EMT 4/16/2016 [krakatoa]

Not going to lie to you. I'm probably asleep again within 30 seconds of hitting publish.

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1 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2016 05:57 AM (Dpy/y)

2

DAY 1,257

206 to go (279 to Inauguration Day )

Muzzies, Marxists, Maoists, Mau-Maus, MFM's, Moochelle, Mao-suits, McCain's, McConnell's, Mario's, Mahdi megatons, machiavellian Mississippi mudslingers, McAuliffe's, Maduro's, MIRV's, Mexifornians, McKesson's, Mizzou malefactors, mewling mattress-myth manufacturers, marriage maimers, menacing Mozillan 'mo's, Myrmidons, Mugwumps, Monrovian microbes, mutants, malcontents, malthusians, maniacs, malignant medical mandates, martial law, miscreants, microaggressors, minions, maladjusted masochistic multiculturalists, momzers, mamalukes, mooks, mopes, mariuoli, meeskeits, maricons, marauders, malodorous militants, menstruating mons veneri, malfunctioning Moron microsites and miscellaneous meshugas notwithstanding.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2016 05:58 AM (p4UlV)

3 Well then if Krak is going back to bed,
Take it away Vic.....

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2016 05:58 AM (Dpy/y)

4
I loved the NY Post's Trump endorsement. Paraphrasing "he's crude, rude, wrong on the issues, but we'll support him and hope he pivots."

I find it interesting that Trump's #1 issue is building the border wall and deporting illegals, yet he's supported by one of the biggest open borders shills there is: Rupert Murdoch.

What does he know that the rest of us don't?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2016 06:02 AM (p4UlV)

5 If krak goes back to bed, does that mean we can show our asses?

Posted by: golfman at April 16, 2016 06:07 AM (W5Fit)

6 JJ lots of people are supporting candidates that go against their own core values, Murdoch knows he's going to do well in a big government economy no matter who is President.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2016 06:07 AM (Dpy/y)

7 Slept lat this morning so no news. But did get this cheap notice in e-mail from Bookbub. Heinlein book on sale today

http://tinyurl.com/zcy9xlw

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 16, 2016 06:07 AM (vvmPQ)

8 Isn't there an option to publish a post at a certain time so you can schedule it before you go to bed at night?

Then again, this is Minx 0.7 alpha...

Posted by: Buddy Bizarre at April 16, 2016 06:08 AM (W6m9k)

9 I always thought unlike the Sunday Book Thread there is no dress code for the EMT

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2016 06:08 AM (Dpy/y)

10 6 JJ lots of people are supporting candidates that go against their own core values, Murdoch knows he's going to do well in a big government economy no matter who is President.
Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2016 06:07 AM (Dpy/y)

It's a good thing that immigration and amnesty are not serious problems, or I'd be concerned.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2016 06:09 AM (p4UlV)

11 4:What does he know that the rest of us don't?

That like our current President, every word uttered by Trump has a expiration date.

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 16, 2016 06:11 AM (1i6vr)

12 #StopTheSteal protest in Colorado fizzles
story at LegalInsurrection

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2016 06:16 AM (Dpy/y)

13 29 dead in the earthquakes in Japan

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2016 06:21 AM (Dpy/y)

14 TL

R....

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz

*Fart*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 16, 2016 06:22 AM (ptqRm)

15 Morning, Horde.

We have a stray cat outside, rolling in the catmint plant. It is riling the furry horde inside.

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 06:27 AM (2hcmo)

16 15 Morning, Horde.

We have a stray cat outside, rolling in the catmint plant. It is riling the furry horde inside.
Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 06:27 AM (2hcmo)

"Did you say 'catamite?!' "

- - Harry Reid

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2016 06:28 AM (p4UlV)

17
Daughter is home for my "surprise" birthday party which really is a surprise dinner to celebrate my in-laws' upcoming 60th wedding anniversary. Wheels within wheels and all that.

Apparently the missus and I are now "crochety" and to refer to a person as being "oriental" is equivalent to using the term "nagger". Lotsa eyerolls to be coming from me in the next 72 hours.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 16, 2016 06:34 AM (BK3ZS)

18 Good morning fluffy and Vic!

hrmph! to all you others.

Posted by: somejoe at April 16, 2016 06:35 AM (iAo8J)

19 Hi somejoe.

Why you harrumphing at all this fine, upstanding folks?

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 06:38 AM (2hcmo)

20 I believe it was "hrmph!" not harrumph. So more of a verbal head nod

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2016 06:40 AM (ANxEu)

21 Krebs, how about 'Asiatic'?

They have their own dayflower.

