Slightly warmer forecast for today. Yesterday was another beautiful day. Clear and cool, with a breeze. Today should be mostly the same.
I did get a bunch of auction stuff done yesterday, and took a load to my auctioneer. He ran a report and printed me all my lots and sale prices for the last few weeks. I’ll be looking through those today and the rest of the week. I want to spot anything that sells well consistently that I might not realize. It’s always a crap shoot, sometimes one thing sells well, the next time it doesn’t. I’m trying to maximize return though, so I should look.
Today I’ve got a couple of pickups, household stuff mostly, that I didn’t do yesterday. And I need to hit Costco for candy, and the local grocery for milk and cream, and any meat that might be on sale. I’ve also got a follow up appointment with one of the specialist doctors, who will be reviewing the PET scan results with me. Hopefully I’ll get an all clear, at least until the colonoscopy.
It will be a busy day, when all that can’t even start happening until after 10am. But that’s life. I take it as it comes, and do what I can with it.
And I’m always stacking or thinking about stacking…
nick
Software from India? Or, indeed, anything IT-related from India?
My experiences have always been with companies looking to save bucks. They outsource, pay as little as possible, and get staff that follows the standard Asian model: do exactly what the boss says. Even if it’s wrong. Do not do anything extra. If the boss is not staring over your shoulder, giving you directions, turn off your brain and wait.
I am certain that you can find very good people in India, but not at knock-off prices. Good people will want a decent wage. In which case, the company would save a lot of hassle by just hiring locally.
I’ve probably told the tale of one of the big pharma companies here. I was working as a consultant, so I got to witness this without being involved. A new CIO came in, and decided to make his mark by outsourcing IT support. The call center only spoke heavily-accented English, whereas most of the personnel was German-speaking. Sure, they also spoke English, but as a second language, so communication was…difficult.
Worse, the CIO apparently outsourced *all* IT-support. There was no one left on-site to help with with physical issues: mouse not working, bad network cable, need a new monitor, etc.. But the CIO saved big bucks, and left the company with a fat bonus.
His replacement earned his bonus by bringing IT support back in-house.
The simplest answer is that CVS administers prescription plans for a lot of mid- to large-size companies so they have your family’s data even if you don’t buy the meds there. Check your wife’s healthcare plan.
Of course, if your kids didn’t get the Covid jab then they are part of the Control which must be eliminated as quickly as possible. Moderna has no other products besides mRNA based jabs, and the legal sharks are starting to circle Pfizer over the testing shortcuts dribbling out over time.
You’ll takes yer medicine and likes it just fine, Skippy.
Lots of commercial databases exist which establish family relationships and addresses.
Eliminate Control in the general population and a decade comes off the approval process for mRNA tech. Minimum. The last number I saw was Control at 20% in the US.
I’m still not jabbed. We’ll see who rusts first.
The Jesus Truck has a date. From the CIA’s media mouthpiece, Insider Inc., courtesy of Microsoft.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-says-we-dug-our-own-grave-with-the-cybertruck-as-he-warns-tesla-faces-enormous-production-challenges/ar-AA1ivgcR
Forget politics for a minute. Anyone on the right side of the bell curve can see the man isn’t well. What does that say about the state of government/news media when NOBODY says anything? Yes, it’s all one party. The Republic is long dead.
I’m still not jabbed. We’ll see who rusts first.
Alas, I got pseudo-vax’d for work. Our income comes from schools/government. I also wasn’t going to miss our Disney cruise.
We pay our consultants close to 7 figures each year. A lot of people would be hurting if we just said no vax.
Again, I wish I was in the control group. I’ve had two confirmed cases of Wu-Flu and I don’t think the pseudo-gene-splicing-mechano vax helped at all.
There were definitely some shortcuts taken with the Covid vaccinations. However, one shouldn’t underplay the severity of the virus itself. We’re close to Italy, where the situation was especially dramatic, and the news was filled with reports on the overwhelmed hospitals and funeral homes. Covid killed a lot of people. The vaccination had side-effects for a few people, possibly even caused a few deaths. However, it was massively safer than suffering the virus unvaccinated.
This chart is what it’s all about.
Many governments screwed up their communications. The US government apparently did an especially abominable job. Vaccinations, however, are a good thing overall.
Never compromise.
62F and warming. Clear for the next several days.
Bean broth consumed, as well as some chicken and pig parts.
Time to start my day.
n
The Covid jab is not a “vaccine” in the traditional sense.
re: This chart is what it’s all about
Some notes about that chart.
Notice how the bivalent booster is completely useless.
Notice how they only graph deaths FROM covid.
Notice how the peak was 35 deaths per 100,000 in the unvaccinated.
Now graph the following:
Excess deaths worldwide since the “vaccine” rollout.
