Hot again, and again, and again. Humid too. 84F in the morning, but 100+ later. Humid too. Did I mention humid?
Did my speed run to get the staircase to the BOL. Picked up the uhaul trailer, got on the wrong freeway, corrected that, bought and loaded the stairs, and headed out. A couple hours and some to and fro to get the truck and trailer into the right spot, and a bit of rope, and the stairs are unloaded on the grass. There is a well positioned tree to help me get the thing up the hill and in place too. This stair will replace the concrete shitepile that I removed when I had the machines up there. It will be temporary until we get a deck designed and installed. Without something there we would have no direct access to the back yard, and down the hill to the dock and the lake.
I turned around and headed home as quickly as I could. Got the trailer returned, and switched to the pickup truck to head to Lowes. Did a bunch of head scratching in the aisles and picked up enough plumbing fittings that I should be able to cobble together a manifold for the sprinklers. Also picked up a few more electrical parts and fittings to complete the electrical replacement at the dock and dock house. Hopefully.
Electrical is first on the list, as is stairs… yeah I know. I’ll alternate if I get stuck, but stairs are really first. I will probably not have everything to finish the stairs though, so I’ll jump to electrical.
Plan is to head out today, stopping to pick up rigging stuff and hit one auction pickup along the way. I’ll take D1 and the dog with me this time. W! and D2 will join us later.
I’ll probably also do some raking and shoveling to clean up the front yard and new drainage ditch in between other tasks. I was in a big hurry with the machines coming off rent, and didn’t get everything as nice looking as I would have liked. It’s just red dirt, and without working sprinklers will STAY just dirt. Sprinklers are now officially moved up the list, as is getting a quote to sod the front yard… there’s always more to do…
So work to improve your situation. Think hard about getting away from big cities, especially ones with failing services, rising crime, or lots of violent amish and tatted up invaders. Several people that frequent this place have followed RBT and Barbara’s lead and moved already. The BOL is my effort. Better to move a little early than to leave it too late and get stuck.
Stay or go, in either case stacks will help, so keep stacking too.
nick
Oh, my sweet Summer child, your faith in politicians is so cute!
(Unless you were being sarcastic, in which case, I agree.)
I’m optimistic and confident by nature, pessimistic by training, experience, and policy. Make of that what you will.
Go look at the details of the property tax “reform” getting pushed through the Texas Legislature right now. The giant sucking sound you hear is coming from the bloated ISD budgets in the Prog cities which will remain untouched, with the $17 billion state-level surplus being earmarked “for the children”.
The stories on the local Faux News the last few nights indicate that, under the terms of the latest deal between the House and Senate, a constitutional amendment related to the “tax cut” will have to go on the ballot *this* Fall. Something smells weird .
When Texas goes Blue, it will happen fast.
I wonder about that. Except for measles and smallpox, how many of those vaccines actually save a significant number of lives? And we don’t do smallpox vaccines any more. Let’s look at big unvaccinated populations like the (actual) Amish. Oh, right. Can’t do actual research that’s counter ot the narrative.
And apparently no vaccines, none of them, are actually safety tested like you’d expect a drug to be tested. They’re exempt. That’s how the mRNA “vaccine” got approval; it’s treated just as if it used the same technology as all the other vaccines. Except, of course, it doesn’t.
Polio.
Though I suppose that if there’s a real collapse, horses and other animals will be everywhere, dried horse shit will be everywhere, and people will get the virus in infancy, when it has little effect.
The pandemic was the trial for mRNA tech, with the mandates being the mechanism to eliminate statistical control in the more advanced countries.
Another pandemic will be necessary to eliminate control
And this time, Skippy will shut his yap, takes his medicine and likes it, just like the rest of the sheeple, even if they have to go door to door.
Maybe Skippy would like to go for a “shower” if he objects this time.
I knew I forgot one. The point stands, though.
Where will Texans go to escape? Serious question.
Texas votes to support the status quo in the Governor’s Mansion and Legislature. Most won’t go anywhere, even if what I believe is inevitable happens and the state gets an income tax.
@JimB, there is no where for Texans to go. Some years ago I looked at where Americans can go. This was pre-Lord of the Rings. Australia and New Zealand were pretty much the only choices, and they are no longer available. They’d only work for a small number of people anyway.
