Cool and damp. Later warm and damp. Then cool and damp. It is a swamp here after all. And I soaked through my shirt yesterday without even trying.
Did my pickups. Just a few things, some for resale at my local Hamfest, which is on the calendar! Hooray. Some of the items were for the BOL, and some were just in case. I’ve got two pickups today. Thought I’d have three, but one of my tried and true auctioneers got good prices for his stuff this week. Good for him, not good for me. I was sure I’d be picking up at his place. Prices are up everywhere, even the secondary market.
I was able to order the clips I need to put more shelves together at my storage unit, and have them overnighted, for no extra cost. In fact they were a tenth of what Grainger had them for locally, and I’d have had to wait three days for the inter-store transfer. I don’t really know how a company can stay in business at that rate, but I’ll save the money when I can.
I voted, and hope you all did too. Don’t know if it matters, but I want to be able to say that we tried everything, before the red tide washes away the corruption. If it gets bad enough, there will be a red tide.
What follows that won’t be pretty.
I really hope it can be avoided.
And if not, that my preps are adequate.
I think I’ll stack some more.
n
Senator Uncle Festerman.
Nicely done, Redumblicans.
Pray for 50 is about all that is left.
AWS dominates the market. Microsoft, Google, and Oracle are in there too.
Plus, Tony sells dreams, not nitty gritty reality.
64F and damp, like 99%RH damp.
I”m having a hard time telling at a glance if there are races whose outcome makes no sense. I guess it will shape up ‘over the next few weeks’.
n
Harris County is largely Houston, but it doesn’t make sense that Burrito Beto would get that much of the vote. Almost no signs in yards, no one talking about him, no rallies… no charisma, no message.
n
Eric Peters calls Festerman “Incitatus” this morning in a column. “One whinny for ‘yay’ – a hoof stomp for ‘nay’.”
I’d laugh, but it may yet come to that.
Georgia Libertarians once again “voted their conscience” in the general election, this time for a known leftist, forcing another runoff where the Republicans will probably stay home and wait for “The Revolution” which will never come.
Ah, well, despair is a sin. The Republicans in Florida will run that state for at least another decade, and the Shadow Governor of Georgia, a potential Dem Jesus Candidate, has been sent packing. The House looks close but will change hands. And Robert Francis is done, joining “Doors” on the scrap heap of Texas history.
Our Right Reverend RINO “Judge” won, but it was close.
The news isn’t all bad. Facecrack is shedding 11,000 and implementing a hiring freeze through the beginning of next year.
https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees/
Arizona. Again.
So much of what’s wrong in our current culture, wrapped up in one podcast… between two beautiful and successful women, both famous, and both seemingly profoundly unhappy.
emp added.n
More like: Floridians prepare for another minor storm. Most don’t put up Hurricane shutters and the stores, while busier than normal yesterday, were not empty or packed.
Of course that doesn’t sell papers… or the electronic equivalent (get clicks?).
Presumably that means “emphasis added”, but I can’t help but think that adding an EMP would put a stop to an awful lot of nonsense, probably enough to be worth the difficulties it would cause.
One of The Mail’s negatives is a tendency to feed the schadenfreude of the audience back in the UK.
“I say, Millicent, we may well be burning the furniture this Winter to stay warm, but look what a fix the Yanks are in this morning.”
The water is too cold off the East Cost of Florida for a serious storm to develop, but, depending on track and timing, flooding could be a problem for Tampa this time around.
Best I can figure we will be getting tropical storm force winds in an hour or so. Best I can tell from my desk… at work…
Hmm, maybe this has something to do with her attitude toward men and raising boys…
n
Probably, with the servers onboard the Gen 3 satellites.
Harris County is largely Houston, but it doesn’t make sense that Burrito Beto would get that much of the vote. Almost no signs in yards, no one talking about him, no rallies… no charisma, no message.
n
I would like to see a hand recount for Governor and County Judge in Harris County. Not gonna happen.
Arizona. Again.
California is a cancer and it is spreading.
Hmm, maybe this has something to do with her attitude toward men and raising boys…
Plus, Kanye West. If he is still an alcoholic then he is a freaking disaster to be around.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11406469/Julia-Fox-says-short-lived-romance-Kanye-West-impacted-acting-career-not-good-way.html
Probably, with the servers onboard the Gen 3 satellites.
