A longtime friend of the blog emails:
With the impending Derek Chauvin trial, the fortification of the 4th Precinct has begun this morning.
A wall of cement traffic barricades are being set around the perimeter. Back last summer it was reinforced with razor wire.
I am so deeply saddened by what has happened to my city.
Sad. And disgusted.
Kevin Williamson was right. This isn’t decay. This is municipal suicide.
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The new reality. The only way for this to stop is if the voters of Minneapolis start voting for Conservatives to bring back the rule of law. What’s the possibility of that happening? Not very good I’m afraid.
It began years ago. “Critical Mass” bike nuts blocked downtown traffic at peak times. I called the police, the dispatcher told me the cops would do nothing. “Occupy Wall Street “ protestors took over the space around the County Government Center and the government did nothing for months. The lessons learned put to use by BLM thugs, shutting down roads at will. Again no consequences. Last Memorial Day it escalated. A friend who lives near the Midway reported finding a gasoline can stashed in the alley near her home. Cars with lights off cruised the streets. What was James Baldwin’s book? The Fire Next Time. Next time is next week.
And, of course, the media dutifully got their quote from Nekima Levy-Pounds-Armstrong, who threw a bucket of gas on the probable fire. She angrily proclaimed that barricades wouldn’t stop their movement and from “speaking truth to government power”, which, apparently has become the new phrase of the woke, black left.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA…. Thank you for a good lough this morning, AS. And you own you me a new keyboard! Old one is drenched in coffee.
Cinder block and concertina wire is the new garden theme for white people living within a 10 mile radius of any, reprobate controlled urban diversity zone.
As we saw in Hugo, if you won’t come to the vibrancy, the vibrancy will come to you.
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BTW, I hope you lads have not been omitting one of the most important pieces of personal security: Your bodies.
Get yourselves into a gym and put in some work; or better yet, get together with some buddies and invest in your own basement gym. It doesn’t matter how old or young you are, a regular physical training schedule is every bit as important as firearms training…actually more important.
In addition to the physical benefits, a good work-out floods the body with endorphins; mind candy which will make you feel happier as you wind your way through your drab, dangerous, reinforced cities.
Also, stop eating processed food. One of the silver linings to boycotting woke corporations is cutting the crap the sell out of your life. 99% of it is pure shit, full of preservatives and chemical flavorings.
In case you somehow haven’t twigged it, we’re in a war, lads. The outcome is in our hands.
I don’t go to Minneapolis, so I don’t care if it gets burned down.
I don’t shop at Trans-Toilet-Target Midway, so I don’t care if it gets looted again.
I’m stocked up on toilet paper so when Mayor Melvin declares a curfew (not because we need one, but because all the cool mayors are having one so we should, too), I’m ready to stay home.
I feel bad for the police officer being lynched but I’m not sticking my neck out for him, not going to ‘counter-protest,’ not driving around looking for looters to shoot. Just keeping my head down for four and a half more years until I qualify for Medicare and move someplace that’s more sane.
It’s kinda depressing, to tell you the truth.
It strikes me that activists on the left have actually conceded something very significant and important. Specifically, if you have to fortify the police and courts, they’re conceding that they can not trust the process to give them the results they want–they are implicitly admitting that their case is garbage.
It also strikes me that if we want a reason to stand up to “protesters”, that is it. If we do not arrest those who will try to intimidate judges and juries, we’re going to end up putting innocent people in jail and victimizing them otherwise.
Regarding “Critical Mass”, as an avid cyclist myself, I’ve always been puzzled about what they really hope to achieve. Most areas are pretty friendly to cyclists, in my experience, as long as you minimize the degree to which you get in the way of cars and trucks and such. My only negative experiences in the past couple of decades are with senior citizens and municipal bus drivers.
So needlessly interfering with drivers just seems like a great way of ticking off people who are mostly on my side. Why do that?
Just keeping my head down for four and a half more years until I qualify for Medicare and move someplace that’s more sane.
Medicare trumps warm climate, no state income tax and higher standard of living? Who knew!
You’re right, jpa, it’s a close call. Health insurance with my pre-existing conditions costs A through my employer, but would cost B on the open market if I quit now, whereas it will cost C when I qualify for Medicare (assuming it still exists), but I would save D by moving to a non-income tax state and would save E in heating costs but would spend F in cooling costs (unless the Biden Administration changes the energy rules), so the correct answer is . . .
I always hated multi-variable calculus.
