Cool and damp. It was 54F when I got up yesterday, it was 54F when I ate lunch, and 54F when I went to bed. I’ve got a feeling it might be 54F today… National forecast says ‘clear’. Yesterday had Houston on the edge of a system and we did get clouds and some rain. Not much, but enough to get the cars dirty and the streets wet.
Lots of accidents on the roads too, far more than I’m used to seeing. Oh, and a full on ladder in the number 2 lane of the toll road. People, secure your freaking ladders in your truck beds. They’re not free, and the life you save might be worth a whole lot more to society than your ignorant self. No one ever died because someone put an extra strap on a load.
Did my pickups. More antennas. Hamfest is coming up in March, so I’m starting to look at what I have and what I want to sell this year. “Most of it” is the answer I’m getting. Also got some first aid supplies, and some cleaning stuff, and a finger brake or pan brake. That’s a tool for folding metal. I have always wanted a small one, and now I have one.
Bought a couple of things in the auction too. Nice looking hunting tool in 30-06. ‘nuther kayak. Must be off season for kayaks, several have come up and sold for reasonable prices. Hard to say no to $90 for what was originally a $1k boat. I managed to though. Couldn’t say no to $80 for a $650 boat. We still can’t all kayak at the same time, but we’ll get there. I should use my vinyl cutter to make labels for the kayaks with our name on them. Hmm, another project. Maybe later.
Chatted with another buyer while waiting for my stuff. Real nice guy, we had a lot in common. We are bidding on the same type of stuff though, which isn’t awesome. He was headed to his next pickup at an auctioneer that was my third pickup of the day. Small world, but perhaps not too unlikely given that we both bid on auction stuff. There is definitely a culture for those of us who have been doing it for a long time.
I can’t emphasis enough that I think everyone should be out there looking for alternative markets, be it thrifts, estate sales, in person or online auctions, flea markets, swapmeets, or whatever is going on in your area. Maybe it’s a farmer’s market, or a monthly craft show, but there is bound to be something going on. The money you save is well worth the time invested, as is access to stuff that might not be in stores, or might be of better quality that what is currently available. A whole lot of commerce is moving into the secondary economy (as I’ve taken to calling it) or ‘p2p sales’ or the ‘informal’ economy. It’s a sign of a failing state, but it’s a fact of life too, and the only way for people to get what they need when the official marketplaces are dried up, or inaccessible. It takes practice and awareness to be successful in it, just like all things, so get started.
It’s the weekend. I’m sleeping in as it’s the first one in a while with no extra things on my plate. Then I’ll start working the list again. And going to the grocery store- because I didn’t get there yesterday. It’s not like we’re out of anything, but we don’t have the next carton of eggs in the fridge or the next jug of milk and that makes me nervous. Plus, I’m out of beef jerky and soda.
Stack some stuff. Stack it high, then find something you missed and stack that. And go to a garage sale this weekend. Never know what you will find.
nick
No pictures. Anywhere.
Even Bang Bang slipped up once. “Kathy Chung” is good if she’s Chinese intelligence.
Swalwell still denies doing anything wrong. Dipsh*t.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/watch-swalwell-defends-chinese-spy-scandal-on-the-view-claims-no-wrongdoing/ar-AA16u9Yx
How is the spam filtering, MrAtoz?
We moved our biz email records to Google years ago for the top-notch spam filtering (Hi, Mr. Lynn). Proton Mail has spam filtering, but I haven’t generated enough traffic to see how good it is. My daughter and I are starting a side gig and will use PM for it. Spam will come then.
If you can make easily-removable labels, label the kayaks “Dad”, “Mom”, “Drunken Mistake 1”, “Drunken Mistake 2″. Get video of initial reactions.
(And then let the kids make labels to their preference by taking them to the label maker and showing them how it works. Skills!)
(And then put the roll of vinyl under lock and key. The impulse control of teens and preteens is not to be trusted.)
