We’ve been discussing China’s String of Pearls strategy in the Pacific for years, but this may be the first time their Greening the Belt & Road strategy has come up beyond the occasional report of Chinese road and port building in Pakistan.
[AlAhram] Much has been made of China’s grand plans for its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), but little attention has been given to the "green" standards that China is proposing to provide for this investment. Launched in 2013 by Chinese President Xi Jinping, the BRI is a $1 trillion plan to finance infrastructure investments spanning over 60 countries and covering three-quarters of the world’s population.
As the world’s leader in developing green financial products and standards, China is raising standards for international lending that could be transformational for countries like Egypt. Green finance refers to investments flowing into sustainable development projects and initiatives, environmental products and policies that encourage the development of a more sustainable economy.
Egypt has the opportunity to serve as the "hub" for the BRI in the Middle East and Africa. The Chinese have already designated it as one of the top five countries for mergers and acquisitions potential over the next five years. The two countries have also elevated their relationship to a "strategic partnership" that provides the political underpinning for what is a growing commercial relationship between them.
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Of course China's green. They produce all that carbon dioxide, which is good for plants and plant growth. It's not bad like that nasty western carbon dioxide.
[AlAhram] While the number of terrorist attacks dramatically decreased in recent years, terrorist tactics have changed, and these organizations remain a vivid threat to national security.
For several years, Egypt has been the victim of one of the fiercest waves of terrorism in its contemporary history. It began in August 2012 with the "Ramadan massacre" in Rafah, claiming the lives of 16 soldiers, and reached its highest peak in 2015, which experienced the most terrorist attacks (594) in any single year from 2013 to 2017. In January 2015, alone, there were 124 armed attacks. The frequency declined slightly to 105 in February and then climbed to the highest peak for that year in March, with 125 attacks. The rate gradually began to decline in April (72 attacks) and May (63), and then dropped dramatically to 23 in June. In July 2015, the number of attacks rose again to 41 before dropping, again, to 27 in August. The frequency declined again in autumn, reaching the lowest point for that year in November with only five attacks, although it would rise again slightly in December to nine.
As of the beginning of 2016, the frequency of terrorist attacks began to decline considerably compared to 2015. Also, with the decrease in attacks in the Nile Valley and Delta, most attacks were confined to Sinai. But the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 brought a quantitative shift in terrorist tactics and strategies, as was manifested in both the nature of the targets selected and the weapons used in the attacks. We can break down the process in terms of tactics and personnel as follows.
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The House Intelligence Committee now has the bank records of Fusion-GPS. They were turned over Friday after a federal judge on Thursday shot-down a last-ditch effort by attorneys from Fusion to get an emergency injunction.
Chairman Devin Nunes and the House Intelligence Committee now have the records of payments made by Fusion-GPS to "journalists and media companies" during 2016 and early 2017 when Glenn Simpson, Mary Jacoby and Peter Fritsch were shopping the Christopher Steele ’Russian dossier’ to enhance the "Insurance Policy"
Perhaps we will find out which journalists and media companies were paid by Fusion-GPS. Perhaps those payments are part of the reason the media apparatus, writ large, made a concerted effort last week to distance the Steele Dossier from the origin of the FBI Counterintelligence operation against candidate Trump that began in July 2016.
Additionally, and I shall easily say ‘predictably‘, there's been far less visible evidence of congressional or intelligence community leaks to the media. The Wolff book has provided a deafening cover for the media retreat; but the absence of IC leaks is also deafening. As we previously shared, this outcome was fully anticipated.
Most of the direct ("small group") FBI (CoIntel), DOJ (NatSec Division) and Special Counsel co-conspirators are only able to talk amid themselves. They know by now they are being monitored and they have strong suspicion the size of the surveillance upon them. [Hi guys.] No-one else is willing to put themselves at risk now. Congressional allies now view the small group as carrying a legal ebola virus. Contact is now a risk.
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The Wolff book is just another Fusion dossier glossed up and given a hard cover.
[Mail] Michael Wolff has scoffed at Tony Blair's denial that he told Donald Trump MI6 may have leaked details of his team's contacts with the Russians.
Repeating the allegation made in his book Fire And Fury, Mr Wolff said that the former Prime Minister may have made the claim to 'curry favour' with Mr Trump, having once been so close to Bill and Hillary Clinton in the past.
The row dates back to last March, when The Mail on Sunday revealed how Mr Blair had secretly visited the White House in a bid to win a new role as a Middle East adviser to the President.
