which is fine: it slicks up the roads, but it's better than freezing rain. Among other things, you can shovel slabs and chunks of it off the driveway and walk.
My biggest problem being that once I start, I want to get it ALL, and with the back and such I have to watch that. I also have to remind myself to drink a lot, as the air is dry outside and in. The Weather Service says 88% outside, but it sure feels dryer.
I made a pot of chili the other day, and some of that and a corn muffin are on the menu for lunch. Daughter loves to cook and experiment, and figured out how to take frozen cookies and corn muffins or cornbread muffins and use the right heat & time to bake them from frozen. It works nicely, and means you can have some in the freezer for when you want one or two.
Preparations for lunch have begun, and sound really good right now.
Thursday, February 24, 2022
I wonder how this will be painted as a conspiracy theory?
Fresh suspicion that Covid may have been tinkered with in a lab emerged today after scientists found genetic material owned by Moderna in the virus's spike protein.
They identified a tiny snippet of code that is identical to part of a gene patented by the vaccine maker three years before the pandemic.
It was discovered in SARS-CoV-2's unique furin cleavage site, the part that makes it so good at infecting people and separates it from other coronaviruses.
Various scientists are insisting it's probably coincidence, as there's a 'one in three trillion chance' of it occurring naturally.
Problem being that, added to everything else, to say it's 'suspicious' is an understatement, especially after
But the British scientist was shut down by his counterparts in the US who warned further debate about the origins of the virus could damage 'international harmony'.
Oh yeah, that gives us all kinds of confidence in the bastards.
They identified a tiny snippet of code that is identical to part of a gene patented by the vaccine maker three years before the pandemic.
It was discovered in SARS-CoV-2's unique furin cleavage site, the part that makes it so good at infecting people and separates it from other coronaviruses.
Various scientists are insisting it's probably coincidence, as there's a 'one in three trillion chance' of it occurring naturally.
Problem being that, added to everything else, to say it's 'suspicious' is an understatement, especially after
But the British scientist was shut down by his counterparts in the US who warned further debate about the origins of the virus could damage 'international harmony'.
Oh yeah, that gives us all kinds of confidence in the bastards.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
So Moosilini blinked, bigtime,
and the fallout of this- especially for Canadian banks- is going to be huge. Whole string of stuff at Insty, I'm going to copy one:
Lots of people are apparently closing bank accounts, because "Your PM gets a wild hair and you start freezing accounts, with no legal backing except "Emergency, the PM says so!", and you expect me to trust you with my money?"
Apparently both the polls were bloody awful on this mess(Canadian 'news' is paid for by the .gov and says what the .gov wants), and a bunch of liberals in their Senate were about to say "HELL no!", which would have been disastrous. And I'd bet a helluva lot of politicians in the Senate and Commons were being told, in short words, exactly what the voters thought of them, including the Commons voting for this crap and- in some cases- saying "I don't approve of this, but I had to vote for it." to try to cover their ass.
Lots of people are apparently closing bank accounts, because "Your PM gets a wild hair and you start freezing accounts, with no legal backing except "Emergency, the PM says so!", and you expect me to trust you with my money?"
Apparently both the polls were bloody awful on this mess(Canadian 'news' is paid for by the .gov and says what the .gov wants), and a bunch of liberals in their Senate were about to say "HELL no!", which would have been disastrous. And I'd bet a helluva lot of politicians in the Senate and Commons were being told, in short words, exactly what the voters thought of them, including the Commons voting for this crap and- in some cases- saying "I don't approve of this, but I had to vote for it." to try to cover their ass.
I spent a lot of years working a job where I was 'essential personnel', which means
"We don't care how bad the roads are/how cold it is, you have to be here when you're on the schedule. And unless you're so sick it you just can't, don't call in sick either."
Because we were almost perpetually short-handed, and someone HAD to be there 24/7.
Now I don't have to go sliding down the road to work, hoping I'll be able to get home later. It did leave me with an attitude problem when there's 1 or 2 inches of snow and you see a list of all the places closing: "You serious? You can't get there in this?"
Well, that's one of my attitude problems.
Because we were almost perpetually short-handed, and someone HAD to be there 24/7.
