11:06 – Barbara is off to the gym and supermarket. More kit stuff this afternoon.
Two months until election day. I’m not really expecting any widespread violence, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it occurred. I sure wouldn’t want to be in a city of any size on that day or the day after, particularly if Trump wins the election. It looks as though North Carolina is going to be in play. I’m not much on voting for the lesser of two evils, but in this case Trump is analogous to a common cold, while Clinton is ebola. So I’m going to vote in the national elections this year, and I’m going to vote for Trump. I suspect Barbara will do the same. I just wonder if the Libertarians will draw enough votes to prevent either Trump or Clinton from gaining a majority. Ordinarily, I’d expect that if the election went to the House they’d vote straight party-line, but with the dynamics this year it’s hard to say what would happen. Other than whoever was awarded the election would not be recognized as legitimate by his or her opponents. This could end up a real mess.
Speaking of time passing, I see that our average first low in the 40’s (<10C) is a week from now, and our average first low in the 30's (<4C) is a month from now. Autumn is definitely imminent here in Sparta. All the cattle ranchers are bringing in the autumn crop of hay. Lori, our USPS carrier, has been working on her hay for the last couple days. She said this morning that her brother brought over his roller yesterday, so all her hay is now rolled. She's leaving it out for now because it was still a bit green, but another couple days in the sun should dry it sufficiently that it'll be safe for her to put it in the barn without worrying about burning down the barn.
“”To this day I still work in Word Perfect in Reveal Codes. “”
I reckon I’d set up a DOS machine (FreeDOS ?) with WordPerf 6.x for DOS if I had to do any major writing!
Anybody care to share opinions on how this would work out?
Meanwhile, LibreOffice (on Mint) does pretty well for occasional use.
Everybody order their iPhone 7? I did. 7+ 256G Jet Black. Sniff.
I think it’s more like Trump is a bad cold, and Clinton is the Spanish Flu. Which is made worse by the media which will cheer on President Hillary and critically cover President Trump.
Cheeto-Head is pneumonia and Killary is leprosy combined with radiation poisoning, diabolical narcissism and demonic possession. If she gets in, the MSM will continue being her toadies and if he gets in they’ll be on him nonstop like white on rice but he’s shown the ability to deal with those assholes.
“Anybody care to share opinions on how this would work out?”
Sounds interesting. You could still install a printer and have internet access, too. Do like Jerry Pournelle does and dedicate a hidey-hole room somewhere in your mansion to devote exclusively to the writing project.
“Everybody order their iPhone 7? I did. 7+ 256G Jet Black. Sniff.”
Not yet, but I am impressed by them jacking up the battery power and upgrading the camera; who cares about the headphone jack? I don’t listen to music on my smartypants phone anyway, stupid; don’t play games on it, either. Or watch friggin’ movies.
be safe for her to put it in the barn without worrying about burning down the barn.
That is mostly a myth. Instead the green hay just rots and molds making the hay inedible. Have seen this in my many years of putting away hay in the barn during my youth. Alfalfa was the worst offender followed by grass.
Everybody order their iPhone 7?
Nope. Will stay with my 6S for a couple more years. May upgrade when the iPhone 9 gets released.
I have been running IOS 10 since the beta was released. Yesterday upgraded to the RTM version of IOS 10 on the phone and the pad.
I own no Apple products. My work insists I use their iPhone 4, but I only use it for voice and Outlook mail. Not that I hate Apple, it’s just that they have created a organic environment that I have no desire to buy into. Microsoft is doing the same. It’s good business to tie your products together so that if someone buys one thing they will be leveraged into a whole suite of goodies from on-line storage to email. I roll my own, don’t want to give my soul (and data) to them. They already have enough already. As an Information Security guy, I sit through enough presentations on how vulnerable our smartphones and mobile infrastructure is. I don’t own a smart phone because of security, simple voice & txt. If I want to navigate I have a Garmin, for photos I have a Nikon, and to browse I have a Nexus 7 tablet that I never put any personal info on. Yes, I am paranoid, a good fit for my profession.
If you don’t get an iPhone 7, you won’t have access to the Apple Spaceship. You do realize their new campus is a real spaceship, don’t you? When the world craps out, we’ll all be on our way to Elysium to live in peace and happiness forever. Long live Apple!
Apple 2016! “tRump 2.0” ™
If someone buys one thing they will be leveraged into a whole suite of goodies
I have an iPhone, an iPad, a Watch and the spouse has an iPad. Does that count? I also have a Surface Pro.
If I want to navigate I have a Garmin, for photos I have a Nikon, and to browse I have a Nexus 7 tablet
I have an iPhone. Seems like one device verses three devices is a good trade off. If you add in the MP3 player that would make four. I guess I could watch movies on the phone but that is painful.
I did not want the Android devices because, well Google. I did not want a Windows phone because I think there are only three being used in the country. I do like the watch because I get notifications on the watch as I would sometimes miss the vibrations on the phone (I always have it on silent).
I am not an Apple fanboy. The devices work, do what I need. The wife is happy with a flip phone. Son always has the latest and greatest Android. Do what makes you happy and serves your needs.
