Cold. Not as damp as normal. 39F when I went to bed. That’s pretty chilly by our standards. I expect it to be clear and cold all day.
As it was yesterday, when I looked out the windows. That was about the extent of my activity. Once D1 got home, we all pretty much sat in the living room and watched ‘Alone’. Second season, just as compelling as the first. About half the participants were involved in survival training, bushcraft, or primitive living skills, and they all went home early, with one exception. Classroom skills, and hobby activities do not translate into survival in the bush, alone, for weeks or months. Mental toughness, flexibility, stubbornness, and spiritual and mental depth seem to be far more important than specific skills.
There are lessons there for anyone, but especially for anyone who thinks that if SHTF they’ll live off the land, or bug out to a national forest and bushcraft a new life. Nope, chances are really good that those people will be cannibal, criminal, or dead within two weeks.
Other than the time sink, I recommend streaming the Alone series. You will learn something.
Today it’s back to reality, back to life. Lots to do, especially after spending a couple days on vacation.
So I better get busy this morning.
Keep stacking, and keep the faith. Food makes all the difference in the world.
n
re the Baldwin shooting, I have several conflicting thoughts.
I know some people that do this, sort of. They shoot wax bullets in .45 Colt and they have NO live ammo in that caliber.
The question of why there was any live ammo on the set needs to be answered. The reports the people were target shooting on set is more than a little disturbing and everyone involved in that is at least somewhat responsible, IMO.
My conflicting thought is: why was there live ammunition anywhere near the set and why were they “plinking” with said ammo. The DA said “actors are not above the law” and “case meets involuntary manslaughter.” There has to be something in that OSHA report that is damning.
The oldest hag on “The Spew” tried to imply the DA is a big tRump Republican. A lie the hag was called on and had to back off. Hollyweird is sweating “bullets.” Even the useless hags are trying to protect the pedo-stitution.
ADDED: What Mr. Clayton said above.
35F and 99%RH this fine day. Clear and sunny so far.
The question of why there was any live ammo on the set needs to be answered.
– yes absolutely. From reading the released interviews, etc. my guess is that it came in with the leather, ie gunbelts. They were rented. You put cartridges in the loops on the belts. There are statements that they loaded and unloaded the belts. If someone used the leather somewhere else, with live ammo, left it in the loops, it could have been unloaded into the pool of prop ammo and then mixed up. That is negligent on the prop master’s part, the armorer’s part, and the prop house they rented the guns and leather from.
-there is a text exchange between the rental company and the armorer that suggests she might have fired live rounds thru the prop gun at some point. If she just wanted to, but never did, the exchange still suggests recklessness.
– there is testimony about hurriedly procuring more ammo or leather, or both, I don’t recall exactly, but that would be a route for mistakes to get to set.
– investigators found live ammo at the prop gun rental place too, although the powder didn’t match. Again, a serious breach of industry standards.
– Prop Tart’s dad provided some ammo to another production, which was later obtained by the prop house, and might have been mixed in with the prop ammo later. That’s a route for mistakes, and there are texts or emails from dad that suggest he thought that was the path.
– there was a reference to a ‘mystery box’ of ammo that just ‘appeared’ on set.
– no one could confirm any live fire. Several people said there was blank fire during training, which could have been confused by the ‘witnesses’.
– wrt safety on set, the AD, who has plea out, has a reputation for playing fast and loose with safety. There were two accidental discharges, one at least was an actor or stunt person messing around (from the description of the accident and proof positive that actors shouldn’t ever be left alone with even a prop gun.)
– covid mask nonsense might be a contributing factor, if prop tart was not allowed to do her job, by being present in the building during rehearsal. That MIGHT absolve her of responsibility. If management kept her from doing her workplace duties, the consequences are on them. There is testimony that she wasn’t allowed on set. Can’t do your job if you don’t have access to the workplace.
– wrt Bracca’s comments about Baldwin having to establish that he had no management or executive authority or responsibility, Baldwin has already submitted testimony that that was the case. It’s common in the industry and continually doubting that just shows how little understanding of the industry some people have… If YOU had millions of dollars committed to a project would YOU give Baldwin any authority? Nope. And neither did the money men according to Baldwin himself.