We reported how, weeks after Mr Trump's inauguration, Mr Blair held talks with the President's senior adviser Jared Kushner. Mr Kushner is married to the President's daughter Ivanka.
It was seen as an audacious attempt to rebuild his career as an international statesman.
Mr Wolff's book says that Mr Blair also met Mr Trump himself, as well as his then top aide, Steve Bannon.
The former Prime Minister and ex-envoy to the Middle East told them he believed that British spies could have told the CIA about contacts between Mr Trump's advisers and the Russians before the presidential election in November 2016.
But Mr Blair angrily denied the alleged MI6 leak last week, stating: 'This story is a complete fabrication from beginning to end.
'I've never had such conversations in the White House, outside of the White House, with Jared Kushner, with anybody else.'
However, he admitted that he had discussed the Middle East with Mr Kushner at the White House.
Mr Wolff laughed off Mr Blair's denial ‐ and told The Mail on Sunday the original source of the information was actually Mr Trump himself.
[TheRebel.media] On Friday's show, security consultant Lee Humphrey joined me to discuss shocking new revelations about the release of Joshua Boyle and his family after being held hostage by the Taliban.
Trudeau has yet to reveal the circumstances behind the release of Joshua Boyle, the Taliban are not in the habit of handing back hostages for free, so why does it appear they made an exception?
Lee explained that it was actually Trump who came to Boyle's rescue because Joshua's wife is an American citizen, and he didn't even let Trudeau know this was happening.
Because Trudeau rejected attempts to rescue Canadian hostages held by an ISIS branch in the Philippines, the Americans realized there was no point consulting him on their plan to free the Boyles until two hours into the rescue mission.
Boyle has a long history of being infatuated with terrorists, his ex-wife is Omar Khadr's Islamist sister and he brought his pregnant current wife to Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
Despite owing his freedom to the Americans, Boyle suspiciously refused to be transported back to Canada on an American jet. Possibly due to fears that he would face questioning by American intelligence agencies.
Now Boyle is facing multiple fifteen criminal charges including; sexual assault, unlawful confinement, and administering a noxious substance.
Why did Trudeau have a secret meeting with Boyle? How come their relationship goes back to 2006? And what are the "common interests" Boyle claims he shares with Trudeau? #POTUSVSG
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"Why did Trudeau have a secret meeting with Boyle? How come their relationship goes back to 2006? And what are the "common interests" Boyle claims he shares with Trudeau?"
Tell us more! We like to hear about other countries' scandals to forget about ours!
[FOX] Economist and actor Ben Stein said California is flirting with "civil war" against the rest of the United States over its refusal to enforce federal immigration policies.
Stein reacted to comments Acting ICE Director Thomas Homan made on "Your World" earlier in the week, in which Homan said citizens will die and Gov. Jerry Brown (D-Calif.) is likely violating federal law by enacting a "sanctuary state" policy.
"I think that this is essentially a rebellion by the state of California," Stein said.
He said California's posture looks "very much like the beginning of a civil war," invoking the actions of April 12, 1861 when the Confederate military fired upon the Union installment at Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
Stein said he believes the "civil war," if there is one, will be one fought in the courts rather than on the battlefield.
Fox Business' Charlie Gasparino said Brown's actions are "almost like [former Alabama Gov.] George Wallace (D) standing in front of the door of the school."
On June 11, 1963, Wallace stood in the doorway of an auditorium in Tuscaloosa, Ala. to prevent two black students from entering.
The actions prompted President John F. Kennedy to federalize the National Guard, per executive order 11111.
Gen. Henry Graham was dispatched to the university and confronted Wallace, who eventually stepped aside.
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No need for any violence in the streets. A dozen or so federal marshals pay the governor a predawn visit some Monday morning and perp walk him out of the governor's mansion into a Crown Victoria headed for the nearest federal detention facility. Later that morning he is arraigned on a number of charges and the judge orders him held without bail. Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom realizes that the only way to keep himself out of the federal lockup is to do as AG Sessions tells him to do. A slew of California state laws are then declared unconstitutional and repealed. Democrat lawmakers in Sacramento, seeing where the real power lies, decide not to create an further problems.
Well, I can dream, can't I?
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Can a lefty say "states rights" without coughing up blood?
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let them go...but first Cali needs to let the State Of Jefferson form --> plus a few others. And then the west coast libtards can say goodbye to the that sweet sierra water! Cali will end up a islands of blue
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Dimwits, don't they know that without those guaranteed democratic electoral college votes, they can never elect a Democrat president?