Accord to Rush show callers, “Libertarians: Gary Johnson Is a Fraud”:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/09/08/libertarians_gary_johnson_is_a_fraud
I would think that a Libertarian would be against Global Warming Taxes.
Cheeto-Head is pneumonia and Killary is leprosy combined with radiation poisoning, diabolical narcissism and demonic possession. If she gets in, the MSM will continue being her toadies and if he gets in they’ll be on him nonstop like white on rice but he’s shown the ability to deal with those assholes.
Lets see, your wife is going to vote for Hillary. Princess is going to vote for Hillary. Your son and of course his wife are going to vote for Hillary.
Dude, if anyone asks you to go see the sea ice flows in your family, I would politely decline.
Even the European media is completely anti-Trump. Apparently he and Hillary both gave interviews on their ideas for foreign policy in the last couple of days?
Anyhow, a reporter for a major, serious (i.e., not tabloid) Swiss newspaper is practically frothing at the mouth. Trump said nothing but “bullshit” (not a word you usually see in serious journalism), and had all of his facts wrong. The reporter failed to list any actual “wrong” facts; he just gave his opinion about Trump’s opinion about how the Iraq war should have been run. All hindsight, all irrelevant.
Oh, and Trump apparently said he wanted to fire some generals, which the reporter denies is possible. Well, IIRC, the President can’t unmake a General, but he sure can relieve one of command and designate a new assignment of cleaning the White House toilets.
What’s remarkable is that such a poorly written diatribe (a) was written and (b) made it through the editorial filters to publication. If Trump makes the mainstream press this crazy, well, it’s another point in his favor…
“Yes, I am paranoid, a good fit for my profession.”
Ditto, even with no profession at present. I seem to be working with two separate infrastructures here lately; the open and aboveboard one that everyone else uses and sees, with the exception of the M$ o.s., and another one that uses old-school stuff, along with a very secure Nexus and on a couple of Linux pc’s, Whonix running Tor behind the VPN w/offshore encrypted email. Sure, a smartypants can still bust in on me, but why make it easy? And meanwhile they gotta sift through all the other stuff; we’re all open books now anyway and we’re all “made.”
“Lets see, your wife is going to vote for Hillary. Princess is going to vote for Hillary. Your son and of course his wife are going to vote for Hillary.”
That is all correct. However my four siblings and I will be voting for Cheeto-Head. So that’s five to four.
“Dude, if anyone asks you to go see the sea ice flows in your family, I would politely decline.”
Did you mean ice “floes?” Yeah, I’d decline that. As it is, I’ll be flying up to northern NB early next month to help wife and MIL close down the cottage. But there won’t be any sea ice around there yet.
“Apparently he and Hillary both gave interviews on their ideas for foreign policy in the last couple of days?”
That might have been the event moderated by MSM libturd millionaire Matt Lauer, and by all Normal accounts, Cheeto-Head came off OK and Killary was a fucking disaster. She has no business even being the night janitor at State or DOD or the WH but there she is.
“Well, IIRC, Trump can’t unmake a General, but he sure can relieve one of command and designate a new assignment of cleaning the White House toilets.”
That is correct, and they can also be made to retire.
“If Trump makes the mainstream press this crazy, well, it’s another point in his favor…”
True, dat; but one wonders if they’re deliberately fomenting hatred and fostering a climate of hate that leads to potential violence, either against Trump personally while he is still campaigning, or after he’s elected and they set the cities on fire again like their daddies and mommies did in the 1960s.
“Lets see, your wife is going to vote for Hillary. Princess is going to vote for Hillary. Your son and of course his wife are going to vote for Hillary.”
That is all correct. However my four siblings and I will be voting for Cheeto-Head. So that’s five to four.
“Dude, if anyone asks you to go see the sea ice flows in your family, I would politely decline.”
Did you mean ice “floes?” Yeah, I’d decline that. As it is, I’ll be flying up to northern NB early next month to help wife and MIL close down the cottage. But there won’t be any sea ice around there yet.
Whoa, are you going to vote in the national election ?
Yes, floes. The small icebergs that the Eskimos used to leave the old people on. I are a codesmith, not a wordsmith. And it shoes XXXXX shows.
Meanwhile, LibreOffice (on Mint) does pretty well for occasional use.
Since starting grad school, I have been working on climbing the Texmaker/LaTeX learning curve, installing the combination on Linux (Mint), Windows, and Mac.
My progress is slow, but when LaTeX works, the end result is amazing.
I may or may not do a thesis, but I will pick up at least one usefull skill in grad school.
“Whoa, are you going to vote in the national election ?”
Yup, Ima gon be a complete friggin’ sap and go vote this time; I’d rather have pneumonia than radiated leprosy combined with demonic possession. But it may not even come to that; there’s enough scuttlebutt floating around now concerning the voting machines being hacked and other stuff that could nullify the whole mess in November, with Obola staying on, more SCOTUS involvement, etc., etc. And the head commissar, Soros, is now pushing online voting; what could possibly go wrong with that?
@Mr. Ray; just got some VA stuff in the snail mail today, and according to that, it’s 30% disability to get the wife or other dependent on-board. Plus they informed me I have more hoops to jump through.
Plus they informed me I have more hoops to jump through.
