I’m thinking, at least in my local elections, that I my well choose to vote for those candidates who have the least vile mailings and who say the least vile things about their opponents.

Here, at least, most of them are pretty bad. I have a great deal of mailings that tell me what a sleazbag the other guy is, but very few that tell me why I should vote for that candidate that is denigrating his opponent.

Even worse, they are hiding behind all sorts of “Paid For by Friends of _____” groups, and don’t even have the courage to sign their name to the mud they are slinging.

This may well be an election wherein I have to choose the Lesser of the Two Weasels.

“We only had minutes to evacuate”. 

If you live on the slope of an active and awake volcano and didn’t plan on lava eating your home in the near future, then you haven’t been paying attention.

I knew that someone on the slopes of the Kilauea volcano was going to have their home engulfed in lava at some point soon…..and I live in NW Indiana, fer chrissakes…. earthquakes, the whole crater collapse, etc. And I don’t live anywhere near a volcano…

If you live in the area and still have all your irreplaceable possessions in your home instead of stored away safely in another location, I don’t feel any sympathy. If you live anywhere near the area and weren’t ready to evacuate on a moment’s notice, I feel no sympathy. I hope that your Children and Pets are safe.

Volcano
Lava flow. Rivers of molten rock.
One cannot fight that. Simply get out of the way.

Seems that about 400+ schools have had “walkouts” SUPPORTING the Second Amendment.

Happened yesterday. And you probably didn’t hear about it

And CNN, NBC,CBS,ABC, etc?

{Crickets}

the total number of words in (figurative) print from the Times, Post, etc?

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They aren’t censoring the news as such, just failing to bother to report it.

So a Brinks truck dropped about $600 Large in assorted small bills on I-70. 

Seems “The door fell open” or something like that.

The bundles of bills broke open and scattered over the road.

People being people, many passers-by stopped and picked up some of the cash.

Apparently, keeping it is a felony (according to the State Police)

Why so? No one stole the money, it was blowing across the road.

If I find a $50 bill blowing in the wind in a parking lot, I get to keep that. It isn’t up to me to find the bill’s owner. If I find an envelope with some cash in it, even after turning it in, if no one can prove it is theirs and claims it, it comes back to me, the finder.

Why, since the Brinks folks lost some cash, is keeping any cash I found blowing across the road a felony?

I mean, Finders Keeper sand all that. The Brinks folks did not have control of the money. The lost it.

Salvage rights?

Now, the moral thing to do is to return the money. If, of course, Brinks can prove that that was their money. If they can’t, then it should belong to the finder.

How about if I find it next week a mile away?

Or at least, part of it:

City of Philly agrees to set up $200K fund that “will assist young entrepreneurs in Philadelphia.”…And guess who gets to decide who is/are the recipients? Yep, those same dudes who chose to be arrested.

This is part of the settlement…along with a dollar to each of the men.

No word on how much they are shaking Starbucks down for.

I still think this was a setup from the get-go. 

on another blog, where there was a discussion about black people being shot at a higher rate than whites by police…Even by other black officers. (the rates of black officer shootings of black suspects are equal to white officers shooting black suspects, which pretty much rules out racism by the white cops….)

I suggested that black people behave differently than whites when confronted by police, and this leads to them having a better chance to be shot….Which led to cries of “Racist” when it was pointed out (Blacks tend to run more than whites, which leads to chases, which leads to more shootings…. Same with simply giving up rather than fighting).
Now, I know a lot of cops, and they all, black and white and hispanic,  say that this is true. One has a better chance of being shot if one runs, and black suspects tend, as a group, to run more often.

I postulated that it is genetics, which at least in part, leads to behavioral traits (Like running and fighting more often that other groups separated out by race) .Certain groups of people, when grouped by race, show similar behavioral patterns. Culture may matter as well, but genetics moreso. I pointed out that folks of Irish and Polish descent still drink a lot despite amalagamation into our greater “melting pot”…..that folks of German descent still tend to be more stubborn…that folks of latin descent tend to be quicker to anger….All of which are true, at least in part, at least in my observations.

Further, I pointed out that we expect certain behavioral traits from certain breeds of animals, (Aggressive dog breeds, ferinstance) so why should we expect humans to be any different??, even before we add in culture…

This led, of course, to anger and cries of racism….yet no one seemed to be able or willing to refute the theory….except they didn’t like the idea at all….But they are, mostly, liberals, so there is that.

What say you? Am I wrong? Are humans terribly different than animals, at the base level? Are behavioral traits entirely non genetic in their origin? Is it only culture that drives our behavior? Learned behavior rather than base level programming that makes us act certain ways under stress and shapes our behavioral traits as a group or race? Or are there other factors which I am not considering that make it appear to be genetic groupings?

method by which they will soon restrict your ability to purchase firearms:

Banks, credit-card cos. explore tracking gun purchases in possible prelude to restrictions

First firerarms.

Then ammunition

Then accessories.

As it is, you are already on a list. Now they will have a list of what you purchase.

Buy your firearms with CASH when you can…Ammunition especially.

They will soon destroy the online businesses….especially accessories. And you can expect that soon, it will become difficult or impossible to buy ammo online. Bet on it.

We are all watching the flashy gun control demonstrations while they were quietly initiating this sort of back door gun control and restrictions.

I’ve said it before: Buy the guns you like soon. Buy spare guns. And spare parts. Rifles AND pistols.

Ammo:? Buy it when it’s Cheap (now is that time) Stack it DEEP.

‘Cause they are coming for ’em.

I considered it….

No, no, no,, not kneecapping the design team (or person) that designed the carburetor/gas tank/throttle assembly abortion that was part of the power unit for the leaf vacuum….(Although just for moment, the thought of HIRING someone to do that (I know a dude..) did make me smile…) I mean, seriously, 3 different wrenches and a screwdriver just to take the assembly OFF the motor?  Plus 2 more to break the carb from the gas tank?

Nope, I’m referring to the thought that I could (and maybe should?) replace the thing…I mean, it is over 25 years old (I’ve had it for 22 and it was ancient and sorta “well used” when I acquired it at an auction…) and I have the scratch to buy a new, even more powerful one…. I mean, I thought about it really hard….

But then I came to my senses and just found some shirt cardboard and simply made the gasket that had deteriorated and replaced it instead.. I should be good for another couple of years, really.

Now, after cleaning the varnish out of the carb (hey, I was 7/8 of the way there already, so finishing the teardown wasn’t too much work, and they are fairly simple) and sealing up the air leak with the new gasket, it runs like the proverbial….ape.

I’m not sure what came over me…buying something new? Not fixing something? Jesus…
I must be getting old. …or lazy. 

All those folks in the “Migrant Caravan” that are travelling though Mexico to the US in search of “Asylum”….

Why can’t Mexico grant ’em Asylum? 

Again: Locks Only Keep the Honest People out…..

your home is not secure. It never was.

This device, however,  is quieter than a hammer or a battering ram….(If a bunch of cops in Riot Gear can be quiet, that is)…..

Kind of a nice idea, and no doubt an expensive toy for taxpayers to by for those suburban SWAT teams to have to play with on their overtime training….

At best, this makes the entry quieter for the first second or two though. Once the door begins to splinter, your stealth goes in the crapper kinda fast.
Plus this takes 2 men to operate, rather than one husky dude with a sledgehammer or a battering ram.

Like many things marketed to cops and police agencies, this is an expensive solution looking for a problem.