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  1. 9 hours ago, Yul Lose said:

    This morning I had to go to a medical building to get an X-ray for an upcoming doctors appointment next week. As I pulled into the parking lot I noticed a woman standing out in front of the building screaming into a cellular phone. There was a police car not too far behind me and I pulled into a parking space and parked. The cop got out of the car and started trying to talk to the woman screaming on the cell phone. I could hear a gas powered leaf blower at the other end of the parking lot. Seems she had called the cops to report the guy using a GAS powered leaf blower. The officer was trying to tell her that it was legal to use them but they couldn’t be sold in the state anymore, it didn’t make any difference to her she wanted the guy arrested.  I was running late for my appointment so I went on into the building. When I came out the woman and the police officer were both gone and the guy was still blowing leaves off of the parking lot in another place.

    I was relieved to see that the new law won't restrict larger chainsaws, portable sawmills, or most ag equipment.  But it will restrict leaf blowers, pressure washers, lawn mowers, etc.  Vendors can sell existing inventory, and many sellers filled back rooms and warehouses, so all of it is likely to be available for a while.  And at this point, nobody checks at the border inspection stations.  The law is another liberal farce. 

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  2. 51 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

    Why would a business in Mobile Alabama have a Northern California area code for their business phone?


    Here’s the building at their address.

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    SCAMMERS

    Amazing detective work.  Much appreciated.

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  3. Idiots are not the only ones who get injured.  Safety seems so obvious, but it is not always so.  Things can seem perfectly safe, but have hidden hazards that nobody would anticipate -- many times even experienced people get nasty surprises from things they've done routinely. 

     

    A habit I've acquired is to go onto the Internet and search/read about accidents that have occurred with tools and equipment that I use.  The OSHA sites pop up with some surprising, but awful accidents that I'm glad to be made aware of. 

     

    For example the 60 cycle per second semi-pulsation of an older single-tube fluorescent light strobed a 60 RPM 18" swing vertical lathe flat still.  The operator stuck his hand into the giant chuck - lost his lower arm. 

     

    Or a worker was finish-polishing a cylindrical wooden spindle on a lathe in a furniture factory, using high speed and too long of a sanding strip.  It wrapped his hand, twisting it off. 

     

    Or the diesel engine of a front-entry skid-steer died from hot intake gasses while pushing logs up onto a burn pile, with no fast way out for the operator.  The operator perished. 

    (Reading that, I removed the rear windows from my front entry equipment that I use for managing burn piles. )

     

    Pretty much every tool or equipment type has its own list of fatal or disabling accidents. 

    It isn't pleasant reading, but there's a lot of value in being aware.  

     

     

     

     

  4. On 12/29/2023 at 2:08 PM, Subdeacon Joe said:

     

     

    In a case a few years ago SILVEIRA v. LOCKYER 5983:
    9th Circuit Judge Kozinski’s masterful dissenting opinion.  http://gunsonthestreets.com/wp/2012/05/silveira-v-lockyer-judge-kozinskis-dissenting-opinion/  In part:

     

    “My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history. The prospect of tyranny may not grab the headlines the way vivid stories of gun crime routinely do. But few saw the Third Reich coming until it was too late. The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed—where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

    Fortunately, the Framers were wise enough to entrench the right of the people to keep and bear arms within our constitutional structure. The purpose and importance of that right was still fresh in their minds, and they spelled it out clearly so it would not be forgotten. Despite the panel’s mighty struggle to erase these words, they remain, and the people themselves can read what they say plainly enough:

    A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

    The sheer ponderousness of the panel’s opinion—the mountain of verbiage it must deploy to explain away these fourteen short words of constitutional text—refutes its thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel’s labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting on it—and is just as likely to succeed.”

    Wow!  That's a bit chilling to read, given today's current events!  Too many of the above concerns are facing us right now.  You have to wonder-- and fear -- where all of this could end up. 

    "Ends Justify Means" seems to have overpowered the written words of the law.  

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  5. On 12/30/2023 at 6:01 AM, Alpo said:

    I'm assuming that "encounters" is cops running into illegals.

