Weekend Fishing Trips

I was chatting with the @ultralight_backpacking group here in Google+ about food while backpacking. The OP described being the campground manager at Prosser Reservoir, which is NE of Truckee, on the other side of the Sierras from me but part of the same county I live in. Prosser is down on the plateau, one of the places where it resembles high desert, but you can see the mountains clearly. It is in the Banana Belt East of Donner Pass and the high Sierras but up the mountain from Reno.

When I ponder taking weekend breaks from being a librarian, once I start working for a living in my chosen career, I could easily see building a Teardrop trailer to camp in, and one of the above boats to fish with, using oars, and sail with after the fish stop biting, which happens around 9 AM. While I currently think a camper shell on the back of a truck is too small to live in full time, it would be fine for a couple nights of camping at the lakeside. It is possible to park these on the jacks, with them levelled, and go elsewhere for things like groceries, dumping the tanks (if you have them), and getting more water and beer. This is a viable idea, thanks to being single. I don't have to suffer the vagaries of an enraged woman in my life.

I'm taking interest in these things because TV sucks. Anime is dying out. There's too much politics and bias to even find news which isn't more than propaganda of one of the sides, who are each getting more extreme. Boating and recreation is healthier.

The above boat is fascinating for being made out of wood you cut and shape yourself, using epoxy and fiberglass to hold it together, and the result is lighter than a plastic boat or foam-core boat. The above boat is also interesting because you can add oarlocks to row it, a daggerboard and removable mast to sail it, or even a small motor to drive it around with that. You can even use an electric trollling motor if you want. I'd probably want to put in oar and the sail so I could switch my recreation based on conditions. Since I don't want to get wet while boating, that means that a kayak isn't for me. My insulin pump isn't waterproof. If I roll over and right myself I will be fine but my pump will die, and its $6000. Ergo, higher sides are needed. I might also be clever and put some ballast rocks wrapped in a towel on the bottom of the boat to keep it stable.
I'm also reasonably sure I can fiddle with sails and mast setups for any type I like. I'm learning a fair bit from other building sites, and found a useful resource on ballast and "righting moment". Considering my car isn't the sort that can haul a lot of weight, a very light boat, and probably one of these teadrop trailers would work best for me.
They aren't perfect, but they're pretty cool. And warmer than a tent. I don't enjoy sleeping on hard ground and being freezing cold when I want to sleep either. The construction methods used makes it really strong for its weight, and its very light. The roofrack could probably hold one of these boats I like. And the oars. And the mast. Or I could put it on the roof of my car, using a modified hitch-mount, which is probably better. Especially if I'm clever about integrating leverage and the dolly to roll it down the ramp into the water, or across the ground there. I can do these things. It is better to use tools to help yourself than rely on others you can never count on when it matters.

Oroville Tip Of The Iceberg For Govt Incompetence

The Oroville dam evacuation last week was a nightmare that stopped early. It could have been really really bad. The coffer dam was only feet of erosion away from collapse. We're talking about 30 more minutes and it wouldn't have been fixable anymore and a quarter cubic mile of water heading for Sacramento, destroying every house on the way South. 200,000 people had to run for it, but its better than 10% of them drowning and 50,000 injured.

Why did this happen? The short answer is Jerry Brown, the governor, is more interested in showy projects than maintenance of critical infrastructure. We hear about the Train To Nowhere, and his promise to launch satellites to study global warming using California tax dollars. Not protect our water supply. He's got an expensive plan to replace ObummerDontCare, since the provider companies are bailing on it.

California is ungovernable. Dividing the state into several new ones would save us, so it won't be done. Moonbeam loves power, and shitting all over everyone to keep his pals in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, billionaires who preach communism without following through, he doesn't need the rest of the state blocking his mania. He's clearly senile or evil because 200,000 people got screwed and he still won't show his face. We think he is an evil D1cK.

As I see it, having studied all this for 20 years, the USA is looking at Balkanization. The Balkans are the home of Yugoslavia, six small countries of people who hated each other passionately but ruled over by a terrifying dictator named Tito, and I don't mean Jackson. When Tito died, Yugoslavia restored their borders, armed up, and went to town on each other with mass killings. I doubt we'll come to that, exactly, but I could easily see the Left Coast becoming a Communist Country, invite in China, which then brings in its own security, which then starts killing them off with guards and drones like that one scene in Terminator. And since I know a bunch of Chinese people I know they consider EVERYONE competition for resources so its not racism that drives the genocide. Its just resource wars like always. Doped up California hippies are easy targets. Same sort of thing as happened in Bosnia would happen here, given half a chance.

Rural California, where I live, is all about the agriculture. While the Left Coast controls the ports, except San Diego and Eureka, both of which need work for proper high volume shipping, and Sacramento and Stockton, which could be blockaded by the Bay getting shut by greedy communists. Communism is a cult. It doesn't last because Pol Pot is the best example of true Communism. He killed half his country, to purify its vision. That's what would happen here if Moonbeam got his way, and his most extreme billionaire backers. The Saul Linsky Zealots like #antifa are the true face of California communism. Its all about rioting, racism, and murder. Its political.