I’m so glad I’m not in the jury pool for the Minneapolis trial. I’d be sorely tempted to tell the judge, “No, I won’t listen to the evidence and won’t pay any attention to your instructions. The worst you can do to me is jail me for contempt of court whereas Black Lives Matter can burn down my house and kill my family. I’m voting guilty no matter what the evidence shows. I feel bad for the cop who’s being lynched but if it comes down to him or me, I choose me.”
JD, let me bust a myth for you: it is cheaper to cool a house than to heat it. It is all a question of BTUs. When you heat, you have to heat from, let’s say 20F to 70F – a 50F gradient. When you cool, you go from 90 to 70 – a 20F gradient. It costs me half the dough to cool a house almost twice as large as the one we had in MN. And construction here SUCKS! But nevertheless, I thought you were already retired, and yes, health insurance trumps everything as its cost is 100x any other variable.
I’m so glad I’m not in the jury pool for the Minneapolis trial.
Alas, the actual jury may not be telling it, but they sure as hell will be thinking it. Hence the outcome is predetermined. Rule by intimidation and government sanction (not persecuting the perps and allowing for this to go on is about as a sanctiony as you can get). Hmmm… where have we seen that before?
But hey, I am willing to be surprised. I just won’t bet on it.
jpa – I don’t know how far South you live. Do you have any opinion on heat pumps for air conditioning instead of the ordinary air conditioner sitting outside? I ask because we’re looking at a retirement property in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
I use a heat pump, JD. It’s essentially an air conditioner you run backwards to heat. I don’t think it’s as efficient as natural gas for heating (converting electricity to heat I^2R vs. burning fuel), but it works well.
I also just installed a tankless water heater during the kitchen remodel. Now *that* saves some $.
You can figure a move to Texas will save you about 30% on your combined tax bill, FWIW.
Regarding heat pumps, if you’re in the good range for them working, you actually get a lot more “cool” out of it (or heat–you can work them both ways) than electrical energy you put in. It’s an interesting feature of heat flow and the Carnot cycle.
Now get out of that range–roughly from 20F to 120F–and it can get pretty dicey. But long and short of it is that it’s pretty darned efficient.
JD, I live in Houston. In the RGV, heat pumps will work. But gas is cheap as long as Feds don’t push regulations down our throats. And after the latest fiasco, price will have to come up to improve reliability. Also, in RGV, you better look at solar for yer roof – you may be selling back energy.
“I’m so glad I’m not in the jury pool for the Minneapolis trial.”
If I got the call to be a potential juror in the circus trial I’d assert my belief that all drug related deaths are suicides. Going forward the trial should be referred to as the “Fentanyl Floyd Suicide by Cop Witch Hunt”.
I’m wondering how many LEO’s will be calling in sick during the trial period. Terrible Timmy better have the National Guard emergency number on speed dial, and he better be prepared to send the guard units in with weapons off safety! How much of the cities will be sacrificed to the mob(s) before Dementia Joe sends in back up troops? What will be the elapsed time before the violence spreads to other degenerate run cities?
IANAL, but I remember hearing that Ellison’s elevation of charges from murder 3 to murder 2 guarantees an acquittal because murder 2 requires commission of a felony when the victim was killed (armed robber steals the victim’s wallet and then fatally shoots him instead of leaving the scene). As the neck hold which Chauvin was employing at the time of the incident was still approved procedure in the MPD policy manual, he could not have been concurrently committing a felony. If the jury returns a guilty verdict, my questions will be “How many on the jury voted guilty to protect themselves from the BLM mob? How many voted guilty as a pre-meditated verdict simply to extract social justice no matter what evidence or arguments were presented?”
THIS:
“A potential juror need only look at the draconian preparations being taken by the authorities to readily understand the very real and imminent threat of violence and destruction should there be an acquittal.”
https://spectator.org/derek-chauvin-trial-minneapolis/?utm_source=LibertyNation
Dr PS: if you’ve not done the 5×5 program before, I recommend it for weight training.
You mentioned firearms training. If you’ve got your own setup, combine the two. I built a throwing knife stop in my basement gym. Throw between sets. Or, reflex dry fire between. When I was in Norway for winter warfare training. We had to do a biathlon, and it kicked my butt. So, combine breathlessness, adrenaline, and shooting and now you’re getting good training.
At the end of the day, it’s your heart that needs to get hardened. Pushing your body helps, but the mental portion during workouts helps as well. That, and really loud punk music.
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