I’m running out of things that I can stack where I can keep an eye on them. Things tend to disappear otherwise. For maybe a half year, a couple years ago, my wife and her mother realized that my stacks of stuff kept us out of hardship, when stores were closed and every other item had shortages. Before that and after that, the food and the paper towels and the zip ties and the engine oil were fair game for anyone to use for any purpose.
(Side note: Did you know that if you mix engine oil with gasoline and put the mixture into a two-stroke engine, the engine won’t run? I knew that. See if you can guess who didn’t know that.)
Which leads to actual advice and not mere complaining: Sometimes a prep consists of getting rid of something rather than adding something. If things are going well and you have a wealth of goods and the luxury of time, go ahead and get those decorative plants or the two-tone crushed stone walkway, either of which need constant maintenance. When resources or time are tight, you can can stop taking of them; they might look like crap but won’t actually hurt anything.
Animals are more of a problem. If things go wrong and your overbred lapdog’s special food is no longer available, do you use your limited and now-precious human food to feed it or do you put a bullet in its head? (I’m thinking of a granny who had a shih-tsu, which was allergic to practically everything. Every few days the woman mixed up some salmon and other ingredients, some of them expensive, to keep in the fridge. The dog also needed some medicine or supplements as well as regular visits to get inturned eyelashes trimmed. That was fine in times of plenty: the granny had money and nothing better to do. I don’t know what she did during lockdowns and shortages and business closings in 2020. Did the dog starve? Die or suffer because it couldn’t get its medicine? Have to deal with eyelashes scratching its eyeballs? Did she just have the dog put to sleep?)
The lesson is to be careful about what to add to your life. Don’t add something which will be an ongoing burden, even if you think its attractive and worth it now, when you can handle the burden.
The same applies to people. Nick’s always talking about meatspace and pooling skills and such with neighbors and that’s generally good advice. But how are you going to deal with free riders? What about the neighbor who even now is always needing but never providing? As above, it’s tolerable now, when things are ok-ish, when they always need a jump start or help carrying something into the house or to borrow your extension ladder. What will you do when things are tighter? Suddenly tell them No, that they can no longer borrow things? That you’ll no longer let them come over when you have light and hot food and they don’t? You need to think about that now and think about whether to cut them out now, or else at what point on the gradual downward slide you need to cut out the freeloaders. Keep in mind that you need to assume that they’ve seen you carrying in 50# bags of flour and cans of gas for the generator.
Tying this back to where I started, you need to give serious and hard thought to relationships closer than neighbors. At what point do you kick out, cut off, or walk away from the useless, wasteful spouse? The adult children who keep coming back because their lives are a wreck? Loyalty to family or to people in other close, long-term relationships is one thing. Letting them drag you down with them is another. This applies at any time. It comes into sharper focus when things get hard. Or when you expect things to get hard.
@SteveF
Good post.
I’ve been turning food inventory and have a couple of data points:
Beef goes to the locker in the spring every year and then to my freezer. It is normally turning over in 12-18 months, but some time ago I put some back for longer term and check at intervals for quality. This week I pulled out two 2# chuck roasts, one 2022 and the other 2014. Thawed and cooked them together in the InstaPot. The side by side taste test did not find a difference in taste or texture. The locker uses a plastic wrap followed by a butcher paper outer werap, and both are effectively double layer. Much better than grocery store see-through, but does not exclude air 100% like vacuum sealing.
One of my go-to breakfast cereals is Quaker Oat Squares. It is slow to get soggy, has a low level of crumbs, and s a couple handfuls in a sandwich bag makes a decent car snack. Along with Life cereal is seems to be deeply discounted several times a year, and I stock up. That deeply discounted price is up about 40% from 2-3 years ago.
New boxes have a best buy date of Aug 2023. I rotated stock and pulled a couple with 2019 dates. I didn’t do a side-by-side test (two open boxes of cereal would last me a long time), but the quality seemed just what I would expect from a new box.
Both Oat Squares and Life are smaller boxes than they used to be–they are down to 14.5 ounces and 13 ounces from 16. I put the two side-by-side and read the nutrition panels, and noticed a bit of strangeness. Life serving is listed as one cup (42 grams), 160 calories, 9 per box, 9% daily sugars. Oat Squares serving is listed as one cup (56 gms), 210 calories, 7 per box, 9% daily sugars.