The big risk with the 200K people moving here is that they flip the state blue. The cities are already blue, and Texas is fragmenting.
don’t forget the global wine glut.
—is there a documented glut? I’ve noticed the low prices. J Lohr 7 Oaks, a dependable solid red, has been essentially the same price for a decade.
With soda 50c a can and beer $1 a bottle, maybe time to start drinking wine…
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it was 86F when I started breakfast, and is 88F now. Doesn’t bode well.
n
By voter registration numbers, Alaska as a whole is red. But Anchorage is basically blue at this point, which means effectively Alaska has gone blue.
And where to go instead? A conversation regularly held in our household. Honest truth, there doesn’t seem to be anywhere that isn’t simply delaying inevitable. Staying to fight is ineffectual as we have witnessed with our local Assembly over the last three years.
Crack Secret Service investigators id 500 potential suspects, but have no fingerprints or DNA evidence to investigate.
Next assignment: Finding their backside with both hands while someone reads the instructions and holds the flashlight.
It won’t be polio killing people it will be the food- and water – borne– dysentery, cholera, e. coli contamination, typhoid, and salmonella…
n
Staying to fight is ineffectual
– it’s not a fair fight any more. Hasn’t been for a long time. Judges, DAs, and school boards. We lost them while being distracted by the circus.
n
3. Somebody explodes a nuclear weapon in Washington DC
Can they wait until Congress is in session. Please.
I believe what we will see is what Marko Kloos writes in his Frontline Series: PRCs (Public Residential Clusters). They will jam in the Amish and poor to high-rise shite-hole buildings, walling them in. Soon the goobermint will try to raid us dirt people in the ‘burbs. They will be met with a hail of lead. As an example, look at the high-rise shite-hole PRCs in China. COVID outbreak? The goobermint just closes the gates, welds them shut, and let the poor die. “Hey Wu, fire up 10 more incinerators for the corpse pile.”
MrsAtoz is having some minor surgery tomorrow, here in Vegas. On her lady-bits, but they are going to use “Milk of Amnesia” for the procedure. She is worried because her mother passed while under anesthesia for surgery. It is minor surgery, but anytime you go under is serious. Her doctor is supposed to let us know today if she will be in shape to travel to SA on Sunday. We may have to extend our stay in Vegas. She has gigs in Austin and Houston in two weeks, which are paying well, so doesn’t want to miss them.
Jenny, that just means that you are using the approach to fighting back against the tiny minority in charge.
Everyone on the assembly has a home address. I’m not suggesting murder – per Claire Wolfe’s quote, it’s not quite time – but signposts appearing in their front yard will get their attention. Publishing their daily routine will definitely get their attention.
I apologize for nothing. The US government trained me to overthrow corrupt and tyranical governments.
“Hey Wu, fire up 10 more incinerators for the corpse pile.”
Q: What do you call a cyclopentane refrigerator in a high-rise?
A: An igniter.
Getting ready to head out. Late, as per usual, but I blame the internet…
n
last task before leaving is deleting old files off the NVR. With only 250 MB free space it takes an unbelievably long time. Had to resort to rm command. Once there are a couple terabytes available, it’s quick, but oh my, when it’s full, it’s SO SLOW.
done now, headed out.
n
FIFM. Bah. I blame a pervasive culture of racism for the omitted word.
There definitely is a global and California wine grape glut, but these things come and go, so it is like trying to assess the stock market based on daily news. I did a quick look, and found lots of articles going back over more than ten years. The glut articles far outnumbered the glut-is-over articles. The CA fires a few years ago affected the crops, too.
Here is some bad news:
https://napavalleyregister.com/news/state-and-regional/san-franciscos-craft-beer-pioneer-anchor-brewing-going-out-of-business-after-127-years/article_738d2790-210e-11ee-bf4d-dbf7add529fe.html#tracking-source=home-top-story
I have always liked Anchor Porter and their Christmas ale, and will miss them. When I go to the store, I find IPA dominant. Yecch. At least there is still the local IWV Brewing Company, with their large variety.
Have to go…
Nah, it’s Global Warming Cooling Climate Change.
Precision explosives only applies to plutonium-based weapons (like WWII’s “Fat Man”). Uranium-based weapons only need one explosion. “Little Boy” was so simple that they didn’t even bother to test it before using it. Of course, you’re not getting 1MT out of a Little Boy. 15-20 KT or so is probably the limit for those. I’m far from an expert, but I think you’ve got to go to fusion to get to the megaton range, and that’s a much more complicated device.
