Dio's WorkshopWelcome to my brain. It’s messy. It’s interesting. And it’s all connected if you stick around long enough. "Believe Nothing: no matter who said it, even if I have said it, except it agree with your own reason and common sense. Siddhartha Guatamo, the Buddha.
Gonna be a long day/wknd potentially. Droppin’ the gearbox in Da’s truck (yeah, the new to him one) and doing a clutch replacement.
yay me
Slow season, needs cash, and Da made the offer. Normally don’wanna deal with heavy gearboxes while on me back, (don’t much like dealin’ with ’em on a danged lift, but so MUCH easier,,,) but,,,, needs the cash. (And Da doesn’t want to wait for the meh-kah-nik he found, to do the work,,, was told it would be a couple weeks before the guy could get him in.)
SO, Y’all gotta deal with the rest of the webz for entertainments,,,
Back when the digits ain’t covered in cargunk-n-goo.
My last post, I made some, what seemed to me, to be reasonable ASSUMPTIONS.
Well, then, Assume makes an ass out of you and me.
BCE has a better run-down with more intelligence applied to the sitrep, to include things I did not know existed.
I eat my hat. Not proud, and won’t EVER claim I know it all. (maybe thirty years ago, when I was young-n-dumb: now I am older and wiser and KNOW I don’t know it all, and have no clue of the things I don’t even know I don’t know,,, BUT KNOW I DON”T KNOW THEM,,,,,LOL,,, whadda paradox, eh?)
What I do know,,, I had a pistolla that was set up for a can, and I was told by a gunsmith to check the spring loading to make sure it would cycle on lower powered sub-sonics. That particular pistol was a fixed barrel (Non-reciprocating) that didn’t move or twitch a bit in any direction, such as a Glock does (and many others,,,) And it was .22, so yah, subsonics in those probably wouldn’t cycle the slide.
That info is what I based my assessment on, and I happily will admit that I may have jumped the shark and inserted my own foot into my own rectum in public.
WP won’t let me embed the vid,,, (HT to Vlad Tepes for the actual footage and some observable points)
First shot, failure to feed or failure cycle? Seems to me that he is using ill-matched subsonics (suppressors don’t like +P loads) and hadn’t matched the slide spring for it. Will cycle, but won’t fully cycle, may even stove pipe in some cases.
Is this where the 3 ‘live’ rounds that were marked come from? IF TRUE, the dude KNEW which rounds would be found and loaded accordingly. If that doesn’t tell you there was a message involved, I suggest getting a room with a live in assistant to help you feed yourself.
And calm? Dude was an ice cube. Steady hands, quick recovery to cycle the action, totally ignored a fleeing witness,,,,
Leaving the scene: essentially jogged across the street. DID NOT RUN,,, Running in NYFC gets you noticed*, jogging across a street is normal and expected to survive against Traffic. Then he ‘fled’ on an ebike? Dude, thats damn near Central American ‘Hitman’ Protocol,,, simple, all around transport, QUIET, and can go places QUICKLY that a regular vehicle wouldn’t and much faster than being a jogger or runner (*and who the fuck runs in NYFC at night? Someone that just did a bad,,,, begs for instant karma.)
enough with my analysis of the shooting. Where I am getting bad vibes from is a local fox news report showing the ‘Suspect’ unmasked, then showing another picture (that looks more like the shooter from the vid) and its OBVIOUS the two are completely different people, different dress, no backpack (one that is kinda hard to hide at that) in the first pic, etc etc. Even in the commentary over there, only about every fourth comment is something other than “Not the same person, shame on FOX for trying to get some innocent tagged” Here’s the embed of that,,,,
Yeah, there is a chance the guy had multiple dress modes,,, shoe lifts to change his height, several layered jackets, but that backpack doesn’t just fade from sight Dunno,,,
as for the no gloves thing as some suggested: in the first vid, it looks as if he doesn’t have gloves on, but its also rather grainy footage. Kid gloves would appear as no gloves and with all the other aspects of this shooting, I would say, dude may not be ‘Pro’, but he sure as F! ain’t rank amateur! He had something between his digits and things he was touching. And I would bet with a high confidence that the phone they found ditched in the alley: stolen or a burner bought with cash. Those are VERY EASY TO FIND IN NYFC and I recall being offered several makes and models when I was in town (back when I was still touring), and that was back AFTER 9/11. I don’t expect things to have changed all that much since then.
Take notes people, I think we are going to see more of this in the future.
