Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Also...

It could just a few mutations away from turning us all into light sensitive psychotic albinos that want to get to Charlton Heston


Tuesday, July 27, 2021

I'm the dude

So your argument is you are stupid

Not leftist?

Black Rifle Coffee Company talked to the New York Times and have been doing damage control ever since.


Buncha years back a buddy of mine that was a 3D printer enthusiast, and gun enthusiast, printed up one of them Liberator .22s for fun and the Washington Post heard about him and wanted to interview him and take his picture and video of him shooting it.  

I told him that was a bad idea.  I told him over and over.  They will make him look like a crazed chump. I told him to record the whole interview himself.  He did do this last bit.  The article wasn't too bad.  Much better than BRCC's interview.  But the risk was too great.  I knew that and told him.  He sorta knew that and did it anyway.  He's a bright guy and all, but has his blind spots.  It was dumb to do.  It coulda hurt the 2A movement.  It coulda got him fired "Do you know you have a domestic terrist working there? [link to WaPo article]" Just a bad idea, IMHO.

I guess BRCC thought "what's the worst that can happen?"  Well, you may well go out of business now, is what.  LOTS of places sell coffee beans and the NYTimes doesn't use those other, better, beaneries to piss off and on conservatives.

"Black Rifle Coffee Company.  We SWEAR we aren't actually #NeverTrump commies, we are just dumb as stumps.  I have no idea why the DoD let someone as moronical as me fly their aircraft.  Please keep buying out stuff!  If I lose this job I am probably not bright enough to get another one and my family will starve."

Good luck, BRCC


Monday, July 26, 2021

You know what this means?

It means the investigation was starting to look like someone on Biden's side of the aisle was looking culpable.  And that is inconvenient to the narrative.  No big deal tho.  It was oldsters.  Not like they are real people.  Some of them were probably combat veterans of WWII.  Survive all that only to be killed by Governor Party-Tetes.  

Biden DOJ drops civil rights probe of Gov. Cuomo over nursing homes and COVID-19





Sunday, July 25, 2021

81

You know, without any publicity for the event, Obama could fill a bigger room at a moments notice, today, years out of power and off TV.  Even during a Covid lockdown.  With paying donors.


Saturday, July 24, 2021

Bama

No why is Alabama at the bottom of the WuFlu vax compliance from a shot promoted by the CDC?  The usual suspect blame all them MAGA hate wearing folks that live in Alabama.  Going against Operartion Warp Speed because a Biden is now at the helm.   Can't just be them.  

Hmmm.

What could it be...?

Hey isn't there a town called Tuskegee in Alabama.  There was an institute there that gave black men free medical attention for YEARS starting in the 30s.  All the participants were told they had 'bad blood'.  Thing is the cure for that so called bad blood was widely available after '47.  When word got out they were studying these subjects to essentially watch the syphilis kill them, well, you can understand the community's hesitancy to trust 'free' medical care especially with the CDC involved.  Their credibility is still not up there even today.  Perhaps justifiably so.  

Hell, they only stopped this monstrous experiment in 72!  Even I remember shit in 1972.  I remember moving from Wheaton to Shady Grove the day after my birthday.  I got to sit in the front seat of the station wagon because the back was full of stuff.  My mom and Mrs. Dant were with me.  We stopped at a grocery store on the way.  It has snowed so I was wearing my red rubber snow boots.  Mom prolly got them on my feet by putting plastic bread bags over my shoes.   

So, living memory.  CDC, not always a force for good.  

This is astounding

Remember when there was variety shows?  Donny and Marie, Hee Haw, Sonny and Cher, Captain and Tennille, the Brady Bunch Hour, the Muppet Show?  Some acts were ok, some were pretty good.

But nothing like the incandescent talent displayed here for the Lady on the Two Cent Stamp pre WWII.  They pack a lot into this:


Not just the singers, remember the big band behind them of Johnny Mercer's.  And these are B celebrities.  Well, not quite A.  Not headliners.  

And I don't think I saw a USO clip that didn't have Jerry Colonna in it.

Friday, July 23, 2021

Refreshing

Not everyone in Gentrified-DC-Stay-On-THAT-Side-Of-The-River is defund ACAB insane.  He's prolly not good of folks defending them ownselves, but at least he isn't saying the solution to all of DC's problem is somehow... gun control?



The dividing line in DC used to be Rock Creek Park.  The 'dirty poors' used to be East of the Park, and if they knew what was good for them they'd stay there.  Well, the liberals in DC have chased out poor whites and there are only poor blacks living in DC.  And the Progs want them to stay on their side of the Anacostia.  So there is a racial element when Lefties get up in arms about crime in 'their' section.  The police chief is telling them that Lefty policies aren't going to solve it for them.


Oh, and West of the Park used to be a black neighborhood back before it built up.  Black farms inside the city limits.  Cheap housing lacking plumbing and sewage like downtown had.  More than a century ago.  They were chased out starting before WWI.  

See?

First the mayor of New York. 

Now Ol' Puddinhead.

The gun banners feel comfortable talking about banning hundguns again.  It's 1974 again, when Dr. Mark Borinsky founded the National Council to Control Handguns.  

Of course the proportions of revolvers back then was higher.  They are specifically concerned with 'just' semi-auto pistols these days.  They say.  You know, the most in-common-use flavor out there.  So lots of voters own one.  Lots of those voters don't want the gov't to take it.  Lots of those voters are Democrats.

How do they square the circle, here?  If you can't do it during the Ford/Carter years when there wasn't decades of "Hell no, they aren't gonna take THIS right away" purchases made...

  

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Fireworks

Neighbors are still lighting off fireworks.  They are half polite in that they always stop by 10 PM except for one time.  I appreciate that.  

