Cold and wet. Rain in the forecast for Houston, heavy rain in fact. I guess we’ll see. It was mostly high 50s, low 60s in Houston and at the BOL. I got some heavy mist, light misty drizzle a couple of times in the afternoon, and drove through some drizzle on the way home in the evening. It seemed light, and pretty localized, just like Saturday.
Did my run to the BOL on Saturday and did most of the unloading and stacking on Sunday. Also did the normal per visit upkeep and care of the house and property. I did skimp a bit on mowing as the hilly back yard was too wet to do safely. I did walk it and treat the fire ant mounds. You have to stay on top of them or they’ll take over.
I headed home after dark, listening to the third and final disc of the OO7 audiobook. It must be an early one in the canon, as James is a pretty ordinary, albeit skilled and focused, guy. The story isn’t full of iconic Bond stuff either. I was never a Bond fan, although I’ve seen most of the early movies, and none of the later ones, but I enjoyed the short story. It fit on three CDs, when the Jim Butcher novels take 8 or 9, or sometimes more. Never thought I’d like any sort of audiobook, but I do enjoy them in the truck while driving around. Sometimes an old dog learns a new trick.
Today should be indoor stuff, maybe ebay and auction stuff. Maybe not. I do have to leave the house to do pickups and return the rental trailer. I hope it isn’t raining dogs and cats.
Of course, if it is raining, the smart and prepared will be collecting the rainwater for the garden or for emergency drinking…
Stack it up.
nick
Venezuelans are not Cubans. Both political parties need to wake up and realize this.
Houston and Austin are being colonized.
Austin is the status symbol destination, similar to Palo Alto for Chinese, but getting a big, new house in a desirable school district is tough.
I strongly suspect the community has a work around for the school problem, but I don’t know how the process works.
Diwali also means Covid case numbers are going to spike.
The weather was deceptively mild in that area last week. The rental car thermometer read 60 degrees yesterday when I dropped it off at OScare.
Someone at the conference my wife attended started to complain Friday about how medicine has changed in boonies Wisconsin since the “new people started arriving” but the subject was quickly changed after the person realized that the CEO of the specialty board was in the room, talking about having just met with Corn Pop in DC on various medical issues.
Lots of shrugging in healthcare ahead.
As sure as snow eventually arriving in Wisconsin.
LOL:
Back to the hotel! Furious migrants REFUSE to stay in tent shelter after being bused to Brooklyn and head back to plush Manhattan accommodation
Gimme my free shite, WHITEY!
They could offer them all rooms at tRump Tower. Then blow it. I’m sure the Dumbocrats would be on board.
Sanctuary City, tRump, tho.
Not said, but I’m guessing Venezuelans.
I heard a statistic on one of the radio shows recently that the cashflow from human smuggling across the Darien Gap has grown bigger than the revenue generated by the NFL annually in the US.
Venezuelans need to fix their own mess.
Deportation.
Hey, it looks like one small step nay finally happen here. We have quite a few Eritreans who have been denied asylum. Eritrea refuses to take them back. So it looks like – maybe- we will be paying some other African country to take them. Then they can go home. Or not. Either way, they will have been deported.
As in Atlas shrugging or as in throwing up their hands? “What can you do? Just go along to get along.”
60F and steady light rain…
I hurt all over. Had to stop my meds after the colonoscopy, and subsequently my back and joints are killing me. This weather would be enough, even with meds, but without it’s crippling.
I may have to cheat and add back at half dose for the next week.
n
“To Serve Mankind” …. motto, Flandry Galactic Industries, LLC.
“Eritrea refuses to take them back.”
The destination countries should simply institute a policy of zeroing out aid to any country that refuses the return of immigrants.
As in the Ayn Rand sense of the word.
The conference being held in The Wisconsin Dells provided some interesting insights into the dissatisfaction among providers about the deteriorating conditions in a “blue” state, particularly in the rural areas.
Unfortunately, because my wife is a nice person, we spent the time at the first night reception at a table with the overdressed female CEO of the practice board and another woman who was a med school professor at U. Wisc. Madison so we really didn’t get as much “airing of grievances” as what I gathered was happening at the other tables.
Everyone else avoided our table.
I’ll have to write up our U. Wisc Madison travel experience from earlier in the week. That was … interesting.
Communism is alive and well on the university campus.