– and yes, industry practice DOES matter. This was a workplace accident. This wasn’t a guy in a living room screwing around. There are established safety policies and rules that have been in place for decades, and have worked for decades. It’s a workplace, you don’t get to make up your job responsibilities as you go, you don’t get to overstep your authority. It’s clear that the rules weren’t followed, with tragic results. Rules that are much more restrictive than the “three rules” or the “four rules” btw.
n
Weird, just reloaded this page and got a server not found error. Loaded the second time.
n
I’ve been getting errors on loading the “day” pages, once in a while for the past few days. I’ve taken to Ctrl-C saving my comments before posting, which saved at least one lengthy comment.
Study Claims That People Need to Battle Climate Change By… Drinking Less Coffee
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/01/study-claims-people-need-to-battle-climate-change-by-drinking-less-coffee/
LOLGF
Brought to you by the National Tea Council.
Is there such a thing?
A lot of whiny hippie types are into “pro” tea drinking around here, as in the Hunter Thompson sense of the word — When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro … and in the case of the hippies, blend and exchange their own teas.
Being as it’s National Pie Day (not pi) maybe I need to go somewhere and wash some down with a couple of cups of Joe. Much as I like fruit pies a cream pie would be better with the dairy and eggs to piss off the greenies.
Keep the California drought going….
https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2023/01/photo-of-drive-thru-at-carls-jr-in.html
Re the “California Drought” …. here’s some insight from Cliff Mass (weather prof at U of WA). His analysis are science and fact-based. I read his blog daily to get insights about weather up here in the Pacific NorthWest.
His conclusion: “I believe the evidence for the end of California drought is quite overwhelming. ”. See here. He provides facts, not conjecture.
Any post that starts with “Study Claims” is bogus. Most such “studies” are a meta-analysis that compares (badly) a number of vaguely-related papers, in which the “authors” search for any correlations they can find, and hype those, no matter how irrelevant.
California is still in drought, and will continue to be so, because they haven’t built any new water storage systems in 50 years, and all the rain that’s falling now is running STRAIGHT to the ocean. They’ve managed to slow down a tiny fraction of it.
https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/products/rescond.pdf
“For example, consider the huge Lake Orville Reservoir in northern CA” during the past month it went from roughly 60% of normal to 106%! ”
Cliff Mass is misreading the chart. Oroville isn’t at 106% of CAPACITY; it’s at (today) 109% of AVERAGE. Oroville is at 61% of CAPACITY, which isn’t great.
Good guy with a gun
https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2023/01/23/police-say-florida-carjacker-was-shot-and-killed-by-victims-boyfriend-n66511
BREAKING: Former FBI counterintel official arrested for violating sanctions on Russian oligarch; UPDATE: Money laundering, and more
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/01/23/breaking-fbi-counterintel-official-arrested-for-violating-sanctions-on-russian-oligarch-n525756
It’s already ugly.
Obola is on SM sqawking about preserving “reproductive rights (ie abortion)” for generations to come. He is for abortion up until the head is sticking out. No wonder the Black community is devastated with leaders like Obola.
>> There are a great many things in routine use in industry and commerce that are “an inherently dangerous instrument” and would require the policies and rules that Bracca glibly mentions. Bleach. Most industrial and commercial cleaners. EVERY SINGLE POWER TOOL, ever. EVERY SINGLE EDGED OR POINTED THING, ever. The slip and fall lawyers would paralyze the state in a heartbeat.
Much more afraid of my table saw than any gun I’ve handled. Asked my (late) grandfather why he was missing the tip of his pinkie. He said his workshop was a dangerous place, not so much his gun cabinet. Learned to shoot (.22 rifle) from him.
Talking points for the week. Kamala delivered a speech in Tallahassee yesterday to mark the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
DeSantis has a bullseye on him. 2024 is on.
Meanwhile, at Arrowhead Statdium, before the game …
https://twitter.com/RonDeSantis2024/status/1616922367992778753?s=20&t=bE8amlkPJ6ahbJSBWFhrOQ
Andrea Widburg, January 23, 2023
Did Hunter use classified documents as part of his Ukraine business dealings?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/did_hunter_use_classified_documents_as_part_of_his_ukraine_business_dealings.html
Gee, plagiarism must run in the family.
Just a SWAG, here, but one has to wonder if the National Archives might have things sufficiently indexed to check, say, the three months prior to April 13, 2014 for any briefings on Ukraine?
And since someone other than FJB and FHB is the author of the source document, McCarthy needs to get it out there, hard, and ask the author and everyone on the copy list to come forward immediately, with the explicit threat that silence will be rewarded later by termination and loss of pension. Not difficult at all to look at the 2014 roster and make a short list of people certain to have read that briefing.