Serious adverse reactions to the vaxx. Which I suspect are way in excess of 35 per 100,000.
Fun fact: If you get the shot, you still aren’t in the vaccinated group until 10 days or two weeks have passed. So if you die in that period, you’re counted as unvaccinated. Even if the shot killed your heart.
I caught Covid without the “protection” of the jab. I worked all week via remote.
My total healthcare outlay for that time period was a bottle of Afrin.
We’ll see who rusts first.
“Many governments screwed up their communications. The US government apparently did an especially abominable job. Vaccinations, however, are a good thing overall.”
Two data points:
cloth masks
natural immunity does not exist
The U.S. government did not just “screw up”. It pissed in our faces and insisted it was rain, and did everything they could to break anyone that objected.
Absolutely true. It is a vaccine by intent, but works very differently.
There is no doubt that the vaccine caused some deaths. There are plenty of studies that show that. However, the hospitals and funeral homes did not overflow. Whatever the number of deaths from the vaccine, it was a lot lower than from the disease.
People die from being trapped in burning cars by their seat belts. Not as often, but there you go. You pays your money and you takes your chances.
Yeah, Fauci & Co have a lot to answer for.
Wow, jet aircraft just flew over, low, fast.
Open ADS says he’s running dark, no callsign. And now he’s off the map.
Wish I’d gotten a look at him.
n
he came straight in from College Station, passed over my house, turned east, and vanished.
n
Communism is an economic system by intent, but works very differently.
Also, HPD has both “Fox” helos up and following someone in different parts of town.
Fort Bend Sheriff has their helo up too, orbiting in Sugar Land.
There are more helos in the air right now than I’ve ever noticed before.
It IS “The great shakeout” earthquake readiness test today, so maybe they are exercising, but why the orbits and following the freeways?
n
Texas Dept of Public Safety has THEIR helo up too!
n
One last observation about that chart.
Notice how there is substantially no difference, now, between unvaccinated and vaccinated.
Please show your work. I’m not sure you have any reliable statistics to back up that claim.
I’d say that’s a non sequitor, but instead I’ll just point out that vax mandates are the same as locking people into cars, and saying “oh, well” when some of them burn.
Sh!t, even the military has a chopper up over Seabrook.
Freaking air is full of choppers today. HPD doesn’t have the budget to fly the Fox helo unless it’s in active support of an investigation.
n
DPS and HPD just followed different people to within a few blocks of each other. The icons almost overlapped on the map.
Lot of activity today, interop channels are quiet though.
n
We had an incident like that yesterday, only it was flying low and very slow. Can’t have been much above a stall – I was half expecting to see it fall out of the air.
Not sure of the aircraft type, but something a bit unusual: dual engines just forward of the tail. Best guess, looking at the list of Swiss military aircraft, is a Dassault Falcon 900. I see that has three engines, but I was seeing the belly, so I only saw two of them.
And then, most definitely.
Can an anti-vaxxer tell me hospitals don’t have iron lungs nowadays and people no longer die of polio?
Pfizer more than doubles price of lifesaving Covid-19 medication Paxlovid as US transitions out of pandemic phase
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/18/health/pfizer-paxlovid-price/index.html
And the statement from Pfizer: ”The new price, the company said, “is based on the value it provides to patients, providers, and health care systems due to its important role in helping reduce Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths.””
How much is a life worth? Pfizer will soon reach that plateau. Rather than price what the drug costs to make, Pfizer is now pricing on how desperate people become. Drug companies are evil.
The tyrants, the extinction crew, the grifters, and their idiot water-carriers have done an excellent job of conflating (reasoned) resistance to the experimental clot shots and (generally ignorant) resistance to all vaccines.
And, unfortunately, the past several years are playing into the beliefs of those who believe that all vaccines are a scam and have always done more harm than good.
My mother and both of her brothers spent time in the hospital as children because of polio. One brother was crippled and had to wear a leg brace and special footwear his whole life. My mother was in an iron lung for a while but got better.
Old people around 1990 lost relatives to smallpox.
You know what we don’t see anymore? Polio wards in the hospital. Smallpox graveyards.
But vaccines don’t do anything. Right.
/ start rant
I’ve been very leery of commenting on the whole vax issue, but
“CowboyStu says:
19 October 2023 at 11:56
Can an anti-vaxxer tell me hospitals don’t have iron lungs nowadays and people no longer die of polio?”
just crystalized it for me in an expressible way: Iron lungs ARE NOT common today, Polio is NOT common place
anymore, the adverse reaction percentage is vanishingly small …. Why ? A VACCINE, that’s why !
Contrast this with Covid: 80 % ? of a population has had the jab, x % has had multiple boosters, the industry
seems to want to go the way of the annual Flu jab, the adverse reaction % attributed to the jab appears to be far higher
than anybody wants to admit, its still around …. does NOT seem like a VACCINE to me !
