12″ snow so far, not sure what is under it, feels like banana, don’t care to look. It is weather. Deal with it. Happened before. Could be worse.

Sincerely,

Light Infantry.

Pretty sure the CF in Minnesota has been going on for more than 72 hours. 😒

But to recap,

a female activist decides to impede law enforcement in the pursuit of their duties, puts herself in a situation where the LEO in question feels threatens, and dies.

another activist straps on his firearm, leaves all his ID at home, gets in the way of law enforcement in the pursuit of their duties, and then flashes the gun. He also dies.

thousands of activists are coordinating on social media (Signal) to provide instant response to impede federal law enforcement in the pursuit of their duties, following and harassing the agents, and generating noise to alert the targets of the enforcement

other activists are setting up no-go zones with dumpsters blocking roads and demanding ID from anyone going in and out (ironic, isn’t it?) while assaulting people they “think” are associated with ICE

other activists stormed into a church, terrifying the churchgoers (especially given the recent shooting in a Minneapolis church) and shouting down the service

Meanwhile the Governor of the state, under investigation for fraud, tells the federal government that they need to turn down the temperature, and lectures them that the proper way to conduct this operation is to cooperate with local law enforcement, ignoring the fact that he has directed local law enforcement to NOT cooperate.

Am I missing anything? The state is in rebellion, and are leaving the federal government the choices of abandoning federal law enforcement in the state (goodbye federal law enforcement in California, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, New York, …) or to invoke the insurrection act and send in the federal troops, which will most likely result in more deaths and poor optics as people, once again, start thinking about how there weren’t any riots under “President” Joe Biden. I hope PDT has some other ideas that I can’t think of because this whole situation is outrageous.

We barely got 3 inches, but it warmed up then refroze as ice.
My tractor could not break it up so today will be chip and shovel

There was a murder of a Minnesota politician. The murderer claimed that he had done so at the direction of Tim Walz, but the murderer’s state of mind was so obviously questionable that a lot of people immediately decided that this testimony is unreliable.

Walz and Ellison do /not/ have a good argument for a completely non-federal investigation of such things as fraud or as their handling of ICE and surrounding situations.

I know that everyone has been seeing reasons to talk about the possibility of civil war. We’ve been looking at possible civil war for almost twenty years, and there look superficially like right now there are a lot of positives for the hypothesis of being able to address it in the courts instead.

There are a lot of points where I think the claims sound interesting, but I do not want to taint all of the possible jury pools.

-5° this morning with clear skies and bright sun. Light snow last evening. For Northern Colorado, this has been the mildest winter in years.

Glad to hear you made out okay. Ice isn’t friendly to anyone when coating the ground – your mind is spot on !

We’ve got about 15 inches of snow and very cold temperatures here in Southwest Ohio.

Oak Ridge had enough ice to bring down some tree limbs. It was the heavy rain that followed that cause the most damage. A 28 mile round trip Sunday afternoon showed well over a dozen downed trees, all with root balls showing. Of course, this being East Tennessee, all the trees had been cleared by Good Ol’ Boys or Gals. Cousin Jimmy had to clear a tree on his street.