     

    But that's just a guess. You're right, it needs to be explained.

    It is not possible to census all of  the people illegally crossing the border, due to avoidance.  So I believe the stat provided is intended to only show the number of illegals actually encountered by the Border Patrol over the months.  It is mainly a trend line, but it also will represent a minimum number who actually were contacted.  The actual illegal population size is therefore greater than what the orange line and metric shows. 

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  6. On 12/29/2023 at 11:31 AM, Subdeacon Joe said:

    A judge has put a stay on the "sensitive places" portion of that law, and the rest is being contested in court.

     

    Of course, Newsom and Bonta are appealing the stay.  It will go to the 9th, the 3 judge panel will uphold the stay, Bonta will ask for an en banc, which will be granted, and that hand picked "random" 11 judge panel will side with the State.

    The 3 judge panel from the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, failed to uphold the stay today.

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  7. On 12/29/2023 at 11:19 AM, Tall Tale Todd said:

    I didn’t vote for that.

    The people voting for the lunacy are people who came here from other states thinking the grass was greener or hand-outs were better here.  But nobody is allowed to water the grass any more -- or buy a gasoline chain saw or pressure washer or lawn mower --or burn a wood stove or ........ 

    The restrictions and rising taxes are chasing even the long-time California natives away.  The more of us conservatives that leave just increases the likelihood of more lunacy and lunatics being voted in.  It is all coming your way.  Watch out for Newsom!

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  8. 1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:

    Scroom.  I will die as I have lived, a free citizen one way or another.

    Nobody here is really talking about giving up any freedom to choose or live.   I truly hope your choices work out well for you.  Merry Christmas to you!

  9. 3 hours ago, Creeker, SASS #43022 said:

    Covid nearly killed me.

    You're all adults - do whatever you think is best for yourself - but don't ignore it and don't believe for a second that you are invulnerable.

     

     

    Good advice!  I hope you're recovered completely by now.  

  10. 10 hours ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

    Covid never STOPPED going around. My wife is a Nursing Assistant at a local Rehab Center, and they've been getting Covid "infected", (means they tested positive, most with NO symptoms) all along. About every 6 weeks or so, they have to mask up, gown and glove up, and get tested because SOMEBODY tested positive again.

    It's Flu season, people are going to get sick. Some will die. It happens EVERY YEAR. Covid just has a fancy name and a Press Agent.

    Covid was a Public Health Issue for about 6 weeks, then it became a Political Issue. Just watch. The closer it gets to election time, the more we'll hear about it, and it will be Trump's fault. Again.

    Hard for the Left to pin Covid on Trump.  He tried early-on to put the blame on China, where it belonged, defying the WHO and all of the Leftists who defended the Chinese-- calling it a natural virus instead of the genetically engineered bio-weapon that it is.  Then he cut off travel from China, and pulled out all the stops to expedite vaccine development.  But he never tried to shut things down.

     

    But the Left won't care about facts.  They never do.  They'll invent whatever narrative they need to play out their election agenda.  And a predictable number of dumbed-down people will believe them 

     

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  11. 2 hours ago, Dirty Dan Dawkins said:

    Gates and Fauci…..,

    If they’d just treat the bronchitis, pneumonia etc…The respiratory side effects are what kill people, along with vents and rendizavere, or whatever it’s called. If they’d just treat that, along with measures to boost the bodies immune system and ward off the virus…….by just I’m not saying to stop at that. I’m saying, JUST stop ignoring the respiratory illness by refusing to treat those symptoms head on,  and JUST stop us from watching people die on vents and rendizavere, or whatever it’s called. I watched 4-5 people die on that crap, cause they were “targeting the virus” with vents and Faucis shitty drug.

     

    My nurse practitioner buddy at VA said it was an 80% or better death sentence at the VA hospital he works at, once these two were administered.

     

    Food for thought- https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/bacterial-pneumonia-caused-most-deaths-1918-influenza-pandemic

     

    What changed? These agencies, scientists, and  doctors secured the  right to own patents, whether via agency or personally,  and enact policies to dictate use of their patented medicines without long term placebo controlled studies. Third world is used as short term Guinea pigs to produce data desired.. People die when generic medicines, antibiotics,  and nutritional supplements can be used to fight the respiratory side affects of these laboratory viruses. 

