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Right Angle: Backstage (02-16-2021)

The big question this week: Will Scott get through an episode before the Texas energy regulatory agency orders a rolling blackout of his power-sucking studio?

Right Angle: Backstage (02-16-2021)

Bill Whittle and Stephen Green cover for Scott Ott at the start of the “tech rehearsal” for our weekly Backstage meeting of Right Angle. The big question this week: Will Scott get through an episode before the Texas energy regulatory agency orders a rolling blackout of his power-sucking studio?

Thank you to our Members for keeping the lights on even when Texas doesn’t.

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The 1911 screws with my girlish figure, so I’ll be sticking with my 9mm. But if ya come into my house uninvited, be prepared to meet the Judge.

Hey, Scott. If you’re having trouble with your earbud, and can’t identify why the volume seems low, you might be sweating into it. Try cleaning it off on your shirt and, if you have to, blow it to clear the small screen.

As for target practice that’s affordable, I recommend a G-sight training laser cartridge. It will save you a couple of hundred and if you’re going to shoot 22 then you won’t notice the nonexistent recoil of the laser.

And 45colt is my recommended upgrade.

Steve brought this to mind. Some years ago we had a friend from Northern Ireland visiting, It was brutally cold. Gaz said ‘it so cold it hurts’. BTW I have been in -50 degrees wind chill as a firefighter. That is cold.

I live in Houston Texas in an old apartment complex built in the early ’60s; there is no insulation to speak of unless you want to mention a 2-inch layer of fiberglass mat that was used in those days. My power went down at 1:40 am Monday and came on yesterday afternoon, and after going back down and up a couple of times has stayed on. Tuesday morning it was 14 degrees and 38 degrees inside my apartment. We had no heat. People froze to death or died from carbon dioxide poising because of greed and incompetence. The more I dig into how the Texas electrical grid operates the angrier I get. I can say this, because of the nature of human nature no or very little regulation is just as bad, if not worse, than too much regulation.

So sorry for what you are going through my friend. I have also gone through what you are, and it is truly terrible.

My son was stationed in Minot, ND. for almost 6 years. Why that long, because once they have someone that excels at his mission, you have a very hard time having a transfer approved. No one volunteers for a Air Force base that has the extream cold weather and extended winter this one has. But he never complained, and made the most of his opportunities while stationed there, earning a number of awards and rank E-6 in record time, along with a degree in sports medicine. Am I proud? What do you think!

.50/round? WHERE are you buying YOUR ammunition?! Share that info. plz! Eeeshh… What I’m seeing is $2-3 DOLLARS/ROUND, currently! (and higher)

I load my own and buy brass, powder, primers, shot, and bullets in bulk. I even do my own shotgun shells. There is nothing more devastating during a home invasion than a properly loaded 00 buckshot in 3″ magnum. Hell, just chambering a pump shotgun is all it takes in most instances; it’s a universally know sound among criminals. I have an old Remington 870 pump 12 GA riot gum with the extended magazine. It’s one of those treasures that make gun control liberals foam at the mouth with rage. They may get me in the end, but I’m going to take a hell of a lot of them with me. The balls in their court and they’re going to have to decide if it’s worth trying to take our guns by force.

Bill’s off the cuff joke about kids of the age of 4 carrying a weapon reminds me of a comic I saw I wish I could find again, picturing two little kids and saying they should not be allowed to have guns… then in the next frame showing that a rifle or even pistol was too large. Third frame showed them with a mounted machine gun and said that due to their size, crew weapons were the only appropriate weapon.
Also, Steve’s comment about compromise legislation I’ve heard elsewhere…(and maybe here): put up something totally unworkable, then “come down to” something still the wrong side of reasonable, but “at least it isn’t as bad as THAT”.

The A-10 or the BUFF are like sharks or crocodiles… dinosaur era animals that never evolved because they were perfect as they were. (or so I’ve read).

Are you trying to be funny? The standard issue military weapon IS a 5.56 round. Only difference is semi or full auto. They are almost never fired full auto as it wastes ammo.

OK to disagree. Not OK to make personal comments. Include the link, which makes your point. Drop the first three sentences.

My apologies for my rudeness, it was just how you said it that triggered me, I spent 7 years in the Army, my father was UDT diver in WW2 and my grandfather was in WW1. I own an AR-15, AR-10, 30-06 rifle, and on and on.
Again, sorry for that

Your apology is noted. You made a valid point, albeit rudely. I think you want to apologize to Barb, though. I’m Deborah. (Following Bill’s suggestion ….)

My apologies for my rudeness, it was just how you said it that triggered me, I spent 7 years in the Army, my father was UDT diver in WW2 and my grandfather was in WW1. I own an AR-15, AR-10, 30-06 rifle, and on and on.
Again, sorry for that

If Steve starts talking about little green men, I’ll have a lot to say about that. But it’s not the warm and fuzzy, benevolent being narrative. I have first hand experience of a lie waiting to be told. I’ve been on TV for video I recorded, and was even with MUFON for awhile. But that’s what woke me up to the lie. The director of the MUFON chapter was a former CIA agent…who I saw making fake alien videos. In short…not alien, fallen Angels and Nephilim.

Steve says he doesn’t use Google products. I have the same delusion. lol No matter what we do, if we are using the internet, we are almost certainly using Google products. Your very own website here uses many Google scripts. Which is why I feel compelled not to watch things on BlueTube until the Bloogle/BlueTube Uber-Monopoly is devolved. It doesn’t change anything on their end, but it’s about the principle for me. Love this backstage show btw.