Let them secede, I'll move to Nevada along with every major business with offices in California and enjoy the disintegration of that liberal paradise from afar...California will be a third world country in six months after they announce secession.
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Divide California first. The bulk would stay with the US, the remains (Coast from Marin down to LA with a gap in the central coast farms near SLO) should be left to depart in peace.
[DonSurber] Ann Coulter is livid about President Trump negotiating with the swamp critters over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Why?
Donald Trump is the best negotiator in American politics because he is a student of Sun Tzu.
Sometime in high school when he was the captain of his class at New York Military, someone handed Trump a copy of "The Art of War."
All his success stems from that ancient text that dates to the sixth century before Christ.
If you know that book, then you know The Donald.
Here is the quote that applies to the DACA negotiation.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
That means he already has figured out how to win.
I would say he has figured out two ways to win. The obvious way to win is to reach an agreement and win. The less obvious way to win is to break negotiations and walk away. Reagan did the latter at Reykjavik in 1986.
Ann Coulter is smart but not wise. She thinks deeply about the superficial, and is superficially about the deep.
Her prediction in 2015 that Trump would become the next president was just to get a laugh on the Bill Maher show. Some conservatives seek to please liberals. She seeks to outrage them.
But she also sees the history of Republicans being lousy negotiators, so her alarm is not without foundation. People act in logical ways, and once you understand where they are coming from, you better appreciate their struggle.
Trump figured out how to grant amnesty to 800,000 people he cannot easily deport and get all the rest he wants. That's the deal. Democrats will high-five and exclaim how they won -- while the wall goes up, the barrios are cleansed of illegals, and chain migration ends.
If he does not get that, he walks away, and Democrats have to face their supporters who are watching a wall go up and illegals deported.
He won the battle both ways going in. Ending chain migration is the big prize, which is why he'll cut a deal.
Best of all, Democrats have two months to decide. He gave DACA a six-month extension that ends in March. The clock ticks.
Trump has no winning plan on Obamacare.
He thought Republicans had one. That's why he appointed Tom Price as health and human services secretary. When Trump realized the Price was not right, Trump leaked stories about Price's travel and forced him to resign.
One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
President Trump may or may not eventually get to Obamacare.
But once he engages in that battle, rest assured he will have won.
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He can get the wall thru without Dem votes (eventually). He can also deport the illegals without Dem support. They'll bitch and moan (SOP) but he's got a winning hand. "Play my way or I'll get what I want anyway and you don't get DACA" and they will have to shut down their blessed Big Government on behalf of ILLEGALS ( A winning position in November? I think not)
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I've not talked to anyone who isn't in favor of the border wall (nor do I wish to).
The border wall vote will be a decision maker for many voters (my prediction anyway) in the off-year. The administration and pubs would be smart not to make it happen until the run-up to the election, ensuring each vote is fresh in the minds of the constituency.
And finally, yet another aspect of the challenge: Pakistan. It is the largest Muslim nation on the planet, and it is a full fledged nuclear power. However, it is generally acknowledged that their nuclear arsenal was financed by Saudi Arabia, and Saudi money plays an enormous role in the economic and political life of that impoverished nation. In other words, if the Saudis are willing, we have an enormous lever that can be used to pry the Pakis away from their taste for terror gangs like the Taliban.
And, lo and behold, just yesterday Donald Trump began tweeting about…Pakistan, and threatening to remove US aid because the Pakis are a “terror aiding” nation. You bet they are. And if both the US and the Kingdom pull the money plug, the Paki regime will be in a world of hurt, nukes or not.
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Much of the policy being conducted is very alligned with my METL.
And that METL is yuge.
Just one Leader handling the issues on my docket is more than I normally have.
For instance:
"So…Trump now has the enemies of the old theocratic regime housecleaning them right out of the regime and onto the dustbin of history. Amazing enough, ISIL was utterly destroyed as a force on the ground during the same period, and its “caliphate” reduced to smoking rubble. They probably really missed all the financing, sheltering, arming, training, and so on they used to get from the Saudi theocrats before MbS decisively shut off that spigot.
I believe that the Saudi regime is now out of the Islamic terror business, thanks to President Donald Trump."
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Teams are trained to remove nukes from rogue regimes if necessary. Trump probably already has a plan for retooling.
