Winter Survival Tips

Some winter related links to pass along.

First off, some slightly tongue-in-cheek survival tips from the local library. Hint: stay warm and keep a book handy.

Local Minnesota winter resources. Good to keep some of those handy.

Plus a local Rochester station’s weather blog. I check this basically every day.

Other stuff:

Winter driving tips from MDOT.

FEMA winter tips. Just stay out of their trailers and you’ll be fine.

An emergency car kit checklist.

Easy home winterization projects. Some more easy than others. We are in an old house so every little thing helps.

Plus some helpful home maintenance tips I should be paying more attention to.

Weigel : The Joe Wilson “You Lie” AR-15 Lower Receiver

Given their outrage over the past few days, it appears that conservatives NEVER condone violence or would trafiic in, say, making gun components that would encourage the assassination of an American president. Much less a black President.

Oops!

What you see there is a replacement magazine receiver for a M-16/AR-15 produced in South Carolina by a company so energized by nitwit Representative Joe Wilson, a Republican of course, that they went out and made semi-automatic and automatic machine guns parts.

Why? Hell, I dunno. They might be assassination loving traitors. Or just idiots.

And yes, making a gun part that makes mention of an elected representative making false accusations against the President is nothing short of a call to arms.

More at Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, and a South Carolina weekly on this story barely getting noticed elsewhere.

Though kudos to Lawrence O’Donnell for staying on top of it.

Don’t Blame Sarah Palin, Just Stop Paying Attention! | VF Daily | Vanity Fair

Some truth from Henry Rollins.

However, for this one moment, it is instructive to point her out as an example of what NOT to do in political discourse.

That said, her disdain of media attention while trying to grab the spotlight every time she can is transparent, pathetic, and unnecessary for the rest of us.

She may think she’s the shadow president, but folks need to stop treating her like she is.