Monday, January 21, 2019

Volume Five: Number Three


Fifth Avenue in Winter
Childe Hassam
(1890)


Editorial





Doom and Gloom:

7 percent

$13.20 a gallon

773 Million

Apps

Automation

Communist

Drugs

FaceBook

Frailty

Fuel

HoR

Husbands

Immigrants

Illegal Immigrants

Measles

Nuggets 

Planes

Plagues

Prisons

Rappers

Surveillance Technology

Syria

Teachers

Teenagers

Wells


Things You Might Want to Think About:

Burgers and Pizza
Jesse Jackson is just jealous.

Credit Cards
It is insane to think people are after you, ... Unless they are.

Constitution
Last time I checked, it was "with the advice and consent of the Senate," so the writer might be correct.

However, ...

The article is just another reason to bash Trump.

Delusional
Steven Rinella can say all he wants about how he is going to resist efforts to change MeatEater into an antigun company, but he doesn't mean it.

You know why?

He doesn't own the company 

Democrats
It looks like another Democrat will be running for President, as a Republican.

Education
One, run from the cops.

Two, run from the cops with a dark coloured object in your hand.

Three, don't drop the object, when the cops tell you to.

Four, ...

CNN will post video of your mother, grandmother, friends and family calling for justice because your ass is dead, if you're black.

Electric Cars
With all these companies planning to get subsidies from Congress build electric vehicles, I wonder were the added electricity will come from, as we move to decarbonize the economy

Firearms
Oooh shoot, ... Someone took a gun on a plane.

And, ...

Nothing Happened

FedEx
I also think, reduced shipping is an indicator of declines in purchasing, especially by consumers.

And, ...

Since FedEx is a multinational cargo hauler, the buyout also shows the slowdown is international.

Infrastructure

We have a choice.

Raise taxes, keep taxes the same and spend it differently, or lower taxes but spend it differently.

Either way, ...

Our infrastructure, roads, bridges, government buildings, are crumbling.

Investigations 
Investigate long enough and they will find misdoings.

The only problem, ...

We could do it to any politician and find similar things.

Judges
Congress passed the law. The President is suppose to enforce the law. The Courts define the law.

The President doesn't get to say 'No' to the law. Just like everyone else.

Meteor Showers
Wow, ... What could go wrong?

Just so you know, ...

In the '80s, one of the proposed ways to prevent the soviet union from attacking Europe was to launch, basically, crowbars into space. The crowbars would then reenter the Earth's atmosphere, at hundreds of miles an hour, then hit a tank, runway, factory, or other military asset, destroying the target. 

Pizza
I like former President Bush; he can be classy.

However, ...

He, like many, fail to understand continually compromising will lead to the destruction of our country.

Power Production
We have Nuclear Power, Solar Power, Coal Power, and Gas Power.

Can you say, ...

Reductions
What do you get when a government takes peoples firearms away then reduce the number of police officers?

Shutdown
How true.

Space
I will say this again, ...

Letting China have the high ground and the lead in space exploration is a very poor idea.

Space, Again
Let me get this straight, ...

The Russians, English, Chinese, French, and several others can launch an attack against our citizens, possibly with nuclear weapons.

And, ...

Our only recourse is to launch a counter-strike, ... maybe

Still
Add one more thing to the list of 'Things that kill more people than firearms,'

Thieves
Dude, ... If you live in the big city, never leave anything in your vehicle.

Unintended Consequences
Homeowners failed to clear their property. The State of California failed to clear state and federal areas, and the power company failed to clear their lines.

And, ...

It's the power company's fault?

Walls
I hate to tell you folks, ...

Those Mexican, Central Americans, Africans, Russians, and all those other illegal immigrants coming to our country, they live in Hell, a Socialist, Totalitarian, Religious, Crime-ridden Hell made by their leaders.

A Hell that some representatives of this country wish to expand, to our country.

Zimbabwe
Let me see, ..

The people are poor and oppressed.

The government subsidizes the cost of an item.

The item cost more in a neighboring country.

Then, ...

The government wonders why there is a shortage.


Overheard:

"We will need more politicians who fight."

"... it also will determine if China will be a pillar of global growth—or a threat to the world’s financial stability."

"he's a terrorist"

"... the American people will be shocked to know that criminals still don’t like to follow gun laws."

"Yet if we follow the logic and evidence presented in these seven points, we are forced to concludethat the fractures in France, Germany and the EU are widening by the day, and that the ceaseless propagandaspewed by the ruling elites isn't mending the fractures or restoring the illusion of stability."

"The central role of China’s police force is to protect the Communist Party regime from popular uprisings, ..."

"It is a perfect example of "user pays" capitalism."

"While surveillance capitalism for marketing purposes is creepy, it becomes truly dangerous when these tools and database assets wind up in the hands of political actors with bad intentions."

"Ms. Pelosi and her Democratic Party House majority have been sent to their room now, awaiting a fateful conference with Daddy. A majority of the public actually does believe that the boundary-in-question with Mexico ought to be recognized in the way that normal nations recognize normal national boundaries: namely, that they are barriers to entry, and that rational procedures must be followed to go from one side to the other. Ms. Pelosi’s next step will probably be something like a few weeks of anorexia, or some other sort of self-destructive adolescent rebellion. Let’s hope she doesn’t try to burn the house down in her boundless rage."

"They’re targeting the best of the best. These kids are the best students. They’re the best athletes and they come from the best families."

"All we want is the truth"

"That's how Cultural Revolutions roll. The Nobility in our neofeudal system will work all the levers of power to marginalize, demonize, stereotype and disenfranchiseany threats to their power."

"... if the shit is going to hit the fan, so to speak, I think it’s going to start in a blue state."


What Others Wrote:

Ace of Spades: The Morning Report - 1/18/19

Ace of Spades - Gun Thread:

Active Response Training: Weekend Knowledge Dump - January 18, 2019

Defense One: January 18, 2019

Defense One- Radio: Episode #36

Survival Blog: The Survivalist's Odds 'n Sods #341

Survival Blog: The Survivalist's Odds 'n Sods #343

Woodpile Report: Issue 562

The Z Blog: The Winter World Tour


That's Just the Way it Was: Dead Ox Flat, Oregon (ca 1939)


Mrs. Hull and corner of her one-room basement dugout



Mrs. Hull in one-room dugout basement home (note blackboard.) "I wanted a blackboard for a long time for my Bible verses, to keep them in our mind. Got it last year." 



Mrs. Hull drying corn. She hopes to sell enough to help her son through Bible school.

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