Not really cool, and certainly damp. Then not really hot, and still damp, although actual cool is supposed to be coming. Just not today, or yesterday. It was 93F in the sun at my house in the afternoon, according to my unfortunately placed weather station. Radio said 80F at 5pm, so I’ll take that as more accurate, but still, 80F!
Oh well. Mostly caught up on auction stuff. Fewer bargains as more people find the auctions and bid. Fewer bargains at the thrift stores too. The stores have raised prices (as they do periodically, when they get jealous of resellers), and they are FULL of resellers looking for a “come up”. They are having the same staffing issues as the rest of the working world, and so shelves are a bit bare and the stores are disheveled. Signs of the times. Eventually the flow of free stuff to the thrifts will reduce or cut off, and there will be a shakeout in that industry too. The ‘returns’ reselling space is getting very crowded with some of my long established auctioneers dipping their toes in this month. The ‘little guys’ might have a chance if their overhead is low, but the big guys have the capital and the staff, and can gobble up bigger lots.
As a nation, we can’t just open boxes from China, we can’t have an economy based on giving each other massages and haircuts, and we can’t just keep reselling the same cr@p to each other, ’round and ’round. We have to make stuff, adding value to it as we do. When I see all the stuff we used to make domestically in these estate auctions, it depresses me no end. Clocks- we had dozens of manufacturers. Ditto for radios, tools, household goods, textiles, white goods, appliances. You could build your house, furnish it, park your car in it, and EVERY SINGLE THING would have been made by your neighbors and your countrymen.
It wasn’t just us. Even Canada had a domestic industry for housewares, and even TVs. Now we have chinese drywall, brazilian lumber, iron work imported from INDIA, clothing from vietnam, electronics from china and singapore, gasoline from Norway, and food from Chile. We enrich the middle men, support virtual and ACTUAL slavery, while impoverishing our neighbors. What can’t go on won’t.
Big changes coming. Lots of people will be grist for the mill of change.
Try not to be one of them. Live through to the other side.
Stack some stuff, then stack some more somewhere else.
nick
It is certainly possible. The Speaker does not have to be a member of the House. The caucus would have to be united, however, with only a few dissenting votes allowed for members in close districts.
I don’t see something like that happening unless the lame duck session does something insane in a fit of rage before January, assuming things are not going to go well for the Dems today. Of course, that’s possible too.
We outsourced the opening of the shipping containers from China.
The recession that should have happened early in the Shrub Administration never corrected the capital misallocation from the 90s so now we have everyone’s retirement dependent on their house values and the FAANGs.
Please, don’t give me TSLA. Tony doesn’t make money selling cars.
Unless we want to live in the third world, everyone will have to accept a haircut.
And a lot of forgotten knowledge will have to be relearned in the US, including management. Working in a factory sucks, but the current crop of C-suite occupants doesn’t have a clue about getting things done in an environment where no one wants to be there.
CHEESE! Still…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YR28xwWXe0
Wishing y’all luck in the midterm elections.
Trump is useful for the moment, but he needs to transfer his following to a successor. He is far too old – who want’s an 80-year-old president?
One also hopes that his successor won’t surround himself with yes-men. Trump always has been utterly incapable of accepting criticism, or admitting to mistakes.
I loved the taste of the government cheese.
69F and damp. Overcast atm, but at least it’s not dark 🙂
n
Trump has ego and he sees an opening because the Dems potential crop of 2024 Jesus Candidates is going to be thinned significantly today, and the Republican bench is young enough to try again in 2028.
I doubt it will happen.
81 million people, allegedly.
I still believe that is a very real possibility. Sponge Brain will be allowed to resign for “personal reasons” which is really saying he has dementia and is incapable of holding the office. Much I dislike the man, consider him an idiot who has done nothing his entire career, at least let him go with dignity.
The Camel will now be the top dog. She will bring in possibly Hillary for the VP position. Or possibly Pelosi. But after Pelosi’s latest incident with her family and other remarks I make that a long shot.
I really don’t like Trump. He is an egomaniac that is just an annoying person. At least he knew how to run a company (I think), didn’t take crap from anyone, and knew what he wanted to accomplish. Trump would always ask for 50% more in a program than what he wanted, conceded to reduce funding, and be happy. He got his 100%, the opponents thought they won because the program was reduced by 50%.