Surprising absolutely no one, McDonald’s has announced price increases to cover the California minimum wage price increase for fast food workers.
https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2023/chipotle-and-mcdonalds-to-raise-prices-in-california-after-minimum-wage-hike/
Huh, one of my trade magazines, focused on construction, just sent me an email. “Although we can no longer send you a free print subscription to JLC due to increased costs, we are excited to offer you this special one-time low rate of $19.95 for 1 year (6 issues). That’s a Savings of 52% OFF the cover price!”
As you all are probably tired of hearing, I consider trade magazines a window to the economy. They get thin in hard times, fat in good times, and generally reflect what is going on in that market segment, although they are a lagging indicator due to the delay in publishing.
This is the first time so far I’ve been asked to subscribe. They usually just go to online only, or drop you entirely.
n
Calif Dems at the whim of labor union support pass these laws. Consumers and business can go to hell.
Just another upstanding public servant serving his constituents without any concerns for himself… so just move along…
https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-seizes-phone-nyc-mayor-eric-adams/story?id=104802558
I suspect that you underestimate the stupidity and self-deception of the populace.
wait until they cite the high cost of McDs as justification for their own raise…
n
So what was the agent’s justification for use of deadly force? And don’t they have to qualify with their service weapon? Guy shoots like a gang banger, or a NYFC cop….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/secret-service-agent-assigned-bidens-granddaughter-opens-fire/
n
That was weird, I think I just had a comment vanish, no feedback, no error. I don’t think it’s the first time either, but I blamed myself the last time. Typed comment, clicked on submit, got blank comment form.
n
BTW, the problem with healthcare in the US in a nutshell – the CEO of the board association did not have a medical background or relevant education, just an MBA.
MBA from a top-tier school? Or University of Cleveland?
>>Huh, one of my trade magazines, focused on construction, just sent me an email. “Although we can no longer send you a free print subscription to JLC due to increased costs, we are excited to offer you this special one-time low rate of $19.95 for 1 year (6 issues). That’s a Savings of 52% OFF the cover price!”
“… cover price…” Exactly how many paid subscribers do they actually have? Do they include a circulation audit statement?
The ARRL just dropped their complimentary subscription to QST magazine. It’s all available online to members, and I have the last 3 months of the paper one unopened on the couch next to my chair.
“Star Parker: Why the left hates Israel and America”
https://bismarcktribune.com/opinion/columnists/star-parker-why-the-left-hates-israel-and-america/article_1ba9f5ba-7e4e-11ee-8c9e-af14f6c8bf04.html
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts — the left-wing agenda expanding the welfare state, tilting at climate change windmills and supporting values like abortion that contribute to the breakdown of the traditional family.”
“In other words, Tlaib aggressively supports the very policies that keep her district poor.”
The left wants to keep the poor on the plantations so they can use them as idiots.
“The left wants to keep the poor on the plantations so they can use them as idiots.”
While they skim as much as they can of the top.
@Nick
JLC was paid sub before it was free.
I don’t follow USPS periodical rates, but I just looked up a package sent 1st class in 2018 for $.2.67. The same -package today is $3.92
“The left wants to keep the poor on the plantations so they can use them as idiots.”
While they skim as much as they can of the top.
Off the top, the sides, and the bottom while keeping them in a box.
Well, duh. That’s on Page 1 of the Tyrant’s Guide.
Free and not worth it? Yah, I’ve seen that a time or two.
I don’t follow USPS periodical rates, but I just looked up a package sent 1st class in 2018 for $.2.67. The same -package today is $3.92
1st class parcel rate used to be a good deal for shipping ‘smalls’ sold on eBay.
Unfortunately, because my wife is a nice person, we spent the time at the first night reception at a table with the overdressed female CEO of the practice board and another woman who was a med school professor at U. Wisc. Madison so we really didn’t get as much “airing of grievances” as what I gathered was happening at the other tables.
BTW, the problem with healthcare in the US in a nutshell – the CEO of the board association did not have a medical background or relevant education, just an MBA.
Was the overdressing due to Ferengi standards or due to normal USA professional standards ?
I would think that any professional association would have members of that association running it. I suspect that there is lots of money involved and the accountants have taken over. Just another byproduct of Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
I hurt all over. Had to stop my meds after the colonoscopy, and subsequently my back and joints are killing me. This weather would be enough, even with meds, but without it’s crippling.
I may have to cheat and add back at half dose for the next week.
Why do you have to keep stopping the meds this far after the invasions ?
Surprising absolutely no one, McDonald’s has announced price increases to cover the California minimum wage price increase for fast food workers.
https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2023/chipotle-and-mcdonalds-to-raise-prices-in-california-after-minimum-wage-hike/
This is why people rarely eat out in Europe due to the labor costs.