Isaiah 2: They will beat their swords into plowshares
and their spears into pruning hooks.
[DW] After the suspension of US security assistance, Pakistain's dependence on its longtime ally China is bound to increase. But analysts say it would be a double-edged sword and comes with its own problems.
Long, with a nice little map of China’s current and planned road-building projects throughout Pakistan.
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And since Pakistain doesn't have a lot of suitors it can play against each other, China may actually make some demands.
The view from Egypt includes ISIS training camps as far away as Libya, transhipment via the Turkish secret service (MIT) and American-led MOCs in Jordan, and all that Iran supports on the other side.
[AlAhram] In the throes of sectarian and proxy conflicts, the region in recent years saw not only a proliferation of terrorist organizations, but interwoven interests that kept terrorism itself alive.
Long and a bit verbose, but with this interesting paragraph, left untranslated so its full flavour can be appreciated:
The next two years brought an array of different events and developments, but as 2015 and 2016 came and went there remained an important constant: the lack of clarity in how that drive was conducted. Observers, counterterrorism experts and strategy designers agreed that this factor was lacking in Washington’s mentality and its approach to the war. They were at a loss as to how to explain the US’s responses to developments on the ground in Syria that, at one point, president Barack Obama felt compelled to give a lengthy interview to The Atlantic in order to defend his policies and his strategy, such as it was. The title of the interview — “The Obama Doctrine” — acquired a certain fame in its own right.
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The "Obama Doctrine"? I have no idea what this might be, except to capitulate everything to your enemies in the name of your delusional legacy, and stab your enemies in the back.
[PJ] People who yearn to become entrepreneurs may find guidance at the new Feminist Business School, an online program that aims to help women launch businesses founded upon the theory of "feminine entrepreneurship" and "body-loving business practices."
Starting next week, the California-based Feminist Business School will play host to an eight-week online "Concepts and Conceptions" course, during which seasoned "midwives" will teach women about the stages of giving "birth" to a new business.
Each week of the course will focus on a different topic. Students will start with "getting grounded," and will eventually progress into more advanced topics such as "the myth of meritocracy," the "stages of birthing a business," and "toppling the patriarchy."
Understanding feminist theory before starting a business is crucial, since it will give you a "huge leg-up on established entrepreneurs" and help you "avoid the frustrations and pitfalls of outdated masculine business models," according to the program’s website.
The $1,200 class was developed by Jennifer Armbrust, an artist who graduated from Evergreen State University with a degree in critical teeeheory. After graduating, she founded an art gallery, later becoming a performance artist in Portland, Oregon.
Moving along to staffing and accreditation:
The only faculty member of this school appears to be Armbrust, who does not appear to have any direct business experience, but did take a few business classes at Portland Community College. She concedes that her program will not teach any direct business skills, such as bookkeeping or legal knowledge, but suggests that she may offer such a course in the future. Currently, the Feminist Business School only offers one course, and does not appear to be accredited.
PJ Media reached out to Armbrust for comment, but she did not respond in time for publication.
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The only faculty member of this school appears to be Armbrust, who does not appear to have any direct business experience, but did take a few business classes at Portland Community College.
"It's not a scam! It's a Socially Gender-Equality'd distribution of Funds!"
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The funny thing is she's clearly trying to rip off feminists with this fake school.
[Breitbart] The intrepid Cardinal Wilfrid Napier has once again blasted the modern abortion-rights culture, suggesting that a society that "destroys its unborn babies with such abandon" should never hope to have a happy or peaceful future.
The South African Cardinal was responding to news posted on social media by pro-life champion Obianuju Ekeocha, who noted that only three days into 2018, the world had already seen the deaths of 293,548 unborn babies through "legal" abortion.
"I beg all people of goodwill to speak up against this injustice," Ms. Ekeocha said. "Make it part of your mission this year to be unabashedly pro-life."
Cardinal Napier replied with a rhetorical question, "How can a culture that destroys its unborn babies with such abandon ever hope to have a happy or peaceful future, which is the deepest-seated desire of every human heart?"
Shortly afterward, the prelate launched another indictment of the abortion lobby, this time in response to an Ohio ad campaign by an abortion provider that calls abortion "life-saving," "sacred," "a blessing," and "safer than childbirth."
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His comments on abortion are spot on, but Wonky Wilfred is also an advocate of global verwarming (warming) and strongly believes pedophilia is an illness, not a crime.
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strongly believes pedophilia is an illness, not a crime.