Hillary got in her position through what I call gangster tactics. People that got in her way were eliminated under suspicious circumstances. Hillary was a lawyer which added to my reason to dislike her. After her less than successful lawyer career politics was the choice. A career where incompetence is rewarded by manipulating people.
In 2016 I had a choice between two people I did not like. Trump who I despised, and Hillary whom I despised even more.
In 2020 I still had a choice between two people I did not like. I still despised Trump but at least the country was doing OK. Foreign threats were under control, the brown invasion was manageable, and cretin foreign leaders were not so quick to challenge the US. The other choice was Sponge Brain who has done nothing his entire career. A career based on leaching off the people. A person who was showing signs of senility but ignored by the media.
Biden’s first day in office the executive orders that were signed were done out of spite, not reasoned decision making. Biden is currently incapable of making decisions and is instead relying on his handlers. He will remain in the office until February or a few months later. His days in the office are numbered in my opinion. The Camel is having nightly orgasms just thinking about it.
I have already voted, republican where possible, if two republicans vote against the incumbent. Sad state of affairs in the election system.
I think that is true of every single politician. Trump was just more annoying and made no bones about telling someone off.
– things are getting tighter.
n
Mayor Pete. Chasten has probably already been out to One Observatory Circle to measure for the drapes.
That’s assuming that a VP is nominated and makes it to a floor vote. Whoever the Speaker is when Kamala moves up could refuse to schedule a vote, making that person de facto VP, and the Senate will require a compromise candidate.
Mayor Pete is serious Deep State, sufficiently so that Mittens and the usual RINOs could vote for him to “honor tradition”.
Price bubble. That’s a meaningless figure.
Imho, unless it is your actual business, buying a house for short-term profit is just gambling. You buy a house to live in for the long term. The last place we bought, we lived in for 20 years. Our new house, we will have to be carried out of, hopefully 30 or 40 years from now…
Price bubble. That’s a meaningless figure.
– true for the stock market too, and everyone’s IRA/401K. The difference being mainly that housing is an illiquid asset that you can’t necessarily sell when needed. Since most people don’t spend enough time in their homes to pay off the mortgage, being able to sell when needed is a major consideration.
The paper gains have psychological effects as do the paper losses. And the paper losses have a way of turning into actual losses that is not the same for paper gains….
n
Americans have sat and watched twenty years of HGTV propaganda, dreaming about retiring on a tenbagger (10 times purchase price) return on the “investment” in their homes. Psychologically, they are not prepared for what’s coming in house price readjustments as 30 year fixed rates revert to historical norms.
Just a teenage orca fad? The article implies orcas know that disabling rudders disables the ship.
Terrifying moment pod of 7 orcas SINK a sailing yacht off Portugal
My house is up 35 times from what we bought it 55 years ago. I am not worried about downward fluctuations.
California created an artificial shortage starting with Prop 9, and I won’t deny the geographical location advantage in some parts of the state. The whole planet wants to live there.
YUUUP! I’m in NW Huntington Beach and 1 ½ miles from the coast.
Hurricane-weary Floridians wait in torrential rain to stock up on food as powerful subtropical storm Nicole strengthens along east coast – weeks after Hurricane Ian
– absolutely no reason for it. Prepping, it’s a thing.
n
At least they are not eating Tide Pods which places the Orca youth higher in intelligence than many teenagers.
Argh, I’m getting so much election spam to my phone text msgs.
n
Wearing fish as hats?
Crazy killers…
n
Interesting, especially since the BOL is served by a VFD, consisting of one or two people on most days…
Yeah, oops, my bad…
Funny how there’s no mention of Epic, the developer of MyChart, in this news snippet.
Of course, the democrat party is partly owned by Judy from Epic, so I’m not surprised the media would downplay that aspect.
LOL, plugs calls a lid for the day. Gotta prepare his lies for tomorrow.
Let’s see if the Redumblicans got the message out. It’s either a red tidal wave or, meh, the usual changing of a few seats. We really need State laws where counting is over at midnight. Period.
I don’t know their entire protocol and system, but the way ours works is that for fires, more than one Fire Dept usually responds. We call the county 911, and they dispatch not only our own VFD, but also others. When we had our house fire, three different departments responded.
For EMT, again it depends. When I’ve called for Paul, in both cases only an ambulance has arrived, but these were urgent not emergency calls. Also in both cases, the crews were tall women who had mastered their tools and techniques for lifting the patient safely (safely for the patient).
