Monday OT: August 24 is National Knife Day
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And let us not forget 3.0.7.14.3 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
mis cuchillos
On August 24, 1954, the US Communist Control Act went into effect. This outlawed the Communist Party in the US. In reality, it did much more, effectively outlawing democracy in this country and destroying the First Amendment. Mind you, we never had a democracy or anything similar, but this act made it clear that it cannot and will not ever happen here, and destroyed the myth that the US governs by the consent of the people. Similarly, we've never really had any rights under the First Amendment, but this act destroyed the myth that we do. The First Amendment to the US constitution says:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
and has been interpreted by the US courts as creating, presuming , implying or including a "Right of Free Association". Of course, we have none of those rights, it is a tissue of lies and quite a thin one at that.
The act also makes an absolute mockery of the laughable propaganda fiction that we have free elections, or something vaguely resembling democracy. You cannot pretend to have either free elections or a democratic form of government when you can and do outlaw parties and organizations either by law, as in this case, or by assassinating its leaders and members, framing them for crimes and seizing or destroying their property as we have done so many times in the past.
On August 24, 1967, Abbie Hoffman and assorted Yippies exposed the enormity of the petty greed and avarice of our capitalist masters by throwing handfuls of single dollar bills out onto the floor of the stock exchange. All business ceased as the putative savants and masters of the market and the economy ran hither and thither scrambling and scrabbling for for the price of a couple of big macs. There was the very essence of the US exposed in all of its hollow soullessness for all of the world to see.
On this day in history:
0410 – The Visigoths under king Alaric I began to pillage Rome.
1215 – Pope Innocent III issued a bull declaring Magna Carta invalid.
1349 – Six thousand Jews were killed in Mainz after being blamed for the bubonic plague.
1682 – William Penn received the area that is now the state of Delaware, and added it to his colony of Pennsylvania, just like that.
1814 – British troops invaded Washington, D.C. and Burned it.
1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis was signed in St. Louis. Quelle surprise.
1820 – There was a Constitutionalist insurrection at Oporto,
1821 – The Treaty of Córdoba was signed in Córdoba, now Veracruz, ending the Mexican War of Independence from Spain.
1857 – The Panic of 1857 began, setting off an economic crises in the US. They are a periodic affliction in the US from which nobody ever seems to learn, or do they?
1891 – Thomas Edison patented the motion picture camera.
1909 – Workers started pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
1932 – Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the US non-stop
1936 – The Australian Antarctic Territory was created.
1949 – The treaty creating NATO went into effect.
1950 – Edith Sampson became the first black U.S. delegate to the UN
1954 – The Communist Control Act went into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
1967 – Led by Abbie Hoffman, the Youth International Party temporarily disrupted trading at the New York Stock Exchange by throwing dollar bills from the viewing gallery, causing trading to cease as brokers scramble to grab them.
1991 – Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as head of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1991 – Ukraine declared itself independent from the Soviet Union.
2006 – The International Astronomical Union (IAU) redefined the term "planet" such that Pluto is now considered a dwarf planet, perhaps Grumpy.
Born this day in:
“If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.”
-- Howard Zinn
1552 – Lavinia Fontana, painter and educator
1556 – Sophia Brahe, horticulturalist and astronomer
1759 – William Wilberforce, politician, leader of movement to ban slave trade
1787 – James Weddell, sailor, hunter, and explorer
1872 – Max Beerbohm, essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (
1890 – Duke Kahanamoku, swimmer, actor, and surfer
1897 – Fred Rose, pianist, songwriter, and publisher
1898 – Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic (d. 1989)
1899 – Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator
1902 – Carlo Gambino, businessman
1905 – Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, singer, songwriter ,and guitarist
1915 – Wynonie Harris, singer and guitarist
1921 – Eric Simms, ornithologist and conservationist
1922 – Howard Zinn, historian, author, educator, and activist
1924 – Alyn Ainsworth, singer and conductor
1924 – Louis Teicher, pianist
1926 – Nancy Spero, painter and activist
1930 – Jackie Brenston, singer, songwriter, and saxophonist
1938 – David Freiberg, singer and bass player
1938 – Mason Williams, guitarist and composer
1942 – Jimmy Soul, pop-soul singer
1945 – Ronee Blakley, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress
1945 – Molly Duncan, saxophonist
1945 – Ken Hensley, singer, songwriter, and musician
1945 – Marsha P. Johnson, gay liberation activist and drag queen
1947 – Jim Fox, rock drummer and organist
1951 – Danny Joe Brown, singer, songwriter, and musician
1953 – Ron Holloway, saxophonist
1957 – Jeffrey Daniel, singer, songwriter, and dancer
1979 – Kaki King, guitarist and composer
Died this day in:
[T]he production of heat alone is not sufficient to give birth to the impelling power: it is necessary that there should also be cold; without it, the heat would be useless.
-- Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
1217 – Eustace the Monk, black magician, Benedictine Monk, Pirate, and Privateer
1540 – Parmigianino, rather cheesy painter and etcher
1595 – Thomas Digges, mathematician and astronomer
1832 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (b. 1796)
1888 – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1822)
1923 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, author and educator
1932 – Kate M. Gordon, activist
1940 – Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, technician and inventor, invented the Nipkow disk
1943 – Simone Weil, philosopher and activist
1978 – Louis Prima, singer, songwriter, trumpet player, and actor
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
William Wilberforce Day
International Strange Music Day (Please define same)
International Day Against Intolerance, Discrimination and Violence Based on Musical Preferences, Lifestyle and Dress (Zoot suit riots?)
National Waffle Day (US)
National Peach Pie Day (US)
Can Opener Day (nickel? dime?)
National Knife Day (Hola, Az!)
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies 
Knife Day
Fred Rose
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
Wynonie Harris
Alyn Ainsworth
Louis Teicher
Jackie Brenston
David Freiberg
Mason Williams
Jimmy Soul
Ronee Blakley
Molly Duncan
Ken Hensley
Jim Fox
Louis Prima
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nice knives and good music...
this AM. I've wondered what happened to the communist party in the USA...it has been outlawed. Jimmy often plays a clip where an FBI agent explains his job was to make sure no socialists are elected.
Thankfully the empire is in decline. I just hope the empire is replaced economically (the collapse of the USD) rather than militarily (war). The corporate state of America is a failure on so many levels.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout. That law was eventually
declared unconstitutional by one district court (but not by the supremes) in 1973. The communist party still sort of exists, but was harassed and persecuted pretty much out of existence. By the time I was in college the joke was that you could track down a local and go to a meeting if you worked at it, and you'd find 3 or 4 old men and 8 feebs sitting around discussing the news.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Mornin' e.l. ...
National Knife Day, huh ? I never knew there was such a day.
I always have one on me, knife and keys in left front pocket, coins in the right.
I think I will honor the holiday by changing the one I am currently carrying.
It's a Case two-blade penknife, Eisenhower pattern, that I've been carrying for about a year.
What to choose ? So many patterns ...
P.S. - That's a pretty fancy one at the top in your picture,
Laguiole from France maybe ? Damascus blade ?
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Good morning Az. My original reply to you seems to have
never posted or vanished. I once had an Eisenhower pattern Case but lost it in a freak accident. I replaced it with a Buck Wrangler which I still carry in my pick up.
That top knife is from Toledo, made of Toledo steel which is same, generally, as Damascus. Lock is traditional, and weird, blade and handle style also one traditional style. The lock lays flat atop the handle and you flick it up with your thumb to lock or unlock the blade, I picked it up on a trip to Spain a few years ago and never carry it.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Well I never been to Spain ...
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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Muchas gracias. New to me, now listening to her do
La Vie en Rose.
be well nd have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Silicon Valley spawn of PropOrNot in a long propaganda tradition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Led_3_Lives
Many “I Led 3 Lives” episodes are on YouTube.
The 1952 movie Red Planet Mars also deserves special mention — science fiction that takes a sudden turn toward the religious, in order to amplify the whole anti-communist angle:
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This is an odd time … After over a century of trying to sell Hawaiians on the virtues and historical inevitability of Anschluss and occupation by the American empire, millions of Americans on the continent finally come to the realization that the system their elites have been imposing on far-flung colonies like Hawaii doesn’t even work for them.