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 06:42 AM (2hcmo)

22 Anybody know much about owls? I saw one in the woods yesterday AM. Not native to the area, from what I could find.

It was perched on a log overlooking a vernal pool. He was a scruffy, grey lump, perfect for blending in with dead trees. No tufts or facial disk.

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 06:46 AM (2hcmo)

23 It was perched on a log overlooking a vernal pool. He was a scruffy,
grey lump, perfect for blending in with dead trees. No tufts or facial
disk.

Depending on where you live, it could be a Boreal owl. They are mainly in the northern areas.

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2016 06:49 AM (ANxEu)

24 'Owls of New England" seem to include the snowy owl, which will spend the winter here, and the boreal owl, which is classified as an accidental visitor.

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 06:49 AM (2hcmo)

25 I'm just grumpy in the morning.
(and the early day, the noon, the after noon, the mid day, the early evening, the evening, the twilight, oh man. I think there is a trend here.)

Considers the evidence...

Yep! most people just mostly annoy me.

So, good morning to all you irritants out there also.

Posted by: somejoe at April 16, 2016 06:49 AM (iAo8J)

26 I've had owls for years in the neighborhood but only hear them at night and never seen them. If you had a visual just Google owls to see pictures.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2016 06:50 AM (Dpy/y)

27 Bruce, that was the closest one I could find, but I'm not certain. I had my cell phone, but didn't want the flash to go off. It was in hemlock and pine woods, as I recall, which doesn't get lots of sunlight near the ground.

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 06:54 AM (2hcmo)

28 If you go to allaboutbirds.org you can do a search on owls, it will come back with pictures of them along with their calls. You can't always see owls, but you can usually hear them at night.

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2016 06:56 AM (ANxEu)

29 Looking around a little the ones in my area I hear could be Great Horned owls by the calls, but need to look if there are other possibilities. Luckily the calls of different kinds are very different.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2016 06:58 AM (Dpy/y)

30 Mr. antisocialist has gone to Missouri for his annual turkey hunt...woohoo! Staycation time!!! Got my stack o' books, craft supplies, Hulu, Amazon Prime...I'm set!

Posted by: antisocialist at April 16, 2016 06:59 AM (9n14Y)

31
Okay kids. I actually have work-work to do and it's interfering with my hobby bodging time. Hope you all have a great day.

Later!

. . . and remain blessed.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at April 16, 2016 06:59 AM (p4UlV)

32 Mr. antisocialist has gone to Missouri for his annual turkey hunt...woohoo! Staycation time!!! Got my stack o' books, craft supplies, Hulu, Amazon Prime...I'm set!

Mrs fluffy takes a similar attitude. It took years to get over the guilt of disappearing all day for a hike, but she wants the house to herself for a while.

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 07:04 AM (2hcmo)

33 22 Anybody know much about owls? I saw one in the woods yesterday AM. Not native to the area, from what I could find.

No. But I have seen and heard many. From snowy whites to barn owls up to gigantic great horned owls.

What is native is only as reliable as those who see them. It is there. Probably native.

Posted by: somejoe at April 16, 2016 07:05 AM (iAo8J)

34 Well I'm convinced the owls in my neighborhood are Great Horned, there is calls on YouTube you can hear. Mystery solved.

Posted by: Skip at April 16, 2016 07:06 AM (Dpy/y)

35 A little foggy up here in the mountains this morning. Oh WAIT! My eyes aren't open yet.

Posted by: rld77 at April 16, 2016 07:07 AM (Hhx6e)

36 Well I'm convinced the owls in my neighborhood are Great Horned

I think they are the only ones that do the Whooo call. Of course on TV all owls go WHoooo.

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2016 07:08 AM (ANxEu)

37 If you're a good mimic, you can call a Great Horned into your area. If you hear one, repeat the same phrase and timing. Of course if it's in the spring you're taking away from his sexxy times, so don't do it to long.

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2016 07:11 AM (ANxEu)

38 Fog on da brain is such a pain
need a cup a joe before da show
hoping less strife in this day's life

Posted by: rld77 at April 16, 2016 07:12 AM (Hhx6e)

39 My only regret in life is that I did not studly owls enough to find out haw many licks it takes to get to the center of as tootsie pop.

Posted by: somejoe at April 16, 2016 07:13 AM (iAo8J)

40 Fun owl fact:

Crows hate owls. If you have a lot of crows in your area, and access to an owl call, it's cheap and easy entertainment.

