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This article documents the most distant astronomical objects discovered and verified so far, and the time periods in which they were so classified.

What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

Jefferson is not without his problems, many of them. He was also brilliant.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.

This guy is a hell of an example, but do not put yourself in harm's way blindly. Most resistance is going to be the "pecked to death by ducks" kind, and that's just fine.

Choose as your New Year’s mantra that great civic-minded slogan: ‘If you saw something, no you didn’t’.

There are all kinds of resistance. Some are more "active" than others, and it is your call as to how active you're able to be.

If your situation makes it so that you're less able to engage in civil disobedience or direct subversion, you can still resist in other ways. "Not snitching" is one of those ways.

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Replaced the original one a couple years ago after it started making the slightest of noises. New one has been screaming for months, finally decided to have at it again.

Not seeing any new content for the last few hours, figured I would make a note of it.

Reposting this, because it's becoming much more relevant, even in the month since I originally posted it.

When someone follows a reporter for forty miles, then physically assaults them while shouting about "Trump's America now," and there needs to be an investigation to see if there might be a "bias-influenced" incident, you'd damned well better be ready to defend yourself.

It's only a matter of time before harassments escalate more widely. Be prepared.

Recipients—including a mayor—were told to surveil "brown folks" at churches, schools, and stores.

This is what needs resisting.

According to the internet, Buell produced the Blast between model years 2000 and 2009. Buell Motorcycle Company was owned by Harley Davidson. The Buell Blast was a 492cc "sport" bike, and in fact, its engine was based on the HD Evolution Sportster engine of the time, with a cylinder lopped off.

In July 2009, Buell announced that there would be no 2010 model year Blast, with one legendary exception: upon request, you could buy a 2010 Buell Blast which had been crushed into a cube, signed and numbered by Erik Buell.

Then, in October 2009, Harley Davidson announced that they were dumping Buell entirely, and that all production of Buell motorcycles under HD would cease by the end of that month.

That wasn't the end for Buell as a motorcycle name, as Erik Buell went on to create Erik Buell Racing (EBR), which still produces motorcycles with the Buell name. Except, of course, the Blast.

The Blast was not a "great" motorcycle by any means. Buell itself heaped a lot of criticism on the machine at the end of its run. It was just "a motorcycle." Nothing special.

So when I saw a craigslist post offering a 2010 Buell Blast - not in the shape of a cube - I figured, that's got to be a typo, surely it's a 2001.

I contacted the seller who said, no, title says 2010. Cropped picture of the title most definitely said model year 2010. Okay ... maybe it was a typo by the state when it got its first title? I acquired and checked the VIN.

The tenth digit of the VIN denotes the model year. The tenth digit of this VIN was "A". "A" means it is a 2010 model year. Okay ... maybe it was a typo somewhere else in the paperwork, and that "A" was actually a "4"? Which would make it a 2004?

The seller is going to send me a picture of the VIN tag on the actual bike today. Honestly, I expect it to have an "A", because I think I might know what happened. Edit: Yes, the VIN plate has "A" in the tenth position. It is a 2010.

Speculation incoming!

Way back in mid-2009, Buell said "No more Blast, no 2010 model year for the Blast." But there were still bikes in the production funnel, and some of those frames already had paperwork and VINs identifying them as 2010 model year Buell Blast. They kept rolling Blasts off the assembly line as long as there were enough parts to put them together, and just called them all 2009s, even though by VIN some of them were 2010s.

Is this 2010 Buell Blast for sale a super-rare unicorn one-of-a-kind priceless museum piece? Well ... no. It's definitely neat, and a little special, but it's still "only" a Buell Blast.

There can't be very many of them out there, but there are surely others. It's definitely one of the last HD-era Buell motorcycles made, and the model year curiosity sparked my interest enough to dig into some details of the history of Buell and the Blast.

If nothing else, the legend of "all 2010 Buell Blasts were crushed into cubes" has just a tiny bit of extra fun in it.

Way better than instant. Two parts water, one part oats. Boil the water, turn off the burner, add the oats. Sprinkle a bit of salt. Stir to make sure all the oats are wet, cover. Wait a few minutes.

While you're waiting, put whatever you want into a bowl - butter, syrup, brown sugar, cinnamon, bits of fruit, honey, peanut butter, jelly, etc. (Probably not all of those at once, but you do you.) Serve the oatmeal on top of the add-ons, mix.

The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill that prohibited public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit. Named after Republican assemblyman Don Mulford and signed into law by governor of California Ronald Reagan, the bill was crafted with the goal of disarming members of the Black Panther Party, which was conducting armed patrols of Oakland neighborhoods in what would later be termed copwatching.

And the NRA fought for more gun control as well.

The Second Amendment is unassailable - until the "wrong people" decide to embrace it.

Be one of the "wrong people."