And remember those S’s,, Shoot, Shovel, AND SHUT THE F! UP!!! Even when the Just-us system works, a silent suspect drives the po-po nuts. (it means they actually have to do the job and INVESTIGATE/PROVIDE EVIDENCE. And you can’t get cornered with Perjury if you never say a thing.)
Live
LEARN
Laugh
LOAD (and match your springs to your rounds load. Unless you want to leave a message,,,)
Gonna start with that pardon of a worm in a three peice suit,,, been holdin’ me tongue on this as I wanted more perspective, and as is par for my course, T.L. delivered,
My take: this was a CYA event and if it weren’t for the dirt, The Clan woulda thrown Hunter undet the wheels of the bus. Fact is, he knows way too much and if ‘immune’ to prosecution, could have taken the whole gang down: now ‘he owes them’ and will act accordingly.
As for future pardons of other criminal elements like Mayorkas and Co., yeah,,, nice thinking, but they are just as, if not more dirty: they are oathbreakers at the start line, do you think they would be honest even with a level of immunity from prosecution??? Be honest with your thinking here, its much easier to lie to yourself. My personal thought being: they’ll lie as usual, take the perjury hit and do a small stint behind bars, rather than face a serious case of Arkan-cide,,, I fully expect to see more deaths such as we were witness to with a certain CEO this week.
And on that note,,,
I expect that there will be more of that outside of the political spectrum since its pretty obvious the two tiered “Just-us” system isn’t going to recover fast enough for the ‘man on the street’s satisfaction, IMO. I think Trumped and his cotterie of Hooligans (for the most part)(and don’t take that nickname as a negative,, I like many of those ‘hooligans’. ) are on the same side as the ‘man in the street’, and I would hope they understand that the (S)election cycle showed SERIOUS distrust in all things GOV and that the rudely woken up BASED Giant is flat sick of this shit. THEY (as in Trumped and krew) fix it, OR WE’RE AGONNA,,,, And the establishment won’t like what that entails. (I haven’t read this post by T.L. yet, but I am betting it hits much the same vein I just exposed above.)
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE SICK OF THIS SHIT, BEING ROBBED, RAPED, AND SHIT ON, BY THE VERY PEOPLE THAT ARE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT US. WE are sick of seeing ‘a sworn enemy’ as more stable and sane than the Fucknutz we have in office. (yes, I am refering to Putin here) We have a Shaministration on its way out the door giving BILLIONS of dollars to some obscure cause called ‘Africans hurt by natural disasters’ while AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE FREEZING AND STARVING IN TENTS IN APPALACHIA because ‘reasons’,,,, The same people have options available to them and are being denied those options because 1) they weren’t on the prefered vendors list (read that as ‘someone ain’t getting a kickback) or 2) it ‘Violates codes’ (and when disaster happens, those codes need to take a backseat to expedience: people need help, sort the details out after the fact.) or 3) ‘they supported Trump’,,,,(nuff said on that,,,,) Is it any wonder why Appalachia is turning RED with a quickness? I’m more surprised that we aren’t hearing tales of dissappeared Agents and shallow graves,,,,
Here is something that those in power don’t wanna hear: We the PEOPLE don’t need them,,, Get the fuck out of the way and we can get some mad crazy shit done, in half the time and WAY underbudget,,,, And we are getting really really sick of y’all gettin in our way. We are sick of y’all trying to tell us that our eyes and ears are lying to us, when we know full well where the lies are coming from. We are sick and tired of seeing 1/3rd of our paychecks being sent only God knows where, for only God knows What (and Screw-em-more and Peelouzy know what percentage gets kicked back,,,) We are sick and tired of the backstabbing divide and conquer that has become the Common Denominator since OBlammy-O-Boy was in the house on his first term. We KNOW who is/was running the show up until Xi-Den got stabbed in the back (and I would bet serious money that he voted for OMB and that there is some deal making going on between the two currently. Not gonna say I like it, but I can see it in some of the current actions. Those things like ‘approving missle launches against Russia’ are some nut job behind the scenes trying to keep Cookie Nuland’s legacy alive. Or is still answering to Barry and Co. or both,,,,) There are too many small signs that tell me (and others) that Xi-den had a turncoat moment and tossed the DNC under the bus by endorsing Que-mala. And with good reason,,, THAT ENTIRE SIDE HAS NO LOYALTY TO ANYTHING BUT POWER and it shows.
And WE THE PEOPLE are flat sick of it.