     

     

    Hope you realize that the ventilators and other hospital tactics are specifically intended to deal with the pneumonia and other symptomatic complications, to support the patient while the virus runs it course.  The vaccines and drugs  are to stimulate  your own natural immune system and shape its antibodies to attack specific shaped virus particles, thereby reducing the number of  your own cells that become virus infected.   I think the medical people are doing essentially what you are advocating, but in much greater detail.  

  12. 5 hours ago, Cypress Sun said:

     

    I think that the vast majority of Americans would not participate in another shutdown of everything. They would push back, possibly violently, against any mandate of a shutdown...they saw what happened last time...massive governmental overreach, loss of employment, economy ruined, massive fraud, forced "inoculations" and a myriad of other results.

     

    I hope that is true.   I worry today about the lack of government predictability.  It seems like all of the rules, rights, principles and pillars of democracy that I grew up to understand are being bent and turned according to political agendas.  The courts no longer deliver predictable decisions, seemingly driven more by politics and judicial beliefs than by the law and Constitution.  

    Things like plea bargaining are widely used to coerce defendant's and witnesses to get into line with particular agendas.  Things like that did not happen while I was growing up here.   

     

    Perhaps all of that is just complexity closing in on us -- or perhaps it isaabout having almost unlimited information at our fingertips tips -- or perhaps it is a planned agenda to disrupt and destroy the world's best- formed Republic.   I don't know, but I do know it all concerns me.

     

    For the public to rise up, they must take an existential risk of arrest and unfair treatment by the same entities they rise against. 

    We hear a lot about "insurrection" these days.  When I hear that word, I think about John Hancock, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King -- men and women who put everything on the line to address inhumanity.   Maybe each of us will face decisions like that at some time, if the world and its logic continues to be  turned upside down.   Predictability is important.

     

    Sorry for spinning so far off-topic. 

  13. 7 minutes ago, Captain Bill Burt said:

    I’ve already had it twice, at least. For me it wasn’t that bad.

     

    Two weeks ago I was in the ICU with Flu A and viral pneumonia, negative for Covid. That was the sickest I’ve ever been. COVID was a walk in the park compared to that.

     

    I’m not going to live in fear and I’m not going to give up my freedoms because others are afraid.

     

    If I get it again, I’ll beat it again.

    We agree.  But I hope we don't get back into our events being governmentally shut down or canceled due to low attendance, like last time.   Speaking for our own club, we're just getting back up to prior membership and participation.   I'm too old now to miss out on very many years of fun. 

    BTW, I hope your Flu recovery goes OK and fast. 

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  14. 10 hours ago, Hashknife Cowboy said:

    Colt Python 357 Magnum 4.25in Stainless Steel Revolver - 6 Rounds  - Satin Finish - $1279.99

    Anyone seen one of these?

     

    https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/handguns/colt-python-357-magnum-425in-stainless-steel-revolver-6-rounds/p/1857054

     

     

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    Good price for an original production Python -- and a great gun.  If it's a new production gun, I have no experience with prices or quality. 

  15. 17 minutes ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

    Tendons heal slowly because they have less blood supply.  Waiting to get them reattached invites contracture, making healing even longer.  Get some good medical guidance ASAP, and good luck.

    Good advice!

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  16. 22 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:

    Hollering into the fear echo chamber.  A big bunch of us have figured it out to our satisfaction.  BTW did you see Bill Gates new anti viral wafer?

    Glad you have it figured out.  If you read my whole post, you saw this:

     

    Truth is, I really don't personally care a hoot whether anybody here takes precautions or not, or believes the new variant is worth thinking about.  Everyone. can make their own decisions.  I have no need to know about them. 

     

    I try to avoid anything that Bill Gates is attached to.  I wish somebody would do an involuntary "update" on the man and his businesses. 

    So no, I'm not aware of his latest scam. 

  17. 1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:

    Please quote your sources for yet another convenient plague being in process.

    I did quote my source.  It is me. 

