SO the soldier, Bergdahl, wasn’t “captured” but rather walked off, according to REPORTS.

Puts a different spin on things, doesn’t it?

So more open carry activists (or maybe the same set of Retards) got asked to leave yet another restaurant or two.

In doing so, because of their stupid “activism” they are forcing two more restaurant chains to take a stand, where before they had not. Prior to this, both Chili’s and Sonic had chosen to ignore the shrill cries of “Moms Demand Action”, but, when forced to, they chose to make a statement that ultimately gave the anti-gunners a win, if only because they got a statement saying “Please don’t bring your guns here so we have to take notice of them”.

Please, just stop. Your activism is hurting rather than helping and I think most of the rest of us would rather you stay home in Mommy’s basement

If you are a member of that group, please stop. If you know someone who is (you don’t have to admit it) ask them to stop. While I would not go so far as to suggest that if you know someone who is going to go out next week and do some more activism you should catch them when they are leaving and whack them smartly in the left knee with a ball pein hammer, I would ask you to do whatever you can to discourage them from screwing things up for the rest of us.

Activism like this works better for the other side than for our side. 

Burning methane creates……CO2!

SO in an attempt to find something to “Offset” the carbon released in California’s industry, there is a buch opf folks who buy and sell “carbon offsets”….HERE is an example of one such scheme.

At first glance it sounds good….: Generate electricity from what is, essentially a waste product from a Dairy… Free electricity! electricity that doesn’t come from coal! And it is as true as saying that an electric car is a zero emissions form of transportation…..(hint, it isn’t)

Now, the issues here are severalfold:

On the one hand, they are reducing the methane evaporated into the atmosphere, which is a good thing (if you believe in global warming), as methane is about 8  times the greenhouse gas that CO2 is.

On the other hand, that engine that is driving the generator is putting CO2 out into the atmosphere at about 3 times the rate per megawatt that a coal plant would…in other words, a coal plant puts out about 1/3 the CO2 per megawatt that this engine does.

Is this a carbon offset? Not by any way you can easily measure. The generator is producing CO2 at a higher rate than a coal plant per watt of electricity. It isn’t reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, in fact, it is likely adding to it. It MAY be reducing the greenhouse gas effect, by subsituting water vapor and CO2 for methane (but that is likely a wash).

This is a scam. Period. No significant reduction in any greenhouse effect (if any) and yet, someone is making money selling this as a “carbon offset”.

But hey, it makes someone feel good and the farmer gets to be happpy and make a bit of cash.

So the grill runs out of propane.

No big deal, I have spares.

In fact, I have 3 spares.

all 20 lb tanks of propane. Ready and waiting.

Or do I….?

I get the first tank, and hook it up. Still has the blue cap covering the threads.

Has pressure, but what was in the tank surely wasn’t propane.

No flame, just a hiss.

Tank # 2, purchased (exchanged) at the same time, was the same. No heat, barely any flame.

Tank # 3 was not full, oddly enough. I had thought it was, but I must have been mistaken. I generally don’t put them back in the same place as the full ones.

The point is, I THOUGHT I had at least 2 full tanks of propane, when I actually had two tanks of air.

If you are planning on propane as a prep, test the contents before putting them away.

The girl at the propane place said that they had several pallets of exchange tanks that had issues late last year (which is when I purchased these tanks).

Just an FYI if you have propane as a prep.

This time it was merely an inconvenience as I just had to cook indoors. But if you are planning on that tank for heat or to fuel a generator…….

So it would seem that a US soldier is worth at least 5 Taliban commanders, (which is probably a bargain for the Taliban) or our State Departement can’t bargain worth a shit.

You decide which.

Seems that the Feds already think that reading your emails, watching your surfing habits, listening to your phone calls, checking where your phone goes (and when) reading your texts etc…isn’t enough.

Now they wanna know who you owe money to, where you are spending it, and any other credit related or financial information on you. 

And this giant database will, of course, be kept private and secure. No one will ever be able to hack it to find your SSN, address, D.O.B., Mothers Maiden Name, etc.

And just WTF do they need the info for, anyway? (yeah, bad sentence structure,  I know…so?)

This is mission creep, like the Census questionnaire, where  the only thing you are legally required to answer is number of adults and children living at the residence, but they make like you have to answer all of the questions under the pretense that it is a legal requirement, but it really isn’t…..and then they sell the aggregated data? The National Mortgage Database was never envisioned to have all this information, it was never intended to be used this way.

” “Congress did not explicitly require (or
even explicitly authorize) the FHFA to build anything resembling the
NMD,” the Chamber told Watt in its May 16 letter”

and yet, due to staffing issues, I have to do a menial job and miss it.

Hey, at least I am saving labor costs….

So I downloaded the targets for EJ’s June E-postal match.

And printed them.

And went to the range for an hour. 30 yards…

I shot a 70 with the 10-22. Not good. My form offhand sucks, and I am a bit wobbly. I tried with a loaned to me tricked out 10-22 with a VERY heavy barrel as well, but it caused me to be even wobblier, so I gave that one up as a bad idea.  I’d like to steal that trigger though….

Then I shot with the Buckmark with the red dot. Yeah, I am out of shape. I shot a 65.

the 15-20 knot crosswind didn’t help, but I can’t blame everything on that. I just plain am out of shape when it comes to shooting. I guess some dry fire practice is in order.

Could be worse, but I can (and have) done a lot better. I didn’t embarrass myself, but I used to be better when I had time for the range.

You should take the time to see how you do.

I am again reminded that marksmanship with a pistol or a rifle is indeed a perishable skill.

SO I am at the Doctors. Office today.

I like my Doc. He’s older, wise, doesn’t preach, and is genuinely concerned about my health. He gives advice, but not to the point of preaching at me when he knows I am not gonna follow it. (“Stop drinking cheap whiskey!”, etc)

So, in addition to the multitude of tests that I am about to undergo, he wants to discuss diet…

Asks me how healthy of a diet I eat..

“Well, doc, I’m not eating handfuls of lard and salt, but I could, of course, eat better”….(I actually eat a fairly decent diet, but only fairly…it could be better)

“Are you getting enough vegetables and fruits?”

Well, I could eat more fruit, but I have vegetables every day….in fact, every morning!”

“Every morning?”

“Yessir: Beans every morning”

“Beans?”

“Yep. 2, sometimes 3 cups”

“Really?”

“Yessir… Coffee”

“Coffee isn’t a vegetable.”

“By my book it is, Doc.
Coffee is a bean, beans are vegetables. Coffee is made from ground beans….ergo, coffee is a vegetable.”

He didn’t buy it. More broccoli and such for B.

He also didn’t buy the argument that vegetables are what food eats….

Yer ass. 

If that’s true, then let’s see YOU walk on it now.

I think it’d take me WEEKS to get my sphincter unclenched.

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