Gun Free Zone

I’m going to be in the path of totality on Monday.

If anybody wants me to wish for anything on their behalf from the Elder Gods during the human sacrifice, Venmo me $1,000 and put your request in the note.

I’ll only have four minutes and I’m going be be asking for a house, so it will need to be something quick.

This made me laugh! The last time we got a deer, I spent three days taking the large bits and trimming and cleaning and packaging them up. We have a bit less than the above (well, much less now, as we’ve eaten quite a bit of it), but we got a good size one. We had to discard the liver, though… it had been pulverized by the shot. No tongue, though. I don’t like eating food that tastes me back…

New Hampshire got a little more snow and ice yesterday and today. We were prepared for it, no big deal.

I was preparing to go to bed, doing that final sit of the day before showering, when the power went out. Grump.

Finished in the dark. Turned the flashlight on, pointed it at the ceiling, took my shower.

When I got to bed, I spent the 5 minutes using the power company’s app to report the outage. They asked if I was sure.

There were two reported outages. 15 minutes later there were 1000+ in my clump.

About two hours later, power was restored. We lost it again about 30 minutes later. 45 minutes after that, power was restored and has remained steady since.

My point in all of this was that it wasn’t a big deal.

This morning, I power cycled the Optical Network Terminator (ONT) and we had the Internet back. Turned my primary computer back on and went to work.

The discussion about lack of discipline in schools was very intriguing. My personal story of strong vs. weak teachers was in 7th or 8th grade. The first day of school, our French teacher was soft and kind to the students. Our civics teacher read us the riot act. Nobody liked him.

French class was a waste of time. The teacher never had control of the class. The kids did what they wanted, had little or no respect for her. Nobody learned a thing. The disruptions came from two or maybe three kids.

Same group of students in the civics class. No messing around. No disruptions. No issues. He had control of the class from the very first day. By the end of the first month, his class was laid back and fun. He never had to force anything.

Teachers have to be able to control their classrooms. They have to have the skill to do so. And they have to have the backing of the administration to enforce that control.

As one pundit put it in the comments, the admin should respond to parents saying “you can’t do that to my little angel” with “that’s fine, we’ll just suspend him instead, if their behavior after suspension is still unacceptable, we’ll expel him.”

I tried something new this week. Instead of quoting, highlighting and commenting, I instead quoted and highlighted.

That is a bit faster for me, but might require more effort on your part.

A city ordinance states that failure to return books or library items within 30 days from the due date results in their library card being suspended. If a person fails to respond to the letter of complaint within 10 days of receiving it, it is considered a misdemeanor criminal offense punishable by a fine of up to $500.

Morgan said she did not receive the library’s late notices because they were sent to an old address. The library never called her about the late books, she said.

It wasn’t until she went to renew her driver’s license last month that she was told she had a warrant for a nearly $570 ticket.

Texas mom says she was issued an arrest warrant for her kids’ overdue library books (nbcnews.com)

I almost want to bet this place has an old school speed trap just as revenue-collecting measure.

Tennessee legislation banning the intentional release of chemicals into the air is headed to Gov. Bill Lee’s desk to be signed into law.

The bill has been criticized as codifying a ban on “chem trails,” a widely debunked conspiracy theory that the federal government is spreading chemicals for nefarious reasons, though House sponsor Rep. Monty Fritts, R-Kingston, said he brought the bill due to ongoing weather and climate control practices.

HB 2063/SB 2691, which House Republicans gave final passage to Monday, bans the “intentional injection, release, or dispersion” of chemicals within Tennessee “with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited.”

The chemtrail theory is the belief that the government is secretly adding toxic chemicals to the atmosphere from aircrafts, similar to contrails. According to a research group at Harvard University which focuses on climate science and technology, the reasoning behind the theory involves sterilization, reduction of life expectancy, mind control, and weather control.

The research group has debunked the theory, saying that there is no credible evidence for the existence of chemtrails. 

Democratic Caucus Chair John Ray Clemmons, D-Nashville, submitted a tongue-in-cheek amendment to codify protections for “a large and hairy human-like creature that inhabits forests in North America.”

Tennessee lawmakers give final approval to ‘chemtrails’ bill (tennessean.com)

Then again, if you know a bit of history, you should know about Operation Popeye.

More specifically, Pell, the chairman of the now-defunct subcommittee for Oceans and International Environment, and his colleague were about to learn the true extent of a secret five-year-old cloud seeding operation meant to lengthen the monsoon season in Vietnam, destabilize the enemy, and allow the United States to win the war.

Though it cycled through several names in its history, “Operation Popeye” stuck. Its stated objective—to ensure Americans won the Vietnam War—was never realized, but the revelation that the U.S. government played God with weather-altering warfare changed history. The Nixon administration distracted, denied, and, it seems, outright lied to Congress, but enterprising reporters published damning stories about rain being used as a weapon, and the Pentagon papers dripped classified details like artificial rain. Eventually, the federal government would declassify its Popeye documents and international laws aimed at preventing similar projects would be on the books.

With Operation Popeye, the U.S. government made weather an instrument of war (popsci.com)

And that is only what we know. Not so long ago, there was this scientist (I forget the name and I am too lazy to search him) who wanted to have hurricane hunter planes seed the storms over the Atlantic to disperse them before hitting the US coastline. I seem to recall it had to do how the sand disturbed the formation of storm fronts coming from Africa.

And now we live in accelerated times where the ludicrous is no longer impossible , so:

It should be the law, that if you get shot in self-defense by a guy with a musket, they should get a barber-surgeon in a leather apron to dig the ball out of you without anesthesia.

17th century problems require 17th century solutions.

When the officers cared more about The Pension than The Constitution.