- You got no stinkin’ privacy because the courts do not understand the Internet. Well yeah, and because the courts routinely serve the interests of big government.
- Ha ha ha. Clinton fans created fake news that the MSM uncritically spread. You go, Glenn Greenwald.
- Eastern Washington wants a divorce from urban Pugieland.
- Ugh. You think it’s cold now? Wait’ll next week. (The article doesn’t say it, but for a change the PNW seems to be included in this swoop of the infamous Polar Vortex.)
- Portland, Oregon, imposes a new tax on companies that pay their CEO’s “too much.” Yeah, that’ll go well.
- Our robot overlords have have written us a Christmas carol. I couldn’t hear it well on my computer, but well enough to believe they’ll be better at overlording than songwriting (but of course we will dare not say that in their presence).
- For you servants of felinity: Praise Cathulhu.
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Today at Amazon it’s “Six Gears-a-Turning” and they actually managed to stick (somewhat) to that theme with: 30% off on a super-delux Dremel kit, a big deal on a film-to-digital converter, deals of the day on 3M industrial products, and similar goodies.
I have to chuckle a bit reading the screams of doom in the “polar vortex” story. Are they serious? “Record” breaking temps? The first winter I was here in Wyoming, one night just before Christmas got down to -27 degrees. After that, several days never got above -10. It was COLD, folks. Wasn’t worrying about “records,” just had to take the broom handle to knock on the outside door so I could let the dog out for a few moments. The doors were frozen shut.
That said, I’m eternally grateful that I don’t have to go out in that cold. Each year when it gets nasty I think of all the people who must go out, and especially all those who have to work right out in the weather. The linemen, snow plow and truck drivers, cowboys looking for stock or caring for early calves, even little kids standing at the bus stops!
A good part of my preparations involve doing what I can so I don’t have to go out in the cold like that…. aside from a FAST trip to the firewood pile if I guess wrong or the temp stays low for a long time. Hauled my camp propane stove, lantern and other stuff upstairs the other day, just in case there is a power outage. Has happened… will likely happen.
I remember catching the school bus in Iron River, MI back in the fifties when it was 40 below zero and going to school. Back then our parents knew how to dress their kids for very cold weather. Not so much today. Now I hear they close the schools there if it gets to 20 below.
OK, now I have that song stuck in my head! Thanks.
Splitting up the left coast is feasible and will be better for all involved. The californians have their calexit rhetoric, the state of Jefferson has it’s movement, and there is the proposed split of Washington state. It can and should be done, but done by county or even at the precinct level. No state is all red or all blue. Most consist of tiny pockets of densely populated liberals surrounded by sparsely peopled conservative areas. When blue states like California, Oregon, and Washington are looked at by precinct they follow the same pattern. Precinct is the best way to look at something like this. Precincts are based on geographic proximity and are not likely to be gerrymandered, as no office of state or national significance is chosen by precinct.
I propose they all re-divide based on county or by precinct. This way the conservatives can get back to work without the liberal sissies trying to babysit them, and the liberal idealists can build their grand utopia without the luddites impeding progress.
Christmas Eve, 1954. Guard duty, Inchon, South Korea. Seventeen below Zero. 20 mph wind. Knee-deep snow. Two-hour shift, outdoors. And I had the Midnight to 2AM shift.
Anybody wanna tell me about cold and miserable? 😀
If I want hard water, well, there’s this big white box in the kitchen which provides all I’ll ever need.
Portland may gain $3.5 million in new taxes, but the people there will spend more than that in higher prices.
I may sound a little sick, but I’m am SO lookng forward to the Polar Vortex. Here in the Midwest, cold in the winter is a fact of life, so we get ready for it by buying appropriate clothes. That’s an absolute necessity, especially for those who make their living in the outdoors year round.
My particular joy in sub-zero temps comes from being in the business of selling the aforementioned clothing. You can imagine my depression when October and November were so warm that I was walking around in a t-shirt much of the time. I sell t-shirts, too, but there is a huge difference between somebody buying two or three t’s and somebody buying a $120 insulated bib overall and $100 jacket. A warm fall means economic doom and gloom.
An associate of mine told someone last week that I was doing a ‘snow dance’ to bring some badly needed snow to help my business. I informed them that not only was I doing a snow dance, but I was adding a little below zero shimmy.
So bring it on! Up here, winter isn’t a natural disaster. We just bundle up and get on with life. I just happen to profit from it.
” I sell t-shirts, too, but there is a huge difference between somebody buying two or three t’s and somebody buying a $120 insulated bib overall and $100 jacket.”
I’m suddenly curious if we work at the same place?
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