That was not always the case. For a long time, cities sent a fire truck along with every EMT call to assure someone strong enough to handle the patient was available, and EMT crews were as likely as not to consist of two 5″4″ females. Maybe they’ve gone back to logical physical requirements for the job.
The Flusher of Hearing Aids went to the hearing aid joint today. Not a big deal. His tests and such are still current. The replacement will arrive in a week.
The set cost the original $3000 including his hearing test.
So, by that, The Flusher was expecting to pay almost $1500. A grand, anyway. But nope. $250.
When I’ve had to call ambulances for my wife or mother-in-law, about five times in the past ten years, between a third and a half of the ambulance crew members were women. They all were short and … burly, I guess. Definitely carrying plenty of fat but also carrying plenty of muscle. They were able to do their share of getting someone on the stretcher and then getting the stretcher down the three steps from the house to the sidewalk.
A month ago we took my MIL to Costco to replace the ear piece on her hearing aid. Free btw. Noticed the Resound GNs that I paid $2700 for in Feb 21 were now selling for $1800 a pair with charger. Flushers were probably a very old model to be that low now. Well all are dropping now that the ‘professional audiologist no longer have a lock on the retail.
Play/sing the song first and then you can speak about Judy.
Good day, Sunshine …. Good Day Sunshine …
She’s a legendary wacko, even for tech CEOs.
As a nation, we can’t just open boxes from China, we can’t have an economy based on giving each other massages and haircuts, and we can’t just keep reselling the same cr@p to each other, ’round and ’round. We have to make stuff, adding value to it as we do. When I see all the stuff we used to make domestically in these estate auctions, it depresses me no end. Clocks- we had dozens of manufacturers. Ditto for radios, tools, household goods, textiles, white goods, appliances. You could build your house, furnish it, park your car in it, and EVERY SINGLE THING would have been made by your neighbors and your countrymen.
It wasn’t just us. Even Canada had a domestic industry for housewares, and even TVs. Now we have chinese drywall, brazilian lumber, iron work imported from INDIA, clothing from vietnam, electronics from china and singapore, gasoline from Norway, and food from Chile. We enrich the middle men, support virtual and ACTUAL slavery, while impoverishing our neighbors. What can’t go on won’t.
Big changes coming. Lots of people will be grist for the mill of change.
The big problem is that the last of the baby boomers are retiring. 65 million people are getting a Social Security check and hopefully have some money stashed away. 46.7 million retirees, 5.9 million survivors, and 9.5 million disabled workers. It is truly a huge number.
https://www.zippia.com/advice/social-security-statistics/
True, but…the first of the baby boomers are now 76. Mortality will soon start taking its toll, if it hasn’t already.
Creating a new mineral (previously only available in outer space) for permanent magnets (see here)
81 million people, allegedly.
When Trump became President in Jan 2017, I had a very low bar for him. All I wanted was a conservative SCOTUS justice. I got three of them ! Everything else he got accomplished is just icing on the cake.
Don’t discount the fact the federal bureaucracy was out for him from day one. And he was falsely impeached twice !
True, but…the first of the baby boomers are now 76. Mortality will soon start taking its toll, if it hasn’t already.
Yup. But if you make it to 76, chances are that you will make it to 86.
My father in law told my wife that he was going to die in less than ten years when he was 72 or 73. She scoffed rightly, he died at 87.
Wishing y’all luck in the midterm elections.
Trump is useful for the moment, but he needs to transfer his following to a successor. He is far too old – who want’s an 80-year-old president?
One also hopes that his successor won’t surround himself with yes-men. Trump always has been utterly incapable of accepting criticism, or admitting to mistakes.
Trump at 80 has way more energy than I do. His father was building houses in Queens until his late 80s and lived to be 93.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
“Amazon rolls out Rivian EVs in new cities for holiday deliveries”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/amazon-rolls-out-rivian-evs-electric-vehicles-new-cities-holiday-deliveries/636031/
“The company has more than 1,000 electric fleet vehicles making U.S. deliveries and plans to have thousands on the road by the end of this year.”
I think that I have seen one of these in our neighborhood. Very quiet.
The jury is still out on Kavanaugh. The seat shapes the Justice, and he’s sitting in Kennedy’s chair.
Kavanaugh and the Old School Marm caved on jab mandates for healthcare workers.
