09:49 – It was warmer again this morning, a whole 17F (-8C). What it hasn’t done is warm up enough to melt the snow. The main roads are in pretty good shape. Secondary roads like ours have been plowed but still have lots of frozen stuff on them. Very few of the vehicles that pass our house are going anything near the 35 MPH speed limit, and most are creeping along at 15 or 20. On a normal day, most of them are doing at least 40 MPH when they pass our house, and quite a few maniacs are doing 60 MPH or more.
Barbara is going to the gym this morning, but later than usual. She has a noon meeting of the golf group that runs an annual fundraiser for the Wellness Center, where the gym is located. She’ll head from there to the Friends of the Library bookstore to work this afternoon until 1700. She leaves for Winston-Salem tomorrow morning for an appointment with her eye doctor and to run errands. She’s going to stay overnight at Frances’ and Al’s place and drive back up to Sparta Thursday morning. As usual, it’ll be wild women and parties for Colin and me while she’s gone.
Our garage is pretty well insulated. Even with an extended period of temperatures down in the teens and single digits Fahrenheit, it hasn’t gotten down to freezing in there. The lowest it’s gotten is 35.5F (2C), or a bit lower than the temperature inside a standard refrigerator. Still, just to be safe, I moved the liquid chemicals we had stored out there into the house until the weather warms up.
Science kit sales are running at about the same rate as last January, and we’re getting to low-stock levels on all of the kits. We’ll need to build more kits over the next couple of weeks. Until things warm up a bit, rather than building kits in the garage, we’ll do so in the unfinished area downstairs.
Never say the progressives don’t do anything useful. I followed a link yesterday to this site, which lists retailers that the site’s authors suggest be boycotted because they support Trump as well as another useful list of retailers they regard as desirable because they don’t support Trump. So of course their lists work just as well for us Normals. We simply need to patronize their boycotted list and boycott their recommended list. So, for example, instead of shopping at the “100% Trump-free” Target, we can all shop at nasty old Trump-supporting Walmart. Thanks for the tips, progs. There’s battle lines being drawn…
We simply need to patronize their boycotted list and boycott their recommended list.
Amazon? Most progs I know wouldn’t know how to function without their Amazon Prime account.
The boycot list doesn’t have Buc-ee’s, but, as they state on their bumper stickers, “It’s a Texas thing, y’all.”
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Joaquin-Castro-to-boycott-Buc-ee-s-after-owners-5307143.php
Yeah, both Amazon and the Washington Post are on their boycott list. Both are owned by Bezos, who’s a notable prog. Even so, it’s apparently a good list to let us Normals avoid the proggiest retailers.
Hah, that buc-ees article is 2 years old. Since they are expanding, I don’t think the controversy hurt them….
I love this ““(I) wonder how Buc-ees patrons in Freeport, Lake Jackson stores feel about their endorsement of (Dan Patrick) who spoke about immigrants bringing diseases to TX,” Castro wrote in another tweet.:
So
herhis issue with Patrick was that he told the truth? Since immigrants do in fact bring disease with them. vis Swine Flu, vis Ebola, TB, and a bunch of others…But that is the standard Prog policy, lies, more lies, and bigger lies.
n
Hah, that buc-ees article is 2 years old. Since they are expanding, I don’t think the controversy hurt them.
No, but I tell Normal friends outside of Texas to keep an eye on the Castro brothers. I believe that the Progs will attempt to run one of them as the second coming of Doh-bama. “First Hispanic President.”
The Prog agenda will sound awfully tempting to a lot of voters if Trump breaks too many promises while the economy falters.
If the Republicans had nominated Jeb! Bush (always remember the !) or some other RINO, I have no doubt that one of the Castro brothers would have been Hillary’s running mate. Texas was closer than I imagined possible.
Ah, the hypocrisy of the left. Just look at that list, and how many companies are on it because the founder or CEO supported Trump. Then look at why they aren’t boycotting Kanye West— “We are strongly in favor of free expression and wary of placing individuals on the boycott list merely for their opinion. ” Yep, won’t boycott individuals, who happen to be companies/commercial enterprises in their own right, but will boycott whole companies- thousands of workers because of the mere opinion of a CEO or founder. ‘Cuz companies = bad I guess. More commie worldview coming to the fore…
Love the fact that companies that “profit” from doing business with Trump include almost every national retailer in America. That’s the definition of success right there, when everyone carries your product.