Yup, hydrogen bombs use tritium as an accelerant. If you think people get nervous about plutonium, try tritium. I have a story that I do not feel like sharing today but it involves the CIA and India. And a President.
Plan is to head out today, stopping to pick up rigging stuff and hit one auction pickup along the way. I’ll take D1 and the dog with me this time. W! and D2 will join us later.
I hope W1 is W!. Or is that W! is W1.
It’s just red dirt, and without working sprinklers will STAY just dirt. Sprinklers are now officially moved up the list, as is getting a quote to sod the front yard… there’s always more to do…
I just got a quote to put sprinklers in the front 0.5 acres of my home 1.2 acres. I am so tired of dragging the hoses around. The quote was $9,600.
You know, I can drag a lot of hose around for $9,600.
1! = 1 so it comes out to the same.
My wife complained about having to move the hoses six times a day to water the entire lawn. This was a problem of her own making, as she wanted the smooth, green, monoculture lawn beloved of brainless suburbanites while I prefer a natural lawn with whatever will grow with minimal attention.
I did go so far as to buy three-outlet timers for the outside faucets, along with extra hose and sprinklers. With that in place, hoses had to be moved once every other day or at most once a day. It was more work for me when mowing because there were now thrice as many hoses snaked across the yard but I dealt with it for a Summer.
Wasn’t good enough for her. She talked her mother into cashing in a big chunk of her savings to pay for inground sprinklers. Pissed me off quite a bit.
Give SteveF’s MIL a call. 🙂
I does seem you could find a teenage kid somewhere to install the system. Parts and beer money. You should save $8000 if not more.
Last time I looked, the Rainbird pop-up impulse sprinklers were about $16 each. I think they’ll spray about 30 feet. Pipe doesn’t cost much. The hard part is digging the ditches but you don’t have to dig deep, maybe six inches.
>> You know, I can drag a lot of hose around for $9,600.
One word: xeriscape.
>> You know, I can drag a lot of hose around for $9,600.
One word: xeriscape.
Not in my neighborhood. Our POA is vigilant and keeps pretending that our neighborhood is a prairie grassland, not a swamp. We are just undergoing through a temporary lack of rain.
Oh, my sweet Summer child, your faith in politicians is so cute!
(Unless you were being sarcastic, in which case, I agree.)
I know, I know. I am hoping that the forthcoming world famine clears out the cesspits in Texas known as Austin, Dallas, and Houston.
I have been talking to the wife about fifty miles further away from Houston to El Campo. She says no and heck no.
We do live six cities away from Houston but they have all been infected.
The logrotate utility is your friend, but I haven’t touched that config since the tolling company job.
NTFS is still a second class citizen file system on Linux.
I managed to import and run Linux Mint 19 as a Docker image under Windows 10 last year as part of my learning Docker, but I haven’t returned to that experiment since work got busy after Christmas.
Sumdood sent an e-mail. Plaintext, no images. Says he’s hacked all of my computers and phones and has my browsing history and access to my e-mail and social stuff like Facebook. And he has video of me “pleasuring myself” while surfing smut sites. I’m to send $1450 via bitcoin within 48 hours or the videos will be released to the public and sent to all of my e-mail contacts.
I like the part where he says “if you don’t know how to use bitcoin, it’s time to learn”. ◔_◔
Go for it man. Post that stuff on Tictok or where ever. Send a copy of the videos to me, too. I’m interested to see what you have.
I have not had a camera since we went to XP from Win98Se and WinMe. Because Logitech in their infinite wisdom didn’t make XP drivers for a two year old product.
I suppose folks fall for this. I don’t know why unless MPAI is true.
When Texas goes Blue, it will happen fast.
But the Valley just turned Red !
>> The hard part is digging the ditches but you don’t have to dig deep, maybe six inches.
You can probably rent a walk-behind trencher for around $400 for the day. Then you just need someone who’s handy with construction equipment to run it…hmm…
I wonder about that. Except for measles and smallpox, how many of those vaccines actually save a significant number of lives? And we don’t do smallpox vaccines any more. Let’s look at big unvaccinated populations like the (actual) Amish. Oh, right. Can’t do actual research that’s counter ot the narrative.