I understand the logic of measuring cereal by volume, as in “a bowl’s worth”, but note two things: First, the Oat Squares violates the rule of thumb that a “serving” is 15-180 grams. (Sometimes ridiculous, as my bakery claims a serving of apple fritter is ¼, and screw that–it’s all mine. Bacon is another one that’s ridiculous.)
Second is that a superficial reading is that the sugar level is the same, but that is amounts per serving, not percentages. There is proportionally less sugar in the Oat Squares, which is one reason I prefer them over the Life.
I store cereal in the original boxes. The inner plastic is a marvel of modern packaging and not only serves for storage but is a regular test of hand strength that will eventually tell me that I have become feeble in body and need to find a care facility with a porch and rocker. (I used to say near a junior high so I can watch the young ladies twice a day, but they all ride nowadays and it’s probably going to be Jumbotron reruns of Walker Texas Ranger in the common room until they find I’ve reached my expiration date.)
The downsizing of box weight usually applies to the inner bag, not the outer box, so there is some volume inefficiency. With the inner bag being smaller and conformable it would make sense to strip them out and fill a square bucket (would not have to be food grade). I usually label such by cutting off the end of the box with the expiration date, trimming it a bit, then splitting the printed face off the chipboard before attaching to the bag with 3″ packaging tape.
Darn, missed one of my favorite cooking shows: Nick Stellino, Storyteller in the Kitchen.
https://www.nickstellino.com/tv_show_cat/storyteller-in-the-kitchen/
Nick is from Sicily and learned much of his cooking–particularly the seafood–from his father. Most shows have 3-4 Italian dishes, and each starts with him sitting in the study and talking about something related before doing the actual cooking.
I admire his joy and exuberance, typified by a digression in one show where he had a stovetop full of pans and started talking about some he had purchased new, and some with a history going back several generations.
Hank Scorpio’s reactor design was approved.
https://apnews.com/article/us-nuclear-regulatory-commission-oregon-climate-and-environment-business-design-e5c54435f973ca32759afe5904bf96ac
Costs. Schmosts. He was the first exec to wear jeans with a sportscoat.
Simple breakfast this morning. A favorite as a child: poached eggs on buttered toast, salt and pepper, that’s it. Really satisfying.
Speaking of eggs: my prairie raised chicken eggs from HEB have gone up $4 in the last six months. They used to be $2.99/dz, really cheap, up to $6.75. I guess I’ll switch back to regular HEB eggs for the time being. I’ll keep an eye on them.
Prepping food: I decided a long time ago not to have a “deep” pantry and rotate things in/out. I have a regular pantry that the family could eat out of for about 10 days. I have 4 months of freeze dried for four people in the closet for the Barackylpse. Added some FD proteins to up the calorie count over 2,000/day. I do need to get some stable fats, too. Like Mr. SteveF, peeps keep taking my prep bottled water. Need to stock up again.
Added: Yes, we’ll stand in line for the goobermint cheese.
Addenda to my comment above:
@SteveF, good food for thought. Thank you.
And to the others who shared. I do like my vac sealer for frozen stuff. I occasionally use it for other things too.
One thing having food you eat in long term storage does, is allows the type of comparison done above. Size, ingredients, taste… at the BOL at Christmas my mom was sputtering at the breakfast table over the ketchup. “Did you know this expired in 2014????” Yep. And it’s still fine. “But it’s darker!” Yep, color and texture seem to be affected most. STILL TASTES THE SAME. Still healthful. (I SERIOUSLY overbought condiments in ‘13 and ’14. I’m still pulling them out.) “But the date!!” Yep, it’s just a date. Even the fedgov says it’s fine. Then a teaching moment ensued about dates, research, media agendas, etc. She kept eating it and didn’t throw anything away when I wasn’t looking.
Currently 56F and only 84%RH so I’m assuming it was 54F this morning as I predicted! Weather liar extraordinaire!