OH, and they must be old Testament believers too, since they seek to punish the child for the sins of the father…..
nick
“The Prog agenda will sound awfully tempting to a lot of voters” –always. They’re soooooo eager to put on the chains. Look at Bernie supporters, or hillarity… “Give us free shit! And it’ll be oh so much sweeter if you steal it from those we hate!”
n
In other news, I’ve got some interesting security articles, but I need to find online links since you all can’t come over an read the magazines…. basically, some deployed technology is farther along than I thought. And there is some info about securing water works, which was a topic of discussion here not so long ago.
BUT, I’ve got some paying work to do first.
n
Well, I keep hoping for National Shoot a Prog Day, but no one seems to be doing anything about it.
I mean, any prog would do. It doesn’t have to be a famous or even particularly egregious one. I’d say 100,000 dead progs would be a good start. Once we’re down to only one breeding pair left, we can stick them in the national zoo, as long as strict precautions are taken to ensure they don’t escape into the wild.
These folks haven’t figured out something Michael Jordan had figured out 30 years ago: Republicans buy sneakers, too.
They’d get a lot further trying to work WITH people than against them..
But they simply don’t see it.
” I’d say 100,000 dead progs would be a good start.”
That will be a waste. You’d better send them to Romania to replace our current crooks. We’ll be delighted to have them here!
You say that now, Eugen, but adding 100,000 progs would be nearly as bad as adding 100,000 musloids.
Can’t be as bad as we have here…
@Eugen; the progs would then let many tens of thousands of musloid hadjis into Romania, with their long-term strategy of an alliance with them, probably promising to drive out the crooks together. After that succeeds, they turn on each other and the winner takes all. Guess who the winner would be?
The Russians are freezing and want some of our Global Warming. Now.
http://www.climatedepot.com/2017/01/10/pravda-scientists-now-warn-of-a-new-ice-age-as-temperature-plummets-to-80f-in-russia/
Just a few more degrees down and the CO2 will start depositing out of the air onto the snow.
” I’d say 100,000 dead progs would be a good start.”
That will be a waste. You’d better send them to Romania to replace our current crooks. We’ll be delighted to have them here!
Can you feed them ? They eat a lot. And produce a lot of fecal matter. And hot air.
Oh wait, you might want the hot air right now.
“A python and a gator wrestled in Florida, the result was epic”
http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/A-python-and-a-gator-wrestled-in-Florida-the-10847498.php
“Some days, you get the snake. And, some days, the snake has you for lunch.”
WRT boycotts:
When has a boycott ever been successful?
When has a boycottee ever submitted to a boycottor?
It hit 65°F in Vegas yesterday. It’s forecast for low 60’s today. I don’t miss the snow and cold of living in WI and NY. If we could only get some of that flooding that CA expects.
A python and a gator wrestled in Florida, the result was epic.
Unfortunately, Florida missed the opportunity to nip that situation about 6-7 years ago when the first studies started to indicate a problem. A $100 per head bounty on the snakes in 2010 would have sparked an intense amount of redneck creativity.
The state implemented a small bounty program as and experiment, but the program wasn’t expanded.
Unlike alligators, the snakes don’t survive north of the hard freeze line. However, most of the Everglades National Park is below that line.
WRT boycotts:
When has a boycott ever been successful?
When has a boycottee ever submitted to a boycottor?
United Farm Workers against Delano grape growers. Granted there was much political pressure as well as catholic priests helping out the poor farm workers.
A python and a gator wrestled in Florida, the result was epic.
Unfortunately, Florida missed the opportunity to nip that situation about 6-7 years ago when the first studies started to indicate a problem. A $100 per head bounty on the snakes in 2010 would have sparked an intense amount of redneck creativity.
I wonder when the pythons are going to show up here in south Texas? We’ve got everything else.
76 F (24 C) here in the Land of Sugar. 65 F (18 C) tonight. Gonna be like this for a week or so. I love winter in south Texas.
I haven’t even seen any snakes at all up here in ages. At our previous house down in Montpeculiar, there were several former farm buildings and busted down sheds, and we’d see maybe a couple of garter snakes per summer. I had my fill of them all in TX and SEA to last several lifetimes. Now out in the woods I just gotta watch out for bears and moose, the latter more dangerous if they get pissed off at you.
29 here now with 30-40 MPH wind gusts and a warning thereby, plus maybe some snow flurries later.
Took the RAV4 in for regularly scheduled maintenance, had them rotate the tires and replace the windshield wipers. They found a nail in the right rear tire, probably occurring during the two weeks Princess had it up in Moh-ree-all and Ontario.
Also picked up a new pair of Red Wing waterproof boots, wool long underwear, heavy socks, and a new wool knit hat and warmer gloves.