An old fashioned view, harkening back to the wild and wooly 1970s-‘80s. Why can it not be both? Not to mention a sin, as it is sex outside the bonds of holy matrmony.
Happy New Year everyone, hope yours is prosperous.
Guess what I found under the tree!
The Lawdog Files - African Adventures
'D Lawdog'
Castalia House, 2017
This is Lawdog's second volume of personal stories, beginning with his childhood memories of growing up in Africa. Like his previous work, this is a collection of short stories, making it an ideal book for the coffee table or the water closet. To sit down and read this book in one sitting would be like taking a chocolate/chocolate chip cheesecake with dark chocolate/kirsch shavings and a coarse granulated sugar/graham cracker crust with a hint of cayenne (or cinnamon, however you roll) and eating the cake in one bite.
It also makes the book tough to review without giving away a chunk of the content or the punch line of a story. All I can say, is one story had me laughing so hard my wife shook her head and asked what was so funny. I recounted the story, and she asked, "Well, isn't that dangerous?" Yes! "Boys."
There are other stories and musings about life, some whimsical, some serious, some funny only after the fact. The dove hunting stories had me laughing, but if you have never been dove hunting Lawdog still tells the story, and all of his stories really, in such a way that you will get it.
I believe other Rantburgers have read this work, would you recommend this book (without giving away spoilers)? I sure do; it is available in both electrons and tree gut.
This Week in Emergency Preparedness
I really do not have much to add to winter considerations at this point. And really, you are either (a) considering yourself prepared, or (b) hoping the Fates are not knitting for a couple more months.
Probably more helpful would be suggestions from our friends in the Northeast.
My first question would be, isn't this last storm what y'all call a Nor'easter? Sure, snow in Florida is a bit odd, but a winter storm with the weatherhead wailing about 30mph winds and 5" of snow, yeah bad stuff, but not Snowzilla or whatever the gin heads were screaming about. ZMG! swksFF, temperatures will be 100+ with 50mph+ winds! Yeah. We call it July.
My point, I guess, is that if the media is going to bring out the meteorological equivalent of Green Helmut Man for normal weather in order to match the intensity of real dangerous events, it will be tougher and tougher to rely upon that report. Even worse, a lot of the weather winnowers are convinced, or put on that face, that they are absolutely correct. About got me the other day when a surprise fog ended my plans quite quickly. When you are driving 50mph and you have two seconds from spotting oncoming traffic to passing it (IF they had their lights on. One white car with no lights was past me before I saw it), that is dangerously thick. Add all the side road traffic (it was a cow day). Cold weather, humidity, no wind, near a front - I was not surprised there was fog. I turned out of it as soon as I could turn around safely. The fog contributed to a vehicle fatality that morning. No warnings from the previous night's weather report. So know your weather.
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I grew up in Buffalo, NY, and had a newspaper route during the Blizzard of ‘77. I fully stock my pantry before Thanksgiving* with unconcentrated soups, noodles and jarred sauces, packets of tunafish, salmon, and tea, Nestle chocolate Quick and tins of evaporated milk for hot chocolate, and chocolate chips — we ran out of chocolate in ‘77 after the first week, which was decidedly uncomfortable. If we are without power we can cook on the gas fireplace or the propane grill, or draw warm water from the 30gallon water heater** in the basement for a while if necessary — it is important to have hot food and drink. I also have enough ThermaCares set aside to keep us warm should we be without power and unable to drive out of our hilly neighbourhood for some days — that was never an issue in Buffalo, but in Cincinnati icy roads are more of a concern than snow. Medicines, of course, both Rx and over the counter. Snow shovels. I should keep a bag of coarse sand and a shovel in the trunk of each car, but we are fortunate that we can just stay home if it looks like the weather will be that bad. Everyone has a spare battery for their phone, and I have extras, charged, in the gift closet. I like this one. Warm clothes, warm ski outerwear, gloves and boots for all, though we are behind on stocking newest daughter in this direction — she came to us with very little and is a size 3X.
* In Buffalo we have had several major snow storms at Thanksgiving, so that is my target. There was the October ice storm in about 2005 thwt left my parents without power for ten days, but that only happened once in my lifetime.
** Because hot water tanks take a long time to cool down, and because hot water bottles and pans of water in which to heat unopened cans of soup can be filled directly from the drain tap, I will never replace mine with an instant hot water device.