“”Give Kremlin A Warning”: US ‘Nuclear Apocalypse’ Submarine Enters Mediterranean Sea”
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/give-kremlin-warning-us-nuclear-apocalypse-submarine-enters-mediterranean-sea
“Multiple reports show the world’s largest nuclear submarine, the USS Rhode Island, left the Port of Gibraltar on Spain’s south coast last week and was last seen entering the Mediterranean. British newspaper Daily Express said the nuclear submarine is “reportedly heading towards the Black Sea.””
My goodness, she is a big girl. Not much hot bunking on her. One of my son’s friends slept on top of a torpedo for all of his deployments, he strictly had 8 hours, two other guys shared the bed.
I am of two minds on this. One is that it is a provocation. Two, it is a deadly threat.
The jury is still out on Kavanaugh. The seat shapes the Justice, and he’s sitting in Kennedy’s chair.
Kavanaugh and the Old School Marm caved on jab mandates for healthcare workers.
Nah, Kavanaugh voted to get rid of Roe v. Wade. Either he did it because of his principles or else the old black man threatened to beat him with his cane. Either is fine with me.
What’s the rush?
https://www.kcra.com/article/california-covid-19-state-of-emergency-to-end-in-february/41656804
Well, I voted.
It was sprinkling so I went to the polling station in the old outlet mall- plenty of room inside.
It went well, I had everything already noted down on the sample ballot, and the new electronic machines are neat.
Currently you get a blank paper ballot with all sorts of identity stuff on it After identifying yourself. I had sort of a fast pass they’d sent to my home address so it went quick. It goes into the machine, you make your choices on a touchscreen, you can review it electronically, it then PRINTS to paper, which you can review again, then it sucks the paper in and puts it into a ballot box.
They werent using picture ID, but the guy in front of me was cautioned that he already had a mail-in on record and that THIS would over rule that. He was cool with that, he’d apparently had second thoughts about a court appointee…or was testing the system.
Or just maybe Gavin and other party stalwarts need time to further loot the state:
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/exclusive-gov-newsoms-byd-mask-deal-profitable-for-insider-dealmakers/
Just to distract from the deadly serious business of the midterms, I’ve finally got the phantom drain on my car’s battery fixed.
Last month, as you may recall, I was having consistent overnight discharge of the car battery. Researching this online, I found a car electrics shop that claimed to have fixed exactly the problem I was seeing – car radio did not turn off with the engine, and the volume control did not work.
On this vintage of SEAT Ibiza (the 2001-2 model year) the radio is custom, and integrated with the dash. So I drove down at the appointed time, and the shop removed the radio and half the dash to test it. And found a fault with the main logic board for the entire dash, which for reasons known only to SEAT’s designers, is housed inside the radio box : a double-DIN size black box behind the dash, whose controls are integrated with (among other things) the aircon controls. To fix this, they had to keep the radio and the dash until they could obtain a remanuactured (not new, the car is 20 years old) logic board for it.
They told me (by email) that they had the board on Saturday, and we made an appointment to have the radio refitted this afternoon.
Long story short, I have the radio re-installed, and it works. Total cost for the diagnosis and repair came to somewhat over £700, but that’s cheaper than buying another car, and I have working wheels again. The other option would have been to scrap the car, which seems like overkill.
Incidentally, the fixit people agree with me that SEAT made a mistake in doing this. I suspect SEAT realised as well, because, AFAIK, they didn’t do it again.
G.
Hillary Clinton will never be President.
Anything else was lagniappe.
Ehh…. putting the logic board in as part of the radio has to be a bean counter thing. Chrysler is no better.
My ’02 pick-up went wonky. No brake lights. Just running lights and low beam head lights. No gauges other than speedo. No power locks, at all. Power windows worked. WHY is all this crap built into the instrument cluster? And not a box that plugs into the wiring harness? ALA an Electronic Ignition Module. To save 50¢ per vehicle? Some folks need flogging. Desperately. And then hanged, slowly, by their hands tied together behind their backs so they can enjoy being drawn…
And Nissan? I have no clue. I don’t know how much the radio is integrated. The air controls seem to be a separate system. Same for the instrument cluster.
Sitting in a restaurant for lunch and CNN is on and Comey was pretty much saying “yeah, she did all this (with the mail server and the rest) but we aren’t prosecuting because it would affect the election” was an odd thing. Anyone here doing near that would be in Leavenworth or Gitmo.