And apparently no vaccines, none of them, are actually safety tested like you’d expect a drug to be tested. They’re exempt. That’s how the mRNA “vaccine” got approval; it’s treated just as if it used the same technology as all the other vaccines. Except, of course, it doesn’t.
Tetanus. Encephalitis. Diphtheria. Cholera. Smallpox. Polio. Measles. Mumps. Chicken Pox. Typhoid. Flu.
In a civilization down situation, the next generation will grow up without being inoculated for all these very dangerous diseases.
My former USMC son had to take 38 innoculations to go to war in Iraq in 2006. 38 ! Including an experimental flu vaccine for all seven ??? varieties of the flu that made everyone sick for a week. The three million people a year moving to the USA right now, none of them have been inoculated for anything ! They carry all sorts of horrible diseases.
MrsAtoz is having some minor surgery tomorrow, here in Vegas. On her lady-bits, but they are going to use “Milk of Amnesia” for the procedure. She is worried because her mother passed while under anesthesia for surgery. It is minor surgery, but anytime you go under is serious. Her doctor is supposed to let us know today if she will be in shape to travel to SA on Sunday. We may have to extend our stay in Vegas. She has gigs in Austin and Houston in two weeks, which are paying well, so doesn’t want to miss them.
I prayed for her.
Yeah, been there done that. The wife had emergency surgery when she was 21, woke up five days later very confused. Some tough things happened that day.
And apparently no vaccines, none of them, are actually safety tested like you’d expect a drug to be tested. They’re exempt. That’s how the mRNA “vaccine” got approval; it’s treated just as if it used the same technology as all the other vaccines. Except, of course, it doesn’t.
The first polio vaccine actually caused Polio in 1 out 100 ? 1,000 ? vaccinees. DadCooks was one of those. The second Polio vaccine five years later was much better.
BTW, all military that has left the USA has taken the Smallpox vaccine. My former USMC son took it before his second trip to Iraq in 2007.
re: lawn sprinklers
If you don’t have a frost line to worry about, sprinklers are pretty easy and cheap (agreeing with paul). Around these here parts, everything is stocked at Lowe’s and Home Depot. If you have a narrow spade (4″ trench digger) and not too many rocks or roots, it is a pretty straightforward job. Even my, um, less-blessed neighbors can manage to maintain their systems.
Note that there is maintenance involved because eventually a concrete truck driver will remove the reflectors in the edge of the yard that indicate nobody should park there and will then proceed to park on your recessed heads. (When I put in the new heads, I also made the reflectors impossible to remove without tools.) The heads also can get clogged if there is too much gunk in the water. I have a filter where the pump pulls water that usually clogs first.
I am still trying to figure out why the electronic valves are generally buried in boxes rather than being mounted to a manifold where everything would be accessible. It doesn’t seem to be a thermal issue, so I think it just may be due to the relatively minor cost savings of running a single hard PVC line with taps for each zone (think 10baseT vs. 10base2). My use case may be slightly unusual, as I have a separate pump for untreated water used for irrigation.
BTW – if you are digging trenches and like really useful tools: https://www.easydigging.com/trenching-tools/bottom-digger.html
Thank you, sir.
Here is the quote for the sprinkler system, half parts, half labor:
Irrigation installation – 12 zone system fully automated
Hunter Pro-C Indoor Automatic Controller – 12 station 1 302.40 302.40T
Febco 765 PVB Backflow Device – 1″ with pipe insulation 1 235.00 235.00T
1″ Isolation Valve with 6″ Valve Box 1 34.00 34.00T
Hunter PGV Electric Valve – 1″ 12 22.00 264.00T
Valve Box – 6″ 12 7.95 95.40T
Irrigation Wire – Common (white) and Valve (red) 3,500 0.35 1,225.00T
Class 200 PVC Pipe – 1″ 800 feet 0.62 496.00T
Class 200 PVC Pipe – 3/4″ 800 feet 0.51 408.00T
Miscellaneous Fittings 750.00 750.00T
Glue/Primer 120.00 120.00T
Hunter Pro Spray 4″ with nozzle 40 3.85 154.00T
Hunter PGP Rotor 50 14.90 745.00T
Irrigation Labor 4,500.00 4,500.00
Subtotal: 9,328.80
TAX (6.25%) 301.80
TOTAL $9,630.60
That is a lot of pipe. And I want to run it through the garage so I can put a filtration system in since we have 500 ppm iron in our water that is killing my appliances. It is 300 feet from my water meter to the garage.
