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January 10, 2010 Newsletter
Is It Winter, Yet? Plus: Various Observations
It seems as if God indeed has a sense of humor, or at least irony. Just as He created the camel and the duck-billed platypus (or caused to evolve for all evolutionist readers...but keep in mind I am not saying Creation is science! It most certainly is not...and if someone out there could prove that evolution actually happened, maybe I'd believe in it. You can start by proving man really did evolve from apes.)...well anyway, just as the armidillo was created, so has God brought much of the northern hemisphere winter. In spades! I saw on the Weather Channel that somewhere in Tennessee some car is buried in a few feet of snow. Last I heard, it was supposed to snow around Orlando, Florida. (When it snows in Miami, it'll make worldwide front page headlines, for sure.) We have already had over six inches of snow here in the Davis Mountains about 60 miles from Mexico as the crow flies, and winter has basically just begun. And, oh yeah, nearly single digit temps at night, which is very rare but happens about every five or six years. Thing is, most readers do not live in far west Texas where the average winter night-time temp is about 25. I imagine most readers are being inundated with days upon days of teens and single digits for a high, and have had perhaps some plumbing broken or frozen. Well, last night, until about 11 am when the temp rose up above 60, our water pipes froze as well. Thank God they didn't break, or else roughly 1,000 gallons of water would likely have spewed forth!
The purpose of writing this is to ask the question, are you prepared for frozen or busted water pipes? When the pipes did freeze, we had a water container, about 5 gallons, to desposit water into for use (but not for drinking...it is always a good idea to keep small water bottles filled with water for this type of problem, in the refrigerator, just in case) for washing dishes or hands. If you don't have a water source (that isn't frozen) available, then you can use melted ice from the freezer (assuming you have a supply), or water from bottled water (assuming you have some for use other than for drinking water purposes). But what if you do not have any available water? That is one reason to gather rain or snow precipitation in outdoor collection devices. It is NOT a good idea to gather snow from the yard, because the snow that looks so clean may in fact not be clean, but snow that is high up in drifts might be okay (I still don't recommend using snow, however, except in extreme emergencies. I mean, if Bear Grylls of "Man vs. Wild" can do it...). So, what if you don't have available clean water? You might have to go into town and buy some. Or, when you know that the temperatures will go down into "pipe freezing" territory, get your pots and containers out and supply them with enough water to tide you over for a day or so.
Then again, you try to ensure your pipes don't freeze by using "heat tape" wrapped around any outdoor pipe sections you have, if any. If you are fortunate enough to have all of your plumbing insulated/indoors/underground, then you might never have this problem IF you keep your house above at least 40 degrees as night. This almost invariably means having a wood heater. Because, what if your winter storm winds up taking out your electric lines? I can probably count on both hands the number of times I have posted that rural living REQUIRES one to have a heating source, even if it is just for the stove, other than electricity. Propane/butane, for instance, for cooking. Even if it means one of those "butane-in-a-can" camping stoves. Now, propane freezes at minus 188 degrees C and butane freezes at minus 138 degrees C. Now, if 32 degrees F is zero degrees C, you figure your butane or propane isn't gonna freeze. Not only that, but it won't boil either unless you try really hard. It stays a gas, period.
But suppose one of your pipes does break and spews water everywhere. Close down your water flow out of your water tank, and put a cork--that's right, a cork--in the break point that the water is coming out of, if you can, and stuff it in there (you may have to whittle it down), and twist it in tight. You will have drips. Nothing that doesn't cover the hole completely is full proof. But you will slow down water loss to drips instead of filling a five-gallon bucket every ten minutes. Lucky you if you can turn off the water at the tank and not have a bit leaching out--most likely you have a new fitting.
Another good idea is to shut off your hot water heater, because if you leave it on and there is little to no water going in or out of it, you might burn up the heating element. If you do lose all your water you can get a quick refill from a delivery person for about $100. A new hot water heater costs a lot more than that. Also, to possibly relieve that drip-drip-drip pressure on the corked broken pipe, let a tiny stream of water run out of your pipe if possible. This might take pressure off the broken pipe, a good idea if you don't want the cork to pop out. Perhaps.
Other Observations
As a result of the so-called "crotch bomber," TSA now appears to want to install full body screening mechanisms at airport security stations. I can see one scenario that this could lead to. Let's say the next false flag op involves a "Muslim" female who is carrying a "bomb" inside a tampon she is wearing ostensibly because she has her "period." TSA, of course, will not only strip search all menstruating/menopausal females (ages 10 to 60, just to cover all possibly pre-menopaulsal women and girls), but if a woman actually does have her period, will be prevented from flying, period. Not only that, but these machines supposedly give off terahertz waves that might tear apart DNA strands. This means that women who are pregnant probably shouldn't take that flight. Imagine the law suits! Some pregnant woman gives birth to a baby with twelve toes and sixteen fingers because its DNA got screwed up in the womb, and sues TSA for a trillion dollars. Now of course the government always wins these types of suits, because no one forced the woman to fly. But think about all the taxpayer dollars the government would have to pay its lawyers. This could mean some too-big-to-fail-bank won't get bailed out!
Or, of course, we can simply pay TSA folks to stand around looking as if they are body scanning vuluptuous females. Just as long as us peons think we are going to wind up being subjects of "you-tube" videos...I mean, isn't that what all this BS "counter-terrorism" "security" measures are all about (besides making Congress critters even richer, of course).
After all, our legislative bodies do the same thing. Congress is either protecting their phony-baloney jobs ("give the chairman a hurumph"), or has come to its own conclusion that it is just going through the motions of governing. For this they make well over 100K a year? No wonder Pelosi doesn't want the House o' Representin' on C-Span!
And when Congress is actually doing something, they abuse their powers. Every Friday this man posts messages on his home-made billboard about how Congress abuses its powers. A picture shows him next to a billboard with the message: "While you were watching NFL Sunday, our Senate approved a 1.1 trillions dollar spending bill with 4.9 trillion dollars of pork!" while wearing his Miami Dolphins jacket. Ironic.
Two more interesting articles...The Wall Street Journal reported that some Iraqi insurgents were able to hack into a Predator Drone video download feed that was supposed to go back to "coalition" HQ, with a software package worth $26, reported here. The article reported that "The Journal revealed that the Pentagon's 'potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control.' Investigative journalists Siobhan Gorman, Yochi Dreazen and August Cole disclosed that the "U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s." In other words, the MI complex is just another criminal operation, like the CIA or the Federal Reserve, run by psychopaths. Only psychopaths would never worry about if something worked or not. All they are interested in is spreading fear and smelling and tasting blood. Psychopaths in power=vampires. Don't forget that the legendary cruelty of the aristocratic Vlad the Impaler is who gave rise to the myth of vampires. Considering that the military "lost" cruise missiles tipped with nukes for six hours, that were found to be attached to a B-52 Stratofortress that flew from Minot AFB in North Dakota to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, "enemy" forces intercepting video feeds sounds like standard operating procedure. You know, a SNAFU...situation normal, all f***ed up. And then there is this Wayne Madsen piece that explains how the crotch bomber incident could have been a false flag operation. Madsen is an intel analyst who formerly worked for the CIA. What am I saying? No one "formerly" works for the CIA! Unless they are dead.
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