Pushing on in the HEAT. Lots of heat and humidity. Well into the 100s every day. I have to say it’s starting to get a bit old. But you do what you have to to get by.
Spent yesterday in the jury selection process, but got rejected this time. Details in yesterday’s comments. Didn’t feel great but didn’t blow my nose or cough the whole time, so I am better.
Not completely better. Still a bit shaky and a little bit “off”. I’ve got some pickups to do today, and more ‘getting ready for my regional get together’, as well as ‘getting stuff stacked for the auctioneer’. That’s what I’ll work on today.
Wife and kids want to go to the BOL this weekend, but I’m not feeling it. They might go without me. Given that I was there without them last weekend, there is a kind of symmetry to it.
In any case, I’ll be working here or there to improve my situation… and stacks. I’ll be stacking as soon as I can get to the store…
nick
That’s a wonderful question. No “journalist” will ever ask it, and the follow-up questions. Like: What, exactly, are the illnesses treated there? How have they changed over the years? Why are children getting sick and diseased, when “miracle” vaccines are available to protect them at a greater rate than ever before? Why is child obesity at an all-time high? Why is pediatric cancer so high? What is the actual cure rate for any of the diseases at these hospitals? What proportion of physiological treatments are in place for what are actually mental illness issues, like “gender affirmation”?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/08/trump_can_prove_it.html
A pretty good summary of the shenanigans.
The next time someone repeats the lie that all of the election fraud cases have failed in court, point them here:
Jimmy Carter ran around the world for years examining the elections of other countries and finding fraud using the same arguments.
Starting my day. Coffee wasn’t enough today.
I’m hoping to nap some more. 6 hrs sleep isn’t enough when you are trying to recover from illness.
n
Sleep is important. Night-before-last, we had a power failure, which sets the UPS beeping. Then the cat knocked a glass off a table, followed by three very loud encounters with a New cat in the neighborhood. Yesterday, we were both pretty worthless.
Slept well last night, but one night definitely wasn’t enough…
And speaking of jury duty…
I just got a letter in the mail from the district court to get preselected for federal jury duty. Not that I have been chosen, I need to fill out a questionnaire about myself.
Timing is so impeccable I’d think one of you slobs tattled on me.
I wonder if federal court is tedious as local courts for jury duty. I think, if chosen, that I will do the duty.
Cleaning crew is here. That put an end to my nap. I did get most of an hour more, which does help. The problem with feeling better is the desire/need to catch up on the stuff you didn’t do when you were feeling ill, and not yet being over the illness.
No idea what it was but D1 had the same symptoms. Sore throat, some minor coughing, sneezing, runny nose, slight fever. Cold symptoms in other words.
n
@Ray Thompson
“I just got a letter in the mail from the district court to get preselected for federal jury duty. N”
Tell them Trump is innocent and Biden and Garland should be in jail.
Before the trial or after the trial?
There was an exemption on the questionnaire for being over 70. I am 72 and could have taken the exemption. But I thought, why not get on a federal jury, where the big crimes are hashed out. Might be very interesting. Or a very poor decision.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12417691/Officials-discuss-video-evidence-Fargo-shooting-ambush.html
Cop shot the guy 30+ times and he was still moving.
Had a car full of splodey stuff and seems like he planned to attack a parade.
And sure enough, religion of p!ss.
n
Neighbors all shocked! “No one would have expected that of him!” “Islam means peace!” “He was driven to it by white supremacy and American war crimes!”
If I’m right and you’re suffering from excessteenagegirlitis, that’s bad news for your daughter because it suggests that she’s allergic to herself.
At least the scumbag murderer chickened out at the last minute and attacked cops instead of the parade. Maybe had second thoughts after being ordered to martyr himself?
n
Which Biden or all three?
>> Interesting read
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/16/the-real-cause-of-the-maui-wildfire-disaster/
“…..key reason for the Maui disaster, one not discussed by the media and others: a high amplitude atmospheric wave forced by strong winds interacting with the mountains of northwest Maui. “
“Real cause” ATM seems to be sparks from downed power lines…begs the question, what would have been different if they had all buried lines?