>> The hard part is digging the ditches but you don’t have to dig deep, maybe six inches.
You can probably rent a walk-behind trencher for around $400 for the day. Then you just need someone who’s handy with construction equipment to run it…hmm…
No. I paid around $3,000 to have a 220 foot natural gas line put in the yard from the side of the house to behind the garage for the whole house generator. I do not exactly remember where that line is. It is a three layer pipe though but not as a tough as a trencher.
@Lynn
Concur that installing sprinklers is medium DIY.
“The Harrows of Spring: A World Made by Hand” by James Howard Kunstler
https://www.amazon.com/Harrows-Spring-World-Made-Novel/dp/0802126812?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number four of a four book apocalyptic fantasy series. I read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Grove Press in 2017 that I bought new on Amazon. I am hoping for more books in the series but doubt it.
In this alternate reality, oil well fracking was not invented and the world started running out of crude oil in 2008. Then somebody popped off a large nuclear bomb in Los Angeles and somebody popped off a larger nuclear bomb in Washington DC. And the world slowed down and the USA moved back to the 1800s over the next several decades. We were back to the times that the flu, encephalitis, and tetanus killed significant portions of the population. This series is set roughly in 2030 or 2040. The books are page turners with short three to five page chapters.
The town of Union Grove, New York has decayed significantly over time. No cars, either buy/rent a horse or walk where you are going. No electricity and the farms are worked by hand now with horses and mules. The population is maybe 20% of what it was at the turn of the century so there are houses standing empty all over town. All of the older people remember cars, airplanes, antibiotics, and air conditioning but the young people don’t.
It is spring now and things are doing better but the food is short until the spring planting come in. If you want to eat, you must work. Robert Earle’s son Daniel is going to revive the town newspaper but has to get the newsprint first, he made his own ink. And bunch of hustlers has hit the county looking for silver and gold coins.
The author has an active website at
https://kunstler.com/
Warning, the author’s website is fairly crude.
My rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (517 reviews)
@Lynn:
$1200 for wire, 12 zones, 50 rotors, and 40 little heads doesn’t seem like a “keep my yard green” setup, but more of a “These kinds of plants need this much water, but these over here need less.” kind of system.
If you would get adequate coverage with six normal yard sprinklers, that sounds like overkill to me, but I don’t know your property. If your water pressure is low, or if there is a flow issue, that could also explain it.
Interestingly, I am contemplating scrapping my existing 3-zone system for something like the above, so that I can specifically manage the water to different kinds of plants in my yard. 🙂
I have a two zone system. Front yard and Back yard.
Basic routine is: go in the pumphouse, crack an anti-siphon valve open to fill/pressurize the lines and then crank it wide open.
Mind the pressure gauge on the well. The pump cycles on at 30 psi and off at 50. Fill the pipes, burp out the air, a couple of sprinklers might pop up and spray about 6 feet, it’s cool, the dogs have something different to investigate. When the pump turns on, shut the valve, to a dribble. Call the dogs. When the pressure gauge is about 47, just before the pump will turn off, crank the valve wide open. Pump is pumping at max pressure and the sprinklers work great.
Works for me. With my water system.
I think the “bury the solenoid valves in a box” thing is just make pretty. Just a guess.
Neato. Seems stupid expensive. But it you are doing this for a living it’s not bad.
My truck has been showing 108 F for the last five miles. Are you kidding me ?
Crankshaft: Asking Permission
https://www.gocomics.com/crankshaft/2023/07/13
I used to ride my bike down to the Pik-n-Pak back when I was 10 years old (1970) to buy a carton of cigarettes for my grandfather for $1.90. He would give me $2.00, I would scrounge up another 15 cents and buy a Spiderman or a Iron Man comic book.
“Texas judge who doesn’t want to perform gay marriage ceremonies hopes web designer’s Supreme Court case helps her fight”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-judge-fights-right-refuse-marry-gay-18199740.php
“McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley filed a lawsuit after a state agency warned her about refusing to marry gay couples. She hopes a recent U.S. Supreme Court case about religious freedom helps her cause.”