Could be worse.  There are folks with them 37mm (the .mil uses .40, so they don't interchange) 'grenade' launchers.  They are sold as flare launcher.  Well, they are rolling their own fireworks and popping them off out of these.  

I am sure their existence gives the ATF the vapors.  

And if they roll their fireworks a little too hot, well that actually is a grenade launcher and big felony trouble is coming down.

But, worse, I am wondering what a big Kaboom looks like when you mess up your charge.  Can't be pretty.



Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Was tempted to buy some ammo...

But why?

Sure, my brand is available again, And the prices are more reasonable.  Not ideal, but no longer prohibitive.  

But my burn rate is still WAY down.  Anemia makes for a crappy range day, so they are few.  I can wait still longer.

Next follow-up is 3 AUG.  Two weeks.  This guy's front office is not impressing me.  

A good front desk is a sign of a good doc.  Generally speaking.  I'm not saying quit a doc because of a crappy receptionist.  But definitely take that into account.  Conversely, let an outstanding front desk help improve your confidence in the whole operation.    

Upside?  Ima need to cut another hole is this belt.  Been losing a goodly amount of weight.

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

It used to be middle aged suburban dad-bods

It used to be middle ages suburban dad-bod types that carried concealed in a fanny pack.  Goofy and uncool.  Might as well wear sandals and black socks.  Or inline skates.  

Well, it's come full circle and criminals are using the fanny packs now.  Is gangster rap culture cool, or has it become as uncool as fat old guys?

Just awful.  Awful for fashion reasons, and awful, in this case, for heinous daylight street execution.  

Monday, July 19, 2021

Made a mistake

I image-searched my cancer.  Ugh.  Lots of disfiguring red facial blotches, and swelling.  From the over thickening blood you see.  Because I am making too much of a macro protein, savvy?

Do not recommend.

There is no cure for Waldenstroms.  And I only know I have it because I already have symptoms.  So...  maybe we can alleviate them symptoms every now and then, but they will always come back.  Hooray.  And get worse.  Hooray.  Over a long long time, as it is a slooooooooow burn.   Then it will kill me.  But hey, if a man lives long enough his prostate will kill him.  I won't live that long to have to worry about that.  And, I can still buy green bananas now, sure.  So I got that going for me.

That all made me think of this safety sign for high voltage.  This one usually refers to how much it will hurt as you die after getting ZAPPED.  Mine will just hurt for years and years and years...  Good thing my Morale and Laundry Officer is working overtime! 







"IMBRUVICA can be used in combination with Rituximab!"  Yeah, yeah.  I know.   Soon.  Soon.

Sunday, July 18, 2021

I'd be tempted to take the staycation, too

 I never got the months off from work everyone else did during lockdown.  


 

Maybe Boris just wants a week off.

Eat Healthy 2

Buried Lede

Sure it's embarrassing to think you are being stalked by a drone, but to be mistaken about that.

But getting stalked by the largest known planet in the solar system is WAY worse.  That thing is big enough to influence the tides if it got that close.  We did have a HUGE thunderstorm here yesterday evening.  I wonder if Jupiter in Scotland caused that?

Disco


Was Disco more influential than Punk?  

I think they were about the same, looking back from this peak.




When KISS Dynasty came out in 79 they talk in the press (16 magazine) that one of the tracks had Disco appeal.  Disco was already dead.  Most thought KISS was at this time, too.  That was the opinion of the other 10, 11, and 12 year olds in my neighborhood, at least.  

I still have a full set of KISS cards somewhere...



Saturday, July 17, 2021

Eat Healthy!

I've been a picky eater all my life.  Been exhorted that I need to eat healthier or it will take ten years off my lifespan.

"So instead of living to 95, I'll make it to 85?  AWESOME!"

With the cansker there is a lot less motivation to forcing down celery and iceberg lettuce now.  In fact I worry a lot less about what I eat.  And have a lot less other material worries, too. 

But if I could wave a magic wand and make five foods I don't like taste delicious to me?  They’d be:

  1. Onions
  2. Tomato slices
  3. Lettuce
  4. Pickles
  5. Peppers
Yup.  Sammich fixins, among others.  But also a good base.  It would convey to other foods.  Also, add Apples.

But now, it is bacon and pancakes and real maple syrup and pulp free calcium enriched OJ.


Friday, July 16, 2021

Odds and Sods

Bought some Navy Gin at the likker sto.  Forgot to get Absinthe.  Will go back.

Currently reading this.  It's good.  Like candy.  Moscow for a Count in the 20s and 30s.  I may have mentioned it?  I don't want to read it fast because I am trying to savor it.  A Gentleman in Moscow.

Doing Genealogy.  There was family lore that some direct relative was on the Mayflower.  None of the names in the 1600s on MY list match the passenger list.  Quite a few "Born in 15-sumthing in town in England, died in mid 16-sumthing in town in Massachusetts."  So, 4th boat over?  6th?  Dragged their feet enough to keep me out of the nicer Back-Bay social clubs.

Also, family lore said direct relatives were Civil War vets.  Nope  Maybe one.  Correct age range and his tombstone says, "Lieutenant T-Bolt" on it.  Another relative was a confirmed private in the Continental Army late 1770 to earl 1780s.  Couldn't get a promotion, huh?  Didn't want the responsibilities of Corporal?  Anyway.  Nice.  

Other relatives are the correct age to serve in the Civil War, and lived in Upstate New York.  Dairy and cheese men.  Dunno how they got out of it.  Not wealthy, so hard to pay for a substitute.  A story that wasn't passed down.  Draft dodgers.

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Commies ain't cool

Remember when we thought they were on the ash heap of history.  I guess they still had to ramp up some more megadeaths or something. Put on a comeback. Maybe Cuba will at least come over to the good side, soon.