Neanderpundit

In a couple of excellent and typically well put together pieces here and here, mr Porretto describes the PDOOMA factor of Gloebull Warmening.

What he brushes up against but doesn’t expound too heavily on is the phenomena I like to refer to as “Persistence of Ignorance”

Here’s a classic example. In the 1980’s, a bunch of strange geometric patterns started appearing in the rye and barley fields of Cheesefoot Head, in Hampshire, UK. Winesses claimed they experienced paranormal activity in those “crop circles” and there were any number of learned scientific explanations for their causes. Leonard Nimoy narrated specials where explanations were proposed and experts consulted. And then, a couple of happy drunks named Doug Bower and Dave Chorley came forward and confessed to having made the designs themselves.

Normal people had a good laugh, sometimes at their own expense, and moved on.

Those suffering from Persistence of Ignorance refused to believe the stated and obvious truth. And castigated the two men for their audacity. “No human could do that by themself”. “Clearly you aren’t responsible for crop circles in Idaho” etc. etc. Even when the truth was exposed, there were some- many, even, who would not accept it. Likewise, in 1995 Christian Spurling confessed the role he had played in the Loch Ness Monster hoax. And there is, yet, a society who spends untold wads of cash attempting to find the mythical beast. The list of forgeries and hoaxes to which the ignoranti stubbornly cling is long, and the idiots who will cling to the gloebull warmening hoax will be the worst of a bad lot.

This is not bad news. Not at it’s core, anyway. The bad part is that these anenecphalic fools will still do their level best to dictate public policy or interfere with our lives. The good part is, they mark themselves. They wear their support for Gloebull Warmening like a badge of honor, and though we can’t (and certainly don’t want to) declare open season on them, we can identify them and do our level best to stop them from fucking up our lives.

Shooting a deer is the easy part, once it’s done. Getting it in the freezer- now, that’s some work. I’d packed the body cavity with bags of ice becasue it was warmer during the day than I liked, but in the end, that was fine. I hung the deer from the gambrel I built into the garage ceiling. It took all day. My back is sore from the bending over the too-low table. My hands are sore from the rope winch, raw from constantly washing and changing gloves. But the deer is in the freezer. I took some pains to get as much meat off it as I could, cutting it into mostly roasts as I have steaks leftover from last year. Small scraps and strips went into the grinder. THe hide and hooves are in the garbage for takeout today- If I had time and the skill I’d tan the hide and smoke it, but I don’t, and I don’t have the time to develop it either, right now.

I’m nursing a headache now, and the arms are hosed up from the cutting and grinding, but i feel fine.

And he wants to get colder.

Jim is trying to get a cooler in his attic.

Now, it’s possible to get a walk in cooler as a kit, and you can get them through just about any opening. but they are spendy:
some are over 5k, and even a cheap one will cost around three grand.

I’m not sure what Jim means when he talks about the cost of a freezer in a garage; a freezer costs the same to operate wherever it is- if it’s hot, it still has to move heat from inside the unit to outside, and an attic will be as hot as a garage. Plus, the idea of having a garage mounted generator makes it a double benefit to have the freezer out there.

A couple of wall mounted freezers, or even a small chest freezer in the rafters, will work perfectly, and cost a couple hundred dollars. Additionally, an electric fan in the garage roof will make it more efficient, and a couple sheets of styrofoam glued aroud the outside of the freezer will make it keep cold longer even in the event of a power failure. Any other ideas for Jim in comments?