Now I don't have to go sliding down the road to work, hoping I'll be able to get home later. It did leave me with an attitude problem when there's 1 or 2 inches of snow and you see a list of all the places closing: "You serious? You can't get there in this?"
Well, that's one of my attitude problems.
Three merging galaxies
Amazing picture.
Does make you wonder: was there life in any of them 700 million years ago? And if there was, did it survive?
Does make you wonder: was there life in any of them 700 million years ago? And if there was, did it survive?
From someone in Canada, and it does sound familiar
Two-thirds of indigenous reserves don’t have clean drinking water, and the government gives the reserves $12 billion a year, but somehow the water problem is never solved. That’s because it can be demagogued during election season, exactly the way black people are used in the US. The money disappears into a bureaucratic black hole, stolen from the indigenous and the public.
...
As a result of this flagrant generational theft, our private sector has shrunk and our public sector mushroomed. For instance, a cousin of one of my best friends was a Sherpa to a Prime Minister, and when he retired, he got the normal huge indexed pension with Soviet style percs, special doctors, special accesses, etc etc etc. But he also got a $54 million dollar grant A YEAR to run a think tank out of a university so he and his wife can swan around the world meeting important people and going out to dinner. Once a year, like clockwork, he produces an op-ed.
...
The brutality in Ottawa is not a warning. It is a promise, a statement of the future. The working class will end their lives in moldering houses they can’t afford to fix, with minimal health care. They won’t even be able to RV to our National Parks.
Think I’m wrong? A gallon of gas where I live is $8.00. Remember how big Canada is.
Think I’m wrong? Friday the 18th, the Federal Fisheries Minister announced the death of the East Coast Fishery, a traditional occupation that has been the base of the Maritimes’ economy for 300 years. She declared that she “was going to leave as many fish in the water as possible, and to grow as much vegetation in the water as possible so that the Atlantic Ocean could absorb as much carbon as possible”.
In human history, every time a nation falls under control of a narrow elite that monopolizes economic opportunities and political power, that nation fails.
And when nations fail, a lot of people die.
And don't forget that, to a lot of the left, a lot of people dying is a perk, not a problem. Got to work on the population, y'know.
Oh, and the Mayor of Ottawa wants to start auctioning off the trucks they seized. There's been no trial, let alone convictions, but he wants to anyway.
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As a result of this flagrant generational theft, our private sector has shrunk and our public sector mushroomed. For instance, a cousin of one of my best friends was a Sherpa to a Prime Minister, and when he retired, he got the normal huge indexed pension with Soviet style percs, special doctors, special accesses, etc etc etc. But he also got a $54 million dollar grant A YEAR to run a think tank out of a university so he and his wife can swan around the world meeting important people and going out to dinner. Once a year, like clockwork, he produces an op-ed.
...
The brutality in Ottawa is not a warning. It is a promise, a statement of the future. The working class will end their lives in moldering houses they can’t afford to fix, with minimal health care. They won’t even be able to RV to our National Parks.
Think I’m wrong? A gallon of gas where I live is $8.00. Remember how big Canada is.
Think I’m wrong? Friday the 18th, the Federal Fisheries Minister announced the death of the East Coast Fishery, a traditional occupation that has been the base of the Maritimes’ economy for 300 years. She declared that she “was going to leave as many fish in the water as possible, and to grow as much vegetation in the water as possible so that the Atlantic Ocean could absorb as much carbon as possible”.
In human history, every time a nation falls under control of a narrow elite that monopolizes economic opportunities and political power, that nation fails.
And when nations fail, a lot of people die.
And don't forget that, to a lot of the left, a lot of people dying is a perk, not a problem. Got to work on the population, y'know.
Oh, and the Mayor of Ottawa wants to start auctioning off the trucks they seized. There's been no trial, let alone convictions, but he wants to anyway.
Monday, February 21, 2022
One of the things I've been messing with with .45-70 is resizing
The easiest thing is to full-length resize the cases; that way they'll be sure to drop into the chamber easily after firing.
When using the cases in only one rifle, the competition types often either don't resize at all(maybe bell the case mouth just enough to make it easy to seat the bullet when using black powder, then use the sizing die to iron out that bell so it'll chamber easily), or, if you want some neck tension on the bullets, resize only about the first 1/2" of the cases.
