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I don’t know if you herd that San Francisco will no longer address criminals with sentences over a year as “convicted felons.” Nope, the new name is “justice-involved person.” A juvenile “delinquent” will now be called a “young person with justice system involvement” and the dumb goes on.

I am guessing that Facebook is doing something stupider than that. A friend of mine got a FB Jail sentence and I was trying to figure out what was the trigger for the Zucker bots…. and I found it.

It does not matter that crossing the border without the proper paperwork is a crime codified in our laws, but Facebook simply does not like it and will screw you because of it and I should used “undocumented traveler” or some hores crap like that.

I am guessing that “murder” will also be changed to “unwanted cessation of life signs by a second party’s intervention”

Doctor Allen Frances is a real psychiatrist.  He was the Chair of Duke University Dept of Psychiatry the DSM-IV task force.

You would think that a man with such credentials would be a consummate professional who would not let politics sully his reputation.

It turns out politics and TDS can destroy the best of men.

This is him talking about Donald Trump on CNN:

.@AllenFrancesMD, a psychiatrist, tells @Brianstelter: Trump "may be responsible for many more million deaths" than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong.https://t.co/cBUZVQjhNU pic.twitter.com/RVARyeVnVh

— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) August 25, 2019

Stalin killed 20 million people.  He started the Holodomor to punish the Ukrainian people for resisting joining the Soviet Union.  He had Soviet soldiers take every morsel of food, every kernel of grain, until between six and eight million Ukrainians starved to death.

Another 10 million Soviet citizens were worked or froze or starved to death in Gulags or prison camps or building roads in Siberia.  Millions more were just shot.

Hitler killed 12 million people.  Six million Jews in an ethnic genocide and six million other undesirables or political dissidents.

Mao killed 50 million Chinese.  Staving some 30 million to death with agricultural policies that directly caused the greatest famine in human history.  Tens of millions more were executed or worked to death.

Pol Pot had one million Cambodians shot and another one million worked to death in the killing fields.

Notice a trend here of far-Leftist socialists shooting, starving, or working to death millions of people.

Tell me exactly where are the labor camps, death camps, gas chambers, gulags, and crematoriums of the Trump administration?

Where are the rail cars full of human beings headed for their deaths at gunpoint?

Where are the mass graves?

Nowhere.

The idea that I’ve seen online that he’s talking about the deaths from weather or floods related to climate change is bullshit.  Millions have not died from the weather during the Trump administration and it’s scientifically fallacious horseshit to point to any death or natural disaster and say “had Trump done X, this would not have happened and these people would not have died.”

On top of that, for a psychiatrist to throw around the word “crazy” the way he did when he was clearly brought onto the show with the authority of a psychiatrist, and to declare that everyone who voted for Trump to be crazy is beyond irresponsible.

Nothing that this man said was within the bounds of reason or the canon of professional ethics.

He has a free speech right to say what he does but as a licensed professional he has to obey the canon of professional ethics, which he violated.  Doctor Allen Frances needs to have his licenses revoked and be censured by the APA.

If he is not, this will get worse.  The Left will start violating the Goldwater rule in every election and judicial confirmation, with board-certified psychiatrists and psychologists using their clout to declare the candidate they don’t like to be mentally unstable in election ads.

This must be stopped and hard before fall down the rabbit hole of the Soviet system where psychiatry was abused for political purposes.

I am a believer of car batteries as a power source to charge the many small electronics we have today. In the last post, Boris recommended a solar charger and that is perfectly fine, but I don’t trust the suckers, call me old fart.

Here is my idea that I am finally getting together. It come out to under $85 and it will last you a long time.

One cheap car battery.  Walmart is selling one for under $50, with 650 amps of cold cranking. If it is fully charged, you’d probably charge every phone in your particular Zip Code.

Top Post Battery Terminals, because you will be needing where to connect cables for the next thing.

A Battery Box. Always nice to keep your battery in one, specially if you need to mount an important accessory later.

And here is the accessory: Automotive DC Power Outlet Extension: How many 12 V USB chargers do you have around in drawers? Or if you don’t (weirdo) they are cheap as heck.

Next is to make the appropriate holes to thread the wires inside. Attach the outlet to the top of the box and make the necessary connections.

