Author: Bear

Folks have been having a lot of fun with the FBI citing the Lego Capitol in one of the 1/6 “insurrection” cases.

Babylon Bee takes first place this morning.

We need a Protection of Lawful Commerce in Legos Act.

Get this. Makes you wonder how long it’s been since she’s had to do something so plebeian as making her own copies.

Harris: Voter ID Could Mean People Have to Copy ID and Send It In and People Live in Areas Where There Isn’t a Kinko’s or OfficeMax
“I don’t think that we should underestimate what that could mean. Because in some people’s mind, that means, well, you’re going to have to Xerox or photocopy your ID to send it in to prove that you are who you are. Well, there are a whole lot of people, especially people who live in rural communities, who don’t — there’s no Kinko’s, there’s no OfficeMax near them.

I suppose they could go to a library, which typically have copiers available. And I still see them in big stores. And offhand, I can’t remember any nondeployment work location that didn’t have a photocopier available somewhere; I would expect that most employers would be willing to let their employees use it for something as important as a civic duty to vote.

Or one could ask a friend or neighbor who has a combo scanner/printer. Personally, I have two; both scrounged when people upgraded and threw the old ones away. That’s how common the things are. These are flatbed scanners, so I sold  my old roller feed scanner at a yard sale, for five bucks if I recall correctly.

County or city clerks might do it, too. I’ve gotten copies made that way.

In more than 40 years, I’ve always been able to get to a copier when needed. It used to be that I might have to drive somewhere, or walk a few blocks. But these days, one is sitting on my desk beside me.

If folks can somehow manage to copy their annual tax paperwork (they do keep file copies, right?), I figure they can manage one more copy once every couple of years.

Added: And who uses the term “xerox” anymore? That’s the first time I’ve heard it in years. And Kinko’s?

There hasn’t been a “Kinko’s” for 15 years. And 13 years since it was even Fedex Kinko’s.

Has she made a copy herself since she was blowing Willie Brown?

I saw this headline and immediately thought, “Yep.”

Grizzly bear still on the loose after pulling woman from tent, killing her in Montana; victim identified as nurse from California

Tent? Check.

California? Check? And as expected…

“The approximately 400-pound grizzly first awakened the campers about 3 a.m., officials said. They took food out of their tents, secured it and went back to sleep, they said.”

Food in the tent. In bear country. Knew it. Folks, in bear country, I don’t keep food in my camp, much less my tent. Even if it isn’t bear country, almost everywhere is ant country.

A tornado in my area.

Specifically, it was spotted maybe as far as a quarter mile from my house. Fortunately, it was moving away from here, because by the time I tracked down the location (News4Jax reported it, but based their report on a tweet about a twister in Jacksonville… an hour before), it was headed towards Brunswick.

So that wasn’t rolling thunder after all.

I miss the old Civil Defense sirens. And my weather alert radio never did go off.

Added, 7/8/2021: And the EMS phone warnings finally came in 2 hours after the tornado was confirmed.

My TZP post on the evil Lego Ghost Capitol kithad already pegged the sarcasm meter, so I didn’t even get into the so-called step by step “instructions on how to create a “hometown militia”.”

Let’s look at those “instructions.”

Buddy Teams
– mag changes
– team reload
-setup your kit

[illegible]
– buddy team [illegible]
– signal buddy

Room clearing
– stick/responsibilities
-[illegible]
– [illegible]

I’ll stop there, before my eyes give out trying to decipher handwriting that’s actually worse than my own. But if that is what the FBI considers detailed instructions on how to create a tactical team, it goes far to explain their own field incompetence.

Maybe the FBI could adopt this as an HRT training aid.

Warning: extreme sarcasm alert.

The FBI is on the job.

The rain bands of Tropical Storm Elsa have started hitting, and the lights are flickering. If I’m offline for a while, that’s why.

Get ready.

Guess What’s Coming?
Still clinging to “it’ll be ok and it won’t get me” or “the shots very, very rarely produce problems; they’re very safe” eh? Go argue with the insurance company actuaries; they have the data on every person who has one of their policies, they have run the data, and they say you and the REEEEEEEing Karens with your claims of “rare” events are all 100% full of crap; the side effects are not rare, they are in fact extremely serious, common and expensive.

Some folks don’t seem to get just how dangerous it is when Pantifa starts tossing fireworks (specifically mortar shells) at people. Perhaps this will get the point across

Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks dead at 24 after Fourth of July accident
ESPN originally reported that Kivlenieks died as a result of “falling and hitting his head on concrete” in Novi, Michigan, however the Associated Press later revealed that “an autopsy has determined that [he] died of chest trauma from an errant fireworks mortar blast.”

“There appears to have been a fireworks malfunction,” said Lt. Jason Meier of the Novi Police Department, “which caused a group of people to flee from the hot tub, including the deceased.” According to the Associated Press, police said “the mortar-style firework tilted slightly and started to fire toward people nearby.”

Should someone deliberately throw one at me, I will consider it deadly force, and respond appropriately

I think the folks across the boulevard won the contest.

In the run-up to Independence Day, I saw various reports claiming a national fireworks shortage (with China chipping in to blame pandemic shipping problems).

I saw no indication of a shortage around here. Fireworks started about a week ago (normal), and peaked naturally enough last night. My sister said it didn’t stop until well after midnight.

If there was a shortage, part of the national prob must have been that my area locals depleted the nation’s supply.