Should probably cook some breakfast. Dinner yesterday was a great quick hearty skillet meal. One big potato, halved and sliced ¼” thick, one half med. onion, sliced thin, then chopped. 4 tablespoons bacon fat in the skillet. Saute onions and potatoes until they turn transparent, then allow to brown for flavor. Add chopped or sliced kielbasa sausage when the onion and potatoes are turning. Salt and pepper to taste. Toss frequently to blend flavors and cook evenly. Use a slotted spoon to remove food from skillet when browned. Return bacon fat to storage container.
Enjoy.
Freaking pound of meat, and the rest and the kids were licking plates and looking for more. I should have made twice as much.
n
We started binging “The Rookie” on Hulu. Good series. Nathan Fillion is really good. But, there’s always a but:
***SPOILER ALERT***
Mid season 3, they introduced a Black, woke, female BLM law professor. The Rookie is taking a night course with her to finish his degree. Lots of “defund the police” in the woke class. One of the other rookies, the Black one, tries to get rid of a White racist cop. It backfires and the rookie is almost beaten to death. They finally get him, though, towards the end of season 3. Then a pregnant sergeant and the Black rookie are kidnapped by a female cartel queen at the end of S03 as revenge. Just started S04 and the Black rookie is shot in the back and killed and thrown in the trunk of a car. You never see his face. The pregnant sergeant is taken to Guatemala and an over-the-top rescue gets her back. A really weird episode. I wondered why they killed off the Black rookie. Google gave me the answer. The millennial actor that played the Black rookie was so upset by the Saint Floyd and Breonna Taylor deaths, he refused to act in a cop show. He hasn’t acted much since then.
Hopefully S04 gets back on track. S05 is still airing new episodes.
Recommended
***SPOILER ALERT***
Mustard lasts a long time. The yellow stuff seems to be eternal. Ketchup gets darker when a couple of years past date. Mayo turns rancid like old oil after a year. Bottled salad dressing turns, too. I made space in the fridge for that stuff. Yeah, it can’t hold as much beer now. 🙂
My building does have a/c. Set to 80f. A window unit built into the wall. I tried doing without, just a fan in the window, the room was about 92f during the day. Considering it was 100f outside in the shade, not bad. You might think the electric bill would go down. Nope. It went up $30 or so. Looks like the fridge and freezers have to work harder.
I haven’t had a lot of spoilage. Weevils in the pasta caused most. Bay leaves scattered around seem to have cured that problem. A couple of cans of tomato paste and several cans of fruit cocktail and peaches have leaked. At the side seams. No puffed cans.
I would take that as a compliment.
“LA Teenager Is Murdered After Serving Light Sentence For Running Over A Mom And Baby (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/la-teenager-murdered-serving-light-sentence-running-mom-baby-video/
This is what happens when you do not have real justice. This teenager should have been executed by the State of California for murdering a mother and her baby.
Similar to what Nick fed the kids above, Dad would do similar.
Peel and chop several baking potatoes. Dump in stock pot. That would be at least four inches deep. Beef ribs, usually cut into two bones per piece. Browned in a frying pan. Dumped on top of the potatoes. Then usually an onion peeled, quartered, and broken up. Drain and rinse a 28 oz can of sauerkraut, add that, and a can of water with a dissolved bullion cube. Salt and pepper like crazy.
Set on the back burner on low for several hours. Smelled great.
Sometimes he used sausage. But ribs were much cheaper.
Poetic: Sports writer who wanted Ivan Provorov canceled is canceled
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2023/01/21/poetic-sports-writer-who-wanted-ivan-provorov-canceled-is-canceled/
hashtag: #shebeabeotchthatKarma
“Best Science Fiction Thrillers” by Dan Livingston
https://best-sci-fi-books.com/best-science-fiction-thrillers/
OK, this is quite the list. I have read:
27. Lucifer’s Hammer
25. Feed
16. Ancillary Justice
12. Altered Carbon
11. Jurassic Park
9. Project Hail Mary
7. Dark Matter
3. The Girl With All The Gifts
2. Leviathan Wakes
1. Neuromancer
I have many books to add to this list, here is a couple:
1. Mutineer’s Moon by David Weber
2. Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein
3. “Live Free Or Die” by John Ringo
4. “Emergence” by David Palmer
@Nick
There’s a joke there, but …
okay, maybe two, but I’m going to pass.