The Gen 2 satellites are huge. 2,755 lbs versus the first generation 573 lb satellites.
https://www.cnet.com/science/space/elon-musks-new-second-gen-starlink-satellites-are-too-big-for-current-rockets/
One wonders what all is in there. Maybe the DOD is finally implementing THOR.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_bombardment
@lynn, there is no way Hildalgo won honestly. NO way. She’s widely hated for mask requirements, and other wuflu BS. She’s under investigation for the no bid contract to her friend for iirc, $11M for vax
“awareness”. She’s a stompy footed socialist, seized property at the beginning of the lockdowns.
NO way. She’s the ONLY candidate whose signs I’ve seen vandalized, all over town.
n
Harris County is largely Houston, but it doesn’t make sense that Burrito Beto would get that much of the vote. Almost no signs in yards, no one talking about him, no rallies… no charisma, no message.
Fort Bend County voted for Bozo also. Also 52%.
https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/TX/Fort_Bend/115747/web.303253/#/summary
And we got the Indian immigrant county judge again. Also 52%. Also still wants us to wear masks inside and outside.
“’A major problem’: The US is now a record $31 trillion in debt, made worse by rising interest rates — and this is who holds the IOUs”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-national-debt-now-tops-210000112.html
“A deficit is what happens when the government spends more money in a fiscal year than it brings in through taxes — and the last couple of years have been expensive.”
“Several large bills with hefty price tags have been approved since the start of the pandemic, including the American Rescue Plan Act, which cost $1.9 trillion, and $750 billion for student debt relief, all adding to the deficit, which then adds to the debt.”
“And though the Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed in August, is expected to reduce the deficit by $240 billion, policies and programs brought in by the Biden Administration are expected to add trillions more over the next decade.”
One of these days that can won’t kick down the street to the future. That will be a bad day for the USA.
Lynn:
Cacafornia is FULLY metastasized, and has been since they formally legalized voter fraud/ballot harvesting. That’s one of the reasons we left there two years ago.
Did the Texas Supreme Court ever decide on where the authority resides to order masking? A case had been pending all Summer to decide whether the Governor or the Judges had the power.
Not that it really matters. Mask mandates are done in this state.
Did the Texas Supreme Court ever decide on where the authority resides to order masking? A case had been pending all Summer to decide whether the Governor or the Judges had the power.
Not that it really matters. Mask mandates are done in this state.
No idea. Mask mandates are done until the next pandemic which should occur about three months before the federal election in Nov 2024.
Disney stock fell off a cliff today.
Yes, they had a serious earnings miss, but I don’t discount DeSantis’ victory margin last night and the lifting of the embargo on film reviews of “Black Panther 2”.
Wall Street wants Chapek fired.
A 60-40 victory margin means DeSantis isn’t returning Disney management’s phone calls until January. Maybe.
Mask mandates? Nope. Not a law. Mandates are not laws.
Because, y’know, I can shop elsewhere and by the way, I have two middle fingers for any ‘tard trying to impose a mask.
But really, if your SO SCARED of getting a cold from your customers, why are you open? Or in Retail (restaurants, etc.) in the first place?
And what do you do with a cancer? You cut it off or you irradiate it.
I think it would be neat to be able to pin shortcuts to folders on the Taskbar. Bonus points if that short cut works just like a shortcut on the desktop. For dragging and dropping files. Files too because I have a text file that I use as a scratch/notepad.
But, no. You can pin an exe to Start and to Taskbar. But a folder? Nope. A specific file? Nope. Seems odd that I can’t…. and they’ve had years and years since Win7 to fix this.
I think it would be cool to have the Desktop down to Recycle and a few ‘net links I want to look at later along with the random downloaded picture.
“Question 1: Mass. voters approve the millionaires tax”
https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2022/11/09/question-1-massachusetts-fair-share-millionaire-tax/
Taxachusetts.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
It is beginning to look like the repuglicans barely took the House and the dumbrocrats retained the Senate.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-elections/house-results?icid=election_marquee
Biden is saying that he intends to run in 2024. I figure that he has to stay in office to be able to pardon Hunter from his myriad sins.
“Dems Blow Nearly $200 Million on Perennial Losers Beto O’Rourke, Stacey Abrams”
https://freebeacon.com/elections/dems-blow-nearly-200-million-on-perennial-losers-beto-orourke-stacey-abrams/
Wow !
Fair Share for Massachusetts. Holy Atlas Shrugged, Batman.
The payoff will be in 2024 once the data mining is crunched from both of Robert Francis’ runs for Senate and “Doors” challenging Cornyn in 2020.
I don’t think Robert Francis was expected to win, and people in Georgia were tired of Stacy Abrams running her mouth and serving as Shadow Governor for the last four years, preparing for a possible Jesus Candidacy for President in 2028.
Rafael Edward should be concerned.