You’ll probably have to bark like seal for final approval. I don’t think there is a worse bureaucracy than the VA.
Isn’t joining the military considered a mental disability to start with? I want my treatment.
“You’ll probably have to bark like seal for final approval. I don’t think there is a worse bureaucracy than the VA.”
It’s pretty bad; the paper they sent me today only has the most recent stuff I’ve done with them this past year. What a joke. I’ve been getting treated fairly regularly by them since 2008. As for petesakes, I’ve even somewhat documented ON THIS BOARD in real time! Plus they’re missing a bunch of stuff that I KNOW should be in their records. And good luck finding medical treatment papers from Vietnamese and Thai medical staff who are long gone and probably all dead by now. Or finding any documentation from my capers in Cambodia and Laos; exact same shit our group’s former Special Forces paratrooper is going through right now. “Oh, we were never there so of course there are no records.”
“Isn’t joining the military considered a mental disability to start with?”
If it wasn’t before, it sure as fuck is now. But I suspect it was always a bad move; signing up teenage boys, loaded with testosterone and shit for brains and telling them it’s for Mom, America and apple pie, or the Rebels are gonna screw it up, or the Spanish, or the Germans, Japs, Norks, Chicoms, Russians, Viet-Cong, Iraqis, Iranians, etc., etc. I merely note that we’re great buds now with the Spanish, Germans, Japanese and Vietnamese. So what about all those people from those wars who got maimed, taken prisoner, killed, etc., and whose suffering redounded upon their families and friends, unto future generations, things like “secondary PTSD,” for example.
I also note that our rulers and their children don’t go off to wars anymore. The last presidents who did, for example, were the senior Bush, who was a young richie-rich flyboy in WWII, strafing Japs in lifeboats, lol; Jimma who was a Navy nuclear engineer; and of course Tricky Dicky, LBJ and JFK. Now we get cornpone Arkansas dope dealer/perverts and genuine commie racists with unknown birthplaces. Soon we’ll have either a kinda dopey demagogue billionaire or a very strange and evil creature from Hell.
“I want my treatment.”
You’re all set, aintcha? Retired and suchlike? One of our group guys was Army artillery in ‘Nam and then did a total of 30 years via Reserve and Guard units up here; he’s doing nicely, with that pension, 100% disability, SS, and whatever other retirement bennies he and his wife have. But he deserves every penny. Most of the rest of us are/were short-timers.
^I don’t think there is a worse bureaucracy than the VA.^I know that the VA is the worse bureaucracy.
Fixed that for you.
Have you ever been at a VA hospital when they open up for business ? 200 guys show up, all at once. It is a madhouse with all of those wheelchairs.
Jimma who was a Navy nuclear engineer
But he only commanded diesel electric boats. He did not trust the nuclear boats.
Not to contradict, but I have seen the VA take good care of some Greatest Generation guys. I guess a cynical interpretation might be that they would not live much longer (including widows). Of course, any atrocity committed against Vietnam era vets (or even against guys who legitimately were not drafted) has long been perfectly acceptable for the powers that be and that have been.
The VA is taking good care of my 94 year old friend who is a WW II and Korea vet. I suspect that he is a Vietnam vet also. He was a copilot on a B-24 in the South Pacific. Then he was the wing training officer in Korea where he would watch the B-24s take off and only half of them come back after the MIGs blasted through those slowpokes. He retired a Colonel in the USAF about 30 years ago when he was chief operations officer at Kelly AFB. Anyhow, he just developed skin cancer inside his eyeball which the VA has already started treating. He is going to San Antonio next week for radiation treatments to try to save the eye. If the cancer does not respond quickly then they are going to take it.
I have found that the VA is good if you have an immediate problem. However, if your treatment can be delayed until next quarter or next year, they will do it in an heartbeat. Of course, they are mostly dealing with a bunch of old men, half of them who have imaginary problems. My FIL is included in that bunch as he would go in back when he was mobile and try to get them to treat his Leukemia. He did not have Leukemia but he wanted treatment for it anyway, therefore skipping the heart treatment that he did need.
So I’m going to vote in the national elections this year, and I’m going to vote for Trump.
Missed this before. Did hell freeze over and nobody told me ? DH and RBT gonna vote in the national election, who would have thought ?
Haven’t you heard? Global Warming (which is real, dammit!) causes more sea ice because, um, greater energy leads to greater energy fluctuations and that means even though the world is getting hotter (and we’re all gonna die!!!!!) the cold parts are colder. Or, um, quantum mechanics. That’s it. Global Warming makes icebergs because of quantum something.
I have a voter registration card sitting right next to me. I’m trying to overcome the distaste enough to fill it out and send it in. NY could well end up being a toss-up and, as you say, better pneumonia than whooping leprosy, or whatever Coffin Clinton is carrying.
No prepping this week?
My 12 cans of Auguson stuff arrived in good shape. Boxes are labeled and off of the floor. I went past Costco again. Again. Had to turn around and go back. Every freaking time! Stared at the TVs for a few minutes though I’m not in the market.
Damn, they have some 75 and 80 inch beauties for what my 55 inch Vizio cost 7 years ago. Tho I didn’t notice anything labeled with 240 refresh rate. I still like my Vizio.