We want our kids to get GOOD EDUCATIONS, not indoctrinated in Marxist bullshit.
We want our healthcare to keep us healthy, not life long clients to a system that slowly kills us.
We want a justice system that is BLIND to all but the law. No color, no creed, no bank accounts taken into consideration as to who gets protected,,,
We want a government that is small but effective, and NOT in our backpocket like a leech.
We voted for Trump because we BELIEVE he can at least deliver on some of those things.
But if he can’t,
WE WILL.
(we’re trying to be civil about it, but we do have limits.)
Maybe its the KOLD, Freeze your digits off, snow bound, lack of work, despondent side of me right now,,, Not that I am snow-bound, but with zero inflow of FRN’s ( I did get my Zon Royalties this week,,, but that won’t even buy a burger at a cheap place) I choose to not burn fuel to go anywhere that would require me to part ways with cash.
Sigh,,,, it’s quite white out right now. Took the morn to blow off the solar panels, the porch, stacked kayaks, and the woodpile, (the packrats LOVED that!, NOT!!!) Feed the kittehs and Voo, and take the Voo out to leave the neighbors some shit. And a-now,,, Kalifornia dreamin’,,,, Well, not exactly Kalifornia,,, anywhere with saltwater, beachsand and WARM SUNLIGHT would do me just fine. Wander the beach for sand-dollars to sell to the tourista, do some surf-casting for dinner, wear the callouses down on my happy barefeet walkin’ in the sand (they hatez the need for shoes,,,),,, Kayak out to my crab-traps in the afternoon, (Dio swoons with the thought of fresh crab and Red Snapper for dinner,,,,)
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Being this far south, it’s not bad,,, its a tad early IMO, but that could mean we are in for a rough season or Ol’man winter is gonna chill out and idle through to March,,, it goes either way and no one can say for certian. But my Littlest Sis is up NOrt, getting hammered by lake effect. I’m sure she is missing the beaches of Floriduh right now,,,, I know Sis in the Carolinas was grumpin’ about ‘I moved south to get away from this shit’,,,, Yeah,,, so did I,,, Guess further south is a callin’.
Say, around the Tropic of Cancer line,,,,, Belize is supposed to be nice,,,, I could get close by living at the southern-most tip of Texas,,, (not a good choice IMO,,,)
Guess I gotta hit the lottery for that ‘un,,,, Sure ain’t gonna make a move like that on what I am pulling in current.
The wind whispers over the sand as the small waves of the ocean carress them smooth,,, cooler winds from other shores across the ocean,,,, The trade winds that brought our ancestors to these shores,,
SHUSH DIO!!!
The woodburner is crankin’ out the heat, and if I put a fan near it, I could close my eyes and feel like I were on the beach,, WITH LOTS OF IMAGINATION,,,
I DO NOT LIKE WINTER-TIME,,,, My eyes are sore from all the reading,,, BUT, I have made a serious dent in that pile, (and its too early, may need to find more,,,)
and I need a new cushion in my office chair,,,, starting to feel the frame inside in places.
LOL
Hear me whinin’????
I get by, might be tight (isn’t it usually?) but I get by. May not be the happy-happy thoughts in my head, but it ain’t the Gulags of Soviet Russia either,,, (If you want to know what cold is, read that book: Alexander perfectly conveyed what a Siberian winter feels like. )
Been two weekends that I have not gone kayaking. Feeling a tad withdrawn here,,,
and THIS
Is the prediction tomorrow
and I am GOING DAMMIT!!!
Hell, the water is gonna feel like bathwater right now, compared to air-temps (but that ain’t saying its safe: will still chill you into paralysis damned quick.)
Probably won’t be out long, but to not go on a four day weekend is procrastinatin’ in my book. Yeah, will most likely be solo, will probably not leave sight of the boat ramp, but I will do some windsprints and get the muscles warmed up, and maybe, IF I actually get into the full drysuit, not my wetsuit drytop combo, I may even do some roll practices. I haven’t made up the mind on that one yet. (and sorta depends on the wind factor,,,)
I don’t like the cold, but I despise lack of water time even more. I have the gear for it: not utilizing it causes me some personal shame issues.
It was the early part of the Tweens when the political divisions of the United States reached irreconcilable differences. Ted, a burnt out computer programmer, and Jim, a double amputee combat vet, reverse engineer the pentagons drone program and create a rebel air force. While traveling the country helping others defend what is left of the country, they run afoul a most evil woman intent on creating a serfdom within the country.
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