I doubt “Doors” will run again, but she isn’t working her day job anymore. I think her benefactors expected Round Rock/Williamson County to get its own Congressional seat in redistricting which she could win easily.
The payoff in Georgia could be more immediate. The Dems are crunching the numbers to see what would make 300,000 Republicans stay home again on Dec. 6 like the last runoff.
Geesh, Georgia Libertarians, you need to look into who is funding your party these days.
Geesh, Georgia Libertarians, you need to look into who is funding your party these days.
The only thing that the libertarians do is keep the conservative from winning.
Sometimes, the Green Party keeps the dumbrocrat from winning but that rarely happens.
“Vince Vance & The Valiants – All I Want for Christmas Is You”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8HWHd0EYJA
Tis the season according to Home Depot.
I’m just happy that the stupid election ads have stopped.
“Here’s how Donald Trump sabotaged the Republican midterms”
https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/heres-how-donald-trump-sabotaged-the-republican-midterms/
“Hey, Lyin’ Ted and Sleepy Joe: Meet Toxic Trump. You know, if the former president had any self-knowledge or even the slightest ability to be self-deprecating, he might consider giving himself this alliterative nickname. After three straight national tallies in which either he or his party or both were hammered by the national electorate, it’s time for even his stans to accept the truth: Toxic Trump is the political equivalent of a can of Raid. What Tuesday night’s results suggest is that Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellant in modern American history. The surest way to lose in these midterms was to be a politician endorsed by Trump.”
I have been wondering about this. It may be true.
The surest way to lose in these midterms was to be a politician endorsed by Trump.”
– right. The people who have been blaming Trump for everything, blame him for this. It couldn’t be fraud, nope. The guy who still draws 10s of thousands to rallies, when he’s not even a candidate or office holder, is to blame. Because he’s not popular, I guess.
NO WAY did Lina Hidalgo win fairly in Harris County.
n
Hah hah! /end Muntz voice
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11400697/How-plant-based-lifestyle-NOT-better-health-certainly-wont-save-planet.html
– but then we knew that.
n
“Every Which Way But Loose” is better than any two movies Disney has made in the last 20 years.
What’s your vote?
Although I quite liked Monsters Inc.
n
Frozen (2013) is pretty good. Soul is very weird and good. Onward is ok. Jungle Cruise is good. “Bridge to Terabithia” was very good and very sad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_(2013_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_to_Terabithia_(2007_film)
Does Disney include the Marvel movies ? Cause Black Widow was excellent. So was Wandavision. So is Captain Marvel. Endgame and Infinity War are awesome.
Finished listening to “Nine Princes in Amber” written and read by Roger Zelazny. A lot of authors don’t sound good reading their own material, but Zelazny and the production team do a good job. This set was published by “Speaking Volumes” and is a remaster of “lost” recordings. There are other adaptations read by other people.
I remember enjoying the Amber series quite a bit. This first volume seems ‘simple’ and straightforward to me now, but I still enjoyed Corwin’s story. It’s got a “tough guy” feel to the writing, and it is just a bit dated. It actually sounds a bit like ‘men’s action adventure’ rather than fantasy.
I am looking for the rest of whatever Zelazny recorded at the same time, but I don’t think I’ll find it cheap.
n
I’m seeing a lot of
“Midterm Lessons”: pure effing bullshiite.
Here’s the bottom line, folks:
It is damned impossible to scale the Eiger when the MSM is pulling your rucksack.
Some of you have recently expressed opinions about Trump. Have any of you formed an opinion without the help of the MSM telling you how very icky the man is?
I’m going to digress here, for a moment, and guess that most of you were edumacated to the absolute fact that Herbert Hoover was a total failure as POTUS.
yeah, right.
I’m not going to try the impossible, and rank the smartest Presidents this Republic has had, but here are the top 4:
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Hoover.
All of them were absolute geniuses, but the reason that WJL were able to overcome the timebomb written into the US Constitution, was that technology had not set the mofo off, yet.
Poor Herbert. Shafted by the proliferation of wood pulp newsprint.
Poor Donald. Shafted by selective editing of video, soundbites, memory holes, etc.
I have to ask, is there any of you that could mount a defense against an evil harpy with millions of dollars pushing a story about you dancing on a bed with Russian hookers delivering golden showers?
So what, CC, are you doing moving forward, Going Galt?
No.
But I am going to do everything I can to severe my ties with the flies [see MIB}.
@Lynn
Were the movies awesome or was the CGI shiney and new?
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice was quite sparkly back in college days with a few bumps under the belt and a flask to help you through.
I bought the comic books. Still have them. Bonus points if you can name the issue with the last panel: “You hit the jackpot, tiger.” [HINT: Hubba hubba.