Good morning lot. We've been being propagandized since
day 1, and blatantly for my whole life. Of course the "system" (not rally a system) doesn't work for most people. It's good that many are finally realizing that, but will they be able to do anything about it?
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Strange music day...hmm
I guess that could be pretty much anything, but most probably anything that doesn't pass muster of the supposed arbiters of our taste, the biggies in te music industry.
Thanks for the OT el. I'm not sure if this is accurate reporting; https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/fire-d08.html but it sounds very bad. Hope those fires aren't getting to close to your neck of the woods.
Good morning rand. Strange music indeed. What it might
be certainly baffles me.
Yes, the fires are everywhere, everybody I know who lives in this state has one or more not too far away from them. That includes magimma, eyo and anja too. An area just slightly south of me was unde evacuation warning yesterday, slightly as in I easily can see the northern edge with my naked eye.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The DNC convention was a huge success
Um no the democrats are not fighting for our health care. In fact Biden has been asked more than 3 times if he would sign or veto MFA and he has stood strong against going against the insurance industry's profits.
Every day on the Twit the blue checks tell me how many people Trump alone has killed from his incompetence. Yet no mention of the 10's of thousands of people who die each year from lack of any type of health care. Biden states that MFA did not help stop COVID in the countries that have it, but that's not the point and he knows it. People with health care can get preventive treatments to be more healthy and if they do get COVID they aren't left with huge medical bills that can leave them bankrupt. Shh.. don't point out the elephant in the room.
So what of the RNC convention? Glad you asked:
Um isn't that what the DNC just did? Did we watch the same shit show?
But what they are going to bring back fro the dead is Russia, Russia, Russia even tho it has been thoroughly debunked at every point.
Well except the CEO of CrowdStrike admitted to Schiff that he never saw evidence that Russia did the deed or any of the information left by ways of the airwaves. Nope, It didn't happen. If you recall this is warmed up bull pucky from the IRA having connections to Russia's military. However, Mueller was told by a judge that he could not make this claim any longer because he offered no evidence that they did the deed. So Mueller dropped the charges, but just like every time a news site made a claim that they had to walk back the story was buried deep so most people didn't see it. This is what happened with Bounty Gate. The NYT admitted in a deeply buried article that they didn't actually see any evidence to make that claim. But that didn't stop the DNC from having guys saying those things did happen and if Biden loses which there is a good chance he will, then the dems can once again blame Russia, Bernie supporters that saw no reason to vote for Biden and of course Jill Stein even though she isn't running. But how dare she want to be president in the 1st place. Right?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Good morning Snoopy. Madness, propaganda and lies,
in an uninterrupted and unending stream are our lot. Moreso, perhaps than usual right now, for the duration, but only a bit, it's been really bad for years now.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
First rule of DNC Club, we do not talk about class war
Neoliberals speech are ALWAYS filled with platitudes...
Biden put out a tweet telling us how he will bring light to the darkness and other nonsense and it got hammered for its stupidity. Now Rahm is on the Twit telling Biden that he should not go with the green new deal or MFA. But hey Rahm we gotta keep sending Israel $3.8 billion a year right? Biden said that if Israel didn't exist then we'd have to create one. Israel does interfere with no only our elections, but runs our foreign policies. Think we not in destroying the Middle East for Israel's benefit?
Our Democracy in Peril
The Washington Post Editorial Board wrote an article entitled, “ A second Trump term might injure the Democratic experiment beyond recovery “
Has the RNC rigged their election so that Trump is the only one standing? Did they do that in 2016 like the DNC did? Not to my knowledge. In fact Hillary's campaign had the media give Trump well over $1 billion if free advertising as part of their Pied Piper campaign to elevate Trump over more competent candidates. And got the media to show Trump's empty stages instead of covering Bernie's campaign.
I have been tweeting that if Harris becomes VP her tenure will have an * after it because she wasn't elevated on her own merits which were rejected by dem voters, but because of the shenanigans of the DNC and other party insiders. Own That, Kamala.