Call it medicine, a treatment, whatever – but NOT a VACCINE!
/rant over
Agreed. Regardless of effectiveness of the Covid shots, the definition of “vaccine” was tweaked to be watered down – removed immunity and added stimulate immune response. Big difference there.
Words of wisdom for Lynn: https://gab.com/Rusty_Shackelford_3000/posts/111262808500936457
Yeah, lying. Trump tho.
Everything has been about that for eight years.
“READ: Natalee Holloway killer’s chilling confession in full: Joran van der Sloot admits brutal murder”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12646301/Joran-van-der-Sloot-confession-natalee-holloway.html
“Van Der Sloot, 36, was sentenced to 20 years in Birmingham on Wednesday”
“He admitted to beating Natalee to death in Aruba in 2005”
“An FBI sting recorded the extortion attempt in which van der Sloot asked for $250,000 from Beth Holloway to reveal the location of her daughter’s remains”
“READ MORE: Natalee Holloway’s mom says ‘her case is now solved’ after van der Sloot ADMITS beating her to death and dumping her body in the Caribbean”
Unreal after all this time.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
“Israel says 30 Gaza hostages are children, IDF strikes in Lebanon”
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/2023-10-19/live-updates-769105
“Over 4,600 wounded, 1,400 killed • IDF: At least 203 captives in Gaza, over 100 considered missing”
“Death toll in Gaza hospital blast greatly exaggerated – independent intel”
“Local Hamas-run Gazan sources allege that 471 people were killed at the hospital; foreign independent intelligence sources claimed instead that the number was closer to 10-50.”
Hamas lies about everything.
That’s true and always has been true.
I used to think this way. I still want to believe in traditional vaccines, but I’m just not sure any more.
I think each vaccine needs to be evaluated with its own risk/benefit calculation, and to do that requires access to statistics we don’t have. Because doctors won’t admit any of the risks of vaccines. Covid has revealed that doctors can be fired for admitting to patients (or survivors) that a vaccine caused any problem.
How can I trust a doctor who took the shot in order to keep his job, and turned off his critical thinking to run his own risk/benefit calculation? My previous doc was about 35 years old, thin and healthy, and at zero risk from Covid.
I fired him and went to an older doc who is more open-minded, and sees no further benefit in vaccination at this time.
My web server is down to 7% load today. Yesterday it ran up to 49% for a while. Something must have been going on.
“Why Bankman-Fried’s FTX Fraud Trial Isn’t Going His Way”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/why-bankman-frieds-ftx-fraud-trial-isnt-going-his-way-5510043?utm_source=partner&utm_campaign=TheLibertyDaily&src_src=partner&src_cmp=TheLibertyDaily
“Extraordinary allegations of corruption are being detailed in the FTX trial, but the case sidesteps his massive political donations.”
Looks like a circular firing squad to me.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
One (temporarily) for the good guys…
California Assault Weapon Ban Ruled Unconstitutional, State Has 10 Days to Appeal
From the WSJ…
Who Counts as a Disaster Prepper These Days? Lots of Us
More people are prepping for a few weeks of flood, fire or other urgent situations by buying supplies to get them through
…which has a paywall, allowing you one or two ‘free’ articles before they are blocked with a request to subscribe….so I was unable to read the article.
@RickH, try this…
https://12ft.io/https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/emergency-preppers-disaster-kits-go-bags-9db4a9cf
“Sweep of the Heart (Innkeeper Chronicles #6)” by Ilona Andrews
https://www.amazon.com/Sweep-Heart-Innkeeper-Chronicles-Andrews/dp/1641972491?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number six of a six book paranormal fantasy romance science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) illustrated (kinda) trade paperback published in 2022 by the Nancy Yost Literary Agency that I bought new on Amazon recently. Note that “Ilona Andrews” is the pseudonym for a husband and wife writing team. And yes, this is science fiction, there are spaceships, teleportation devices, beam weapons, and space stations.
BTW, this series is very much like “The Princess Bride” book. A lot of magic, a lot of good old human sweat and tears, many good guys, and quite a few bad guys. Ah yeah, maces and swords. And poison, lots of poison.
Dina Demille is an innkeeper in Red Deer, Texas. Only her Victorian inn is not like a typical bed and breakfast, it is an intelligent magical haven named Gertrude Hunt for aliens coming to Earth or using Earth as a way station. Dina does have a permanent guest, a retired Galactic tyrant named Caldenia who is hiding from several bounty hunters, and who paid for permanent room and board.