    I described my personal friends recent experience.  Nothing more than that.  

    But being that you asked, my immediate neighbor, Dr. Jove Graham MD. is the Chief of Medicine at our local Clovis Community Hospital.  He shared with me that their beds are 96% full again, and their ER is back outside in a tent in the parking lot, due to a surge in new Covid variant cases.   

    Our local newspaper. The  Fresno Bee reports the weekly numbers of new cases, as logged by the Fresno County Public Health, Infectious Disease Division, based on clinical Covid testing.  Since Thanksgiving, new variant Covid cases are up by 60+% in most San Joaquin Valley communities. 

     

    But It isn't really about predictions or data.  If it's out there and spreading, all of us will find out and we can do whatever we want with that info. 

      

    I was mainly just making folks aware that Medicare and supplements won't pay the high cost of Paxlovid.   

    Enough said.

     

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  18. 4 minutes ago, PowderRiverCowboy said:

    Hope your friends feel better from the flu , Covid-19 been around since 2016 First Patent was filed in 2016
     

    WO2016/118725 Moderna January 21, 2016 Published Lipids/NP + mRNA

    Thanks for your concern.  The two I spoke of, in reference to Paxlovid cost, are in their late 80s.  They both were clinically tested Covid-Positive  (not flu or anything else-positive) and, as of today, both are still at home, but. have developed respiratory symptoms like pneumonia (3 d post-exposure). 

     

    I can't speak for other areas, but the four major hospitals here in Fresno, Ca are approaching  capacity again, due to a surge in Covid admissions over the past several weeks.  It means less timely ER treatment and admissions for other diseases or illness, like heart attacks, strokes, accidents, etc. 

     

    In my O.P., I was mostly reporting  Medicare's refusal to cover the high Paxlovid costs. (I apologize if that offended folks.)

    Truth is, I really don't personally care a hoot whether anybody here takes precautions or not, or believes the new variant is worth thinking about.  Everyone. can make their own decisions.  I have no need to know about them. 

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  19. Almost a dozen friends from all around the US have turned C-positive and started symptoms this past week and a half. 

    This new, more contagious variant is even infecting people outdoors. So take extra care.  

     

    The real problem is that Paxlovid 5-day treatment ($1580) is not covered by Medicare and because Medicare won't cover it, neither will most supplemental secondary insurance.  One couple I know both came down positive and symptomatic after only one exposure outside their home, helping outside on a community mailbox repair project.  They ended up having to pay out $1580 EACH, which hurt right at Christmas time.  Both were fully vaccinated and they're hoping it will reduce the severity.  Too soon to tell. 

    Why Medicare refuses to cover it remains a mystery.  

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  20. 39 minutes ago, Cyrus Cassidy #45437 said:

    Last week I got a flat tire on my pickup truck.  I've been driving with the spare, which is a full-sized tire (i.e. not a "doughnut").  I got the original tire patched and went to swap it back out with the spare, and to hang the spare up underneath the bed where it's stored.  Something happened -- I tore my bicep tendon.  This freaking hurts!!!! 

     

    I haven't seen the doctor yet, but I know someone this happened to and they needed surgery.

    I had it happen, pulling two 4" ABS drain pipes together into a glue joint.  I had an MRI scan to confirm the tendon damage.  It also bisected about 3" of the biceps.  I didn't have surgery.  Surgeon said it probably could heal properly without (honest surgeon!) Just took it easy on it for about a month and it healed up fine.  Protecting it for a month while building a house was interesting!

  21. 8 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

    While the  Earth is not perfectly spherical it is close enough for every degree of accuracy that you care about, so Yes.

     

    When I was doing GPS software I actually had to consider that the Earth is not spherical, but a little squished at the poles like a pumpkin.

     

    the solstice was the 21st. Oh I see you’re in CA, still today for you.

     

    now our days start getting longer. for a couple weeks though, while the days do get longer, the sunrise gets later by seconds each day until Jan four when Earth reaches perihelion in our orbit around the sun.

     

    More than you ever wanted to know I think. Have a drink on me and forget it all.

     

     

    I knew somebody out here would know way more than me about this subject.  Thx. 

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