So, yeah, I voted to Trump so she couldn’t win.
It was sprinkling so I went to the polling station in the old outlet mall- plenty of room inside.
It went well, I had everything already noted down on the sample ballot, and the new electronic machines are neat.
Currently you get a blank paper ballot with all sorts of identity stuff on it After identifying yourself. I had sort of a fast pass they’d sent to my home address so it went quick. It goes into the machine, you make your choices on a touchscreen, you can review it electronically, it then PRINTS to paper, which you can review again, then it sucks the paper in and puts it into a ballot box.
The 100+ year old church on the road to my office always has early voting and election day voting. I voted last Tuesday ? with only three of us voting. But last Friday, they had a line out the door a hundred feet long at 7pm. Today they have a line out the door that is 200 feet long.
And we now have the custom printed ballots also. Works like a champ and easy for recounting. Plus you can vote anywhere in the county. Just vote on the electronic device, print your ballot, take your ballot to the tabulating machine, and stick it in for tabulating. There is a sealed box under the tabulating machine where the ballots land in. I have no idea who the manufacturer is but it just works and there is a printed copy for hand recounts.
Sitting in a restaurant for lunch and CNN is on and Comey was pretty much saying “yeah, she did all this (with the mail server and the rest) but we aren’t prosecuting because it would affect the election” was an odd thing. Anyone here doing near that would be in Leavenworth or Gitmo.
So, yeah, I voted to Trump so she couldn’t win.
Hillary would have been a vicious and incompetent president. Worse than Biden.
Wouldn’t it be the shites if during tRump’s big announcement, he brings out DeSantis and endorses him for President.
“Citadel (The Palladium Wars)” by Marko Kloos
https://www.amazon.com/Citadel-Palladium-Wars-Marko-Kloos/dp/1542027241?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number three of a three book military science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by 47North in 2021. I suspect that there will be more books in the series as there are eight books in his Frontlines series.
The Gretians lost the system wide war to the Alliance of the Gaia system several years ago. With a half million dead and trillions of ags expended, feelings still run high even though it has been almost two decades since the armistice. And the fifteen percent of Gretia GDP being paid as war reparations and the Alliance occupation of Gretia are breeding continual resentment against the Alliance.
Somebody is fomenting terrorist incidents on the ground in Gretia and in the Gaia system using piracy. And now nuclear weapons are involved. With Rhodia’s new stealth corvettes, there is now tracking of the terrorists. BTW, the series reminds me a lot of the time period on Earth between WWI and WWII.
The author has a website at:
https://www.markokloos.com/
My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (5,190 reviews)
Sorry – anyone Trump endorses will not get my vote. Trump lost my confidence because of his election denying actions. And statements since.
This also goes for anyone that ‘parrots’ Trump fantasies.
My personal feelings. YMMV. (And not going to get into any argument about it.)
In 2016 there was a series of news items. One was General Petraeus being accused of giving classified information to his biographer (and lover), for which he was eventually sentenced to probation and a medium-size fine. Another was a submariner who took a selfie which included a control panel. He went to prison for a couple years. (That apparently keeps happening; I hear about something along those lines once a year or so.) Another was an Army guy who accidentally gave a journalist information which had been reported in the newspapers but which was still classified. He reported himself to CID (?) and ended up in prison for a couple years. And then there was Hillary Bitch Clinton, private servers, hit lists, classified information, blackmail, bleach bit, and … no jail time, no fine, no conviction, not even a prosecution.
Meanwhile, a bunch of stuff in my head will be classified for another 40 years, give or take, and I face jail if I do more than hint around the edges about it. Even if a little of it has been reported in the open press, some of it is obsolete, and some of it is more embarrassing to The Powers That Be than actually important to the security of the American people, it’s still Top Secret. I have no expectation of special Clinton or Betrayus treatment, so I need to keep quiet.
Gotta say, it puzzles me to hear retired Special Forces guys talking about some of the places they’ve been. I ask whether it isn’t still classified that the US had troops in X location in Y year. Yep, it is. So why are you talking? -shrug- I think the total of what I’ve said about Africa was that there were US “military advisors” there, weighing in on one side of a multi-way civil war. It was a shithole. The CIA was also involved. All sides were barbarians, referred to as human beings only as a courtesy. Looking at it a couple decades later, we might as well not have bothered. That’s it, and it doesn’t narrow things down hardly at all. Manage to extract any classified information from that and I’ll buy you a coffee if we ever meet.