There are many inns like the Gertrude Hunt on Earth, that is because Earth has been designated as Neutral Ground for the various Galactic races, many of whom don’t get along. That’s why Caldenia is safe within the confines of Gertrude Hunt, the inn has many powerful weapons to protect itself and guests. Several of the bounty hunters are still chasing Caldenia for the massive bounty and have taken on the Gertrude Hunt Inn to their dismay.
Dina’s alpha werewolf boyfriend Sean Evans is now helping her to run the inn. His mentor and creator werewolf, Wilmos, lives on the planet dedicated to trade with many portals to other planets for convenient and fast transport. But somebody has kidnapped Wilmos and left his shop as a wreck, including damaging his wolf. Dina and Sean find the planet that Wilmos is being held at but it is three stargate’s away, including a private stargate.
In order to get access to the private stargate, they must host the Galactic Emperor’s spousal search with twelve spousal candidates with over three hundred beings all wanting to win the contest at any cost including death, especially the carnivorous mobile trees. And the Galactic Emperor is the nephew of Caldenia, who poisoned his father to death.
The authors have a website at:
https://www.ilona-andrews.com
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (9,815 reviews)
In a lot of cases anymore, thanks to the income vs. student loan debt situation a lot of younger GPs face, they end up as indentured servants of the healthcare system, particularly if they work for a large group which provides repayment money.
Beyond that, I don’t have to tell you what kind of turnip brains dominate the C-suites in large hospital and or physician group practices.
Cough … Methodist … cough.
One interesting side effect of the loan repayment and interest accrual resuming is that my wife suddenly has a lot of new Vets showing up for first time visits to the VA in the last couple of months. The story is always the same – their GP suddenly decided to go concierge and the patients had no one else available in the group practice who had an open panel.
@Rick: I have a couple of manuals, PDFs, CSS3: The Missing Manual and HTML5: The Missing Manual. I bought them several years ago for work, about 2014 I think, left the physical books with my replacement. Do you have any interest in the PDFs? I will never use them again as my coding days are long gone. I can drop them on a website and you can download. If Rick is not interested, anyone else?
Me: Is SteveF “The One”?
ChatGPT: No, SteveF is #2.
🙂
Just another outrage:
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/10/19/plane-sight-drug-agents-searching-passengers-cash-airport-gates/
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/10/globalists_fear_spartacus_and_his_slave_rebellion.html
Going to be really useful when you can’t get an internet connection without Microsoft and Intel tech made to order for Fedgov.
“Hardly surprising…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/10/hardly-surprising.html
“Left-wing anti-gunners are dismayed to learn that their legislated bans, restrictions and prohibitions are not being obeyed by an American public with more common sense than they expected.”
Never register anything other than your vehicles. And I am not sure about those.
molon labe
One of our local auction sites went down an hour ago.
Be interesting to see how the mess gets handled.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/8-critical-life-saving-medications-every-american-should-2/
List is good from what I can see, but the quantity is very low.
– no Cipro?
n
After a year of not being able to print across the network to the printer attached to my home server, I managed to restore the capability tonight by switching from Samba feeding a raw queue to IPP via CUPS.
Getting CUPS running with the printer – a USB-only HP “Winprinter” requiring a special driver — was the easy part. Adding mDNS and Avahi with appropriate firewall rules took some effort with Fedora.
CUPS is deprecating raw queues, and something changed in the default Fedora config about a year ago. I could plug the printer directly into machines, but that was a pain for anything but my primary desktop.
The bonus is that IPP means that Mac and Linux can now talk to the printer without special drivers.
The fallback plan if I couldn’t get the firewall rules right on Fedora was to use an original Raspberry Pi Model ‘B’, which, surprisingly, is up to the task of running CUPS talking to our Ye Olde HP 4000N for IPP as an alternative to JetDirect.
At some point, I may have to retire the HP since it looks like HP stopped making the toner cartridge.
Ray: I would like the manuals, etc. My most current is HTML 4 and a CSS book published in 2007.
If someone else got them I think I need to make some purchases, 16 years in the computer world is a least two lifetimes.
I’m calling it a night. Fell asleep in the chair again. Uncomfortable, don’t recommend, 1 star.
n
>> Just another outrage:
Just more weaponization of
ourtheir justice system.There is though the point that the Amish seem to often be the target here.
>> Never register anything other than your vehicles. And I am not sure about those.
There’s always the Sovereign Citizen approach.
New season of Bosch:Legacy is dropping weekly on FreeVee. Picks up where the prior season left off.
Plugs: “Teleprompter?? I thought it was a table to hold my Hi-C…”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12651917/joe-biden-oval-office-teleprompter.html
>> Never register anything other than your vehicles. And I am not sure about those.
There’s always the Sovereign Citizen approach.
Unfortunately, I’ve got a bunch of licenses. My drivers license, my gub carry license, my professional engineer license. The FBI got my prints for the gub carry and engineer licenses.