Hey..did you notice that the dems spent last week on the post office and called a rare Saturday hearing to pass a bill for $25 billion to help the post office? Yup. This erased the negotiations Pelosi was supposed to be doing to get help to the American people. She already had passed billions for the post office last May when the house passed its pork filled bill that they knew McConnell and Trump would allow to go nowhere. But theater for the masses works well.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
I have to wonder about those Biden Republicans
I don't know the answer but at what point will those suburban white gopers become what I call "Trump Security" voters given that riots and looting have consumed some parts of the country. One telling fact is that the run on handguns has been by first time buyers. And what demographic can afford a $600 new gun along with several hundred in ammo? This could be more a fear than the covid virus.
Good morning Mr. Webster. An interesting question.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Maybe the answer can be found here
Biden unveils endorsements from a long list of Republicans as Republican convention kicks off
Folks over yonder are giddy that Republicans like Bill Kristal and other Bush era neocons are fully supporting Biden over Trump. WSWS had an article that stated that this election is a fight between the foreign policy wankers who aren't getting more war from Trump so they are throwing their support behind Biden just like they supported Hillary because of her warmongering ways.
I don't get it. People should be appalled at the bipartisan convention that the Dems just through, but they think it elevates Biden's goodness over Trump's actions. It might kinda do that, but they are doing it for the wrong reasons. Trump needs to go, but replacing him with Biden is not going to damn thing about the destructive actions by Trump because both parties want what he's been serving. And how in your face to the anti war movement than to have war criminal Colin Powell speak? And John Kerry saying that Trump isn't being mean enough to Putin even though he has been harsher on Russia that Obama. And is continuing to move US troops to join NATO's in countries bordering Russia. Imagine the outrage if Russia put its troops into Mexico? The gnashing of teeth.......
So how bad was the DNC convention for Biden? He got no post convention bump whatsoever. Is this a 1st in history where one party's convention was such a shit show that it didn't move the meter one iota?
It's not just Rising that is covering the things I've posted here, but other networks that are ltao at the democrats for screwing all other candidates to elevate Biden. Or should I say Kamala Harris?
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
My favorite knife was a Kershaw folder from Onion line
I forgot which model it was. Speed assisted and serrated blade which was 2.4 inches long. Handle was very hard carbon composite. Had it for years. Many a blackberry begged for mercy if they grew over the driveway. What a durable all around knife but I left it on the hood of my car and drove away. Never to see it again.
This was one of Kershaw's low end knives. I have had much more expensive assisted opening mechanisms and they all failed. But not this one.
I have a Kershaw Shuffle (2.4 inch blade) in the back pack I carried with me taking the train to work. Its most useful feature was a bottle opener at the bottom. Ah, many an IPA bottle cap begged for mercy...
Good morning MR. Webster. Only Kershaw I've ever
used was just a paring knife that we picked up for the trailer on one of our cross-country trips in it. Trailer was largely stocked with excess/overflow from kitchen and wife wanted better small knife so we jumped into a Cabela's and found that. Sorry that you lost your favorite. Bottle opener is a good feature. I prefer corkscrews, howeer.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Morning el
Et al
Dodged a bullet. The lightening did not manifest so no new fires that I know of. Air here is much cleaner today. Wind has shifted. 12% contained. Dozer line between ucsc and fire. Protects town also. Car still packed and pointed out. Wrench still attached to gas to turn off - from 1989 earthquake. Lol. Wtf. Still not out of the woods yet, so to speak.
Be well, all. Stay safe. Take good care and have a good one.
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Puts into perspective many a situation.
Best wishes and luck to you.
Good morning magi. Good that all i still more or less well.
Funny about the gas line wrench. Some things never change. Your air quality index right now is 67, ours is 100, still not that bad, eyo is only at 143, which is a surprise. Proximity to coastal winds is definitely a factor.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good lord
How is this not election interference?
- The firm filed a letter to Trump in 2017, which explained their study of Donald Trump’s tax returns found only “a few exceptions” in the last 10 years where debts or incomes originated from Russia.