@Paul
Hold out space for one can, then you can rotate them in use and get 3-4 minutes cooling for each one…
Naw, just learn to drink it at cellar temperature like God intended.
@Lynn
Any list that has Lucifer’s Hammer at 27 is either an exercise in public ignorance or a fringe category like “Best SF Novel Published in an Even Year with an Undersexed Barmaid”
Went to an estate sale in the neighborhood today. The usual dishes, clothing, piles of old DVDs, furniture, and a bunch of garage junk.
There was an 8′ Werner fiberglass ladder there among all the garage junk. They wanted $40; I got it for $25 towards the end of their selling time. Score!
I already had a 6′ Werner fiberglass ladder, so I posted it on a neighborhood FB group. Sold it within ½ hour for $30. Score again!
Made a profit on the whole deal, plus an 8′ ladder that will be useful to reach most of the gutters.
@Nick would be proud!
Lynn: The mother and baby were only slightly injured, not killed. However, the insane “attempted murderer” had already tried to poison a girl’s drink. So street justice may have prevailed.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/la-teenager-murdered-serving-light-sentence-running-mom-baby-video/
Hank Scorpio’s reactor design was approved.
https://apnews.com/article/us-nuclear-regulatory-commission-oregon-climate-and-environment-business-design-e5c54435f973ca32759afe5904bf96ac
Costs. Schmosts. He was the first exec to wear jeans with a sportscoat.
All of the new fossil power generation uses 40% efficient gas turbines that can be started to full load in six minutes (GE LM6000, 48 MW). The future cost of natural gas is probably $10/mmbtu. Could be $20/mmbtu. Oil (diesel) is about three of five times as much. Both fuels are being increasingly sold for cash money to desperate parties outside the USA. The gas turbines are $45 million each in large quantities (100 or more). Installation is another $5 million to $15 million each depending on the complexity of the site and the transmission facilities available.
The future cost of the nuclear power units becomes much more reasonable when the cost of fossil fuels explodes due to carbon taxes and regulatory costs on fugitive emissions. Plus the crude oil production worldwide is slowly dropping. Taking the Russian oil and natural gas production off the market has hastened the demand.
We are in a cost lull at the moment due to supply reaching demand at the moment due to the recession in the USA. This will not continue.
@RickH
Much better than trying to reach from the six footer without using the “nadastep”
Good score Rick!
Spent the day binge watching Alone with the kids and wife. LOTS of calories early seems to be the key to winning. Unbelievable to have contestants ‘ring the bell’ or tap out on the first and second day.
Some good lessons to be learned about gear, techniques, and attitude. I’d never watched the show because they tend to be contrived and fake. Not seeing much fakery or convenient coincidences in the show like I did with Bear the faker grillis.
We went back and are currently watching season 1, 25 days into it. The remaining 4 participants have been the same for a while. Definitely interesting tv.
The ads though, a non stop stream of prescription drugs with CRAZY serious side effects. And insurance. WTF?
n
The adult children who keep coming back because their lives are a wreck?
You know, in order for them to come back, they have to leave first.
Any list that has Lucifer’s Hammer at 27 is either an exercise in public ignorance or a fringe category like “Best SF Novel Published in an Even Year with an Undersexed Barmaid”
It is Dan Livingston. I am amazed that Lucifer’s Hammer made it on the list at all. After all, only 4 of the 27 were pre 2000 books. And note the lack of Heinleins and Andre Nortons.
Lynn: The mother and baby were only slightly injured, not killed. However, the insane “attempted murderer” had already tried to poison a girl’s drink. So street justice may have prevailed.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/la-teenager-murdered-serving-light-sentence-running-mom-baby-video/
Even if it was only attempted murder (I missed that), street justice is still going to happen. Relatives tend to get antsy when the guilty party walks.