I am with her.
It is just a matter of time before tolled express lanes extending down I-10 and 71 meet and turn everything in between Austin and Houston into a continuous swath of development.
The express lanes under construction already extend 10 miles west of Katy on I-10.
It is just a matter of time before tolled express lanes extending down I-10 and 71 meet and turn everything in between Austin and Houston into a continuous swath of development.
The express lanes under construction already extend 10 miles west of Katy on I-10.
El Campo is on I-69 (TX-59), about 40 miles south of I-10.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/El+Campo,+TX+77437/@29.2376565,-96.4577401,9.33z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x864183727af44c4d:0x1f9ad1f67d859bf1!8m2!3d29.1966405!4d-96.2696867!16zL20vMDEwYnM4?entry=ttu
Lynn: He’s padding that quote a lot.
800 feet of 1″ pipe and 800 feet of ¾” pipe – should be able to use ½” for most of it.
$120 for glue – ridiculous – $20 not more that $40.
750 misc. fittings. The quote has 160 pipes, 12 valves, 40 of one style of nozzle and 50 rotors for 252 end items. Almost three times as many “misc fittings” as end items. Probably over stated by 25-33%.
3500 feet of wire. The job only has 1600 feet of pipe and I’ll bet none of those valves are more that 300 feet for the control box.
Get another quote.
@Lynn
https://www.lrnelson.com/products/sprinklers/traveling-sprinklers/rain-train-cast-iron/
@Lynn
https://www.lrnelson.com/products/sprinklers/traveling-sprinklers/rain-train-cast-iron/
Thanks ! I was thinking about that.
My grandparents used to have a traveling metal sprinkler like that for their 2 acre lot in College Station. I would need three of them at $84 each. And more water hoses.
https://www.amazon.com/Nelson-Traveling-Sprinkler-Tractor-ShutOff/dp/B01LWI55XU?tag=ttgnet-20/
@Lynn
Don’t know why this is cheaper–looks the same:
https://www.amazon.com/Nelson-Traveling-Sprinkler-RainTrain-818653-1001/dp/B00002N6AN/ref=sr_1_4?tag=ttgnet-20
ADDED: Website shows two models, the original 1865 cast iron and another that is partly plastic. They use the same replacement parts. I have the original. Yes, hose has to lie flat. If the grass is long lay the hose out, make a pass adjacent with the mower, and move the hose to the middle of the cut swath. High speed does not lay down enough water. $30 timer is a cheap backup to make sure it shuts off.
I am not. Do the job the state pays you to do. If you don’t like it, get a different job.
Don’t know why this is cheaper–looks the same:
https://www.amazon.com/Nelson-Traveling-Sprinkler-RainTrain-818653-1001/dp/B00002N6AN/ref=sr_1_4?tag=ttgnet-20
It is used.
BTW, I am fairly sure that SCOTUS is going to kill the mandate for gay marriage in the fall.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/24/thomas-constitutional-rights-00042256
Gay civil unions aren’t going anywhere, but legally sanctioned “bridezilla” antics are going to get squashed.
Kavanaugh already telegraphed his position in the linked article.
Changing an employment contract in an established position is somewhat problematical. In my case, they unilaterally made my employment dependent on participating in an investigational medical treatment.
You could say that the job she was hired to do consisted partly of marrying hetero couples, and the job was changed without her consent. And not even by the legislature; by a judge somewhere. Using made-up law.
Strange that these things are somehow included in the shadow of the penumbra, but things that most people would consider private, such as phone calls, emails, financial records, and a host of other things, are mysteriously absent.
I’ve read the U.S. Constitution, and didn’t see “right to privacy”. Perhaps it was an omission by our founders as something so basic–there’s no “right to oxygen” in there, either–that they could not conceive of a federal government so perverted by zealots drunk with power that they would claim to be able to routinely gather all information available and hold it to persecute citizens whenever they chose.
So let’s draft a simple amendment and make privacy a right.
Gropey Joe doesn’t have the high ground on privacy issues. His female descendants were denied their right to privacy in the shower.
Sean Hannity stated on the radio today that he is fairly sure the cocaine is not Hunter Bidens. He further stated that there was a female guest to the White House who is also a coke head. A previous shower gropee ?
