Swamp Musings

Gen-u-wine swamp water, not the good stuff that appears after a pass through the copper coils! The following was done last Tuesday.

I walked down into a part of the swamp that still had holding puddles of scum-covered stuff with a sterilized 2 liter pop bottle and took a sample. Took a look at a droplet with my retired US Forestry Service microscope. Looked like downtown Hong Kong on a Saturday night. I drained the jug to about half, added 4 drops of Food Lion (generic) bleach, gave the jug a shake and went away for 30 (measured) minutes. New slide, Hong Kong was empty of movement. At 400X, nobody was moving. Lots of debris of course as when the sample was taken, the mouth of the pop jug was not submerged and was sucking in the scum that covers stagnant waterholes. I ran the bleached batch through a coffee filter, still had tiny particulates, none of which moved. My nose didn't detect a chlorine smell so I put 4 more drops in the fresh jug with the sample, shook it, then went to bed. Tiny bit of precip in the bottom of the jug in the morning, a shit-load less than what comes from the same from my 168' deep-well water. Smelled faintly of chlorine so I aerated it by pouring it between a couple of jars. Slightly sulfurous taste, far better than the stuff that comes out of most Gulf Coast taps. Made a half-pot of coffee with it and drank the rest.

This was true swamp water. Scummy, full of rotten leaves, possum turds, covered with bacterial nasties, smelled like rotten eggs. Cleaned with 8 drops of bleach and a coffee filter.

Imagine how easy it is to take a few rinsed milk and pop jugs and put good old tap water in them a few daze before services are apt to be interupped. Milk jugs are great as they can be filled years before and used to layer the bottom of one's freezer. When the power fails, food within will keep jus' fine for over a week (11 days for my 1963 Sears Coldspot!) and then there is probably something like the Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranchs that'll take off the remainder you and everybody else hasn't BBQ's! Why the fuck do the Zone 3^rs want Uncle and Aunt taxpayer to provide them with Evian, ice, and gourmet MREs the day after a blow goes through? Wel-fucking-fare suck-jobs. Lived on the teat since their mothers were born, just a way of life.

Halazone, Wonderbread, and Skippy. Tent cities are easy, military has done it for centuries. Best med care for the wounded, my first pref has always been a corpsman. Fancy can be done later if it's needed.

President Johnson, what were you thinking? Did you really hate "niggers" the way you spoke? Lord have mercy fella, manufacturing a true racial underclass with the "compassion" of your "Great Society" has done damage that can't possibly be corrected with any reasonable program in less than another few generations. Self-esteem can only be generated by self reliance, can never be bestowed or legislated. Human nature can never be legislated, only the field leveled and even then, human nature still exists. Born in innocence or born in sin? Or just born with survival instincts? Martin Luther King in his most famous speech said "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." What happened? If LBJ was as racist as "documented" and he took King's speech as inflammatory as it was, the Great Society is his beagle ear-pulling of negros for generations. State welfare generates state wards. When a large proportion of folk are wards of the state through generations are totally dependent on handouts from those the "compassionate" government extracts from others, things can get peculiar. Did you read Peggy Noonan's post today? I just finished it. It will need re-reading.

Yeah, I attempted to get photos through the microscope again. Too poor to publish. Used the infinity focus eyepiece setup, works even more poorly with my present digital camera.