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at April 16, 2016 07:14 AM (0IhFx)

41 Krak thread looks more like the plumbers Union Hole..........

tighten up tha Nuts real good and there will be no MSM leaks

Posted by: saf at April 16, 2016 07:16 AM (qKiBT)

42 If you're a good mimic, you can call a Great Horned into your area. If you hear one, repeat the same phrase and timing.

"Savvy birders often imitate a Screech Owl trill to trigger songbirds into mobbing behavior, making the tiny songbirds much more visible and countable."

Would that be 'trolling'? ;--)

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 07:16 AM (2hcmo)

43 #17

Lay down some education on them about the history of cartography and how 'oriental' is merely another way of saying eastern. To me, born and raised in CA, my family on the other side of the continent are all orientals.

Posted by: Epobirs at April 16, 2016 07:20 AM (IdCqF)

44 Would that be 'trolling'? ;--)

Posted by: fluffy

Or catfishing?

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2016 07:22 AM (ANxEu)

45 Got my stack o' books, craft supplies, Hulu, Amazon Prime...I'm set!

Jeepers !

Is he coming back in July ?

Posted by: JT at April 16, 2016 07:25 AM (/WKad)

46 Good morning you bunch of lugnuts.

From this week in 1944- EZ Dog Journals

The artillery duel continues, starting to tip in favor of the Allies.

Apr 13, 1944
Cooler today. Paul and I took the afternoon off and sat on a ledge by the sea. About the only conclusion we came to was we'd like to be home. That's only natural in this place. We also decided that we must be slightly off the beam. No normal person could ever stand it here.

Apr 14, 1944
Arty tried a new wrinkle today. A precision adjustment on three heavy guns. A P-51 adjusted the 8" howitzer with devastating effect. Those guns shouldn't fire for a while.

Apr 15, 1944
Precision shoots have now graduated to the 240's. Gerrys arty must be getting a bit on the touchy side. It's bad enough to have those things drop in helter-skelter but it must be literal hell to know that someone can see you and is adjusting right on the point where you are.
Smoke pots on the beachhead keep all the rear areas under a continual haze. Jerry tries to shoot back into it but since he can't see his results are somewhat ineffective.

Apr 16, 1944
Paul and I took a ride around the beachhead today. By 1 Armd, most of the Corps Arty positions and finally to 15 Obs flash and sound centrals. Little activity. I didn't even get to adjust a battery. Some of these days I will.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at April 16, 2016 07:32 AM (NeFrd)

47 It's morning! Time for garage sales!

Posted by: sinalco at April 16, 2016 07:33 AM (yODqO)

48 "Boreal Owls are rare visitors to New England from the boreal forest of Canada. If you think you've found a Boreal Owl, document it with a photo and email it to..."

I didn't have a photo, but I emailed them anyway.

No doubt they will reply, 'Pics or it didn't happen.'

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 07:34 AM (2hcmo)

49 7 Slept lat this morning so no news. But did get this cheap notice in e-mail from Bookbub. Heinlein book on sale today

http://tinyurl.com/zcy9xlw

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at April 16, 2016 06:07 AM (vvmPQ)

***

Thanks, Vic! I'm on my way out soon to purchase a new self-propelled mower (Cub Cadet SC 500EZ, electric start, front caster wheels). This little novel will be my treat to myself after I tackle the yard!

Posted by: Elinor, Who Usually Looks Lurkily at April 16, 2016 07:37 AM (NqQAS)

50 Thanks, Seamus!

Posted by: sinalco at April 16, 2016 07:38 AM (yODqO)

51 No doubt they will reply, 'Pics or it didn't happen.'

Posted by: fluffy

And blame the fact that they are out of their "normal" range on Global Warming/Cooling/Change

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2016 07:39 AM (ANxEu)

52 I believe it was "hrmph!" not harrumph"

What, no "I didn't get a Harrumph out of that guy"????

I'm so disappointed, y'all.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 16, 2016 07:45 AM (C9pBZ)

53 And blame the fact that they are out of their "normal" range on Global Warming/Cooling/Change

They mentioned Great Grey moving south in recent years due to decline in prey species.

A few years back, New England had a mast crop (acorn & nuts) crash. Rodent populations plummeted and birds of prey followed.

Thirty years ago, those illegal geese from Canada settled here. Maybe owls are the next wave.

Posted by: fluffy at April 16, 2016 07:46 AM (2hcmo)

54 A few years back, New England had a mast crop (acorn nuts) crash.
Rodent populations plummeted and birds of prey followed.

There ya go. Come to AoS for the snark, and ya learn something. I never heard the term mast crop.

Thanks!

Posted by: Bruce at April 16, 2016 07:50 AM (ANxEu)

55 In the wee hours of the morning, the ISS' robotic arm removed the BEAM inflatable habitat module from Dragon's trunk and installed it on the station.

