I have been watching a TV show in USA Network called Damnation. Set in the early 1930s (1931 I recall hearing it mentioned) and the darned thing looks good, has some decent acting, but the script suffers from the same malady many other shows and movies have: Not a lick of logic to be found.

The story is that there is some sort of farmer’s strike in a county in Iowa and it is alleged to be based in passing on stuff that really happened. That is fine and I accept certain dramatic liberties, hell I even accept that the strike breaker’s 1911 has a 12 or 13 round magazine and Novak sights, but when I see one of the striking dairy farmer dumping the milk rather than sell it and letting his kids starve, I got my alarm bells up. My maternal grandfather had cows and whatever milk was not sold to the local processor, was converted in cheese, butter or fed to the family.

Now, there are not a single character with a redeeming value in the show, but we have really bad guys that happen to be the ultra rich from the east trying to buy farmland for notorious purposes. One location that they already control has a strange factory where hobos and drunkards are herded to be used in chemical warfare experiments, namely to make a uniform that could withstand the Mustard Gas , I guess.  There is a scene where you see somebody totally unprotected disposing of uniforms with holes in the from the chemicals that had killed the hobos and drunks. I had to ask myself, why do you need men at this stage at all? You just need to hang a uniform and dump some gas on it to see if it melts the sucker. But if you do not have a man inside, the writers probably believe you won’t get enraged. Now, why are the doing Chemical Warfare research in 1931 somewhere in Iowa? For the incoming war in Europe? Hitler had not reach power yet in 1931 and does not challenge Hindenburg in elections till 1932 and does not become Chancellor till 1933 and only consolidates power in 1934.

The dumbness of the obvious fails of common sense was bothering me, but it was one precise historical detail that killed the show for me. Remember this is 1931 and the Ultra Rich Bad Guys are having a feast and talking about the future in industry and technology that would dominate the planet. One of the “baddies” comments he got sick and that his mom prayed for his health but it was doctors and technology that cured him, not prayers. He closes by saying “It was Alexander Fleming and not God who invented penicillin” or close enough to those words. I remembered I had read about Fleming’s research in elementary school and I knew that was wrong. That was when I realized that this “historical script” was being done via bad Google & Wikipedia searches. Yes, Fleming has discovered penicillin by then, but very few people knew about it and there was no technology to produce it in stable form, much less mass produce it for sale. There was no full production of the antibiotic till 1943 and that was mostly used in the war effort. The writers apparently did a quick search, saw that Fleming discovered the mold in 1929 and figured that was close enough for Hollywood work

There are several other mistakes of history and common sense, but it was the penicillin that did it for me. The problem is that thanks to the lack of a classical education,  the majority of people watching will actually believe the bullshit displayed as historical fact in this series. The ignorance of the writers will get passed along to others and we get dumber by the minute.

The shocker is… Gun Owners are Law Abiding and will not sell willingly to prohibited persons.

Tests performed on the Surface Web demonstrated that private sellers GAO contacted on gun forums and other classified ads were unwilling to sell a firearm to an individual who appeared to be prohibited from possessing a firearm. Of the 72 attempts agents made to purchase firearms on the Surface Web, 56 sellers refused to complete a transaction: 29 sellers stated they would not ship a firearm and 27 refused after the disclosure of the undercover identities’ stated prohibited status. Furthermore, in 5 of these 72 attempts, the accounts GAO set up were frozen by the websites, which prevented the agents from using the forums and attempting to make a purchase.

Color me totally unsurprised. The Gao Report is interesting to read and I do believe they were kinda shocked they could not make a purchase among the good people and how harsh they were shut down by individuals and websites.

And you know some people are having a rash in their unmentionable parts because we get to say I TOLD YOU SO!

Approximately 1,031 vehicles were set on fire on the night of December 31st and the early hours of the morning of January 1st, up from last year’s 935. The arson attacks have remained a constant feature over New Year’s, Bastille Day celebrations in the summer, and during incidents of civil unrest.

Many have attempted to try and make sense of why the arson attacks keep occurring year after year, often in so-called “Sensitive Urban Zones ” (ZUS).

According to Wieviorka, the car burnings began in the 1980s and 1990s in Strasbourg and are primarily carried out by urban youth, often from immigrant backgrounds but not exclusively.

Source: French Car Burning Continues to Rise as Experts Insist the Acts of Arson Are ‘Playful’, Not Political

American’s love affair with our cars does not allow such shenanigans. Dear God, there are people who lose their marbles if somebody scratches their car. Setting it on fire? They would beat the shit out of the culprit and then toss him still alive inside the burning wreck so he can enjoy the fruit of its destructive tendencies.

The very polite and self-restrained will just go ahead and practice head shots with their long guns at the invading pyromaniacs.

It’s snowing in Tallahassee! As exciting as this is, please use extreme caution if you are driving & don’t expose yourself to the cold for too long without proper gear. #SunshineState #SnowDay #WinterIsHere pic.twitter.com/QVnnCTWQ5E

— Tallahassee Police (@TallyPD) January 3, 2018

Last time that much white was falling from the skies, it meant a plane from Colombia was dropping cargo in mid-air.

We are supposed to have from freezing temps in Northern Florida to the low 40s down here.  The following meme represents us rather well, I must say.

We simply don’t have the common sense God gave a gnat.

Hat tip to Ed C.

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Just saying…