If ebola were to come here to the US, it could be bad…very bad. Probably won’t happen, so you can refuse to be be bothered by the thought and choose not to prepare for it. I sincerely hope you are right…..

If it does come however (and lets face it, there isn’t much except the disease itself to prevent it),  an ounce of preparation will be worth……Your best solution for survival is to not interact with others, but rather to hole up and wait until the epidemic burns itself out.

Likely, you’d have to deal with things on your own for about 90 days. Time to let the virus run through it’s victims and allow for 3-4 cycles before it burns itself out. Maybe as long as 180 days…

Can you stay in your home for 90-120+ days? (21 day + incubation 3-5 cycles). Have you 120+ days worth of food for each member of your household?? Can you supply water for your entire household if the tap dries up? If on a well, and the electricity stops, then what are ya gonna do? Got a generator? One that can run the well? Have you enough fuel stored that you can keep your drinking, washing, bathing  and sanitary needs supplied for 90+ days? If you have a whole house emergency genset, will it work? Will the gas for it be there when you need it? If on propane, do you have enough? 

How about fuel to cook that food you (hopefully) have stored? (that generator is gonna use up you cooking fuel if yer on propane, so ration accordingly).

Fuel to heat your house? (what if the electric and the gas stop because no one is making sure it is up because they are sick?) Then what?  What about wintertime? Can you keep from freezing to death if the gas or the electricity stops and no one restores it and it is -20F outside with 70 MPH winds?….(happened here last winter, BTW, for 4 days..the storm, not the power outage)

Think about it. 

I have things covered at my house, but don’t come over unless you are invited. Trust me, you’ll know if you are. If not it’d be best of you stayed away.

or then again, you may not have…

Anyway, Barry Obama has had a LOT to say about Ferguson, MO…..and yet, he couldn’t find the time to say anything about the 2 star General who was killed in Afghanistan, who was buried today in a private ceremony. (Probably why Barry wasn’t there, the ceremony was barred to reporters)

Couldn’t be bothered to say anything at all, much less attend the funeral….or send the Vice Prez…and a notable missing presence was the SecDef.

Dude couldn’t be bothered to even say anything to acknowledge the dead. 

I find that saddening and disgusting.

But there is a lot of that going on around Barry these days.

exactly what law Rick Perry has broken by threatening to veto the spending bill?

What charges he is indicted on?

And exactly what he is charged with? What specific statute he has broken?

‘Cause if vetoing billss, or even threatening to veto legislation is illegal, then Barry should be in jail.

Mebbe this is why GWB never used his power of veto.

There are, according to Wikipedia about 21,000 people in Ferguson, Mo. About 67 percent of them are black.  That means that about 14,000 of the folks in Ferguson are black.

As far as I can tell, the crowds that the media has shown the past few nights are about 300  people. These are the folks that are getting gassed and such. maybe as many as 500.

Which means that about 13,700 (more or less) of the black population of Ferguson are NOT rioting, and if protesting, are doing it during daylight hours and are doing so peacefully.

Now, if you or me had shot a person holding a power drill, black or not, we’d be charged with murder, or at least manslaughter.

No matter what we claimed we thought at the time. We’d not get to use the excuse that we saw a gun shaped object and feared for our lives or the lives of others….

We’d be charged with murdering a human being. Period. Likely convicted as well. But being a cop…..well, that blue suit gives a kind of extra immunity.

Kinda like if a cop shoots my dog, he can say that he was in fear….and it is OK. But if I shoot a police dog because it is attacking me, then I get treated like I shot a police officer.

So my mother taught me to be polite. To treat others with respect, to hold door open for ladies, etc.

And while I do have to work at it, I can, if I pay attention, resemble a gentleman.

So the other day, I am at the bank, and as I reach the door, shortly behind me come two women, Remembering the lessons momma taught me, I hold the door for the closer one, who looks at me and says”I am perfectly capable of opening a door myself”.

Mmmm, okay.

The second woman, older than her, comes up behind both of us and looks at the first one and says”You are a bitch, why can’t you be polite? “… went though the door I was still holding (I was kinda in shock to hear another woman call the first one out on her rudeness)…. Said to me “thank you” and went into the bank.

I followed her and pulled the door closed in the face of the first one.

I was gonna post this this morning, but then other facts began to come out, so I waited even longer. 

To let things settle on the Ferguson MO shooting of Michael Brown. Trying not to pass judgement until I know all of the facts. The media is portraying Mr. Brown as an innocent youth who was angelic and never mean to anyone….Few 18 year olds (of any race) fit this description. This is not to cast aspersions on him either. He may well have been a nice kid. There is evidence that he may have had a violent Juvenile record too.

(and I am glad I did, BTW)

However:

From all reports, young Mr. Brown was shot, from the rear, while running away. And he was unarmed.  Those facts appear to be undisputed. (Not so much, he was, apparently NOT shot in the back as first reported)

Now, I don’t know what transpired, what the series of actions were that ultimately resulted in the shooting. I doubt that the cop just decided to shoot Mr. Brown for no reason.

(You can read the details at Gateway Pundit, if you care to). 

But I do know that if I shoot anyone, innocent victim or even someone who has assaulted me or another person while they are RUNNING AWAY, I would be charged with murder. Once they are running away, they can no longer be considered a threat. It would not matter what had transpired before he began to run away.

Now perhaps the facts have been misreported, and the kid wasn’t shot in the back, or perhaps he wasn’t unarmed. Perhaps he had a knife or something. I’d like to give the cop the benefit of the doubt, but if the facts are as presented, the the policeman (who still hasn’t been named) should be charged with murder, just as you or I would be charged in similar circumstances.

We shall see.

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And as I said then, We shall, indeed see. Seems the media misrepresented the whole story. 

“Big Mike” Brown robs a convenience store. Gets stopped by the cops. disses cop. maybe a struggle…. Cop draws gun. Brown rushes cop. Cop fires.

Not quite what the media told us, is it?

So someone who knows a little about me asked why there are no NRA window decals on my truck or car…..no pro Second Amendment bumper stickers….no anti federal government or tea party insignia. No Gadsen flags or such. No “1911” or “GLOCK” or “SigArms” decals.

I replied that I saw no reason to advertise…no reason for the cop who pulled me over to have any idea what my political views are. Not  reason to let anyone know that there are likely firearms in my vehicles (there might well be….).

Why tell the guy who might be interested in stealing your firearms that all he has to do is follow you home and break in after you leave to go to work?

Why wave a flag until the time is nigh? 

Better to blend in with the rest of society and hide amongst the sheep until it is time.

Somehow, I lost half of my blogroll. It was there last might, now it be gone.

Will fix as I have time.

ETA: Huh…now it is back.
 I dunno.

Rednecks in Vermont.

So, if I got this right the story goes like this:

Older brother, Joshua, crashes his car, drunk off his ass. Breathalizes at 3 (that’sTHREE) times the legal limit.

Younger brother (Nicholas) drives to the scene of the crash to check up on older brother and is observed exiting the drivers side of the vehicle. He walks up to the scene and is arrested because the cops have seen him exit the vehicle and he appears to be impaired, so they breathalize him too, finding him with a BAC three times the legal limit as well.

Dad slides over from the passenger’s seat of Nicholas’s car and drives closer to the scene of the accident to see what he can see, and is also arrested because he too appears to be impaired behind the wheel and blows a 3X legal BAC as well.

Not satisfied yet, Nicholas is observed as well drinking even MORE booze.

3 family members, all arrested for DUI in the same afternoon AT THE SAME WRECK.

One wonders….Genetics or just culture?

I wonder what their collective IQ is?