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It seems to me that 10 days without power during a major winter snowstorm, for some situations, could be an end-of-life event. I know of a farm woman in Jan 1978 who had a healthy baby born in those circumstances, far from town in a house with no power or heat beyond a wood stove. Baby did well, mother got a fever, someone crawled miles across the frozen tundra to get a message out, weather improved enough for chopper flights, and she was whisked out by Air National Guard to a hospital for a life-saving hysterectomy. From that point onward, she did well. Baby was her first & last child.
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Michigan drivers have a quick solution for white out conditions on their interstates. They all seem to drive 85 mph until they hit a white out zone (always "unexpectedly"), then several dozen vehicles in the column of vehicles come to various sorts pf abrupt stops in few seconds or so.
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My theory on the freezing pipes is to have a bit of water on at every faucet but I have only theory and I see some potential problems there, like water freezer in the sink trap.
I have one of those fumeless heaters which runs off a propane tank, but it will be the last act of Henry the VIII before I use it in my house. It isn't that I don't trust the fumeless claim - I don't, drafty or ventilated shop, sure, not crazy about a well sealed structure with no air movement - but the radiant heat would concern me. It wouldn't necessarily need to start a fire, just start smoldering something plastic and now we have bad air.
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We get dust storms out here if upwind has been dry and a big front comes through, or downwind of a newly plowed field. Maybe just me, but I think they gobble up headlights. Worst one I was in the dust storm, an eh kinda dark strength, hit a stationary moisture line and suddenly it was raining mud. Not like a bad scene from a Volcano flick, but like that scene in Jurassic Park where the critter spits on the big dude. But constant. Smells like it too. Oh, that is wife as calmly as an air raid siren informing me it is time for a diaper change, the variety which can't be put off. Pull off the interstate and find a defilade so Christine doesn't murder me with her car doors - you big wind country people know what I'm talking about. That ain't happening, wind is 50-60mph at this point and everything bouncing off of my 'cover' hits the vehicle too. Wife performs a front seat over the arm rest back passenger poop step maneuver which had me in awe.
Get back onto the interstate, starting to improve but deciding to take the next turn with the wind instead of across it when we come up to a checkpoint. We were front seat after the fire department closed the interstate and got to work on the car which was passing me before our exit.
Someone too fast met someone too slow. Some didn't see the pileup until they were in it, some chose the shoulder and ditch. Watched helplessly as some of my Brothers were carrying people bags over to an upside down SUV. It was around the holidays, trunk busted open, presents everywhere.
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Ten days? Did they do anything to keep the pipes from freezing?
Presumably they let all the taps drip, swksvlFF, so there was always water flowing. At any rate, they did not have to repair plumbing afterward that I recall, though they did have to replace part of the roof including the plywood substrate after some major limbs from one of the maples fell on it. The trees were still in full leaf, so the ice build up was worse than it would have been later in the season. They used hot water from the water heater for hot water bottles and to fill a pot holding soup cans or coffee mugs.
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The Water Drip was a suggestion to me by Guy-Whose-Mountain-Home-Loses-Power. Never had the luck to try it.
Other advice given. "swks, you have a gas stove, right?" Right. "Fill a pot of water and boil it. You will have warm moist air and it will feel good."
So, that opportunity finally presents itself one glorious ice storm. I come back in from removing Ymir's siege palisade and think what a great idea. After a brief quest for fire, see the igniters are electric har har, and some impromptu tortillion stumps got the gas going, water on, pokemon go!
And it worked. Ice crystals on the windows were pretty, and eventually thick enough to help with the insulations. I think Hannibal Smith is on our power crew, because heat was back in about two hours. Then I notice the floor is wet. Looking about the window seams for the leak it occurred to me that my wet foot is standing on the carcass of the beautiful ice angel who was living on the window. One on every single window. Good thing the dryer was back on-line.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[AlAhram] While the number of terrorist attacks dramatically decreased in recent years, terrorist tactics have changed, and these organizations remain a vivid threat to national security.
Notice something missing recently?
[DonSurber] Ann Coulter is livid about President Trump negotiating with the swamp critters over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
[PJ] People who yearn to become entrepreneurs may find guidance at the new Feminist Business School, an online program that aims to help women launch businesses founded upon the theory of "feminine entrepreneurship" and "body-loving business practices."
[Breitbart] The intrepid Cardinal Wilfrid Napier has once again blasted the modern abortion-rights culture, suggesting that a society that "destroys its unborn babies with such abandon" should never hope to have a happy or peaceful future.