Absent any ignition source, the situation may have been primarily wind damage?
I see too that the emergency services director has resigned, in part due to the questioning of his qualifications.
And people are still talking about the in-place emergency sirens that weren’t sounded, regardless of reporting that the sirens are specific to tsunamis and sounding them could have led people towards the flames.
Question for the FLASHLIGHT gurus. A number of the survivors were saying the smoke was so thick it was near impossible to see more than a couple of feet in any direction. Must be accounted for by professional wildfire firefighters, so how powerful a flashlight would be needed in this type of situation?
And curious, can you survive a similar wildfire by being in your in-ground pool?
Ok, Wells Fargo is on my &%&^**@ list. They stopped taking my monthly commercial mortgage payment out of my checking account this month. This is for my office building and complex.
I had to drive ten miles and back to the nearest non-grocery store Wells Fargo branch and make my mortgage payment with my Wells Fargo checking account. Stupid on a stick. I am afraid that I was not a nice customer.
For some reason, Wells Fargo wants me to create a DBA (doing business as) and transfer my checking account over to it. Then they will resume debiting my checking account for my monthly commercial mortgage payment. Stupid on a stick again. I am not going to do it. Creating a DBA causes problems down the road, especially with the IRS and taxing authorities.
My father says that the banking system is getting ready to go through some serious turmoil. He is advising me to take money out of long term savings (tax infested IRAs) and pay off my two mortgages. I am not there yet but am thinking about paying off the commercial mortgage and getting that $3,300/month payment off my neck.
“EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Preparing to Bring Back FULL Covid Restrictions, Rollout to Begin Mid-September”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/exclusive-biden-admin-preparing-to-bring-back-full-covid-restrictions-rollout-to-begin-mid-september/
“Whistleblowers from the TSA and Border Patrol have raised the alarm to Infowars that the Biden administration is setting the stage for full Covid lockdowns that will begin with incremental restrictions like masking TSA employees in mid-September.”
“The first source, a high-level TSA official confirmed and known to Infowars, reached out to Infowars and cited a Tuesday meeting in which TSA managers were told new memorandums & policies were being completed that would reimplement masking, starting with TSA & airport employees as early as mid-September.”
“The TSA official also said next week they will receive new guidelines on how the policy will escalate: by mid-October, mask-wearing will be required by pilots, flight staff, passengers, and airport patrons.”
No freaking way. Even Biden is not that stupid. Or is he ? He has got to get the attention off Hunter so he can work his magic pen.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Alan: Southern California has similar air currents; downdrafts that heat up as the air flows down the mountains. They’re called “Santa Ana” winds, and it seems likely that the Maui winds were similar.
Can you survive in a swimming pool? Similar firestorms occurred in the Santa Rosa CA fires six or seven years ago, and people survived them in their pools – even though their cell phones on the edges of the pool were melted.
And several of the CA wildfires were caused by fallen power lines, to the point now that Pacific Gas & Electric will kill power for vast areas of the rural state when the winds get frisky. Specifically, the Paradise, CA fires were observed to be caused by down power lines, much as the Maui fires were observed to be caused by fallen power lines.
I’m not a fan of Wells Fargo. I like their logo with the stage coach and that’s it.
Several years ago the next door neighbor wanted something.. I forget what. It was $20 on eBay so I ordered it and she wrote me a check.
She banks at that very branch of Wells Fargo. Simple? Oh no. They wanted, besides my d/l as expected, prints from all ten fingers. I said something like “are you fu**ing serious?” and she said “you can’t talk like that!”. She called her Boss or whatever over and he was the same. I took the check back and gave them both middle fingers and walked out. Didn’t get loud or slam the door on my way out.
Cashed the check at the HEB.
This was before Smartypants Phones were much of a thing. Now I use my bank’s app and take a picture of each side to deposit a check.
They are really trying to destroy aviation, aren’t they? More than they have already. If the pilots and flight staff say No, what’s the TSA going to do?
Even The Gecko bailed on Wells Fargo.