Is it my TV, the local stations, or DirecTV? When I first got HD you could see, for example, the morning weather guy’s pores. And when he was on again at 6pm, some stubble. Now it’s blurred out. But most nature shows seem as sharp as ever. I can’t compare DirecTV to off the air. When everything went HD, onto UHF freqs (I think) I get nothing in the house. In the old motorhome while parked a couple of hundred feet away on ground about 10 feet higher than the house, I get 2 stations. Er, in Spanish. Not very useful…
Back to prepping. Bought nothing exciting… 8 pack of canned diced tomatoes, a 6 pack of canned chicken, a 6 pack of Wolf Brand Chili (my chili is better!), a 2# chunk o’ cheese, butter, and that’s about it. Would have bought some Spam but all they had was the lower salt stuff…. with the oh so lovely sounding “mechanically separated chicken”.
Hmm, I now have a couple dozen cans of white meat chicken chunks. I can’t recall eating any of it. I need to figure what to do with it. Chicken and dumplings?
Next, I hit the HEB at 1431 and 183. Supposed to be remodeled and oh so pretty. Not true. The remodel looks like it was mostly facade (which does look nice from the road) and rearranging the interior. The gas station grew a car wash. The floors look like crap…. just concrete, filled in patches and signs of where the linoleum was scraped off. Looks like an old store with a new color of lipstick.
Picked up a few boxes of store brand au gratin/scalloped taters. Easy cooking. A couple dozen cans or so of veggies in the little cans. The local HEB doesn’t have the variety. Yeah, more expensive per ounce than the standard 15oz can, but, if 3/4 goes to the chickens after sitting in the fridge for a week … well. Plus a few more things, just topping off the pantry.
Anyway, it was a nice run into Austin to make a stop at Lights Fantastic for a part. A part she gave me. 🙂 Then a haircut. And some panty stuffing shopping on the way home. A pretty good day.
Uh, unlike when I drove the Goldie, the 96 Stratus, into Austin, driving Mom’s ’04 Freestar van w/ Purple Heart plates is just not as aggressive for stuff like folks riding your ass or cutting in right in front and slamming their brakes. Interesting.
Mom moved in a bit over 3 years ago. Not my idea. But when you get her car keys mailed to you, what ya gonna do? We went an got her. This was after a year or so of one of my sisters posting stuff on FB “how do you care for a parent with dementia”. She was sorta not right at the time. But, after a month of eating beans and whatever out of the pantry, well? It was like feeding a teenage boy when she got here. 🙂
Yeah, the sisters emptied the bank account and moved to the Houston metroplex. Since then she’s gone down hill. We had a lady coming in twice a week for bathing and laundry and all that. Hell, I don’t want to my mom naked. Mom refused bathing help. I would too. We hauled her to the doc and it turns out she has had strokes in her speech center. Some bad enough the doc was like “how is she even walking”. So, this May, she was really a mess. You can’t just stick a parent into a nursing home. You need a prescription. As our luck worked, mom had a gallbladder attack. TriCare for Life kicked in, then Medi whatever and now the other Medi whatever. She gets to keep $60 total a month of her SS and her benefit from dad’s Marine retirement.
Said $60 a month does not cover property taxes on her house or the the utility bills. It’s $20 to have a meter each for water and electric. I have no clue wtf about her income taxes. I’m not expecting any joy with the IRS.
But. I’m going pay it all. I’m going to own the house my parents built with their two hands. Paid for with most of the money I got from my motorcycle wreck. Yeah, dad said he paid it all back. Truth be told, I didn’t care if he did. Told him that. Pissed the old bastard off, too. Like I was calling him a liar. But when I was starting out on my own, that $100 check every month was a very good thing. And I was good with that. And he finally figured out where I was coming from.
Time to feed the dogs.
I have a voter registration card sitting right next to me. I’m trying to overcome the distaste enough to fill it out and send it in. NY could well end up being a toss-up and, as you say, better pneumonia than whooping leprosy, or whatever Coffin Clinton is carrying.
I figure that Killary already has ten million votes tallied for New York State.
Vote early and vote often !
Yeah, you know things are truly fucked up in this world when RBT, Mr. SteveF and myself plan to vote in the national election this time. Speaking for myself only, I wasn’t gonna do it and I still may not, depending on what happens in the next eight weeks. But things are so freaking crazy nowadays I feel I must join with my fellow Normals this one last time and give it a shot. And it may well be the last time for all of us.
“…driving Mom’s ’04 Freestar van w/ Purple Heart plates is just not as aggressive for stuff like folks riding your ass or cutting in right in front and slamming their brakes. Interesting.”
I don’t bother with any of the special plates (and extra fees) that the DMV up here issues and I took all the veteran, mil-spec and gun stuff off the car. Peeps are gonna see your standard-issue silver RAV4 with a couple of minor-league baseball stickers and one New England Patriots front plate frame and that’s it. Harmless old Boston sports fan. No danger to anyone.