It's one thing to go after his tax returns which I think is overdue, but to tie it to Russia? Unfortunately too many people are giddy as hell that Russia is still the dem's excuse for why they won't do what is needed to actually win.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
My tax form had a new line.
"Declare income from Russian oligarchs and/or Putin"
Strange that one.
My tax returns have never been over complicated, but how would an auditor determine if some income came from some Russian unless they looked at details of a companies transaction?
But this shows how Russiagate is used to divert. The Women's March people organized rallies on April 15th of last year. It was all about Trump publishing his tax return. Nothing about tax reform, inequalities in rates, etc. And right after that gopers passed major new tax benefits for the rich.
But this shows how Russiagate is used to divert.
Absolutely this. Russia Gate has been one big distraction for the Rubes who couldn't believe HerHeinous could lose to Trump. And for democrats to 'not have learned any lessons from the 2016 election." I wish people would stop saying that. Democrats know what they need to do if they want to win and this just gives them an excuse for not doing it.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
What firm??
- The firm filed a letter to Trump in 2017, which explained their study of Donald Trump’s tax returns found only “a few exceptions” in the last 10 years where debts or incomes originated from Russia.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Well, sometimes you just gotta...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
good afternoon cfs. Thanks for dropping in. I must confess
that went right by me, but the poster is wonderful.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
remember its down not across
shakkiin not stirreed
cheap marttiini filet knife only one left of dozens i tested for the process crew back in ye olde fish farm factory days. how to process a fifty pound sacramento white sturgeon for the bay area fancy food eaters that was my job to figure it out. i did it pretty well and im deeply sorry now. oh well. grotesque regrets.
yet another bleeping tourist trail is what that land is going to be now. because of course. the good times still roll in conservation land. dont ask for who it is saved. all the rest enjoy the suck. and never forget its not what you know its who you know. nothing you ever do will count for anything later in life. nothing. what are you doing for me now that is all there ever is was and will be. says the outstretched palm of every politician that ever existed. good luck
https://www.wildlandsconservancy.org/preserve_estero.html
Hidden Gem, The Estero Americano
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id rather have a mental health hospital. or shelters for poor people to be honest. or even some water flow in the river nearby but go on. do us the needly. why they havent tried to rename the russian river yet i dont know. because that was never its name to begin with maybe.
i guess some people might wish for me a mental hospital right now too. right on. the scars have it.
Genesis - The Knife
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Thank you for the hidden gem, eyo.
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Good morning Janis. Thanks for dropping in
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
estero ranch aerial view
and unfortunate memories did return droning on and on. getting keillored by george bottarini the owner of the ranch. guy just walked up and put his hands up my half top grabbing my tiny boobs. and then he bidened me with the words what i thought you wanted it. because i was wearing a half shirt. lol rich lecherous assholes were a mainstay in every job i ever had until my hair turned gray. im lucky i never got epsteined. fuck those guys.
Estero Ranch Aerial
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i know where all the bodies were buried. every illegal mort pit that ever got dug after massive fish die offs. one time my boss sunk a backhoe and we had to leave it sit through the winter rains before it dried enough to drag it back out. mmm deisel drip estuary. cheap bastards. but i learned a lot. a shit ton.
i taught myself and others how to cut up sturgeon salmon and steelhead. but first i had to kill them all. how do you kill a fifty pound white sturgeon. my god they are the most peaceful beautiful looking dinosaur fish on earth. fifty pounders are babies. and i killed a lot of them just to pay the fucking rent. thousands of salmon and steelhead some of them not even all the way dead yet. i raised them from little fingerlings then just ripped out their gills and guts and flicked off their ribs. 5 second murder queen thats who i was. we raised a pig on the side and ate him too. he was delicious. then karma ran over my dogma or whatever happened john robbins i became vegetarian took a pay cut and went to the co-op bread factory. blew out my left shoulder packaging organic sprouted wheat bread. lol right on
giddyup
estero americano
mouth open wide
That’s a ranch, eyo?
It looks more like the remnants of a whole ecosystem.
Thanks for sharing your learning.