Dealing with those killers sounds like a strong argument for guns and prepping, but that's incorrect. Moving away from them, far enough that they will face the full wrath of California's weather, which wants to kill all humans much of the time (despite what you have heard). So distance is a fantastic defense against #antifa. Rural living, done correctly and with proper perimeter defense warnings, means these urban murder-hobos are not able to reach you. The smarter answer, once you get away from the murder-hobo cities, is that the Left Coast has only a couple powerplants, no water supply except salt, and very little food (mostly south of Gilroy). They're the same idiots who think they can grow magic trees for free stuff, and voted for Bernie Sanders. The downside of rural areas is since communism is a kind of cancer, it eats its neighbors. It starts denying resources to the distant parts of the body (the state) to keep itself happy. Cancer is selfish, and breeds fast making more of itself, which is also selfish. The Left Coast is cancer, only the selfish cells are evil people. Isolating the evil by creating a new body (a state) which contains the evil with no ability to steal from its neighbor (us), could save the rest of the body. Losing Hollywood and Silicon Valley is not a tragedy. They don't pay much taxes, they don't employ many people, and they're not as important as agriculture, which makes way more money. Also, we don't need more immigrants. We have enough workers here. The naturalized citizens already know this. They don't want more competition driving down their wages. They've got a mortgage, after all, and the governor tried to drown their kids. I wonder if they'll still vote Democrat after this?

Its ironic, but more important than guns is a good wood stove so when the power goes out in the winter, you don't freeze to death. More important than guns is a mountain bike so you can ride to the market for groceries if there's no gasoline. The communists at the coast would totally tax the everloving hell out of fuel to pay for their fun. Musk is facing autoworkers union at his Tesla plant in Fremont/Milpitas, so he'll close the place and shift production elsewhere, to places like Reno which is a non-union town. He's already building a plant there. The Left Coast is the Bernie Sanders kind of Communists. Filled with doped up dreamers, no idea how to pay for it, or that it shouldn't just be given to them because they were born. That's the most common reason I hear from them. "You should give me everything because I was born!". Yeah, you can imagine what I think of that when I smirk back. It is worth remembering that this same coastline was overfished, then the sharks started eating people who started surfing in the same murky water as sea lions swim through, which look a lot like a person on a surfboard to a shark attacking from below. Surfing on the California coast is suicidal.

Having plenty of food in your pantry is key. Having a backup that can keep you safe and warm despite the lights going out sometimes is key. Not living directly below a dam that can drown you is key, even if that dam provides most of the agriculture water. Normal recommended maintenance would have prevented the problem, but Brown is either incompetent or evil. That's a question which won't matter if my state gets split off from the Left Coast. If they can't hurt us anymore, because their votes aren't in my state, we matter again, and we can save ourselves from their predations.

The Real California

The Real California is agriculture. Not cities. Not high technology. Not hippies, who arrived here in the 60's and 70's and didn't go home. Hollywood and Nancy Pelosi are an unfortunate symptom of the Nerfherders that allowed Darwin Awards to be denied in my home state of California. The real California is industrial agriculture, war with nature, and a desert with a bunch of oases. The drought of the last six years is finally over for the whole state and the reservoirs are full, the snow pack is high and we're in good condition to hire back all those gang members to the farms. They in turn will have the money to rent houses so their senoritas can be senoras and have bambinas, like good Catholics should. Most of our problems get resolved that way.

In the map above you can see that only the coasts, and San Bernardino County, and Alpine and Mono County are blue, mostly due to communists retired from LA. The rest is red, because the red part of the state works for a living. The blue is mostly communists on welfare, and their billionaire slave overlords. The billionaires pretend they "really care about the poor" which is why they work so hard to keep them poor. Duh! The contrary problem is the ultra leftists in the cities want the power and they don't want those poor Black or Mexicans to work for a living. They want them poor, angry, and ready to riot and murder for them, like the blacks do.

Early this week, a gay conservative was invited to give a public speech at UC Berkeley, a state funded leftist college responsible for the invention of the Hydrogen Bomb decades ago, but shifted in the 1960's into full leftist fascism. If you aren't a vegan with a Prius or a Bicycle, you're a target for violence. That's how UC Berkeley works, and they've been allowed to get this extreme because the college is the dominant employer in the city, which is just north of Oakland, and across the bay from San Francisco. Berkeley used to be more tolerant, but that's long gone. Its now fully extremist and by the 1990's it was creating eco terrorists who actually murdered people up on the north coast of the state for the crime of working for a living after these same ecoterrorists finished building their own redwood decks. They hypocritically murdered the guys who cut down the trees to build their decks in Berkeley. This is pretty much the entire communist ecosystem. Use people as your slaves, then kill them and eat their corpses. Any fool can tell that doesn't work for long, but the Berkeley communist want to depopulate the world so their long game is actually genocide. This explains a great deal.

Milo the gay conservative immigrant had things to say, but the antifa tried to assassinate him and the Berkeley cops hid in the building rather than use the teargas they were carrying to disperse the rioters or protect free speech. The mayor of Berkeley tweeted encouragement to the rioters, which is hate speech. He wasn't charged with hate speech because the city cops work for him and they're... fascists too. Left wing fascists. This was basically #krystalnacht in #Berkeley.

This also means the mayor committed both sedition and violated the constitutional rights of those coming to hear the speech. That's a federal crime. Its 10 years in prison and $100,000 fine for each person violated. He won't be charged because the state governor is also a communist. He lived in a fancy millionaire commune nearby while he was mayor of Oakland. He was proud of this. So as bad as the riots were, and how the #antifaterrorists were allowed and encouraged to break the businesses and neighborhoods of fellow leftists, this is fantastic advertising for white flight and gun sales.

Conservatives should seriously consider the Mossberg or Remington 12 gauge pump shotgun. 00-buckshot is effective on rioters no matter how many drugs they're on. That's why the police carry them. Effective police, which Berkeley does not have, have probably used the above video as a training aid, and I will expect they'll be holding 3-gun matches with silhouettes of black-clad terrorists so they can practice shooting them. England may let hoodies run rampant but we (our law enforcement) in Rural California will just shoot them. The survivors will get charged and off to prison. The rest get buried. I do hope they're practicing, locally. Lots of practice. Even with the rain there should be lots of visitors to the gun range today. The real California is armed and conservative. Not leftists in black hoodies.