But yeah, no matter where ya drive nowadays, ya gotta have yer head on a swivel, check mirrors, ANTICIPATE that someone up ahead, behind you or on either side is trying to kill your ass. My siblings down in MA concur that other drivers are becoming much more aggressive, hostile and outright insane in what they do out there. Could just be crazy or could be on dope or booze. Or all three. Be extra careful out there, mes amis; don’t get into any “road rage” events; take it nice and easy; it’s not worth it to get mangled or die on the friggin’ highway. And I need to take my own advice; some asshole almost killed both of us just the other day up here on I-89 southbound. I couldn’t believe what he did but he did.
“”The floors look like crap…. just concrete, filled in patches and signs of where the linoleum was scraped off. Looks like an old store with a new color of lipstick.””
Lots of retail floors are being replaced with, I think, epoxy coatings, with the big advantage that the wax, with lots of “fragrance” chemicals and worse, is no longer used. Noisy buffer machines are also eliminated. For a change they (ideally) actually clean the floors…
“I figure that Killary already has ten million votes tallied for New York State.”
If so, 90% of them are in the greater NYC/western Long Island region and the Capital District.
Yes, that forms part of the calculation.
“”The floors look like crap…. just concrete, filled in patches and signs of where the linoleum was scraped off. Looks like an old store with a new color of lipstick.””
Lots of retail floors are being replaced with, I think, epoxy coatings, with the big advantage that the wax, with lots of “fragrance” chemicals and worse, is no longer used. Noisy buffer machines are also eliminated. For a change they (ideally) actually clean the floors…
My HEB uses a downsized Zamboni that one of the guys drives around the place. It does a combined sweep and wash.
“I figure that Killary already has ten million votes tallied for New York State.”
If so, 90% of them are in the greater NYC/western Long Island region and the Capital District.
Oh no, you are talking about actual votes to be cast and tallied. I am talking about the voting aggregator server at the NYS attorney general. I figure that server has already got ten million votes tallied in it before one single person actually votes.
Vote early and vote often !
TriCare for Life kicked in, then Medi whatever and now the other Medi whatever. She gets to keep $60 total a month of her SS and her benefit from dad’s Marine retirement.
Said $60 a month does not cover property taxes on her house or the the utility bills. It’s $20 to have a meter each for water and electric. I have no clue wtf about her income taxes. I’m not expecting any joy with the IRS.
But. I’m going pay it all. I’m going to own the house my parents built with their two hands.
If your mother is living in a nursing home XXXXXX XXXX skilled care facility and Texas Medicaid is paying for any of it, they are going to snatch her house and sell it. That is one of the exceptions to the very very very strong Texas Homestead Law.
WRT “Jimma who was a Navy nuclear engineer”
He was an embarrassment and an idiot to the Navy’s Nuclear Program. He was passed over for advancement which was the diplomatic way the military got rid of officers who don’t cut it. Now only the unqualified survive.
I had the dubious honor of being the Electrical Plant Control Panel Operator while Admiral Rickover smoothed talked the “peanut farmer” so he would support more Los Angeles Class Fast Attacks. For someone who was supposedly qualified as a Nuke and SS, he spent the whole time onboard with a deer in the headlights look; asking dumb simpleton questions (Rickover’s eyes kept rolling back with each dumbass question).
I believe I related this event before so I will not repeat this not so pleasant event. Suffice to say, I have no respect for the “peanut man”. However, Rickover rode with us many times (could always tell when he was coming aboard as we had to pick up a crate of green grapes before he came onboard) and he treated us Enlisted Nukes well and made life hell for the Officers. For a frail small man, Rickover was a giant.
Peanuthead was never a nuclear engineer.
(Unfortunately, the source article at Atomic Insights seems to be gone. The blog is still there, but I couldn’t find the article in the archive.)
“I figure that server has already got ten million votes tallied in it before one single person actually votes.”
Oh my goodness! Things really are topsy-turvy here now! Mr. Lynn is more cynical than I am! Yikes!
“He was an embarrassment and an idiot to the Navy’s Nuclear Program.”
I bet. He had been outed for that stuff during the campaign back then and his following Presidency, which also had neat stuff like the killer rabbit that attacked him in his rowboat and his brother, plus, remember Billy Beer?
“For a frail small man, Rickover was a giant.”
My parents knew of him and had read books by or about him; my dad was a mechanical/power engineer and they both thought the WORLD of Admiral Rickover and bemoaned his treatment at the hands of higher-ups. (my dad was also a WWII Coast Guard vet and my maternal grandfather was WWII Navy).
Now it’s blurred out
They are compressing the video stream using MPEG4 and the compression is quite high on local stations. There is a cost to the bandwidth the channels consume and the local stations want the cheapest rate they can get. Thus compress the hell out of the stream and reduce the bandwidth.
She gets to keep $60 total a month of her SS and her benefit from dad’s Marine retirement.
My aunt was in a nursing home and got to keep the $90 VA benefit and $40 of her retirement. The rest went to the nursing home with the shortfall made up by medicaid. She had no assets as all her money had been spent on assisted living expenses.
I’m going to own the house my parents built with their two hands
No you’re not if medicaid is paying anything. The state will put a lien on the house and has first claim when the house, taxes and mortgage company are next in line, when the house is sold. Transferring ownership is considered a sale as far as medicaid is concerned. Medicaid will in fact go back five years to look for such sales or transfers of assets and file a legal claim against the assets to recoup their costs.