We have been in credit unions for personal accounts since escaping Vantucky. I spent four years suspecting that US Bank was sneaking our balances out to my wife’s employer in WA State, and, even after submitting the 60 day notice, the clinic management was so confident that we lacked the money to cover the tail malpractice insurance that they didn’t start preparing her exit paperwork and partnership dissolution agreement until we handed them the check … written on my personal account at another institution.
Well, sooprise!
Credit unions and separate banks for direct deposit.
You have IRAs at Wells Fargo? Yikes!
Vin Suprynowicz, former editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, used to call that bank “Wells Fraudo”.
Apparently https://www.dilbert.com is litigation. Sounds like one of Scott Adams former business partners thinks that they own it now.
Be careful who you do business with and the contracts that you sign with them.
Do you have a timeframe? I’m sitting on a large lump of cash I’m going to use as a down payment on a rural property, when I find one.
re: Wells Fargo
I had the misfortune to have a car loan with them. Their customer prevention department that runs their website screwed up my account so bad, and made it so hard to fix it, that I ran down to the local branch and asked them a couple questions. 1) What do I owe on this loan? and 2) how do I make it go away so I never have to deal with Wells Fargo ever again? Those were my exact words.
When I had my answers, I got a certified check that day, and delivered it.
The VA would be ordered to mask up first since they are more beholden to Corn Pop than the airline system outside of the TSA.
My wife would be p*ssed off. It hasn’t happened yet.
You have IRAs at Wells Fargo? Yikes!
Nope. My IRAs are at Fidelity and another place in Alabama.
The VA would be ordered to mask up first since they are more beholden to Corn Pop than the airline system outside of the TSA.
My wife would be p*ssed off. It hasn’t happened yet.
Like I said, no freaking way. Did you note the website that the article is on ?
https://www.infowars.com/posts/exclusive-biden-admin-preparing-to-bring-back-full-covid-restrictions-rollout-to-begin-mid-september/
Alex Jones will cry fire in a crowded theater if it suits his purpose.
Fill out this form under penalty of law. Just like the Census.
Perfect opportunity for the airlines to say FU. Our goobermint is crazy. If this happens, I wonder if TX and FL can throw a monkey wrench in the works. Maybe charge $1,000 per passenger to land in the State. If the airlines don’t comply, crater the runways with the Guard.
“Chess Bans Trans”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/chess-bans-trans/
“The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has has become the latest governing body to completely ban trans-identifying biological men from competing in women’s competitions.
“FIDE introduced new guidelines that state “In the event that the gender was changed from a male to a female the player has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women until further FIDE’s decision is made.”
Whoa. Some common sense is happening out there.
“Harris County Sheriff’s deputies demolish house during standoff with suspect”
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/harris-county-police-demolish-house-18303588.php
“Police used a bulldozer-like machine to tear through a house where a man suspected of shooting a sheriff’s deputy had barricaded himself.”
But it was an Amish guy !
Be careful who you rent your house to. Harris County is not going to pay and your insurance company is not going to pay. That leaves you.
“Discovery in Mathematics! Trajectoids”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ok0m__oCSfs
Ok, that is cool !
>> I just got a letter in the mail from the district court to get preselected for federal jury duty. Not that I have been chosen, I need to fill out a questionnaire about myself.
Tell them their form doesn’t support your pronouns: Quisp and Quake.,
>> No idea what it was but D1 had the same symptoms. Sore throat, some minor coughing, sneezing, runny nose, slight fever. Cold symptoms in other words.
RSV?
>> Do you have a timeframe? I’m sitting on a large lump of cash I’m going to use as a down payment on a rural property, when I find one.
Hopefully you have it in a high-rate online savings account?
I recently jumped over to BMO / Alto paying 4.75% FDIC insured.
Credit union money market. Fairly good rate, insured by NCUA.
I expected to have spent it before now, but shopping is taking longer.
Do you have a timeframe? I’m sitting on a large lump of cash I’m going to use as a down payment on a rural property, when I find one.