Texas needs to take down those wind turbines, melt them down and build nuke plants to replace them. 2 or 3 small, modular tritium power plants would solve all the problems caused by the “green” fiasco.
A couple of oil-fired back-up generation plants for emergencies, or high load scenarios like this winter and TX would be sitting in clover.

Unfortunately, there are people* who stand between good ideas and the execution of said good ideas.
*congress critters

Cold weather …

I’m originally from Northern Minnesota, which is arguably the coldest place in the contingent US. Arctic highs slump down through the center of North America and that’s where they go. This is why Camp Ripley, Minnesota National Guard base, is often used for Arctic warfare training. It’s more accessible than Alaska (you can get there over good roads well maintained in the winter) but often colder and less hospitable weather-wise than Anchorage or Fairbanks.

So not only am I no stranger to cold weather but I have the full measure of it just by virtue of growing up with it. After I came home from abroad I spent quite a few years there before moving to California, which I managed to escape from a few years ago and now live in a balmy, semi-tropical Mid-Atlantic State. (Actually this state isn’t so balmy but it’s nothing compared to Minnesota winters and where I live is heavily influenced by the Gulf Stream. A couple hundred miles north or inland is a whole ‘nother climate.)

We have four seasons here, which I like. My family moved here with me and my Sister, having grown up in N. MN like me says that she actually enjoys the two or three weeks of winter we have here.

Here in ‘the South’ we have a thing called a “Winter Grump”. These are people who are continually in a terrible mood all winter because they think the winter weather is horrible. Winter Grumps act like the weather purposely configures itself to annoy them. There’s only one thing a Winter Grump hates more than Winter.

That would be people like me telling them how bad living with six months of soul-crushing actual winter is, and how they’re sissies and ingrates who should be thankful that what they call winter is nothing more than a little stretch of cool weather.

🙂

I know those people. As a native of the northeast plus some time in Buffalo of all places, mid-Atlantic people have no idea what winter really is.

… and it’s not so much that I’m trying to tell them how much worse I’ve had it than that I’m trying to tell them they should be grateful for what they have.

There’s a quote from Starship Trooper that, paraphrasing here as I can’t recall it verbatim, goes; “Once you have the measure of true hardship nothing less will bother you.” That’s the point I’m making.

All of that said, I just love riling up Winter Grumps too.

My favorite song in a musical known by it’s title song (though not the musical for which the title song was written) goes like this.
When my bankroll is getting small, I think of when I had none at all. I fall asleep counting my blessings.
We spend too much time collectively worrying about what we don’t have rather than being thankful for what we do have.

We lived in Idaho for three years, long enough for me to develop serious respect for actual cold weather. Mom and Dad visited one Christmas. I’ll never forget Dad standing at the sliding glass door (inside) looking at the thermometer (outside), which read -25F. “That’s a 100F differential!” Idaho has three seasons: June, July and winter.

Lol, I know the feeling. Years ago I was listening to Paul Harvey on the radio and he said, “What do Minnesotans do in the summer time? If it falls on a weekend they have a picnic.”

I have literally seen snow flurries on the Fourth of July and there’s not a mountain around for 1,000 miles so it’s not a matter of elevation.

I live in the Deep South, and people are always saying, I’m so tired of the heat; I can’t wait for winter! Well, that’s cause we don’t have one

I don’t live in the Deep South but I’m definitely below the Mason-Dixon. I look forward to winters now, here, and that’s not something I could ever have said in Minnesota. It probably gets a bit chillier here than in the genuine deep south but we still get days of 60 – 70+ weather every month of the winter season*. It doesn’t get quite as hot here in the summertime as in the further, deeper south either.

(Yesterday’s high was 59, a front came through and brought rain then cold behind it, overnight low of 27. Today it’s 62F outside just before 1 PM, sun shining, a light breeze. Summertime runs in the mid 80’s to the upper 90’s, very occasionally higher but we don’t have the humidity that occurs further south either. Average summer humidity runs between 35 -50% if you don’t count the effect a thundershower followed by sunshine generates. Even then the humidity drops off fairly quickly. I love the weather here.)

Bill always has me with his knowledge of the history of our wars and battles and it is such a service to the members and anyone smart enough to watch. The Cold War series was incredible and should be mandatory material for public schools..

As a proud citizen in the Republic of Texas, I say this show is one of the best uses of our currently rationed supplies of electricity. No apologies needed, Sirs. You’re keeping those Lights of Freedom lit for the benefit of this Nation and all Freedom-Loving Peoples around the globe. Many thanks, as always.

According to treaty, we had to destroy some B52s by chopping off their wings and letting the Russian spy satellites photograph them. Those wing spares are irreplaceable!

Scott,
You owe the state of Texas an apology as much as Tom Brady owes that woman, whatever her name was, an apology for abusing the trophy.

In other words, no apology necessary.

In other other words, Texas owes you an apology for building all those damn wind farms instead of a reliable nuclear power plant.

Fully believe that the “strategy” for the latest gun grab is to load a bill up with an obvious laundry list of items that will not pass but can be negotiated down to just a few items that Mitch and Romney can get on board with “for the children” and “common sense”. I believe the psych profile and registry are the things they really want this time around.

And of course anyone who voted for Trump, is Evangelical/Fundamentalist, anti-open borders, or skeptical of election results will be deemed unfit mentally.

What are they going to do when the ‘I Will Not Comply’ crowd tells them to stuff it?
How many dead fed agent are they willing to accept?

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