Probably gotta learn some Italian PDQ now, too; wife can use her miles plus she found a discount price on tickets from Newark to Venezia, probably run us $400 round-trip altogether. In March sometime. So I gotta go get a passport, too; office is over in the nearby “city.”
I wonder when the pythons are going to show up here in south Texas? We’ve got everything else.
Texas is too cold in Winter. Pythons need a big swamp south of the hard freeze line.
South Florida had the right combination of environment and pet owner and/or breeder stupidity.
Florida has had a problem with exotic reptiles for a long time. Many have tried to blame Hurricane Andrew for letting a bunch of pets escape, but there were many reports of pythons around the airport well before the hurricane. In one newspaper story a dozer operator was trying to know down a tree and 6 foot python fell on to it. The most likely theory was that people were smuggling snake in for the pet trade. If they were warned that the inspectors were checking cargo, the snakes were let go while the plane was taxiing in.
[snip] When has a boycott ever been successful?
When has a boycottee ever submitted to a boycottor? [snip]
Adam Clayton Powell vs. the Busch family, owners of various brands of bad beer and the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team?
They found a nail in the right rear tire, probably occurring during the two weeks Princess had it up in Moh-ree-all and Ontario.
I am guessing that there are zero nails in Vermont ?
I only had it for a couple of days after she got done gallivanting for two weeks with it up there and down here. So, sure, I could have run over a nail down here in the grand total of an hour’s driving I’ve done with it since she got back with it.
They never check the tires or oil and I often get the cars back here running on fumes.
Miles_Teg! Good news!
I was busting on someone at work about typos and poor phrasing, and I asked “Who wants to watch Australians doinking sheep?” One person on the team volunteered as she’d be interested. So: all you have to do is make a video of your next Pastoral Fun night and you’ve got one customer already.
“Also picked up a new pair of Red Wing waterproof boots, wool long underwear, heavy socks, and a new wool knit hat and warmer gloves.”
Roger that, I have the insulated, Irish Setter, Red Wings. I keep them well oiled with all the rain coming now.
“I keep them well oiled with all the rain coming now.”
Thanks for the reminder; you like any special brand of oil?
We got rain and snow galore on the way up here. Temp at 32 now with strong gale-level wind gusts. It is howling out there tonight!
Also 32F here currently, but no gale. Just a stiff breeze.
“Thanks for the reminder; you like any special brand of oil?”
Yuuup, I have used both the Red Wing oil and the Schnee’s oil, which looks like out of stock now:
http://www.schnees.com/product/590/waterproofing-and-boot-care
Just oiled both my Red Wings and Hathorn Ranch Packers two weeks ago:
https://drewsboots.com/product/hathorn-ranch-packer-style-208mv?gclid=Cj0KEQiAqdLDBRDD-b2sv6-i6MsBEiQAkT3wAuZTjhVw_cW3tvjhOMk0SAAUpqGgM6-PKOYEhU9cEUQaAs2s8P8HAQ
Looks like Hungary is about to get some regime change:
“Hungary To Launch Crackdown On All George Soros-Funded Organizations”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-10/hungary-launch-crackdown-all-george-soros-funded-organizations
“Hungary will use “all the tools at its disposal” to “sweep out” NGOs funded by George Soros, which “serve global capitalists and back political correctness over national governments,” Szilard Nemeth, a vice president of the ruling Fidesz party, told reporters on Tuesday.”
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“…I have used both the Red Wing oil and the Schnee’s oil…”
Thankee kindly, podner; I’ll keep an eye out for these. This is what I got today; lookee at all them customer stars!
http://www.redwingshoes.com/red-wing-shoe/8670-red-wing-shoes/8670-red-wing-mens-5-inch-hiker-boot-gray
“Looks like Hungary is about to get some regime change…”
Outstanding! Soros is a piece of rancid commie shit from Hell and needs to go back there ASAP, by whatever means.
And he’ll get there soon enough, but not soon enough to suit many of us out here. Meanwhile what a great start to fumigating the country! Outstanding, I say!
Meanwhile over here; can somebody in a nearby AO find out where Alinsky is buried so we can piss on his grave?
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43644932
Oh yeah, forgot all about that site. Any lurkers out there near ChicagoLand? We got a job for youse…..
While we’re on the subject…kind of…sort of….
https://antifascistnews.net/2017/01/10/massive-protests-at-trumps-inauguration-aim-to-set-a-tone-of-resistance-for-the-coming-years/
Good way to find out if the NatGuard sojers be carryin’ live ammo.
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2017/01/dear-self-proclaimed-progressives-as.html
His “solution” of us all “pulling together” ain’t gonna work no mo. We’re past that now.