The Falcon 9 first stage is still upright on the dock at Port Canaveral. It's probably too windy to attempt to lift it from the stand and lower it to horizontal today.

Posted by: rickl at April 16, 2016 07:54 AM (sdi6R)

56 I never heard the term mast crop."

That's likely due to the overuse of the technical term "a s...tload", as in "the good ol boys say there's a s...load of acorns, so squirrell hunting 'll be easy"

Oddly enough, (more MowDeGrass Tyson type science here) "climate" seems to have little impact on "mast" crops...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at April 16, 2016 07:54 AM (C9pBZ)

57 MS is now a permitless concealed carry state. Woohoo!

The Gubner Phil Byrant signed the law yesterday, effective immediately.

The usual whiners didn't like it, such as the Police Chiefs group and Everytown. But it's not really such a major change.

First, we had a law that considered your vehicle as an extension of your home, so you could carry a gun in your car. Loaded, concealed, whatever.

Our concealed carry permit requirements were always mild, merely requiring passing background check and paying a fee (no classes).

Open carry was the next move, allowing guns to be worn in public with no permit.

Then last year, concealed carry was allowed with no permit for guns carried in a purse or satchel; aimed mainly at allowing wymyns to protect themselves.

Now it's for everyone.

*I'm not a lawyer, check the laws yerself ya bunch of morons, before acting on any of this*

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 16, 2016 07:59 AM (gyKtp)

58 There are now no suspects in the Houston cop ambush of two days ago. They had one guy in custody, but have now cleared him, so back to square one.

Fortunately the cop is expected to recover.

It seems to me that attempted murder should be treated the same as murder. Just because you suck at what you do, you get a bonus of a smaller sentence?

You punch a man in the face, he falls down and hits his head and dies; it's clear you meant to hurt him, but not to kill him.

You shoot someone 6 times and slit their throat and they live; your intent was obviously to see them dead.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 16, 2016 08:08 AM (gyKtp)

59 "MS is now a permitless concealed carry state. Woohoo!"

I've become a no apologies Constitutional carry guy myself. This is a good move by MS and it follows a relaxation of gun control laws in several other states.

I think gun owners need to prepare themselves, though. It's just a matter of time before the federal government declares private ownership of firearms illegal. Gun owners need to prepare themselves to fucking ignore that.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 16, 2016 08:11 AM (eHpnh)

60 "Gun owners need to prepare themselves to fucking ignore that."

Finding alternatives could be important, too. I've been looking at flare guns with inserts. According to our federal gooberment, a flare gun is not a firearm.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 16, 2016 08:16 AM (eHpnh)

61 59 I think gun owners need to prepare themselves, though. It's just a
matter of time before the federal government declares private ownership
of firearms illegal. Gun owners need to prepare themselves to fucking
ignore that.

Section 5 of the new carry law says this:

No federal executive order, agency order, law not enrolled by the
United States Congress and signed by the President of the United States, rule, regulation or administrative interpretation of a law or statute issued, enacted or promulgated after July 1, 2016, that violates the United States Constitution or the Mississippi Constitution of 1890 shall be enforced or ordered to be enforced by any official, agent or employee of this state or a political subdivision thereof.

Commonly known as the Fuck Off, TFG, clause.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 16, 2016 08:34 AM (gyKtp)

62 "Commonly known as the Fuck Off, TFG, clause."

Yeah, I read that. States are trying all sorts of things to keep the feds from pre-empting their gun laws. I hope they work, but I'm not confident that they will.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at April 16, 2016 08:37 AM (eHpnh)

63 Seems like "Owls of New England" should have opened for somebody, Back In The Day.

Other than the hoo, you'll never hear an owl, day or night. Only the short, sharp cry of their prey. Death machines. If they ever draw a bead on us, we're screwed.

Out in bald-eagle country with some birder types and yuuge spotting scope, I saw a Great Horned nest in the crown of a v.tall rotted-out trunk. Looky there, I say, looks like the owls moved out and raccoons moved into the nest. Look again, says the birder. The nest was lined with coon pelts, for comfort. Top of the chain.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at April 16, 2016 09:13 AM (xq1UY)

64 Seamus, loved the book, as you know. Slightly OT, but I'm doing a lot of genealogy research and finding that military records are very helpful. Lots of draft registrations and a number of grave marker applications. But just came across two relatives who died in September and October of 1918 ... One in action and the other by disease. No antibiotics then, of course.

Posted by: RI Red at April 16, 2016 10:41 AM (9EEmA)

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