If you've got more than one rifle in that cartridge, if you do one of the latter you have to keep the cases segregated, because an unsized/partially sized case from one may not fit in the other chamber, or be very tight.
I originally tried using the partial-sizing method, because with the unsized, unless you do a taper crimp(which you can using the sizing die to do) to hold it the bullet can damn well fall out of the case. And, this being with black powder, you cannot have any space between powder and bullet. Fill in all the wads or whatever, but NO EMPTY SPACE, because bad things will happen. So I don't care how many shooters with very good scores do it, I want to be certain the bullet won't move, so partial-size and then a light crimp- just enough to it chambers easily- it was.
When using the cases in only one rifle, the competition types often either don't resize at all(maybe bell the case mouth just enough to make it easy to seat the bullet when using black powder, then use the sizing die to iron out that bell so it'll chamber easily), or, if you want some neck tension on the bullets, resize only about the first 1/2" of the cases.
If you've got more than one rifle in that cartridge, if you do one of the latter you have to keep the cases segregated, because an unsized/partially sized case from one may not fit in the other chamber, or be very tight.
I originally tried using the partial-sizing method, because with the unsized, unless you do a taper crimp(which you can using the sizing die to do) to hold it the bullet can damn well fall out of the case. And, this being with black powder, you cannot have any space between powder and bullet. Fill in all the wads or whatever, but NO EMPTY SPACE, because bad things will happen. So I don't care how many shooters with very good scores do it, I want to be certain the bullet won't move, so partial-size and then a light crimp- just enough to it chambers easily- it was.
So I've been experimenting with full-length resizing, to see if the loads shoot any better or worse. So far it's a wash in that, with one possible exception, FL seems to work just as well. And yes, a lot of high-ranking shooters do it. This is literally one of those "Which does your rifle like?" things. So I'll probably stick with FL sizing, and be sure to anneal the case mouth area regularly to relieve the greater stress put on the area.
It's been seven months, and I still catch myself
thinking "I've got to show this to/tell Dad about this." Then I remember, and it's really messing with me at times.
This is horrifying, and a fine example of "Why don't you trust us to run things?"
For the first time in decades, the CDC has changed many of the recognized milestones for childhood development in terms of speech and cognitive functions. These markers are considered important in terms of recognizing when children aren’t progressing quickly enough, suggesting the potential need to determine if some sort of impairment is being observed and if the child may require greater medical attention. The curious thing about the changes instituted by the CDC is that in a majority of the cases, they have lowered the standards rather than raising them.
Gee, I wonder why...
A lot of people really need to be held to account for the damage they've done while playing "I'm saving you!"
Gee, I wonder why...
A lot of people really need to be held to account for the damage they've done while playing "I'm saving you!"
About a year ago a guy blew up a bolt-actionsingle-shot .50 with some old ammo,
SLAP rounds to be specific. Serbu sent him another rifle to test, and this time he does it deliberately. The leftover SLAP was obviously bad, but it took a special round to blow it up.
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Saturday, February 19, 2022
And now, on the 7th evening, having failed once again to get Security Staff to relax
and snooze in the house, let us now move on to the usual stuff for this evening
So not only is Trudeau following in his commie fathers footsteps,
the Montreal Police have shown they'd be quite at home with snazzy red armbands. And arresting, or just beating, actual reporters who won't look the other way. And using horses to hurt people, and lying about why.
And Parliament being told "For unspecified reasons it's too dangerous for you to meet and ask questions and make demands of the PM" is just so convenient.
I hope this comes back around and bites big chunks out of all their asses.
And Parliament being told "For unspecified reasons it's too dangerous for you to meet and ask questions and make demands of the PM" is just so convenient.
I hope this comes back around and bites big chunks out of all their asses.
Friday, February 18, 2022
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Headline on Yahoo 'News':
Severe storm system will bear its teeth, etc.
After some of Kim's yelling about the proper word and why do these news weenies not know them?, I could hear "It's 'BARE its teeth', you illiterate yob!"
He's right. It may be a losing battle, but he is.
After some of Kim's yelling about the proper word and why do these news weenies not know them?, I could hear "It's 'BARE its teeth', you illiterate yob!"
He's right. It may be a losing battle, but he is.
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