I have no clue wtf about her income taxes. I’m not expecting any joy with the IRS
You need a power of attorney with the IRS to do her taxes. Also you may want to see if her doctor will declare her incompetent and thus allow you to manage her social security. Regular POA will not suffice in either one of the above organizations.
You may also want to check with the VA as they may give her $90 a month as a spouse of a veteran. Don’t know if that conflicts with the retirement money from the VA.
“I figure that server has already got ten million votes tallied in it before one single person actually votes.”
Oh my goodness! Things really are topsy-turvy here now! Mr. Lynn is more cynical than I am! Yikes!
I am sorry, I did not mean to shock you.
The attorney general of the State of New York (used to be Great State but no longer) is getting ready to sue Exxon for ten trillion dollars for causing global warming. I figure if he can do that then he can do anything.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434219/exxon-climate-change-case-outrageous
I am beginning to think that gasoline will cost ten dollars per gallon in my lifetime. One dollar for the processed crude oil and nine dollars for the global warming damage.
Do it for the children !
Oh look, even the gun grabber from The Tax State is getting in on the action, “Exxon Sues a Second Attorney General To Fight Off Climate Fraud Probe”:
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16062016/exxon-sues-massachusetts-attorney-general-climate-change-fraud-investigation
Mark my words, these “public” officials are looking for funding for their pet projects and they do not care who they hurt in the process.
I can easily see right now that my firing squads will be working tons of overtime after the counter-revolution.
I can easily see right now that my firing squads will be working tons of overtime after the counter-revolution.
For sure. We are going to need a very long wall.
Is there enough lead in the US for all that?
No need to waste lead. We can make bullets from a mixture of epoxy and pig shit. They’re obviously designed for fucking muslims, but they should work just as well on fucking progs.
“No need to waste lead.”
+1,000
And just saw another call for keeping tabs on the ID’s and related intel on the various LE and bureaucratic personnel who conduct un-Constitutional raids on legit FFL dealers and shops and seize (steal) everything on-site, including customers’ property.
Who are YOUR DA’s, ADA’s, judges, and town, county and state officials? Where do they live? What do they drive? What are their phone numbers and email addresses? Where are they from? Who do they regularly connect with? This would also include senior LE personnel from whatever agencies and departments.
Too often they’ve operated behind their bureaucratic facades and no one knows who they are but that has to change. They have to be made accountable and responsible.
Progs and SJW types are another kettle of fish; they’re usually fairly prominent and identifiable; what is needed is the intel on the genuine commie operators who work behind the scenes and foment the agitation and violence. Or who work openly from the top, like the fembats running the BLM:
http://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/
And they’re now raking in hundreds of millions from the usual suspect organizations and donations. A nascent ANC guerrilla movement; keep an eye on them over the next several years.
But remember to keep a closer eye on the bastards closer to home.
Lynn wrote:
“Missed this before. Did hell freeze over and nobody told me ? DH and RBT gonna vote in the national election, who would have thought ?”
Self interest kicked in, as it often does.
For years Bill Griggs and I have been preaching that it’s irresponsible to not vote, then whine, and the two resident diehards have dismissed that. Glad to see that they’ve finally worked out that Hillary WILL take their guns and screw things up royally.
T’m sure New York presidential elections are as useless as California’s. I always vote but reality is the Dumbocrats have a lock on this state.
Jerry ‘If it’s BROWN flush it’ has just add new laws (taxes) to make California the most business unfriendly state out there. But were going to stop that damn global warming.
If your mother is living in a nursing home XXXXXX XXXX skilled care facility and Texas Medicaid is paying for any of it, they are going to snatch her house and sell it. That is one of the exceptions to the very very very strong Texas Homestead Law.
Not sure what the difference is between nursing and skilled care. There are a few folks wandering about, mostly with walkers. Lots of folks rolling about. And, going down the hall to her room, many that look like vegetables. The place does not smell of pee. I consider that a plus.
When Dad died she didn’t probate his will. The house and land are in both of their names. Never a mortgage. She figured that since each of their wills left everything to the other, no need. Makes sense to me. That has been done. Dad’s off the deed, I’m on it. I co-own my Mom’s house. It’s suppose to make everything simpler when she dies. Who knows? At any rate, /neither/ sister can touch the place.
I know about the “going back 5 years” stuff. We had to get her bank statements going back that far.
You need a power of attorney with the IRS to do her taxes. Also you may want to see if her doctor will declare her incompetent and thus allow you to manage her social security. Regular POA will not suffice in either one of the above organizations.
Thank you. I will check into this.
They are compressing the video stream using MPEG4 and the compression is quite high on local stations. There is a cost to the bandwidth the channels consume and the local stations want the cheapest rate they can get.
Makes sense. Maybe with extra compression from DirecTv on top.
I co-own my Mom’s house. It’s suppose to make everything simpler when she dies.
It will make it simpler when she dies, you just basically become the owner. However as long as her name is on tangible property, and medicaid is paying for anything, the state will put a lien on the property. I am not sure if they can only claim 50% because your name is on the deed, but I would not put it beyond the state to put a claim against all of it.
