tea.
Only played golf once in my life, too, and that was also kinda fun. Just never got around to doing either of those two things again.
Which reminds me; I gotta get up to the range this next week and also sign Mrs. OFD up for an NRA two-part pistol class; first half online with an exam, and second half hands-on over there. Would like to get her involved with the women shooters, if possible. I’ll be signing up for pistol, rifle, shotgun instructor and range safety officer classes this year.
Have fun in Dallas, MrAtoz and be sure to pay yer respects at Dealey Plaza; I was ten years old when they whacked Saint Jack down there; we got sent home from skool immediately and peeps were on their front lawns and driveways with radios and tee-vees going, some of them looking to be in shock and/or crying. Saint Jack was from MA, of course, and a lotta RC households had pics on their walls of him, Richard Cardinal Cushing and Pope John XXIII. (I was an Episcopalian kid and acolyte then and wouldn’t come home to Rome until 33 years later.)
Coupla items from Uncle Remus today:
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/06/24/confirmed-orlando-cops-told-to-stand-down-not-to-pursue-shooter-for-15-20-minutes/
I guess I woulda been fired; I could never just lie back and wait hours, listening to wounded people bleed out and other people screaming as they’re being shot…….by ONE fucking guy.
“For those who disagree with me about withholding my consent by withholding my vote in elections for national office, a question: if voting worked, wouldn’t it have worked by now? After generations of voting in national elections, shouldn’t we be eyebrow-deep in justice and liberty? The “too big to fail” bailouts and Obamacare were opposed by something like ninety per cent of the populace yet they became law. A Republican majority in both houses passed a gargantuan budget, more than even Obama asked for. And on and on. Voting fits the definition of insanity. Shall we continue to imagine a miraculous transformation is just an election away, or are we so deep in quicksand more effort merely draws us in deeper? I come by my conclusion from what I’ve seen , nothing complicated about it. How do you come by yours?”
Both of these items came from The Woodpile Report, highly recommended:
http://www.woodpilereport.com/html/index-432.htm
Your deranged president wants us to take more
mooslem terroristspeace loving productive non-bludging refugees, just because the US has.No thanks.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-30/us-calls-for-australia-to-increase-refugee-intake/7557578
Your deranged president wants us to take more mooslem terrorists peace loving productive non-bludging refugees, just because the US has.
No thanks.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-30/us-calls-for-australia-to-increase-refugee-intake/7557578
I am still trying to figure out how Obola gets the authority to take over 100,000 “refugees” per year into the USA. The cost in dollars in incredible, over $20,000 per family and then $5,000/month for the rest of their lives.
Trump will spend $20,000 per family of “refugees” sending them back. At least that much, maybe more because the “refugees” will be suing everyone in sight trying to stay in the USA.
$20,000 per family? Geez. How much can it cost to load up hundreds of the scum on a C-5A, haul them back where they came from, and push them off the ramp?
“I am still trying to figure out how Obola gets the authority…”
1.) “executive orders”
2.) He makes it up as he goes along, to no viable challenges or dissent.
3.) The people who are actually affected by this and who care deeply, don’t count.
4.) Because fuck you.
5.) Which is the exact attitude that Field Marshal Rodham has; “I can do whatever I want, get away with it while laughing, and fuck you.”
“How much can it cost to load up hundreds of the scum on a C-5A, haul them back where they came from, and push them off the ramp?”
Sure, but can you just picture the resulting images and videos of the crying children, emaciated babies, old men in wheelchairs, etc.? The woman moaning, the rending of garments, the struggles to escape the ramp, etc.? These images will amount to about 5% of the people being loaded, of course; the vast majority will be young males who will have to be dragged in chains to the planes. And the most fanatic and dangerous of them won’t be there; they’re already off in the population now, waiting.
$20,000 per family? Geez. How much can it cost to load up hundreds of the scum on a C-5A, haul them back where they came from, and push them off the ramp?