In case anyone here has forgotten, all that KJP (or a wind-up stand-in) has to say is that “the President takes this very seriously.”
How does ‘Garage-Gate’ sound?
“Earth’s Core Has Stopped and May Be Reversing Direction, Study Says”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyje7/earths-core-has-stopped-and-may-be-reversing-direction-study-says
Oh no, didn’t they make a movie about this ?
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
Yes, the earth core pump motor runs on DC and an Devil’s angel reversed the plug of the pump.
I can’t wait for all of the death and other inconvenience when the magnetic field shuts off for a while before it reverses. Plus, think of the poor little birdies, not knowing what way to migrate.
I bought a 5 oz bottle of Frank’s Hot Sauce today. $1.66 at Walmart. Commercials do work sometimes.
I doubt I’ll buy more. Why? Because it tastes exactly like what HEB sells as Hill Country Fare Louisiana Hot Sauce. Which, by memory, is about 89¢ for a 12 oz bottle.
Both have almost the same ingredients. The HEB stuff has Xanthan Gum as the last ingredient. Frank’s has water added and the last ingredient is garlic powder. I don’t taste the garlic in Frank’s.
They taste the same. Frank’s color is a shade redder than the HEB stuff. That could simply be caused by the shape of the bottles and thickness of glass.
So, now I know.
As an aside, why does Walmart have a section for hot sauce, like Frank’s and other brands while all the Mexican hot sauces are over in the Mexican food section? Mix that stuff together! Just have a Hot Sauce section.
Valentina is pretty good..
Just did a small grocery trip. Talked to a woman who was looking at the hamburger helper. Staring at it. Pondering it. She offered that it looked like it would be a good time to own stock in Hamburger Helper, with prices the way they are. I agreed. She asked me if I had tried the store brand. It is ⅓ the price of name brand…
Told her I had, the kids liked the stroganoff.. she pondered a while, looked a the velveeta brand, then bought the house brand.
Times are getting tough out there if people are buying boxed dinners for the first time, and have to buy the house brand.
n
Over The Hedge: Feral Pigs
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2023/01/23
Where are the other 28 pigs ? I always see them in packs of 30 or more, 8 to 12 adults plus 20 piglets in various sizes.
Crankshaft: Home Flamethrower
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2023/01/23
News at 10m, the leading story is about a senior citizen bus driver who burned his home to the ground.
“Freeport LNG seeks approval to restart certain operations”
https://www.ogj.com/pipelines-transportation/lng/article/14288634/freeport-lng-seeks-approval-to-restart-certain-operations
“Freeport LNG Development LP is seeking approval to restart portions of the 15-million tonne/year liquefaction plant on Quintana Island, Tex.”
This $20+ billion LNG liquefaction plant had a BLEVE last summer in a badly designed pipe without a relief valve. I am surprised that they can restart and will be allowed to restart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_liquid_expanding_vapor_explosion
Obola is on SM sqawking about preserving “reproductive rights (ie abortion)” for generations to come. He is for abortion up until the head is sticking out. No wonder the Black community is devastated with leaders like Obola.
Star Parker claims that 39% of the abortions in the USA in 2020 were performed on black women. Given that blacks are 14% of the population in the USA, that not good.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/18/the-struggle-to-protect-life-continues/
Michael Berry was on the radio tonight claiming that Slow Joe is negotiating his exit from the Presidency. Could it be that that Kamala will be prez by Friday ?
Um, the powers that be are talking about 50+ mph winds tomorrow with the new cold front. That will suck XXXX blow.
https://spacecityweather.com/after-a-calm-monday-we-expect-some-fairly-wild-weather-on-tuesday-ahead-of-the-next-front/
OTOH, the sheer number of black abortions may have an effect on crime stats 18 to 25 years down the line. Since violent crime is well over-represented by black males in their teens and twenties, and since proportionally more abortions are of blacks, this may have been responsible for the decreased crime in the years after Roe v. Wade. Source: the Freakonomics guys.
Of course, the authors weasel-worded it but this interpretation makes sense. They posited “unwanted” children, which is hard to measure, but the racial interpretation requires less nuanced interpretation.
“Doctor” Jill Biden is not going to give up the White House without a fight. The only way I see Biden resigning this week is if her biopsy results came back bad.
Of the six Antifa scum arrested in Georgia Saturday, only one is from in-state (Decatur). Of the five previously arrested, one was from Georgia.
