Neanderpundit

Well, that’s horseshit, pure and simple. Not to overcomplicate the issue, let’s look at one thing and one thing only.

Swimming pools.
Excerpt:

Drowning is the leading cause of death for infants
and young children between the ages of 1-4 (U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007)

OK, what about as they get older?

Excerpt:

Drowning is the second-leading cause of unintentional
injury deaths in children aged 1-14 years. (U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention)

Soooo, if we’re really looking at what’s good for children, we’re gonna get rid of all those swimming pools, right?

Take that link, print that page, and keep several copies on hand. When some anencephalic brat decides to lecture you on gun safety, ask them if thye have a swimming pool. Then hand them that sheet. And call them a CHILD MURDEROR.

best of all, Pools are very efficient at killing. You don’t have to do anything with them, all they have to do is be there, and kids die. and there are less than nine million of them in the US. There are at least 300 million guns in the US, and the proportion of them being used in the death of children is statistically invisible. You want children not to die? empty those pools. That’ll do more actual good than any other single thing you can do.

No, it’s not about children, or even saving lives. It’s about controlling people you don’t like.

I have a pack in my car that goes with me everywhere. it has a clean shirt and a clean pair of pants in it. it has some clean underwear and socks. Simple toiletries. A decent first aid kit. Enough of my prescription mdications to keep me through four or five days. A wool blanket. An army mess kit. An emergency shelter.

I have often had opportunity to live out of this pack on the road, but until last hunting season, never had any opportunity to actually camp out of it. So I found the things that were missing.

I had a mess kit, sure, but what was I going to cook, and how was I going to cook it? I had spam. I was able to fry some spam, and that worked OK. I was also able to peel and slice up some prickly pear, which was also ok. And I fried up some Aldi corned beef hash.

But I really needed some oil. And it would have been nice to have some salt, and pepper. Maybe even some garlic powder and coriander.

With not too much more than I had on hand, I could live pretty well, but I could eat like a KING if I had had a little oil and some spices.

I’m not talking about Sam Gamgee, hauling his whole damned kitchen with him, just a few extra things. I have already gotten an unbreakable bottle for about 6 oz of oil, and some little stacking containers for salt, pepper, garlic, etc.

What would you bring, to cook?

Jim Edwards, better known as Jake Hartford, died this last weekend.

Jim was the producer of the “perspectives” segments done by Walter Jacobsen for ten years, and is an old voice in Chicago broadcast media. Lately he’s been doing the 9:00 slot with John Kass, one of my very favorite Chicagoans.

Jake was one of us, for the most part, a voice of sanity and reason. We don’t have many left. Now I will never hear his biannual bit about the ludicrous time change.

“Hartford got to trot out one of his favorite jests each spring and fall, when he would purposefully confuse callers about which way to turn the clock during daylight saving time. His joke was that it was only logical to “spring back and fall forward,” insisting that when you push a spring, it springs back and when you fall, you fall forward, Alexander said. Without fail, listeners would call in to let him know he was mistaken, Alexander said.”