No. He is getting a very bad feeling though. The amount of bad commercial property loans out there is unreal. It may be as high as 50% of all commercial loans are bad.
The question is, is it going to be as bad as 2008 ? Or worse ? The banks are totally in control of what is going to happen and they are delaying as long as possible. Many of the owners will go running to federal bankruptcy court when their loans are called.
I currently have 90% equity in my commercial property so I am having trouble seeing a problem here.
“Haggling With Hackers: Surprising Lessons From 50 Negotiations With Ransomware Gangs”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/haggling-with-hackers-surprising-lessons-from-50-negotiations-with-ransomware
“Ransomware negotiations are usually shrouded in secrecy, but some security experts think that we should make them public and analyze them to glean insights. So that’s exactly what we did.”
You have got to be kidding me.
Looks like ERCOT set a new alltime peak today, 84,925 MW. That is 6.1% over the previous year’s peak of 80,000 MW. There was almost 20,000 MW of wind and solar power.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
This quantish ‘tuber has been becoming more and more strident that the meltdown of the Chinese property ponzi and other factors is the kickoff for a new Financial Crisis of mammoth proportions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90RFup7Q8pw
He isn’t alone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fp1Es31uVw
I’ve watched these guys for awhile. They usually point to unhappy developments but without predicting an imminent blow off.
And Michael Burry of “The Big Short” movie has just made a $1.6 billion bet:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/michael-burry-stock-market-crash-b2395180.html
You and your tennants aren’t dealing with the Work From Home mafia.
If life imitates “Star Trek” art, we are living “Patterns of Force” crossed with “A Piece of The Action”.
The new compromise at work is that anyone who wants a real, assigned cube has to be in the office three days a week. The building still lacks adequate parking, however, with about half of the lots sold off to a co-location landlord.
Spring 2026.
In addition to letting the ISDs continue their nonsense spending, the property tax ‘reform” in Texas kicks the can down the road, with the rate compression hiding a lot of fiscal sins from the voters until after the primaries that Spring, when the trim notices go out.
The good news? The heat wave will be broken in Austin by Monday, with temps “only” in the upper 90s.
The bad news? The tropics are getting interesting with the Gulf temps pushing 90.
https://spaghettimodels.com/
In addition to letting the ISDs continue their nonsense spending, the property tax ‘reform” in Texas kicks the can down the road, with the rate compression hiding a lot of fiscal sins from the voters until after the primaries that Spring, when the trim notices go out.
Public schools in Texas are total disaster. Almost all of them are overwhelmed by illegal immigrants. And then most of the illegal immigrants have been placed in special education. Most of them have never been to school a day in their life. It is a freaking mess and causing the school expenses to skyrocket.
cue Munz voice… Ha ha!
Picked up a stack of vintage electronics for resale and right in the middle was a Krell KAV 300r amp. I didn’t even know it was in the pile.
There was another lot with Vintage Polk Audio SDA SRS 1.2 Signature Reference speakers, so I knew there could be a good amp in there somewhere. I didn’t have the capital to keep bidding, but the speakers sold for $700, which was a STEAL. I’m not sure the Krell was paired with the SDAs, and the turntable was middle of the road, but if everything lights up and keeps the angry pixies inside, I’ll be happy.
I’ve got some testing and then some ebay listing to do. I’ve got enough expensive stuff to sell I can justify re-opening my store.
In my free time.
n
@CowboyStu
Every worthless one of them that has been on the gravy train.
I was gonna post the headline as an example of peak safety nazzzi, until I read the part about how many people hurt their kids doing it. FFS people…
Don’t throw your kids in the air if you’ve got a ceiling fan, doctors say
n
“Tommy Boy” is the more appropriate reference to quote and/or paraphrase.
Melted chocolate inside the
dashfrunk. That really ups the resale value.-or-
Truth is, I make
car partsEV trucks for the American working man because I’m a hell of a salesman and he doesn’t know any better.Of course, the last one could apply equally well to Tony.
The problem where I live is that there is one set of elementary, middle, and high schools in this ISD which every Indian parent wants to get their kids into even though they build big houses in Leander or Georgetown, which have cr*ppy schools.
