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Someone’s gonna haveta explain….

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Seems that one of the cops shot in the “exchange of gunfire” the night that the ‘splodey Tsarnevs got cornered and “Suspect #2” drove over “Suspect #1” (the elder brother), was likely shot by one of his brother officers.

Now, this is NOT an indictment of the police at the scene. Things got really, really sideways really fast, and they followed their training. Sadly, one of their fellow officers got hit by friendly fire. Luckily, he survived, but barely.

High energy, armed BOMB trowing suspects…in the dark.

Just shows how quickly things can go wrong.

If this is true

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(and it appears that it is)

Then things like this make it important that you get a prepaid cell phone and pay cash for it now. Make sure that the batteries for that phone are removable. Activate it, make sure it works. Do so as far from your home and work area as possible. Take the batteries out of the phone.Don’t get a smart phone, get a really simple dumb one (or two or three).

Have your friends do so as well. Do so now, so that any video records at the store are overwritten before you need to use them.

Exchange numbers (but write them down, don’t program them into the phones) and keep the minutes paid up. NEVER call anything but another throwaway phone from your “burn phone”. Ever.

Refresh them with cash (yearly if possible) as far away from your home as possible)

Take (and keep) the batteries out  of the phone.

Just in case.

You’ll probably never need ’em, but what is $20 a month for secure, untraceable-to-you communication?

(You can be tracked, but not until you put the battery back into the phone).

Think of getting a “one time pad” setup….like paperback books, for coded texts. (google it if you don’t know what I mean). Might come in handy.

You’ll likely only be able to use those particular phones for a few days, if and when. Maybe a week or two at most. Set up a code word that you can text to people of like minds to alert them that you will be using your new phone and leaving your old one. Never use the new phone at your home. Never even close to you home. Never put the batteries in the new phone anywhere near your home or work. Once the new phone is powered up, there is a record of it’s location and movement.

And remember this:
Never say anything on any phone that you don’t want recorded and reviewed by the government. Never write anything on the internet or in an email that you don’t want read by the government. Only communications face to face are (sort of) secure…And that is iffy if someone cares to pay attention to you and the people you meet with..

Yeah, I am paranoid.
I have reason to be.
Now you do too.

I only hope that the feds have bigger, badder people to look at, and I get lost in the clutter.

Via Wirecutter

If you only read one thing today

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Via Insty,

I’ve come to realize after the Sandy Hook shooting that the reason we can’t have a rational gun debate is because the anti-gun side pre-supposes that their pro-gun opponents must first accept that guns are bad in order to have a discussion about guns in the first place.

And that is exactly the issue.  You cannot “have a conversation” or Compromise” or “come to an agreement” when the other side cannot respect, if not agree with the other side’s point of view.

But really, no matter what we agree to, they’ll just move the goalposts and try again.

Sea level panic

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SO the global warmists/climate change believers/total whackjobs are saying that the rate of increas in the sea level is accelerating.

Maybe it is.

But two things: First of all, the method of measurement has changed. This is a bigger deal than you might think, because the new measurements do not correlate with ACTUAL DATA from the continuing older methods.

and, secondarily, one would wonder what other causes there might be….

If (and it is a very big IF) the rate of sea level rise has actually increased in the past 70+ years or so, one would wonder if there is correlation to the rate of building that has taken place….and perhaps farming…both of which cause significant erosion of soil.

Erosion likely accounts for a significant amount of the real sea level rise…The slow wearing away of the earths surface. (eventually the earth will be a giant salt water swamp, with all the mountains worn away and the dry land washed into the sea).

Estimates are that the total amount of sediment washed into the ocean by rivers alone is 60-80 BILLION tons per year. Add in coastal erosion and you have a significant amount of sediment ending up in the ocean every year. Increased construction in nearly all countries, mining and farming…….

Add in the fact that many of our rivers (and rivers in nearly all semi industrialized countries) have been straightened and otherwise controlled, leading to faster flows and less natural deposition of sediment, and you have a significant amount of sediment that is deposited in the oceans that wasn’t going there before.

Is it enough to explain the change in rate rise in sea level? Maybe. Enough to explain the (supposed) rate of change? I dunno. I had a hard enough time finding the facts that I did.

Smarter people than me can do the math and tell me what percentage of the (supposed) rise is caused by increased erosion.

But I haven’t seen his addressed by the climate change folks either…all they do is pint to the current estimates from satellite measurements (which don’t correlate with older measurement methods) and cry “catastrophe!”