I was thinking that comic books were 25 cents in 1970, I was wrong. According to this website, Marvels were 15 cents in 1970 and 1971.
https://www.comichron.com/vitalstatistics/mediancoverprices.html
I’ve read the U.S. Constitution, and didn’t see “right to privacy”. Perhaps it was an omission by our founders as something so basic–there’s no “right to oxygen” in there, either–that they could not conceive of a federal government so perverted by zealots drunk with power that they would claim to be able to routinely gather all information available and hold it to persecute citizens whenever they chose.
So let’s draft a simple amendment and make privacy a right.
I am good with that. In fact, I have always thought that the Fourth Amendment did guarantee us a right to privacy.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-4/
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
I guess that I do not understand what the word “unreasonable” means.
“Texas power use breaks record for second day in heat wave”
https://news.yahoo.com/texas-power-breaks-record-second-233143615.html
“After setting 11 peak demand records last summer, ERCOT said usage hit a preliminary 81,406 megawatts (MW) on Thursday, topping the record hit one day earlier, of 81,351 MW.”
Like I said before, once you get to a certain outside temperature, the air conditioning units are running all the time. They just cannot use any more power as the temperature increases. Unless, you have an oversized air conditioning unit.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
@Lynn
It could easily be interpreted that way, but the current problem is that it’s often not the government that is the “first collector” of information. It’s the banks, credit card companies, merchants, internet providers and others that have monetized the information that they collect from us, and who have shown that they will turn belly up and provide that information to the government without any conditions or oversight.
[Not so long ago the Dems got their panties in a twist when a U.S. citizen made an international call to a foreign citizen in another country and the government listened in. Now they want cameras and microphones stuck up everyone’s backsides, unless you’re the right kind of people.]
Simple fix is to constitutionally prohibit transmitting that information outside the business unit that collects it, selling it, or retaining it beyond a limited time. For instance, if someone applies for a loan and supplies personal information the result is approval or not, and the information should be wiped when that decision is final. And we need corresponding laws to make not just big but huge, bankrupting penalties attend data breaches.
Then there’s the recent idea that in the course of your ordinary daily pursuits your presence in public makes you subject to data collection and retention ad infinitum. If we can have stalking laws that prohibit following individuals, then we can have laws that prohibit doing the same thing en masse.
Note two things in the news this week:
Wray testified before congress and gave non-answers to questions about the Bank of America supplying information on guns purchased with credit cards.
Not as noticeable, the SAG went on strike, and one of the issues was the claim by studios that they could engage an actor for one day and then have rights to digital use of their image forever.
Wray testified before congress and gave non-answers to questions about the Bank of America supplying information on guns purchased with credit cards.
I will never purchase another gun or ammo with a credit card. I made that decision a couple of years ago.
BTW, did you see Wray ask the House for a few billion dollars for a new headquarters building in the new DHS office park ? They basically told him to pound sand. Right now, I would not be surprised to see the House defund the FBI at the next opportunity.
“The federal deficit nearly tripled, raising concern about the country’s finances”
https://www.kpbs.org/news/news/politics/2023/07/13/the-federal-deficit-nearly-tripled-raising-concern-about-the-countrys-finances
“The federal government’s deficit nearly tripled in the first nine months of the fiscal year, a surge that’s bound to raise concerns about the country’s rising debt levels.”
“The Treasury Department said Thursday that the budget gap from October through June was nearly $1.4 trillion — a 170% increase from the same period a year earlier. The federal government operates under a fiscal year that begins October 1.”
Hang on, rough seas coming soon !
Not as noticeable, the SAG went on strike, and one of the issues was the claim by studios that they could engage an actor for one day and then have rights to digital use of their image forever.
Disney put a digital version of Carrie Fisher into one of the last Star Wars movies. But, it supposedly got permission from her daughter to do so.
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Nah, real men use power tools…
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>> “The Treasury Department said Thursday that the budget gap from October through June was nearly $1.4 trillion — a 170% increase from the same period a year earlier. The federal government operates under a fiscal year that begins October 1.”
The ‘average Joe’ has no idea what these numbers mean him, which is sad.
>> I was thinking that comic books were 25 cents in 1970, I was wrong. According to this website, Marvels were 15 cents in 1970 and 1971.
@lynn, let me guess, your mother threw out all your comic books when you moved out?