No, I mean, really hot. Like 15,000 CPM hot, according to my geiger counter.

I went in this morning for a cardiac stress test. Never had one before. I had heard stories about how bad (how hard) it was. to take the test, but I didn’t find it that bad.

So first hard part was “no caffeine for 24 hours”!!!! Luckily, all the people I encountered this morning were either pleasant or just stayed away from me, so no deaths or anything like that.

Then I get to the testing center and I am injected with Technetium-99 and we wait while it is distributed in my bloodstream.They handled this in lead cases and lead sheilded syringes and told me it was pretty “hot”…I asked a”how hot” and they said that for up to 2 days I could set off radiation detectors if I were close enough.(actually not, as with a 6 hour half life, it is all gone in about 60 hours (10 half lifes), or 2.5 days)

I then laid down and had some sort of computer controlled 3 dimensional photography while I am laying quietly. Then I am hooked up to a 6 lead electrocardiogram device and put on a treadmill.

Now I had heard horror stories about the treadmill test: that it was horrific torture and that the testing technicians pushed people into near death in order to stress the heart. I did not find it so.

I have a resting heart rate of 67. I went up to nearly 4 times that over a 10 minute period, holding it there for the last 3. While I was out of breath, It wasn’t that bad. I work harder that that most weekends. The machine said I was doing 13 times my resting metabolic rate. My blood pressure never went above 160/110.

While I did start to sweat and breathe hard, I never was feeling like I was working THAT hard, although my pulse rate did get to over 180 + (peaking at 224) for the last three minutes or so.

Anyway, they let me go for a few hours before returning for more photographs.

I couldn’t resist the urge to go home and get out my CDV 700 (you have a Geiger counter, don’t you?) and see how “hot” I was.

I pulled it out of storage and put batteries in it, turned it on and found that I was half scale on the high range. 15,000 CPM or 25 mR/hr. (I actually fired up both of them, one calibrated recently, one not, and found that they both read nearly identically.)  Pretty hot. Hot enough to find mid scale on my CDV 715 on the lowest scale (0.1). Pretty active, really. Hot enough to trigger the (minimal) warning chirp on my NukAlert.  And I will be for awhile with a half life of 6 hours.

I can’t wait to see if I glow in the dark.

ETA: If I figured it correctly, I had about 2350 Banana Equivalent Doses. 

I don’t owe you anything. Not my time, my money, or my vote. I don’t care how bad things get, or how awful the policies of the Democrats are–and trust me, I fully understand how awful they are. I’m not required to support any of your politicians just because they have an “R” next to their name, or shut my mouth about the things I believe strongly about, just to ensure your victory on election day. In fact, I’m not even obligated to contribute to your victory.

Read it all.

Doubt the GOP leadership will listen though. They have their agenda, and it isn’t mine, and I doubt it is your either.

There are those who say that voting for the lesser of the two weasels is still the best choice. I disagree. That is what got us here in the first place.

I mean, if the US Marshalls are selling Bitcoin, then the US Government must accept that it is “Money”.

(not that Federal Reserve Notes are any more a legitimate kind of money, really….Neither Bitcoin nor FRN’s are backed by anything.)

Stupid enough to believe that somehow, someone could accidentally screw up and lose 2 years worth of emails from Lois Lerner..

Now, that is 2 years worth of backups that had to be destroyed. 2 years worth. Plus generally quarterly and yearly backups.

Seems that somehow there was a computer crash that caused all of that data loss.

Sure.

Just like the missing 18 minutes from Nixon’s era. (and that, at least, was plausible, if not likely).

This is now a conspiracy to hide or destroy evidence. THERE IS NO WAY THAT THIS WAS AN ACCIDENT. Someone(s) need to go to jail for conspiracy to destroy evidence.

A GREAT explanation why this can be no accident HERE.

Today, in Gary, IN, Most of Detroit, and downtown Atlanta…Oh, and the South Side of Chicago. .

So my brother, who if not a liberal, does hang with that type of crowd, and repeats their mantra of the day…..which is often anti gun. It isn’t unusual to hear the words “Gun Nut” in conversation at their house….

Now, last summer, his son, (my nephew, for those that are slow) who is a Boy Scout, wanted to get his Rifle Marksmanship Merit badge…..as they live in the People’s Republic of Illinois, they found this difficult.  Remembering that his uncle was an NRA instructor, they called and asked if I could find the time to teach…..(duh! Of course).

So we spent an ENTIRE Saturday at the range. Nephew, Dad and Uncle B.  We did the entire NRA first steps Rifle course (and the Pistol course just for fun).

My brother and Nephew spend 4 hours on the range killing assorted paper targets at ranges from 7 yards to 50 yards. After we got basic marksmanship down, then we spent some time killing clay pigeons and bowling pins at 50 yards, and killing assorted silhouettes at 50 yards.

They each fired, through various and sundry rifles and pistols, in excess of 1000 rounds, mostly .22LR. They had if you’ll pardon the pun, a blast.

SO My brother asks if we can do a range trip again. Of course, I reply. He asks what kind of .22 to buy…..”any you can find” I suggest.

He can’t find any in any sort of bulk ammo locally (He does, finally, have his FOID card, so calls and says that we will have to postpone the range day…..

“Not an issue, little bro….I got plenty!”

“Really?” he says

“Yep, I got in excess of 5000 rounds on the shelf. More in storage.  No big deal”

“cool!” he says.

“Remember, I have been a “gun nut” for a long time….this isn’t my first Rodeo when it comes to ammo. I “Buy it cheap and stack it deep” so that when I want some, it is there.” You mentioned a year or so ago about the guy in your subdivision that made the papers when the cops searched his house and he had several thousand rounds of ammo? Made the local paper and all that “

“Yes”

“He’s a piker……Your local cops would SHIT A BRICK if they came to my house….” (and I feel that I am understocked, but am willing to part with ammo for a good cause)

“Remember, you two shot nearly 2K rounds last year….I shoot, so I stock accordingly….like most “Gun Nuts”.

So yeah, I have enough ammo for them to come next weekend.  He and Nephew are happy…..and he’s slowly coming to the good side…. And finding that all that his friends tell him isn’t always true….

Seems that the IRS (Ahem) Lost (wink) 2 years worth of Lois Lerner’s Emails.

Sometimes stuff happens, you know.

Coincidences are like that. 

No, my dear, you were lied to. Admit it.

Those employees weren’t fired, they were reassigned.

Still able to mismanage the health and care of other veterans.

No punishment or accountability.

Why is that?

“None of the above” wins inNevada Democratic primary. 

Now, this was a primary where the chances of the winner actually winning the election for governor were, at best, slim. I got that. The candidates weren’t the cream of the crop…I get that too.

But still. What a slap in the face when you lose to “none of the above”.

I do think that the choice should be in every contest, from president to dogcatcher and everything in between. And if “none of the above” wins, then the candidates on that ballot should be ineligible until the next election cycle and there should be a special election to fill the slot.

It’d make for a better class of lowlife politicians.