But he nails the buggers pretty well for their rampant hypocrisy and willful blindness.
I see Sharpless has showed up whining about tRump. Apparently, his planned MLK march has only 1,000 peeps interested. I wonder if it’s because Barack the Magic ***** is out the door. tRump should invite Sharpless to the WH and then lock him in the basement with the Book of Secrets. For all Eternity.
I get a huge kick outta all the SJWs and progs and snowflakes whining about how tRump is Hitler Redux and will soon be wiping out minorities and instituting a coast-to-coast concentration camp for them while befriending Prince Vlad and repressing the entire world.
When in reality he was always a moderate Lib Dem until fairly recently and and it will be a miracle if he can get any of the bad crap reversed and something positive accomplished down there in that foetid swampland amidst the toxic vapors. And rest assured, if anything bad happens during his janitorial administration, it will be blamed entirely on him.
Addendum: Sharpless, Jackwagon, and Fartinacan have not much longer to be mummified celebs in the MSM. Enjoy their futile antics while we still can. Once they’re gone, we’ll only have the snowflake clowns to entertain us.
From the Imbecilic Solutions Department:
https://www.oathkeepers.org/broward-county-sheriff-calls-no-guns-list-mentally-ill-ft-lauderdale-airport-murders/
He’s makin’ a list…checkin’ it twice…gonna find out who’s nuts or nice…
Yep, and one of BHO’s little executive actions after sandy hook broke down the wall that separates your medical records from the cops. A few people commented on it at the time, but it didn’t get the coverage it deserves. It was probably the single most egregious of the 20 something xo’s from that incident.
n
Went to see The Book of Mormon tonight. Very, very funny – if you like South Park, you will like it.
“Hungary To Launch Crackdown On All George Soros-Funded Organizations”
“Outstanding! Soros is a piece of rancid commie shit from Hell and needs to go back there ASAP, by whatever means.”
During our last elections from December, the most comunist-like party, and the biggest one ever, PSD, attacked the opposition by saying it was financed by Soros through many NGOs. They (commies!) denigrated Soros and opposition day and night, on TV, websites, press. Many many lies. And it was so efficient, that ignorant people was afraid to vote for a new party because they heard something about Soros being involved. They only knew that Soros was some bad guy. I’m always amazed how efficient PSD’s manipulation campaigns are. They are really masters of manipulation. Now that they are in power, it won’t surprise me a bit if they’ll copy Hungary on this. Of course, they don’t need to actually ban those NGOs, which will be pretty illegal, they only need to put up a new show like that.
In 1993, a Soros foundation donated two new PC 386 computer networks to the highschool I applied to (for that reason). In those years, in this country, that was “pure gold”. And it was connected to the Internet!
Also, Soros fundations provided burses to students to be able to study in a werstern university (a real one, not what we have here).
His open societies concepts are well opposed to totalitarian regimes (like comunism).
All these and more, make me not to share Dave Hardy’s opinion.
One of the primary objectives of communists in Western societies was to gain eventual control through the educational systems, so it would not be out of character for Arch-Commissar Soros to fund IT hw and sw for schools or to finance students studying at Western universities, which by the 1960s, were thoroughly infested with neo-Marxist ideologies anyway, especially in the humanities and social “science” departments. All this originated back in the 1930s with the so-called Frankfurt School and it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy (and girl) to paraphrase Eric Burdon and the Animals.
it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy (and girl) to paraphrase Eric Burdon and the Animals.
I see what you did there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sB3Fjw3Uvc
Thanks Eugen, interesting perspective.
When you are oppressed and isolated, I guess the Soros plan would be an improvement. When you have (maybe not as many as before but still more than most) personal and political freedom, independence and patriotism, Soros’ plan looks like hell on earth.
I’m guessing the women attacked and raped, and the little boys getting raped by the muslim ‘refugees’ Soros has been flooding Europe with think it is hell on earth too.
Soros’ plan to eliminate nation-states and thereby reduce conflict between major powers sacrifices the sovereignty of the common people there, and exports the conflict to the third world.
Child molesters and pimps “groom” their victims. They often offer special treats, friendship, attention, and the child responds. Soros and his fellow travelers are “grooming” Europe, and eastern Europe. Now are the treats and the attention. Later will come the exploitation.
nick
It’s a 21st-C replay of the Devil offering the apple to Eve in the Garden.
Soros will be introduced to him in short order.
The easier way to enslave people is to keep them uneducated and in the dark. Our crooks use that a lot, successfully. That Soros guy must be a masochist, since he’s doing exactly the opposite in achieving its apparent dreams of “exploatation”.