When you sue the federal government, the plaintiff lawyer(s) get paid by the federal government no matter what. Except for the IRS. That was codified into law many years ago. First for the environmental actions then extended to many other branches of the federal government over the years. The cost for plaintiff lawyers to the feddies is simply incredible.
I wasn’t suggesting that the plane land before the scum are pushed off the ramp.
Sure, but can you just picture the resulting images and videos of the crying children, emaciated babies, old men in wheelchairs, etc.? The woman moaning, the rending of garments, the struggles to escape the ramp, etc.?
I hope it would be on Pay-Per-View so that I can see it.
Things are not going well at work. My replacement is still really struggling after two months. His coding (which was 75% of the job) are weak and his knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is lacking.
He made the comment to me that if I had not been here he would have quit after two weeks. I was gone for two days on Tuesday and Wednesday. Came back and he was still where I left on Monday and was desperate for help.
Upon my departure it is not going to go well I am afraid. I knew something was amiss when my drop dead date was extended by having me only work part of the week by taking vacation. This extended my last physical day in the office. I need to be on the payroll August 1 and none of that has changed. Rather than lump vacation at the end the time is spread out. I agreed to that because I really don’t want my replacement to fail.
I found out his wife has a PhD and works at ORNL making about $200K a year. My first comment to him after I found out was “why the hell are you working?” With his current progress he may take me up on my comment.
Regardless, I have decided that I will not come back except for a significant cost (north of $250 an hour) after August 1. (Yeh, I know I originally said $100 an hour but have decided I am worth more than that and I want to make it painful.) I will not do phone support nor will I do email support. When the door hits me in the ass on August 1, I want it to be final.
Things are not going well at work. My replacement is still really struggling after two months. His coding (which was 75% of the job) are weak and his knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is lacking.
It takes me five years to train programmers. Both in coding and in program content. Of course, we are shepherding 1.4 million lines of C++, F77, and C code. Just about about any new code that we put in breaks much of the old code.
And I am in the middle of converting our distributed data structure in our user interface to sparse. I am breaking EVERYTHING!
If you were part of the interviewing process for the job you basically created there, Mr. Ray, they’ll probably blame you for the noob not working out. I was kind of in that guy’s position a couple of years ago at that factory IT job I took, and lasted all of six weeks. But that was on them; they lied to me throughout, and I should have walked when I found out that the two kids there before me were leaving the very next day after I started, and they’d not even bothered to tell me they had Linux machines there. That job also involved coding, on which I was not up to speed, certainly not on PHP or extensive MySQL coding, but they’d posted the gig as a “network admin” with security responsibilities. It ended up being 95% Windoze help desk support nonstop all day and into the night for the office asswipes.
I hope you can bail out of that place and let THEM find somebody to replace you and be done with them for good.
“I found out his wife has a PhD and works at ORNL making about $200K a year. My first comment to him after I found out was “why the hell are you working?”
How old are they? If they’re looking to have kids it might pay him to be the househusband and look after them.
“…it might pay him to be the househusband and look after them.”
That’s what I did, not by choice though, by layoff/RIF. It would be a long story, but simply my wife has always earned more as an experienced Surgical RN than me as a sailor then “non-degreed” engineer.
My kids had a tough time in school. My son has ADD and OCD (truly diagnosed, not a “diagnosis of convenience” as the schools do today) and needed me to be in constant contact with the school. The school wanted him in Special Ed. No way and finally I found a teacher and counselor who understood him. Bottom line, he took all AP courses in high school and graduated from WA State University number 1 in Mechanical Engineering with a Magna Cum Laude. My daughter has a number of medical conditions (an effect of being born 13-weeks early) and needed to be regularly taken to her specialists. She also needed academic intervention and completed high school in 3 years while also obtaining her Associates Degree, then a full ride academic scholarship (no room and board) to Gonzaga. She graduated in 3 years Suma Cum Laude (due to missing most of her final year because of medical issues).
Without me being there for my kids, today my son would most likely be a drooling idiot in a group home and my daughter would be dead from her medical conditions.
We live a frugal life, but we are set for life. Planning (prepping) and sacrifice are all worth it.