Mother in law’s husband is in a facility that is self pay. She wants to put him in a nursing home. His income is not enough to cover the cost so medicaid would kick in. They have always kept their funds and assets separate and nothing is joint. She has been told by an attorney that if medicaid has to pay anything they will go after her funds and any assets she owns for any amount the medicaid has to pay.
I moved a lot of my aunt’s money and property out of her name as soon as she went in assisted living. I knew about the medicaid looking for assets. When I did this the look back period was only three years. Thus if she had to go in a nursing home she would not have any assets. Medicaid will not pay for assisted living, only a nursing home.
But it did not work. My aunt spent 6.5 years in assisted living and used up all her money. I got nothing. Which was OK as it was her money and I spent the money on her care. When she ran out of money we were forced to put her in a nursing as that was the only option unless I wanted to pay $4K a month out of my own pocket. Medicaid, which is welfare, only allows a nursing home.
The entire situation was complicated further as she had medicare, private insurance, and medicaid. Never could figure out all the bills and would tell some providers who tried to bill me, to get bent and complain to medicare or medicaid, I was not paying.
POA is your most valuable tool. Get the one for the IRS. Have her declared incompetent to access to SS. Move as many assets as possible out of her name. Calculate the cost of her care for five years and set that aside. Move the rest into another account with no connection to the individual.
Keep careful records on everything you spend on the person. I got audited by the VA, SS, and the state every year. Had to show receipts, bills, bank statements and tax returns.
Know the rules as sometimes the agents you deal with don’t know. If you think you are right stand your ground and demand an appeal if there is a disagreement. Be prepared to be frustrated, annoyed, angry and all manner of issues when dealing with multiple government agencies.
Not sure what the difference is between nursing and skilled care. There are a few folks wandering about, mostly with walkers. Lots of folks rolling about. And, going down the hall to her room, many that look like vegetables. The place does not smell of pee. I consider that a plus.
Nursing home = skilled care facility. New name, same old feces and urine.
If the place does not smell of urine then you have a winner !
We have had my father in law in three nursing homes over the last three years. The 2nd and 3rd did not smell of urine and were ok. The first did smell of urine and his girlfriend moved him in four months because of the general conditions. So the urine smell rule works well.
The wife got back from Carrollton last night. The daughter did a happy dance and told me I should have also. I just gave the wife a kiss and a hug. The daughter says my cooking sucks but I don’t care about my cooking (or lack thereof). I made a mighty fine tuner salad while the wife was gone though.
She thinks that she got a lot of things done. She did not figure out the $23K Discover bill though. She thinks he used his Discover card to pay his property taxes on his townhome and two rent houses. Which, was stupid because they charge a 3% to 5% credit card fee.
The wife has decided that she is going to convert a lot of his assets to cash over time. Nothing this year. And the four timeshares are a royal pain in the rump.
At any rate, /neither/ sister can touch the place.
There is a sad story here. Sorry to hear that.
However as long as her name is on tangible property, and medicaid is paying for anything, the state will put a lien on the property. I am not sure if they can only claim 50% because your name is on the deed, but I would not put it beyond the state to put a claim against all of it.
Yup, +1. My experience is that the state will claim 100% of the property if the person’s name is anywhere on it. So will the IRS. And they will win.
state will claim 100%
That would have been my guess. Never had to deal with that issue.
I was able to calculate three years of my aunt’s care and put all but that amount in another account where her name did not exist. Now you have to do five years. I was prepared in case she had to go in a nursing home due to health issues. But she stayed mobile enough to stay in assisted living which I continued to pay with her money. Only when she ran out did I have to use Medicaid and the nursing home.
MIL issues with her husband may be solving themselves. Her husband was just placed in hospice. Then have to deal with MIL’s money. I will try to convince her to put everything in my wife’s name. This as a precaution in case MIL needs nursing home and can use Medicaid to pay and protect the assets.
She did not figure out the $23K Discover bill though
Get a statement from Discover. Should provide enough information.
If the place does not smell of urine then you have a winner
All of them smell like disinfectant. Better places mask the urine and feces smell. All of them smell like death in my opinion. Working in such a place has to really suck.
The assisted living place was quite nice. Residents were mobile, fairly self sufficient, just needed help because of physical or mental issues. I even ate a few meals there and they were good, bland, but healthy.
The transition to the nursing home, especially a Medicaid facility, is a shock. People are put there to die and the staff knows that. The staff does nothing other than scrap yesterday’s food off the patients ass and shove some more in the other end. Change the diapers, prop them in a wheel chair, or leave them in bed.
I hope I die before I get old.
Working on it. Rousing rabble. Shooting my mouth off. Taking no shit from anyone. Being armed 7×24. Pissed off most of the time. Bitter likewise.
Sooner or later somebody will light me up.
Kicking all the dope and booze probably staved off the Grim Reaper for a few more years, though; gotta find some other way….
Just call me Death Wish Davy.
Maybe I’ll take up skydiving. And learn advanced demolition stuff.
state will claim 100%
That would have been my guess. Never had to deal with that issue.
It is what that I have read. Horror stories of old people putting their spouses into a nursing home and getting all of their assets seized.