Went to an estate sale in the neighborhood today. The usual dishes, clothing, piles of old DVDs, furniture, and a bunch of garage junk.
There was an 8′ Werner fiberglass ladder there among all the garage junk. They wanted $40; I got it for $25 towards the end of their selling time. Score!
I already had a 6′ Werner fiberglass ladder, so I posted it on a neighborhood FB group. Sold it within ½ hour for $30. Score again!
Made a profit on the whole deal, plus an 8′ ladder that will be useful to reach most of the gutters.
@Nick would be proud!
Yes, good score ! I love fiberglass ladders due to the lack of electrical conductivity. And the seven foot version works for me since I am 6’1″. Six foot would be short for my needs though.
I’ve had it with gutters. I get that work done by younger people now since I get dizzy when I turn my head.
Noticed that the new moon will be about 12K miles closer than it’s average distance tonight (21 Jan 2023). This is the closest it has been since the year 1030.
Explains the ‘king tides’ we’ve been having around here in the Olympic Peninsula (and probably elsewhere). This series of high ‘king’ tides will not be as much as happened this past Christmas, when we had very low atmospheric pressure that caused higher tides than normal. (See Cliff Mass [University of WA Weather Guy article here; scroll down a screen to the ‘high tide’ section.)
An article about the new moon’s closeness is here.
And, both of these occurrences have nothing to do with global warming or climate change.
>> At what point do you kick out, cut off, or walk away from the useless, wasteful spouse?
So what are you waiting for?
I stayed too long with W1, but the timing lead to W2, so it all worked out eventually.
Eggs: $5.99 for two dozen Large cage-free at Costco today.
>> Size, ingredients, taste… at the BOL at Christmas my mom was sputtering at the breakfast table over the ketchup. “Did you know this expired in 2014????” Yep. And it’s still fine. “But it’s darker!” Yep, color and texture seem to be affected most. STILL TASTES THE SAME. Still healthful.
Not sure ketchup exactly qualifies as healthful 🙂
Plugs the other day: “There’s no there there.”
Today: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/21/politics/white-house-documents/index.html
FBI searches Biden’s Wilmington home and finds more classified materials
>> Much better than trying to reach from the six footer without using the “nadastep”
Hmm, back in FL had a 6 foot wooden ladder that was my Dad’s that “didn’t have” a nadastep…guess wooden ladders were safer 😉
Putting words in SteveF’s mouth: There is still a minor child in the house, and in a man-hating legal venue (which so far as I know is all of them), the child can become a pawn in the divorce. He seems to care about the child, and it sounds like giving custody to the mother (the most likely outcome) would be bad for the child. Not to mention having to maintain 2 households, alimony, and child support, and limited visitation.
My youngest was 19 when I discovered my wife’s infidelity, so that was not an issue for me.
And I still lost 60% of my retirement savings and half my family farm, due to a man-hating judge.
>> Spent the day binge watching Alone with the kids and wife. LOTS of calories early seems to be the key to winning. Unbelievable to have contestants ‘ring the bell’ or tap out on the first and second day.
Some good lessons to be learned about gear, techniques, and attitude. I’d never watched the show because they tend to be contrived and fake. Not seeing much fakery or convenient coincidences in the show like I did with Bear the faker grillis.
‘Naked and Afraid’ doesn’t seem to have much fakery either. Sufficient blurring to make it family-friendly. Finding food and avoiding becoming food to predators top the list of activities. Tough to stick it out for 21 days (or more in the XL show.)
@lynn, hope your daughter is doing well. Was thinking of her…
DOJ Discovers Six More Biden Classified Documents
https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/21/doj-discovers-six-more-biden-classified-documents/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking&pnespid=t6E4UChWKbgHxvbRuyrqAYCG5wCtCJssPLWknPFqrUJmKykngSCOBRTEK4Ys5nGqJrq10OYj
“some of which were from the President’s service in the Senate”
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that a lying, theiving, plagiarizing, economy-wrecking, hair-sniffing, diaper-wearing pervert and Communist stooge would be elected president and turn out to be exactly the piece of crap that anyone with half a brain knew he would be.