What’s left is the election of DC-USB charger and that is up you whatever you want to use. My only tip is do not use the “flush to the dashboard” types because they are a pain to remove. Make sure the ones you use are compatible with your phone. I think the new phones require something called USB 3… anybody knows better, drop a line in the comments so I can update here. There are some that display voltage which is good if you use the battery also for other  more energy-sucking devices.

If you have a generator that is somewhat modern, there should be a 12 DC port to recharge. If not, you can use the  battery charger you should have already. And if not, you can use your vehicle to charge the battery while taking a drive around the neighborhood and enjoying a few minutes of air conditioning.

Anyway, that is my idea. You can improve and adapt at your convenience.

UPDATE: I want to apologize to you readers because I could not understand why was everybody going with cutesy Li Ion battery stuff and not POWER (insert grunts here) till I re-read the post and realized I had left at least one paragraph of explanations.

I have used the battery before and with success. But it was not only for recharging phones and iPods, but also ran a portable TV/Radio (easily 6 hours  day) and rigged car lights for perimeter illumination.  Last year after Hurricane Michael I even ran a table fan using an inverter so mom could sleep in somewhat comfort. But I had everything running on clamps or the wire wrapped around the poles which is not safe or presentable.  The battery will be used and a lot by different items drawing different loads, but I spectacularly failed to mention so.

To Ratus: I understand the selection of a Deep Cycle battery. In fact, the battery  that we initially had was a good quality deep cycle marine which went to waste because it did not get used in 5 years. The “problem” is that if you are very lucky, you don’t get hit by a hurricane and lose power for many years. A Deep Cycle battery is wasting money IMHO.

Back to everybody: We don’t have a whole house generator, but a small portable Coleman and it is an exercise of proper usage. Priority of generator power goes to the fridge and the freezer. I have not tried yet, but probably I could run the water heater which would forgive many sins with the missus.  I don’t have to point out the silliness of running the generator for watching TV or play with a gaming console or any unnecessary crap.  If the generator is running, the battery charger is plugged and the battery gets a recharge if needed.

Again, my apologies. I was not clear and the message was lost.

Stolen from Wirecutter’s 

As usual, these are all predictions which means scientific wild-ass guesses

This one predicts the pressure above the 1,000 millibars through and through. That is good as the higher the mb, the weaker the storm. I can deal with a weak Cat One.

Best case scenario for everybody is for a high pressure front in the NE to recede so Dorian can take a sharp right hand turn to the mid Atlantic. If no, I want a LOT of pressure so slips under Cuba and continues to the gulf.

Tomorrow I’ll start checking the Hurricane kit making sure all the stuff is to par.

I really can do a year without a hurricane dropping by.

UPDATE:

Not saying this guy does or does not work, but apparently he does not hurt either.  It is South Florida and we believe in locally-sourced solutions like Santeria.  😀

Slight turn North from 3 hours ago. I likes!

And dancing. My ancestors are supposed to be the Celtas (Celts) that crossed the channel and landed in the British Isles. Between the dancing of the Irish and the bagpipes like the Scottish, some credence must be given to the idea.

I did this one while visiting my grandparent and under heavy alcoholic influence. It took me all of 30 seconds to land hard on my ass and decide that I was not cut for it. My wife will attest that I can’t dance worth crap.

(Browser translation)

José Miguel León Pérez, second sergeant in the National Guard, was shot in the head when a group of criminals attacked him at his pao-Cachincha reservoir checkpoint, via Pirapira sector, Carabobo state.‎

‎The attack happened on Friday night.‎

‎The guard was stripped of his AK-103 rifle. A commission of National Guard officials searched the area, in order to locate the whereabouts of those involved in the event.‎

Con un tiro en la cabeza asesinaron a un sargento para robarle el fusil.

Criminals in Venezuela are killing over a 200 cops a year to get their guns. The number of National Guardsmen is not know, but I would not be surprised if it passes well over the 100 mark.

You see? The criminal element is growing and only the government can import firearms to the country. There is a demand for the artifacts but they are not for sale…but they are available if you re willing to pay the price. Cash price  from the black marketeers might be too high so shooting a cop or a NG is cheaper because God Know life is indeed cheap in Venezuela.