My daughter had to take our utility bills to school on the first day of classes, and the bills needed to show her last name.
I’ve flogged the dead equine that is the “T-bone and bull’s a**” line. That movie has so many more which apply to the Farley cousin running Ford.
“Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?”
@Nick
“I’ve got enough expensive stuff to sell I can justify re-opening my store.”
If it’s been a while, check the terms carefully. You can do quite a bit without opening a store.
I wish I’d kept better records from 25 years ago. I’d estimate eBay fees have gone up 300%.
My daughter had to take our utility bills to school on the first day of classes, and the bills needed to show her last name.
– there are lots of kids attending one of the best schools in the HISD system, located in the heart of the Historic Houston Heights, who walk out the front door, around the corner, and get in a vehicle to be taken to wherever they actually live. I’m pretty sure they don’t live in the local neighborhood. HISD doesn’t take residency seriously because for most of their schools no one would go there unless they were zoned to it.
Our district supposedly checks, but you can transfer and change schools pretty easily anyway so it’s less of an issue. They do a lottery/quota/magic 8 ball system for most of the special programs and desireable schools.
n
What a freaking disaster ! And that truck was $85k, not $50K.
So, if you want to take a trip, get a trailer and put a 50 kW generator on it with a 50 gallon tank.
“It All Makes Sense Now: Joe Biden’s Crooked Business Pseudonym Was “Robert L. Peters” – And Hunter Used “Pedo Peter” Name for His Father on His Phone”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/it-all-makes-sense-now-joe-bidens-crooked/
Hunter had “Pedo Peter” in his cell phone for his dad ?
Need security, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWDHKjMAbVk
Need security, too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWDHKjMAbVk
Somebody give that girl a sandwich !
Lip syncing too !
Dick One was already in use.
That’s an old story that got some play here when it first hit.
Audio on that show is ,,, variable. Slow Motion is the best live track.
Robert Palmer is lip synch.
The F150 Lightning owners manual repeatedly cautions owners that using “fast” chargers, as Farley did, will shorten the life of the battery.
I need to run “Tommy Boy” again. I’m out of quotes for the night.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/08/18/what-does-san-francisco-do-when-buildings-arent-worth-the-real-estate-taxes-owners-are-paying-n572167
Dream on, like it has nothing to do with SanFran racing to the bottom of the blue urban shiitehole race. They can’t keep the streets policed or clean of feces, needles and rats, and the property taxes haven’t gone into freefall yet.
If they remade “The Streets of San Francisco” now, Karl Malden would be a homeless drug addict and Michael Douglas would be a transvestite teacher fighting for the right to read gay porn to his students.
Lawsuits challenge DEI requirements at California Community Colleges
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/08/18/lawsuits-challenge-dei-requirements-at-california-community-colleges-n572175
Just have the student choose the grading scale:
A-DEI (the only grade on this scale)
A,B,C,D,F-Earned (the Merit Scale)
The niece? granddaughter? diarist has him taking naked showers with her… so yeah, with all the sniffing and weird remarks, and groping, it’s probably pretty obvious in the family.
n
San Francisco tax revenues will remain high until the leases on those high-rises expire. Once that starts happening, those businesses will cut floorspace or move out, and then the rent money won’t pay for the mortgages, and eventually, the property managers will give the properties back to the mortgage-holders (which has already started to happen) and whoever is stuck with the building will either default or get property tax reductions of half or more – and the city will go bankrupt. Next year, maybe, or the year after.
Ashley Biden, the diarist, is Beau’s daughter, Hunter’s niece, and Joe’s granddaughter. A sick family.
I find this guy fascinating. He’s an artist, working mostly with hand tools, and I love his aesthetic.
https://www.youtube.com/@urituchmanpigeon
n
“Hurricane Hilary Hits Category 4; First Tropical Storm Watch for California in History”
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/08/18/hurricane-hilary-hits-category-4-first-tropical-storm-watch-for-california-in-history/
California seems to be getting wild weather this year.