My grandfather was in the fish business. A favourite photo of him was taken with a canadian native indian in winnipeg on one of his trips, all the way from brooklyn to buy sturgeon which he smoked, and was an occasional delicacy on the table.
547 acre cattle ranch. over grazed
the fish farm sub-leased 12 acres within the bottarini ranch. it is still an ongoing abalone operation today i think. i lived in the little cabin next to the ranch house which was occupied by the cattle foreman who was related to the albini family who owns the acreage on the southern edges of the estero. good old boys.
mike and jesse ran the cattle operation which was for meat not dairy. i knew those guys too. every monday was auction day. bunches of baby cows would get culled and the mothers would low for days on end. moooooo. whered my baaaaby go. that sound lives inside me along with the fog horn at bodega harbor. so when i read diet for a new america by john robbins i was all like sheesh man its not just factory farms its every cattle farm. doink
jesse babe amaral was the guy convicted of passing cancerous cows for meat at the slaughterhouse in petaluma. lol omg why did i eat that beef last week. oh well never mind. thanks for asking about the ranch. i got some good stories too but current circumstances have overwhelmed my senses. sorry about that.
Thanks for setting the scene eyo,
and the initial stories of the good old boys.
Good morning eyo. Looks like a serviceable enough tool.
I've had a few fillet knives, always cheapos, never can seem to keep them. Thanks for the estero, never knew of it, and the music.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
gerber ats-34
thanks i also have one of those gerbers with the serrated edge i found on a dirt road up in willits one day. i thought it was a field dressing knife but i dont know. its still sharp i never use it. how do you sharpen the serrated part.
maybe one more week and i can hold the steel to put an edge back on my butcher knife. cant slice or dice worth beans one handed and tomatoes need that edge. hurry up. lol.
hey i hope your procedure went well i guess so. i like hearing mainstream health success stories for i have none of my own to keep going. my neighbors mom fell and broke her hip. they fixed it fine but also when she fell the metal pin in her leg finally broke free so they took that out during the same surgery. it was from a teenage car accident and she had tried to have it surgically removed twice in the past twenty years. she is already back doing a jig in her 80s. right on resiliency. her house burned to ashes in the tubbs fire. we had just emptied it so her family stuff was already in the diaspora. she has good nixoncare. they are all on the premium kaiser plans and want nothing to do with m4a. nada. of course not. why would they.
I sharpen serrated knives, all my knives for that metter,
using a Spyderco sharpening tool. It has two sets of triangular ceramic "stones" that sit in a platform in a vertical "V" arrangement. One slices down and back with the edge against the stone, one side at a time, alternatingly. The serrated knives just ride along, though a bit bumpily.
Here's a web page, https://www.spyderco.com/catalog/details.php?product=77 and some videos
Mine is less fancy and was way cheaper way back when I got it, but they are a wicked good way to sharpen all types of knives. You need to find one somebody doesn't want any more, maybe an estate yard sale or something.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
nothing here, sorry
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hi el
My knives are of the slicing and dicing variety. I sharpen them on a stone sourced from Arkansas that I bought 30 years ago in Germany at a very small, but amazingly well supplied local hardware shop. I wonder if the shop is still there. It would be a great loss if it wasn’t. They had everything somewhere in their larder and the expertise to go with it.
I’ll post a couple photos of the stone tomorrow when there is some daylight.
Good morning Janis. I know the kind of stone. For years
and years I used two stones, a "Washita" from that locale for coarse and a hard Arkansas for fine/finishing. They we part of a kit from Buck knives, but the Arkansas stones are famous and ubiquitous. I wonder how many tons of rock went into all of them.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks el, for the reference to Washita,
I enjoyed learning something new, historically (Chief Black Kettle) and geographically. The natural gifts of varying geological places is wonderful.
Here's the front and back of my Arkansas stone.
Good morning, nice piece of rock. I think I gave the
Washita massacre a couple of lines one Mondaym I recall using a photo of the site, but I doubt I mentioned Black Kettle. I mostly recall it because the US name for it is "the Battle of the Washita", because the whites/army never "massacred" anybody in our official history.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The Battle of the Washita
http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.war.054
A never ending tragedy.