Author: Garry

Here is where that old sag about ‘those who would trade freedom for security will obtain neither’ proves to be words truly spoken. The stripping of rights is no longer minor and/or incremental.

Yesterday (Friday, 27) Rhode Island began stopping all vehicles with NY plates. Today, they’ve called out the National Guard to go door to door looking for NY natives to take into quarantine.

This shit will not end well.

Here is the story from the AP:

Rhode Island State Police on Friday began pulling over drivers with New York plates so that National Guard officials can collect contact information and inform them of a mandatory, 14-day quarantine.

Gov. Gina Raimondo ratcheted up the measures Friday afternoon, announcing she’ll also order the state National Guard to go door-to-door in coastal communities starting this weekend to find out whether any of the home’s residents have recently arrived from New York and inform them of the quarantine order.

The Democrat had already deployed the guard to bus stations, train stations and the airport to enforce the executive order, which also applies to anyone who has traveled to New York in the last 14 days.

“I know it’s unusual. I know it’s extreme and I know some people disagree with it,” she said Friday, adding that she has consulted with state lawyers.

“If you want to seek refuge in Rhode Island, you must be quarantined.”

Raimondo maintains she’s within her emergency powers to impose the measures, but the American Civil Liberties Union has called it an “ill-advised and unconstitutional plan.”

Governors have the authority to suspend some state laws and regulations in a state of emergency, but they can’t just suspend the Constitution, argued Steven Brown, head of the ACLU’s Rhode Island chapter.

“Under the Fourth Amendment, having a New York state license plate simply does not, and cannot, constitute ‘probable cause’ to allow police to stop a car and interrogate the driver, no matter how laudable the goal of the stop may be,” he said.

The New York Times published an op-ed Friday that blamed evangelical Christians for the coronavirus pandemic.  The argument, by journalist and author Katherine Stewart, is that because religious voters supported Trump, that means he governs without regard for science. In a piece titled: “The Road to Coronavirus Hell Was Paved by Evangelicals,” she writes:

Donald Trump rose to power with the determined assistance of a movement that denies science, bashes government and prioritized loyalty over professional expertise. In the current crisis, we are all reaping what that movement has sown.

At least since the 19th century, when the proslavery theologian Robert Lewis Dabney attacked the physical sciences as “theories of unbelief,” hostility to science has characterized the more extreme forms of religious nationalism in the United States.

Breitbart has a good article titled “New York Times Blames Evangelical Christians for Coronavirus” that rips into the article pretty well. Link here

A story out of the LA Times

The awakening: As the corona virus pandemic tightens its grip on California’s largest cities, some residents are fleeing urban sprawl and seeking shelter in isolated communities in the Mojave Desert or rugged Sierra Nevada. Their hope, they say, is to avoid possible public unrest and limit their exposure to the virus.

These new urban immigrants are not entirely welcome, however. Locals fear their arrival could overwhelm the public health systems of small towns already struggling to cope with the growing crisis, and public health officials worry the movement will lead to greater spread of the highly contagious virus.

In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday night that residents were forbidden from moving to or from vacation homes outside the city, along with a number of other health and safety restrictions aimed at fighting contagion.

In Mammoth Lakes, a small Eastern Sierra town that survives primarily on skiing at Mammoth Mountain, the tourism board last week told nonresidents to keep out. “I’ve seen this kind of fear and desperation before in Israel during rocket attacks,” one member said. “A friend recently asked if I had a gun he could borrow. I said absolutely not.”

While all of this is pretty much what many of us have expect to be the natural progression of fear turned to panic as those folk who failed to prepare are now faced with the realization that time has run out. We will probably recover from this shortly, but what if we don’t or for that matter what of next year (or next time with a new disease).

For us that have been keeping one eye on the risk meter for years and have planned accordingly, an ‘I told you so’ brings no satisfaction. There are millions upon millions of folk that live in LA scrambling for some semblance of safety only to find one real truth of life: The only safety is that which you secure for yourself.

Things are rockin right now. Stock market is swinging wildly, Trillions are being spent by our pathetic ‘leaders’ to line their pockets and steal the nation. A virus is raging, folk are freaking. Buckle up folks its gonna be a wild week!

Do you really believe this can’t happen again? Happen to you ?

Things may get a little rough in the future, particularly if major systems begin to fail. But no matter how bad it becomes, it’ll never compare to the challenges we faced in the past.

Am making some changes to the site and have caused catastrophic failure after disastrous failure on the site. Electrons have been flying too and fro. I understand complaints have been lodged with the EEOC. I’ve noticed a multiple agency SWAT team forming in the front pasture. Send lawyers, guns and money.

Also, have added a link on the right side of the page that will put you onto useful (and timely) prepping information.

Site will be back to normal soon

I remember America, it was the land of the free and home of…….

I’ve got no idea how it is that a member of the judicial branch can do the shit they are doing in Texas. This from Breitbart:

On Friday afternoon, Cameron County Judge Eddie Trevino, Jr. issued a series of emergency orders that will keep residents off public and private roads and streets between midnight and 5 a.m. An exception is made for law enforcement, medical, and emergency personnel. Cameron County includes the border city of Brownsville and the beach hotspot of South Padre Island.

Another provision of the order excuses individuals going to and from work that is permitted at those hours, and those seeking medical attention, prescriptions, fuel or food. Individuals who violate the curfew could be fined up to $1,000 and/or be sent to jail for up to 180 days. Trevino previously ordered the closing of county beaches in an attempt to minimize the spread of the coronavirus.

During a recent news conference, Trevino said that recreational fishermen had become upset over the closing of the beaches. He reiterated it was all done to prevent the spread of the virus. This week Cameron County announced its first confirmed case of the virus involving a 21-year-old man from Rancho Viejo who had recently returned from Europe and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.

Just wait and see, we are going to end up fighting another revolutionary war to wrangle back our freedom from these despots.

In my quest to find mo-better preservation techniques for things that come from the garden I made my first batch of Kimchi today. I’m 12 hours into the first day of fermentation (preceded by a 12 hour salt water bath). Tomorrow morning I’ll vent the jars and move them into the fridge where they’ll remain for a month (or until I finish them off).

I checked on my lettuce and still only have two varieties growing, so I started several seeds in a growing medium to see if they were still good. I’m thinking no.

I got my little seed starter kit primed up and planted Jalapeno, Habanero, Cayenne, California Wonder (bell) and Banana Peppers. I’m going to wait a least a week before starting my tomatoes as they can quickly get out of hand when your growing 60 or so in the house.

All of the trees are now blooming. The apple trees did not flower, so I suppose that I’ll not get any fruit from them until next year (at the soonest). I did spray all of the trees and think I can get through this year without the wide-world of insects making their home (and having their lunch) in my trees.

This is what ‘self-quarantine’ is like on my little patch of the earth!

https://twitter.com/i/status/1240629571285852164

I’ve had some bad thoughts lately; perhaps I need to voluntarily check into a reeducation camp. These bad thoughts center around a government so powerful that it could snatch all of the rights of its citizens up and force everyone of them off of the streets and into their little cubical homes.

I can see what comes next: the cyber attack that destroys all communications channels except (of course) the official government broadcasts.

Nice country you have there America, be a shame if something happened to it.