In this video, the narrator points out some of the reasons why some of our political friends are unable to see the very deception that stands right in front of them.
At the end of the day, the government won’t even be able to save itself, much less save anything or anybody else.
Critical thinking is important and no free passes should be given out to any ideology.
People who say that the government is the new god are usually pointing to a pattern, not a theology class:
The state claims a monopoly on legitimate force (Weber). That is unique. Churches and families do not get to imprison you.
People look to government for salvation from risk: poverty, illness, disaster, loneliness, even wrong opinions.
Civic ritual starts to look liturgical: flags, anthems, founding documents as scripture, leaders as redeemers, heresy as extremism.
Moral language migrates from sin/virtue to policy/compliance.
So far, or as far as I can tell, springtime in Montana has always been somewhat of a grab bag of weather conditions.
Sometimes it’s 70 degrees, and as many well worn and seasoned Montanans know, it can be anything but 70 degrees.
I’ve seen, along with many others, 15 degree days in April.
Though the weather today was for the most part fairly pleasant for the springtime, in the upper 30’s, there are still winter weather warnings posted for the eastern part of the state this afternoon, with roads still being shut from Hardin to the Wyoming boarder because of the snow drifting.
I’ve seen it snow in June in the Bitterroot up Pierce Creek, and I don’t have any reason to doubt those who’ve said they’ve seen it snow in August here in the state.
For the huge number of people moving here recently from the Covid police states of Washington, Oregon, and California, I’d like to say that the weather here in April is normal for it’s time of year in the state. We don’t harvest Rhubarb here in April.
Posted below are the actual weather conditions for today:
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I’ve been refurbishing and/or rebuilding PC boxes — like this ASUS PC for instance — and laptops for a period of time now and it’s been going fairly well.
I think now is the time I actually start building some of these from scratch.
Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 RAM
I started this little project quite some time ago with the purchase of the now discontinued ATX AeroCool Cylon RGB flow Mid-Tower.
The next component I bought was the CORSAIR CV Seriesβ’, CV750, 750 Watt, 80 Plus Bronze ATX Power Supply. I installed it into the box and upon after a while longer I went out and bought the ROG Strix B550-F Gaming motherboard.
I didn’t wait very long after to finally purchase the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-core Desktop Processor paired with a Wraith Stealth Cooler, and two 16GB Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 RAM sticks. I purchased the motherboard, processor, and RAM in fairly quick succession because sometimes if you wait too long, some parts might become unavailable.
Allow me to be the first to say that I’m absolutely not a Microsoft Windows fan … not even a little bit.
I installed a fresh build of Linux Mint (cinnamon) 20. The ASUS ROG Strix B550-F motherboard is built almost exclusively for Microsoft Windows, but even in spite of that, Linux still writes/loads and works great. Had a minor problem with the sound drivers in the beginning, but it all sort of smoothed itself out after a while.
ASUS ROG Strix B550-F motherboard
For my hard drive on this ASUS PC, I’m using an actual 2TB SATA HDD @7200rpm. SSD drives are fine I suppose, but good luck if your SSD ever fails, because you can forget about any sort of data salvage. HDD’s don’t short out and have longer life spans than the SSD drives do. When your HDD begins to fail, at least you’ve got a bit of warning by all of the clunking and knocking around noises it makes. With the HDD you’ll have time to pull the data on to another drive before it totally conks out.
Since the onboard HDMI doesn’t work out-of-the-box with the ASUS B550-F motherboard (too new and firmware drivers for the HDMI are non-existent), I installed a regular old plain-jane VisionTek Radeon 5450 2GB DDR3 (DVI-I, HDMI, VGA) Graphics Card. I’m not gaming, so the video card will be adequate.
The motherboard came with a wired external WIFI/Bluetooth antenna. It was literally junk (something they just threw in to make it look cool I guess), so I pulled a TP-Link AC1200 PCIe WiFi Card out of one of my older units and it works just fine.
Though I’m pretty much a huge HP fan, I’ve never had any trouble with ASUS. ASUS is a far cry better than all of those Toshiba, Dell, Acer things that are floating around these days.
The tower itself, though taller than I’d like, will be lit up with all of it’s little bells and whistles.
Video below is when I was testing RGB configs on the ATX tower.
Seems it’s always a pretty big deal when the circus comes to town. At least in our house it’s a big deal.
Last weekend we went over to the 4 Seasons Arena here in town to attend the Algeria Shrine Circus, and as usual, there was fun to be had by all.
There were the elephants of course, and a wide variety of different talents from juggling, to dog tricks, to the high wire performances.
When we consider the high wire acts, it’s somewhat disappointing that the ceiling on the 4 Seasons Arena is so low. Back in the day whenever the circus came to town, it was held outdoors. and the high wire acts were … well … higher.
When I look at all of the running these people do, setting up for the next act while the current act is ongoing, I can only imagine just how exhausting it might be for all who work to put it all together. 2 shows over a 4 hour period of time probably keeps these guys in great shape.
Though there are rumors going around that the circus won’t be back after this year. I asked Cascade County Commissioner Joe Briggs about it and haven’t heard back so far. I’ll update this post when I do hear back from him however.
Had an occasion recently to visit the Burger Bunker here in Great Falls at 24 5th Street South.
Upon after getting dry burgers at places like Tracy’s and the Halftime, I was somewhat surprised to learn that these burgers were anything but dry. The condiments were piled on generously by default, along with onions, tomatoes, pickles, and lettuce.
The breaded fries were sort of an added bonus.
The Burger Bunker (tap or click image to enlarge)
The burgers came to us in the classic burger style served up in little baskets that included the fries — Sort of like how they did in the olden days. The young aged crew were helpful and courteous.
The burgers all have their own names, like “The Malmstrom”, “The Sherman”, or “The Desert Fox” for instance. Each one has it’s own somewhat unique toppings and sauces.
I know that a lot of these places around town have their reviews left on places like Trip Advisor and the like, some reviews are good, while other reviews are not so good. In the case of the this place however, the reviews are as advertised. Trying some of these places out first hand is usually the best way to learn about them though.
Stop in to the Burger Bunker and take the challenge:
Food Challenge – The General
2 Malmstrom burgers, side of fries, and side of Onion rings. Finish in 20 min or less and it’s free, fail and it costs you $19
Burger Bunker hours:
Sun 11AMβ6PM
Mon 11AMβ8PM
Tue 11AMβ8PM
Wed 11AMβ8PM
Thu 11AMβ8PM
Fri 11AMβ8PM
Sat 11AMβ8PM
Phone: 406-952-0130 – (tap number to call from your smartphone)