The wife relayed a more personal horror story to me. Our nephew in the Dallas area is in his last semester to get his history degree from NTSU. NTSU just hit him with a $4,000 fee since he has more than the State allowed number of college hours (150). But he has 132 hours to date and is taking 12 hours this semester. He has appealed the fee and the University told him that they have no option. So he appealed to the State. It has been two weeks and they have not replied to him. So, the University is demanding that he pay the $4,000 which he does not have and his parents do not have.
Why is there a max? I changed majors 3 times. I think I had 192? total hours across 2 schools and 3 majors by the time I got enough together in one program to graduate. There wasn’t any upper limit that I was aware of…..
Are they rationing state college access?
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edit, that was across 6 years too, and the first couple I though 24 hours was slacking off….
Horror stories of old people putting their spouses into a nursing home and getting all of their assets seized.
Indeed. A lady at work had one of her parents go in a nursing home on Medicaid. State put a lien on the house, garnished all but $400 of their income each month. That hardly pays for utilities. Fortunately the parent in the home died two months later. But it took the state six months to release the lien and return the money they had continued to garnish.
NTSU just hit him with a $4,000 fee
My experience with MTSU with my son is that such schools make many errors, refuse to admit such, and will not correct the errors. In my son’s case it caused him to have to take another two semesters because the school had entered his major incorrectly. He had documents signed by the school that were correct but the school said to change the curriculum to be correct would mean he would have to do the new curriculum courses which had changed while he was in school. The signed document was irrelevant.
Thus reinforcing my assertation that such schools are money pits designed to employ the incompetent and those with humanity degrees as such people are otherwise unemployable.
“…such schools are money pits designed to employ the incompetent and those with humanity degrees as such people are otherwise unemployable.”
And social “science” degrees likewise. I have a BA in English Lit and worked several years as a TA and freshman English instructor for less pay than an enterprising news carrier kid might make today and zero bennies. It’s a major criminal racket now, with the exceptions countable on one, maybe two, hands. Across the continent.
If I had it to do all over again, and knowing I was clearly unsuited for any math beyond geometry or any science beyond “earth” and biology, I’d leave high skool after the sophomore year and go to a good trade school and learn gunsmithing, machining, electronics, stuff like that. Assuming I still loved serious Anglo-American literature and history, I could certainly read and study up on all that on my own. Ditto with the classical and foreign languages.
I’d also skip the mil-spec servitude and working for the cops.
Are they rationing state college access?
Short answer, yes.
Long answer, this is an attack on students who do not graduate in a finite amount of time. So-called “Professional Students”. However, 150 hours is way too few hours to trigger on. I have 146 hours from Texas A&M University, Rice University, and Houston Community College. And, I only changed my major once from Chemical Engineering to Mechanical Engineering.
Texas has not kept up with the population growth in the state colleges. Texas A&M University should have another main campus or two with over 250K students. Instead, the TAMU college system is barely at 100K students over 10 ??? campuses with only one main campus.
However, the cost of expanding the college campuses is incredibly expensive. And the Texas legislature has been beset with rapidly rising costs of primary education and the medical needs of an aging population.
Some of us “professional students” were WORKING our way through college; it took me 14 years to finally get my useless BA. Working all kinds of wacky shifts, full-time, part-time, you name it. Ended up with credits from multiple sources and I’d changed my major just once, from “Business Management” to English Lit. Do what you love, right?
@Lynn/@Nick: That kind of limit on credit hours is pretty normal nowadays. There were too many “eternal students”, and subsidizing schools costs money.
A bachelor’s degree is supposed to comprise 120 credits. State schools offer subsidized tuition sufficient to cover those 120 hours plus some amount of slop. Exactly where they set the limit depends on the state. The Texas rules really are 150 (120 + 30 extra hours). That’s a bit of a harsh limit – 180 would be nicer – but whaddaya gonna do?
You say he has only 144 hours total. Most likely, he failed some courses. Those also count towards the limit, because he still used the resources, even if he didn’t get the credits.
I’m familiar with this, because we have the same issue at our school. As a Swiss citizen, you have nearly free tuition. If you mess around long enough, you hit your limit and are SOL.
By the way, the limit almost certainly applies across all schools in the state, so he can’t just switch schools to get around it. If he manages to finish, it should reset, so he could go back to school for a master’s degree (but not another bachelor’s).
Texas *A&M* has that many students? That’s absurd. It should have at most 10% of that, and probably 5%, all majors in hard sciences, engineering, pre-med, etc., with all admissions ability-based by passing rigorous tests designed to sort out the most able and admit only them, without regard for sex, skin color, etc.
Why should Texas taxpayers subsidize 4-year vacations for kids who aren’t majoring in anything useful to society?
You say he has only 144 hours total. Most likely, he failed some courses. Those also count towards the limit, because he still used the resources, even if he didn’t get the credits.
Nope. He has been on the Dean’s honor role his entire college experience. That requires a 3.5 gpa ?
The main campus at TAMU has over 25,000 students in engineering of some sort. I think that it should be 100,000. It would be if they allowed gpa’s of 2.0 like when I was there. Nowadays, TAMU requires a gpa of 2.5 to 2.85 ? for all disciplines. The business school requires a 3.0.