How’s the team working on impeachable offenses in the Camel’s background coming?
Add another zero to Willie’s consulting fee.
ADDED:
@Alan posted about this above, but I thought the significance of the extracted phrase was key to proving the long-time feces-ness of the felon.
Add a few zeros to that fee. Willie has the goods on Kamala and Gavin Newsom.
That is, if you mean Willie Brown.
I do so enjoy the facile idiots who quote with neither understanding nor knowledge of context.
catching up in part to my post last night, and ringing in a few more perps:
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/01/21/has-a-new-location-been-added-to-the-list-of-where-classified-docs-have-traveled-with-biden-n525305
ADDED:
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/01/21/bombshell-from-the-dojs-search-of-bidens-home-blows-the-scandal-wide-open-n692194
Previous practitioners of the “stuffed down the pants” method took them home and burned them. Thank goodness Joe didn’t try–he’d probably try to light them while they were in his pants.
The pool for predicting the exit of the Multiple-Box-Checking Kewpie Doll is now opening.
Pick a date time and place.
Entry time is the stamp on your post.
Winner gets nothing but bragging rights.
I’m running the pool, so can’t participate.
ADDED:
If she strokes out on camera in the middle of a presser, the pool will close without a winner and all entry fees will be used to send flowers.
Oh, wait… no entry fees… never mind.
>> The ads though, a non stop stream of prescription drugs with CRAZY serious side effects. And insurance. WTF?
https://www.healthcarepackaging.com/markets/pharmaceutical/news/13293416/only-two-countries-allow-directtoconsumer-drug-advertising
Ate one of my favorite prepper meals tonight
Shrimp
SHTF and I’ll never see shrimp again, so I try to enjoy it while I can
@Greg
Yup.
Maybe the shortcut is who has the goods on Willie?
@lynn, hope your daughter is doing well. Was thinking of her…
Thanks. The wife took her to the ER again today. They hydrated her and tested her with nothing serious found. The Covid rebound is making her feel worse than usual. They did comment that she needs to see an obgyn. Just what we are trying to do, get her healthy enough so she can have her hysterectomy.
Her blood hemoglobin was up to 8.4 so they would not give her more whole blood (above 8.0). Looks like the blood is more effective than the iron transfusion. She has to be at 11.0 to have the surgery.
Let’s review for a moment:
1 ) Biden aide finds classified docs and informs DOJ
(this implies that whatever was offered for silence was not enough)
2 ) Aides search and find more classified docs.
3 ) DOJ doesn’t see any reason to go there, Biden sends lawyer Sauber to search
(Hired in May 2022, it is alleged that Sauber has a security clearance. Is this sinister preparation?)
4 ) Suddenly the DOJ goes there!
This STRONGLY implies that Joey B
uttafucoBiden sent the lawyer in as a “cleaner”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgzFPOMjiC8
but the man could not get the job done.
The MOST LIKELY REASON for failure is that Joe VegieBiden could not deliver a correct list of items to be found and removed, either because some items could not be found, or additional items were found and it was obvious that it was a losing cause.
5 ) Biden hires a new “personal” lawyer. We’ll find a lot more out about him, but my guess will be that he’s never been in any of Biden’s offices, closets, or garages where he might have accidently seen a TOP Secret document header in the ashtray or something.
And the YUGE unanswered question of the day: Did DOJ look in Jill’s underwear drawer?
The Clintons. Remember the FBI file scandal?
Willie Brown was deeply involved with People’s Temple among other antics. Jim Jones ran a Dem voter fraud operation in San Francisco in the 70s and was a serious player in city politics.
in other news:
Random Act of Journalism: Major News Outlets Sue for Access to Evidence in Paul Pelosi Case
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/01/random-act-of-journalism-major-news-outlets-sue-for-access-to-evidence-in-paul-pelosi-case/
Witch lost her broomstick.
Ted Cruz on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1616957101124816898
What if the docs from the Senate service era did not come into Biden’s possession at that time?