YES! I worked for many years in Sensitive Compartmental Information programs. Consequently, I know how wrong those actions of hers were and I would never do such.
Kennedy voted with the conservatives on Obamacare. The Old School Marm went with the liberals.
Kavanaugh often goes along with Roberts on schooling the voters about the consequences of poor political choices. I think they leaned against striking down the large employer jab mandate, but it became clear that there would have been a mass Not-So-Quiet-Quitting in January had it gone into effect. They gave Biden the win on the healthcare workers.
Amy Comey-Barrett has shown signs of morphing to fit the Payola seat as well. Except instead of being DeSantis payola with the woman from Miami, it is Pence’s payola … and Touchdown Jesus’.
Only Gorsuch has been hard core, but he’s in Scalia’s chair.
Patreaeus was the tip of the iceberg in Tampa, something Trump failed to take care of while in office the first time.
The Orange Man lost his nerve on a number of subjects. Its time to look at the bench and present a stark contrast to Biden.
Then why say it in a public forum?
Whatever, SteveF said it best. Hillary will never be president. I gladly voted against Hillary, and I’d do it again.
Remember when cankles lied about the Monica Lewinsky event when she said: “It didn’t happen”?
So I am going to vote for someone who made such an obvious lie?
Why not? Opinions are expressed here every day.
Oh yeah, then when the semen stained dress came out, cankles did not admit that she was wrong nor did she apologize.
@cowboystu:
It’s impossible for an experienced politician to do either.
G.
Politicians never admit they were wrong or that they lied.
I sort of feel the same way, just not 100%. I don’t trust Trump, don’t like Trump, would never accept an invitation to dinner with Trump. Unfortunately in the last several elections the voters have been left with little choice. Voting against someone is a sad reflection on the election. I voted for whom I thought was the lesser of two evils. Given such a choice in the last several elections I felt like not voting but that does not solve the problem.
Your personal opinion is yours, and in my personal opinion, personal opinions are not wrong.
At Mar-A-Lago? Lots of history involving that property so, yeah, I’d go.
The only house more (in)famous on the island is the former Kennedy compound up the road.
Amazon stock closed at $89.98 today. Might be a good time to pick some up. Or, might be a bad time.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN?p=AMZN
Commie Harris won’t be able to do it. In order to still have the possibility of having two terms of her own – which is NEVER going to happen – Biden would need to stay in office until January 21. But the new, probably Republican, Congress will be sworn in early in January. If Harris were to nominate a VP, it would have to be somebody acceptable to a Republican Congress.
I just heard a Christmas commercial for Home Depot on the radio. Why ?
My wife says that Xmas is a four letter word.
@paul
Coming from the UK, I don’t understand. Please explain. (Hearing aid user.)
The stock spent most of 2019 in this range. The technicals suck for it to go higher anytime soon.
The fundamentals aren’t that great either. I’ve been hearing people complain about the AWS tools for more than a year, and AWS subsidizes the retail which allows Amazon to “delight” the customers.
Something tells me that the customers aren’t going to be delighted for much longer.
Plus Amazon produced the first season of the most expensive TV series in history, and it laid an egg with the very audience the program should have … delighted.
I agree 100%.
Well you can vote for the Giant Douche or the Turd Sandwich. Doesn’t really matter.
Interesting time going to drop off my ballot. There is a ballot drop off box just about .5 mile from my house in front of the county fire station and I went to drop off about 4. There were dozens of cars on both sides of the street and maybe 50 people lined up. Turns out the box was stuffed full. Someone said they were coming to fix it in about 10 minutes – yeah right. I mentioned to several peeps that you could just go to a polling place and drop too. I mentioned two nearby churches being used. It was like no one knew this so I headed out. About two miles the other direction. No crowds, no problem. I was almost tempted to drive back by and look and see if anyone had shown up. Didn’t bother.
Alex Samuels
Nov. 8, 8:51 pm
“LOL, Zoha, I’m glad that Crist is “at peace” with losing tonight, but, as I’ve reported earlier, he put a lot on the line by running tonight. In fast, he risks losing his political credibility. According to a FiveThirtyEight analysis of perennial losers, political candidates who lose three elections in a row are not considered serious politicians. (I’m looking at you too, Beto O’Rourke!)”
