Saturday 11 March 2017

OK, a few things.

Am I the only one who didn't know you could renew the waterproofing on outdoor clothing. That you wash the stuff in with the washing machine, then drip dry and then put in the dryer on low for 20 mins. I've spent a darn fortune on coats for the mountain hikes only for them to last a year or so.

Ha, the Oscars eh.

Seems Korean telly's can be enabled to spy on your house. Since Wiki Leaks let us know just how far we're being watched this seems simply to be the logical extension. Still you'd have to be a odd when you see the camera on the monitor and laptop not to put a bit of blu tack or tape over it.

Trump, a gift that keeps on giving. Who is probably going to give another 10 years of life to publications like the Washington Post, NYT and the WSJ.
I haven't read those papers over a prolonged period for a few years. And the bits I've encountered seem well enough researched and written. So I don't really know, but it does seems Trump et al are kicking at an open goal.

Brexit is about to kick off in the coming weeks. That should see some odd combo's here while vested interests try to shore up their positions. All while telling us the moves are for our own good.

The bodies of 700 plus infants were found in what was a septic tank. They were put there after death in a church run Mother and Baby home. This a euphemism, a solution to women getting pregnant, run by nuns and yet another truly unhealthy rancid aspect of the control mechanisms being deployed here in Ireland.
Most of the babies died between three months and one year.      

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  1. Your last piece of news is horrible--I had not heard of it but that's a lot of infant deaths! How many kids did they have at one time?

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    1. If you Google Tuam Babies. I'll look up the exact data in the morning.

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  2. I have re-waterproofed clothing before but decades ago and at least back then, the stuff never worked very well. The stuff you used to seal/re-seal tent seams worked great but it wasn't something you could treat entire surfaces with. Plus the fumes were outrageous. I'm guessing modern waterproofing stuff has come a long way.

    I'm not surprised about the latest Wikileaks. I've never put my faith in anything that manufacturers claim to be secure. I've worked in the manufacturing industry for much of my life and many times I've been handed a project that I knew nothing about and told to design it. I would be highly skeptical that I designed it better (more secure) than somebody that has lived and breathed the same thing for their entire life.

    I generally steer clear of all political magazines and newspapers. For local news, I get a local county paper but there is never anything political in it other than our local politics. For national news, I watch one of the evening news broadcasts and a couple news shows on television and then generally go to the internet to research anything that I wish to learn more about. I can't say I've ever read a Washington Post or a New York Times. I have read an article in the WSJ while waiting to see my financial adviser who subscribes to a copy for his waiting room.

    Haven't heard much about Brexit here but I will be following it.

    Haven't heard about the babies either. What a shame.

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    1. On the news, there's a point where you simply stop reading it. Or at least only the bits that pass the filters you erect via the likes of twitter and FB. Which quite frankly I'm far from certain is any blooming use at all for you have to really trawl for balance and force yourself to read the stuff ones bias would normally dismiss.

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  3. I saw the findings in Tuam, was it last week. Just awful. It makes it hard to wrap your mind (at least mine) around an organization that has such an issue with contraceptives/abortion/planned parenthood-like clinics can rationalize what it's done the children who are born and actually human beings. The things that have happened to children under the guise of religion have been shameful.
    I've been doing some reading of my own over the fake/alternative facts/biased news media trying to get a handle on what I need to be reading (and not reading) to make sure my facts are straight. Most national media outlets do lean to one political side or another. The ones that spew fake news or alternative facts (like a Breitbart) are mostly opinion based written as fact. While the left or right biased outlets are considered biased not for their facts, but for what types of stories they decide to cover. So while they might only write about the stupid sh&$ one side does, it's not made up sh&$. Those who are just reading one source biased (or fake) are getting such a limited amount of news. It takes A LOT of work to stay informed these days. However, I think the Washington Post has done some great investigative journalism recently. As you said, if anything, 45 might be contributing to the rise of good journalism, something that has been hard to find in the 24 hour a day news coverage.
    With everything going on here, my following of Brexit has been less than it was during/shortly after the vote, so I've not been up to date on all of the recent goings-ons. Having spent time living there, and being close by but still not involved, what are your thoughts on it? There were so many worries and unknowns after the election, I wonder if those have lessened or is there still a lot of worry about what happens to those people who are in the UK due to the open borders or those from the UK living abroad.

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    1. The Babies thing is really becoming a 'thing'. I read about it last year and did some research and realised this was an iceberg. One that was about to become another stick to beat the catholic church. While, yes, they really do deserve the pounding they've been getting, what's missing in the examination is the rolls played by the lawyers judges police medical community, all the arms of control conspired in this in my opinion.

      On Brexit, I'll get back later this week once the Vote is done.

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  4. I've re-waterproofed clothing before (then again, a difference between waterproof and water resistant) for hunting purposes. In fact, I may still have some of the stuff in my laundry room cabinet.

    The left spins their news, the right spins their news, and those of us in the middle just muddle along trying to sort out the facts. I did take a fun political quiz today that I saw on Twitter. I thought of sharing it on my blog, then decided no... I don't even want to go there. My husband and one son-in-law haven't taken it yet, but I was interested to see how my kids and their SOs scored. Only one surprised me a bit.

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    1. This waterproofing is for the Goretex type of fabric. I'd never heard of the darn stuff until I googles it for the fun the other day. It also aids with the breath ability of the garment.

      WHAT, you've a secret lefty in the house Gadzooks :-)

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    2. I just went and dug the stuff out of my cabinet. It's called "Sport-Wash" and is meant to "clean and restore breathability of water proof fabric and insulation" Yes, for Goretex and the like.

      Ha! No one in this family is secret about their opinions at all! Most of us fell in the "Right-Libertarian" range while one was "Left-Libertarian" and another on the "Right Collective". Still waiting on my husband and SIL's results, though I have an idea where they'll fall.

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  5. Great info on the waterproofing. Who would have thought?!

    I'm with Kelly regarding "the news." Very hard to find anything objective.

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    1. No worries Bob. I was just hoping I wasn't the only one left that didn't hear of the stuff.

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