Saturday’s group all had three charges in common
6. Arson 1st Degree-Felony
7. Interference w/Gov Property-Felony
8. Domestic Terrorism-Felony
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/01/antifa-members-arrested-in-atlanta-are-white-and-five-arent-even-from-georgia/
If Georgia doesn’t have chain gangs anymore, maybe they can farm this lot out to Mississippi or Alabama.
Wonder what Tim Kaine’s boy is doing nowadays?
That was Steven Levitt’s (one of the authors of Freakonomics) argument. Others have disputed the causation and I think even the correlation. I don’t have an opinion on either the statistics or the apparent facts. I’m merely cynically amused at liberals, who talk up their support for non-White, non-European races and ethnicities (so long as they’re not over-achieving, like Orientals and Indians), being almost uniformly in favor of abortion, which impacts Blacks much more than Whites, while conservatives, who are likely to support a return to traditional American culture and values and are somewhat likely to favor a restoration to the ethnic mix of a century and a half ago, almost universally oppose abortion despite it cutting down on the numbers (and possibly criminality) of Blacks and liberals.
I probably could have made that sentence longer and used more commas, but it would have taken effort and I’m lazy.
Be a good time to have a heart-to-heart with Jill and suggest that if she could give up everything she knows on Hunter and James Biden–and anyone else–it would be possible to arrange for Joe to exit into the sunset without prison time.
@SteveB
Here, you did forget one important bit:
I’m merely cynically amused at liberals, who talk up their support for non-White, non-European races and ethnicities (so long as they’re not over-achieving, like Orientals and Indians, and live far away from the progressive elite neighborhoods), …
Georgia prisons offer plenty of justice for spoiled rich white boys and girls.
Atlanta is not Seattle.
>> Brought to you by the National Tea Council.
Is there such a thing?
Somebody needs to look after us tea drinkers. (Remember to extend those pinkies.)
Lynn writes:
Margaret Sanger, Hillary’s hero, founded Planned Parenthood, with the original name being “Negro Project”. A strong supporter of the KKK, she believed that the “inferior races” needed to be reduced by “mass abortions”. So Sanger would probably think that 39% isn’t ENOUGH.
>> Why don’t studios use modified firearms which can’t take normal, live rounds? I don’t know the needs or constraints so I can’t suggest anything off-hand, but it seems there should be some way to make something which looks like a pistol but in fact is not.
There is. These or these.
With the latter as a semi-auto you can rack the slide, pull the trigger and the brass ejects. Just add the missing ‘real’ muzzle flash with a bit of CGI.
But “boys” like real toys.
Mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, 7 dead and shooter under arrest
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/01/23/mass-shooting-in-half-moon-bay-7-dead-and-shooter-under-arrest-n525928
Killed co-workers at Mountain Mushroom Farm, a marijuana growing farm.
Workplace violence AND drug violence?
Another White Asian Supremacist?
sorry about the pain to the trans-candy community…
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1617575278703960064
Unpossible. I hear from all the stoners and Libertarians (BIRM) that no one, ever, gets violent about MJ.
No one remembers.
The wind turbines destroy eagles and other birds on land, and whales at sea:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/23/evidence-says-offshore-wind-development-is-killing-lots-of-whales/
NOAA issues permits to harass the whales, with “Level A” harassment a euphemism for injuring them.
Is there any department of federal government that hasn’t become actively evil?
IIRC someone else found a better correlation for the reduction in crime with the cessation of lead additives or MTBE in motor fuel.
Man, why asians going loco all of a sudden?
Season three of Alone is in Patagonia. Off to a good start, one guy lasted only a night or two. One hurt himself with his ax because he was tired and hungry and fell. Another will be going home in the next episode, at the 2 week mark. The bushcrafters want to build things, as do the homesteaders. They should be fishing and if they want to build, building smoke houses. No one has enough calories despite being on a lake with fish that seem to be jumping onto their lines.
There are feral hogs roaming around, and they are setting snares and traps, but if they caught one, they wouldn’t be ready to preserve it. Probably not a good idea to have 150 pounds of hog sitting around the camp when there are puma in the jungle.
Winter is coming and their shelters are almost universally inadequate. But one guy cleared a path, and added a handrail. That should feed him thru the winter – not.
n
>> IIRC someone else found a better correlation for the reduction in crime with the cessation of lead additives or MTBE in motor fuel.
Cessation of lead in bullets works too 😉
Good night, 36F now here in the desert, low of 31 predicted by Alexa the weather ‘guesser.’