I’m dated, but I think the original drawings of Gil Kane was infinitely superior to any multi-dozen Indian bitchoppers laboring with somebody elses software to color between the lines. And yes, Green Lantern was a
whitePink fighter pilot with insecurities, not a [redacted, so Nick doesn’t have to].Disney just bought the rights to Perry Rhodan. Character will be written as a non-pink 12-sexed sino-commie-Frencho-limp-wristed-tea-drinker. CGI AWESOME!!! from the Avatar II team.
Hokay??
@Nick
http://davidbarrkirtley.com/2012/05/15/roger-zelazny-reads-at-4th-street-fantasy-convention-1986/
https://boingboing.net/2019/09/22/golden-age-of-sf-is-12.html
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/78846/where-can-i-find-any-recording-of-roger-zelaznys-voice-on-the-internet
I never really got into comic books. I was a good and fast reader, so I preferred novels or short story collections.
I hate the woke BS and “color blind” casting, that isn’t. Back in the day, it was daring to cast Othello as an actual black man, and I’ve worked in theaters where they cast the role as a black woman with the risk of losing all their funding the next year… so all the current pandering looks as tame and second rate to me as the generic breakfast “wheat-ee O’s ” looks sitting next to the real thing. If it expands our understanding of the role, or if it extends the universality of the character, and supports the story, then fine, do some non-traditional casting. Otherwise, do it as written.
I’ve got over 800 movies here to watch. Don’t need to go looking for more.
n
@drwilliams, thanks for those links. THe second provides the backstory and detail I was looking for.
Not great literature, but fun to listen to in the car.
n
>> Arizona. Again.
California is a cancer and it is spreading.
Ducey (and Lombardo) just need more shipping containers…
https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/the-border-wall/could-shipping-containers-act-as-a-complete-border-wall/
>> I’m just happy that the stupid election ads have stopped.
Now can you do something about the Medicare ads… please!
Disney just bought the rights to Perry Rhodan. Character will be written as a non-pink 12-sexed sino-commie-Frencho-limp-wristed-tea-drinker. CGI AWESOME!!! from the Avatar II team.
The intertubes does not know of this so I count it as a fable.
Still, if Disney buys PR then good luck. The original “Mission Stardust” movie was horrible.
https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Stardust-Lang-Jefferies/dp/B001AD54NE?tag=ttgnet-20/
I am probably going to pass on Avatar II unless Dad wants to go.
I’m not going to try the impossible, and rank the smartest Presidents this Republic has had, but here are the top 4:
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Hoover.
All of them were absolute geniuses, but the reason that WJL were able to overcome the timebomb written into the US Constitution, was that technology had not set the mofo off, yet.
Who is WJL ?
What is the timebomb in the USA Constitution ?
“Cancer” by Sarah Hoyt
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/11/09/cancer/
“As I write this late on the 8th, the tsunami is resolving itself into a wavelet. Or rather, the tsunami has been overfrauded into a wavelet. And it might be frauded away to a Dem win before I wake tomorrow.”
Sarah is convinced of fraud in the last two elections.
Watching the midterms from afar…
That’s one aspect. The guy has an ego the size of Jupiter. Narcissist, “main character” syndrome, whatever you want to call it.
There is also the second issue, indirectly related to Trump: his Supreme Court appointments managed to eliminate Roe-vs-Wade. I expect that influenced a lot of non-religious conservatives to cast their votes elsewhere.
I think my view from Europe is reasonably independent of the US media. Anyway, my opinion of the man goes back to when he was President. Huuuuuge promises, little delivery. Anyone who tried to call him on it, was bad-mouthed. If they were in his inner circle, they were fired. Just do a quick search for how many of his own cabinet members and appointees he fired – it’s pretty crazy.
He is a truly great showman. Unfortunately, that is pretty much his only positive trait.
The “last 20 years” includes “Sky High” and the first “Enchanted”. Plus, that timefame covers quality Pixar output under Disney, from “Cars” through the first 20 minutes of “Brave”.
And don’t forget Disney Channel movies which were generally decent until Facecrack ate the ad industry to the point that the “Lean In” twit was added to the board and seriously promoted as a Disney CEO by some of the same people that pushed Eisner back in the day.
Disney probably erred acquiring Lucasfilm and Marvel just because it allowed them to be lazy in Burbank. Overpaying for Fox was definitely a mistake.
I don’t think it is an accident that the Magic Kingdom in Orlando is core IP with the exception of the Buzz Lightyear shooting game which turned Tomorrowland into a stroller trainwreck.