Month: April 2021

It is not a Green initiative to fight Climate Change

I saw this being shared in social media:

Ask anybody who is from the former Soviet Union, Cuba or Venezuela and they will tell you the same thing that popped in my head when I first saw it: Food rationing and the infamous food lines:

And when you get inside, the pickings are less than slim.

Supermarket in Venezuela.

You are assigned so many grams of meat per month, same as rice, beans, sugar, flour, etc. And the government assigns you some sort of tracking mechanism so you don’t get cute and buy more that assigned.

Cuba’s “La Libreta” AKA Ration booklet which is used to keep track of what the government assigns you to eat.

You can always go and buy in the black market via the brave street vendor or literally from the trunk of a car.

An administration only starts preparing people for this new normal under some bullshit Environmental  campaign when they are about to do something it will send the means of food production crashing or know it is coming.

I figure Pam is still cheap. Same for rice and beans.  We may need to stock up in a grand manner.

 

Gavin Newsom drives a nail into the coffin of the US economy

California is the 7th largest oil producing state in the union, contributing 8.3% of the nation’s oils production.

California should not be allowed to do this, hobbling a strategic national resource.

This will do untold damage to our economy, driving up gas prices and increasing our dependence on foreign oil.

In 2024 when this goes into effect, President DeSantis needs to invade California like Iraq to get the oil flowing again.

Can we finish with effing masks now?

The risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors is the same when socially distanced 6 feet apart and 60 feet apart, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) say.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America earlier this month, argues that there isn’t much benefit to distancing 6 feet apart.

Professor Martin Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, told CNBC that the rule “really has no physical basis because the air a person is breathing while wearing a mask tends to rise and comes down elsewhere in the room so you’re more exposed to the average background than you are to a person at a distance.”

MIT researchers: Risk of contracting COVID-19 indoors the same at 6ft and 60ft | TheHill

Actually the biggest health risk for not wearing a mask is the bloody nose somebody can get by getting in somebody’s face for not wearing a mask and accusing you of trying to kill grandma.

I use a gaiter because it is easier than the standard face diaper. But it is getting hot down here and it is annoying as hell to have an extra layer around the neck making you sweat.

Hat Tip Mark C.

California is going for mental gymnastics gold

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1385610527083270156

I can’t wait to see how Californians try to explain how it’s not transphobic to vote for Gavin Newsom over Caitlyn Jenner.

.45 ACP for sale-ish, more like auction. (Update)

Still cleaning up my closets, I found 400 once-fired cases of .45 ACP in different stamps. I have not had anything in that caliber in a decade, nor planning on anytime soon and it is just wasting away.

(UPDATE: Auction-ish ends Sunday 9 pm EST)

I do need other items so I am getting rid of it here first.

As a “bonus” I will add the couple of leftover bullets I still have.

As for shipping, if I can fit all that in a USPS small flat rate box, it will be $8.45. If I have to go with medium, it jumps to $15.50. (Just checked, small box won’t be enough, sorry!)

Just send me an email with your offer: miguel AT gunfreezone DOT net.

Sorry, no first born children are accepted as form of payment, nor sacrificial virgins either.