What if VP Biden had Obama get them? If $o, what could have been Biden’$ purpo$e?
3 questions about the documents:
1) Did the FBI agents who searched Biden’s home under the direction of the DOJ do so with gloves and properly handle them to preserve evidence?
2) When will the docs be dusted for fingerprints?
3) When will the National Archives be asked to account for:
a) all the documents that have been found thus far?
b) a list of all the documents checked out to Biden and Obama that are unaccounted for?
Be very interesting to know if Obama is feeling a sudden urgent need to be speaking with his personal lawyers.
In other news popcorn futures up 5% in weekend aftermarket trading.
munch, munch
ONE FINAL THOUGHT:
The Senate angle raises the possibility that Articles of Impeachment could be voted for the misconduct of Senator Biden. Such a move would doubtless be interpreted rightly as somewhat contemptuous, but also based on a slam-dunk if those docs are found to be contemporaneous with the Senate service. Since “No, I conspired with Obama later to get them to pass on to my Chinese masters” would not be an affirmative defense, we might see a sudden final decline and resignation for “personal reasons”.
I’m done now. I have to check and see if bidendidnotkillhimself.dom/net/info etc are available
We call those “Side effects: Death” meds at our house. Listen carefully to the announcer.
The Embrel ads featuring “Erin” and “Margo” were probably the most effective spots I’ve seen on TV in a long time. I wonder why they stopped.
$24,000/year and the drug had a second patent issued which protects the profit gravy train until 2028.
OK, I watched “Clerks”. Uh, hard pass on any more. Too much bad language. OK, playing hockey on the roof of the market was hilarious. And the cat poop box on the counter. And knocking the casket off the stand at the wake was totally crazy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerks_(film)
The funny thing was that I wondered where the movie was shot and said to myself, “New Jersey”. I was right !
Now back to The X-Files.
>> The pool for predicting the exit of the Multiple-Box-Checking Kewpie Doll is now opening.
Still time to get in on the Ron Klain pool? Hmm, maybe too late…
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-biden-politics-united-states-government-ron-klain-859543dcbbcbe3e2ef987e88f7b4ff34
>> We call those “Side effects: Death” meds at our house. Listen carefully to the announcer.
Listen too carefully and you may decide that the cure is worse than the disease.
Did taking Humira cause my wife’s leukemia? We’ll never know for sure.
I still quiz her occasionally about any possible association with Camp Lejeune but I’m not making any progress. Dang.
Ah Clerks. Great film, but definitely a specific taste. “Do you want to make some fukc?! BERSERKER!!!1!!!!”
And very talky…
D1 at a friend’s for a sleepover, more Alone with D2 and my wife… second season is gonna have some hard truths in it. Lot of emotionally damaged people on a spiritual journey. My prediction is early departures. The one big talker bailed the first day, after only 4 hours! Seems like about half the season 2 participants are professional trainers in survival, or primitive skills, or some sort of bush craft. Yet one wears shorts and sandals in the bush, and the other walks around barefoot…
One of the women chopped her hand with an axe and is done. Bad technique, and poor outdoor skills. She was doing the show so her girls would see that they could do anything. No husband or father in evidence, and a history and lifestyle that says “inability to commit” to me. Oh well, won’t have to see her anymore.
The real killer aspect of Alone vs other shows in the ‘’survive in the wild” genre is that other than medical checks, each participant is really alone, and there isn’t an ending in sight. The show goes on until everyone quits but one. They have had to arrange their lives so that they could be gone for a year, and especially in the first season, no one has any idea how long it will be, or if anyone has quit. Add sleep deprivation, low calorie intake, cold and wet, and long periods of rain and wind, and no books or other media, and the mental aspect of being alone with yourself is the toughest part. The participants that start out mentally fragile or broken ain’t gonna make it, if season one was any indicator.
Fun stuff and lots of teaching moments…
n
>> The Embrel ads featuring “Erin” and “Margo” were probably the most effective spots I’ve seen on TV in a long time. I wonder why they stopped.
I prefer this one…the pre-woke version…
https://youtu.be/47cAxRX3aDg