Yup, Bozo is toast. Unless, he can find $100 million to run against the junior senator from Texas, Cruz, a real Latino in 2024.
My voting experience today was with the new machines. I really liked the several times confirmation, and the auditability of the new system. It would still be possible for the tabulating scanner to be messed with, but a manual audit would identify that.
The first place I stopped was just off a main street, and has had early voting so people know it’s there. Line at 1215 was quite long but moving briskly. I decided to go to another polling place, about two blocks away, and I was the only one there. They sent some worker to let the first place know, and more people showed up, but still no line.
The two critical issues in Harris county were Greg Abbott and getting rid of Lina the thieving socialist Hidalgo, county judge and EMgmt head. There were over 100 races on my ballot, two pages of ‘no contest’ winners, and a few bond issues- parks, public safety, parks, and streets. They wanted several hundred million dollars in total.
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did my pickups. Went to my storage unit and did some sorting and shelf building. Didn’t gain any space yet, but ran out of the special clips that metro rack shelves use. I need to find some more, ideally locally. Ran out of daylight a bit sooner than I expected.
— kids were off school today. No idea why, couldn’t have been voting…
n
@PaultheManc, “flusher” because he dropped one in the toilet just as he flushed (story was yesterday in comments.)
n
Did something over the toilet and just as he flushed a hearing aid fell out of an ear. Gone forever. Nothing complicated, just a simple mistake.
Wow, she’s the spitting image of Michelle Phiffer in Scarface, when she’s a coked out zombie, ie. the “your womb is so polluted” scene…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11396403/Elle-Fanning-cycles-different-outfits-shares-set-snaps-fittings.html
Or maybe she’s ‘livin’ on reds, vitamin c, and cocaine…’
n
Or maybe she’s ‘livin’ on reds, vitamin c, and cocaine…’
I love the “Trucking” song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE
Some days I want to put a Dead sticker on my cowboy cadillac.
And then there is “Driving that train, high on cocaine, …”.
Did something over the toilet and just as he flushed a hearing aid fell out of an ear. Gone forever. Nothing complicated, just a simple mistake.
That hearing aid is not gone forever. If you want it real bad, it is in the septic tank. Just gotta vacuum for it.
Lynn:
Something would need to be made of platinum and encrusted with emeralds to be worth doing that.
Charlie Crist is done. His “safe” Congressional seat went back to the Republicans tonight.
Little Marco won big too.
Charlie Crist is done. His “safe” Congressional seat went back to the Republicans tonight.
Little Marco won big too.
Florida looked over at California over the last two years and saw statism and authoritarianism during the Koof. They decided to walk away from that, for now.
Looks like Georgia is headed to another runoff.
https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/results/georgia/senate
Governor Newsom’s in-laws moved from California to Naples this year and made a big donation to Republicans.
The Libertarians in Georgia need to get a grip. Chase Oliver is a Prog.
Oops, my bad… made a mistake!
–no apology.
n
“circling around” to a recent conversation…
From one of my first responder email lists.
And I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least mention the Tropical Storm headed toward the east coast. If you aren’t already ready, get busy! Take notes, remedy any deficiencies, and do better next time.
n
And I’d be remiss if I didn’t at least mention the Tropical Storm headed toward the east coast. If you aren’t already ready, get busy! Take notes, remedy any deficiencies, and do better next time.
n
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT17/refresh/AL172022_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind+png/233431_5day_cone_no_line_and_wind.png
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
>> I am of two minds on this. One is that it is a provocation. Two, it is a deadly threat.
Obviously a plan made above Joe’s pay grade.
>> Something would need to be made of platinum and encrusted with emeralds to be worth doing that.
City sewers FTW.
>> kids were off school today. No idea why, couldn’t have been voting…
No polling places in schools in TX?
>> I’ve been hearing people complain about the AWS tools for more than a year, and AWS subsidizes the retail which allows Amazon to “delight” the customers.
Sorta wondered if Tony ever though about getting into the cloud business to help subsidize his other endeavors.
>> I just heard a Christmas commercial for Home Depot on the radio. Why ?
Seems like overall holiday shopping will be less this year (cue the ‘Inflation’ theme song) and best to accelerate advertising to be better positioned to grab a bigger slice of a smaller pie. “Black Friday Sales” emails are flooding my inbox.