Truthfully, I am not worried about any damage a tropical storm passing nearby will do, but we are getting rain forecasted starting tomorrow and non-stop till sometime next week.
The problem is that it has been raining almost all of October and the ground is already saturated. This was the backyard about a week ago. and yes, that is the infamous Comcast cable/internet box that has issues every time it rains. And yes, Comcast knows and has known for 20 years which is why I use AT&T.
I’ll try to get a picture of the fishes swimming in my lawn and post them here. Incidentally, how cold is getting up North? I saw a bunch of coots yesterday enjoying the rays in the lake.
I love Star Trek TNG. Now that I’m waiting for Season 5 of the Expanse to start I thought I’d catch up on other Trek, so I started DS9.
I’m in Season 3 and I’ve run into a two part episode, Past Tense.
Commander Sisko and Dr. Bashir get sent to San Francisco in August or 2024.
It is a shithole. The economy has tanked. Most people are out of work. Jobs are handed out by the government to the people who want them. Most people live in “sanctuary zones” on government rations. There is still a wealthy tech industry elite that live in luxury, but everyone else is either a low level bureaucrat or a bum. All your personal information is on the net.
Crime is rampant, civil unrest is at the breaking point, the climax is a massive riot.
This would take place at the end of Biden’s first term.
Star Trek writers in 1995 came up with the worst realistic future they could come up with 29 years later
The worst predictions had are what San Francisco looks like now backed by the kind of economy that Biden will lead us to have.
The episode didn’t say who the president was, but given the evidence, it has to be Biden.
20 years later and once again we are dealing with a boondoggle of counting and even possibly recounting, late Mail In ballots or not even counted yet along with Early votes.
But none of that happened in Florida.
About 5 other states where election laws are simply designed for the idiocy of twisting the results they do not like, are immersed in a controversy of votes appearing out of nowhere and Nevada was saying the results won’t be ready till Thursday. The excuse flouncing around is that this elections saw an increased number of voters and it takes time to count them all, specially early voting and Mai Ins.
Bullshit.
So how did the Eternal Electoral Joke known as Florida did in this election? If you guys were following me last night, we were pretty much done by 9:30 pm. By then Trump had achieved the 300,000 plus votes advantage and it grew after that into almost 400,000 as the night progressed. Oh yes, I forgot: The official vote counting did not begin till 8:00 pm EST because Florida has 2 time zones and they waited till then.
What about Early voting and Mail Ins? Votes mailed in were 4,852,639 and early votes were 4,332,221. All votes run almost 11 million and we were “done” by 9:30. The Media refused to call the state for its own sinister reasons, even after the math said it would not be a change.
Even the much maligned Broward County which screwed up by the numbers in the 2016 elections, had its crap together and performed faultlessly. Of course, they had removed the old democrat supervisor of election Brenda Snipes and was replaced with Republican Peter Antonacci who shaped up the department in such a manner, even his political (and suspicious) contrarians give him praise. And no scandals have shown from Broward, not messed counts, no “failing” counting machines. Hey, Democrats got re-elected. That says something, right?
So, no. There is no excuse for the “screw up” we are witnessing other than being tailored for a potential cheat… well, potential my flat arse. No Florida Man jokes for the elections this year.
This is the second ammo hording crisis I’ve lived through in my adult life.
Ammo has gotten stupid expensive. The line yesterday at Larry’s Pistol and Pawn wrapped around the building like people were going in there to vote. The ammo displays were as picked clean as a Venezuelan supermarket.
As Miguel can attest to, even reloading supplies are dry.
This has put a cramp on my shooting. Not just mine but a lot of people’s too. I haven’t done USPSA on months. The matches that are running are spartan.
This is what I want:
Create a USPSA rimfire division, maybe two divisions, for rimfire handguns.
Production is just that. Any stock 22 cal semi auto pistol. There are a lot on the market.
Open is any 22 cal semi auto pistol with whatever muzzle device, optics, etc you want.
Both limited to 10 rounds.
22 Long Rifle is still available, I keep seeing it, and it’s cheaper than centerfire.
I won’t part with my precious 45 ACP at $0.70 a shot, but I’ll burn up half a brick of 22 at a match.
Rules will be pretty much the same except steel doesn’t need to fall, just get hit.
Additional benefits will be more people getting interested as the barriers to entry (mostly costs) are lower. A 22 pistol is cheaper, so is ammo. Lower recoil will make it easier to bring in younger shooters.
I know I have no pull whatsoever, but I’d like to start a campaign to get this done. Perhaps starting as outlaw matches.
At the end of the day, the important thing is practicing the fundamentals. That requires sending lead downrange. If the only way to do that affordability during crazy times is with 22, I’d rather shoot 22 than not shoot at all.
If you are a match director, maybe consider an outlaw rimfire match if your regular matches are getting sparse due to ammo prices.
An update that was made to Michigan’s totals is raising red flags after 138,339 votes were found in the state which happened to all go to Joe Biden. Not a single one went to President Trump. As the Federalist’s Sean Davis quipped, “That doesn’t look suspicious at all.”
In his post about the update, he showed before and after screenshots of The New York Times’s map of the state.
Click to enlarge. Compare all quantities.
Soon after, Twitter put a warning on his post that “some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.”
Somebody commented that this election needs to be taken to SCOTUS. I fear that there will be no other peaceful recourse.
And for the love of God, send some legal wolves, not some poodles who believe in “fairness.” or in the words of Marsellus Wallace “ a coupla pipe-hittin’ n*****s, who’ll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch”
They are cheating, it is time to do away with niceties and politeness.