“Buc-ee’s is adding Mercedes-Benz charging hubs to its travel centers”
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/bucees-electric-vehicle-chargers-benz-18488393.php
“These electric vehicle plug-ins may be coming to a store near you this year.”
I predict that they will be rarely used. Tesla would have been much better.
I suspect they’re worried about anti-clotting effects while he’s still healing and shedding clips. NSAIDs are nasty. My kidney doc has pretty much denied me everything except very limited tylenol.
So what was the agent’s justification for use of deadly force? And don’t they have to qualify with their service weapon? Guy shoots like a gang banger, or a NYFC cop….
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/secret-service-agent-assigned-bidens-granddaughter-opens-fire/
n
The SS agent thought he was in Texas where we can use deadly force to protect property like the Constitution says.
“Why are there so many acorns in Texas right now? Consider it a mast year”
https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/acorns-texas-fall-18483041.php
“Could more acorns be a sign of a harsh winter on the way for Texas?”
Yup.
“Could more acorns be a sign of a harsh winter on the way for Texas?”
Not here. Not enough rain this past Spring and Summer.
A few trees are dropping acorns. I have a pair of live oak of some variety that sort of make an arch over the driveway. Not big oaks, maybe 10 inch trunks waist high. It’s kind of rocky in that area. There’s a few green acorns on the driveway. There’s another oak by the feedshed dropping a few nuts. Small brown nuts. Both are dropping their normal colors of nuts.
The tree that shades the boat shed? Nothing. The red oak out the bathroom door? Nothing. They usually sound like a hailstorm.
We’ve had some rain lately. Nothing fast enough to make the creek/run-off ditch run or fill the tank. It’s all soaking in. Even with the cooler weather, the trees are perking up. That’s good.
“Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, 3)” by Martha Wells
https://www.amazon.com/Rogue-Protocol-Murderbot-Martha-Wells/dp/1250191785?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number three of a seven book series of science fiction novellas. I reread the well printed and well bound hardcover published by Tor in 2018 that I bought new from Amazon this year. The first novella in the series won the 2018 Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus awards. The series won the 2021 Hugo for the best series also. I am rereading the next three books in the series and have ordered the seventh book in the series coming out November 14, 2023.
Murderbot is a SecUnit, similar to a T-800 Terminator with a cloned and severely modified human head. There is a human brain in there but it is controlled by the AIs embedded in its genderless torso. There are lungs, there is a blood mixture with a synthetic, there is human skin over the entire body, there is a face, there is hair on the head and eyebrows. Everything else is machine. Somehow, the blood is enriched with electricity as there is no stomach or intestines. But, there are arteries and veins to keep the skin and brain alive. All of the major arteries and veins have clamps to stop bleeding in case of damage. There is a MedSystem computer with an AI, a HubUnit computer with an AI, and a governor module that can force the SecUnit to follow orders using pain sensors in the brain. It has a energy gun in each arm and several cameras, all directly wired to the brain. The SecUnit can sustain severe damage to everything but the head and still survive.
Murderbot is a self named SecUnit due to an unfortunate circumstance with 57 miners on a remote moon. It has hacked its governor and no longer allows the governor to give it orders or inflict pain. It prefers to internally watch its 35,000 hours of downloaded media such as episodes of “The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon” and “WorldHoppers”. Even though it has a face, it does not like to interface with humans, yes, very introverted. It will follow human orders if it sees fit to do so.
Murderbot is on the run from its new owner and has been called a rogue SecUnit by the news feeds. It has been hitching rides with AI Bot Cargo and Transport spaceships by sharing it’s 35,000 hours of downloaded media. It has researched its responsibility in the deaths of 57 miners on a remote moon and decided that somebody else caused the deaths and then blamed it. It is now researching GrayCris Corporation’s behavior in banned alien artifacts and the murders of several research scientists.
Murderbot is an incredibly interesting character. It handles horrible situations easily and personal interactions difficultly. Like I said, interesting. All Murderbot really wants to do in life is watch soap operas like “Sanctuary Moon” and “Worldhoppers (aka Stargate)”, just like us.
Popular quotes from the book:
1. “Who knew being a heartless killing machine would present so many moral dilemmas. (Yes, that was sarcasm.)”
2. “I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can’t just stop.”
3. “They were all annoying and deeply inadequate humans, but I didn’t want to kill them. Okay, maybe a little.”
Warning: There is violence and death in the books. Books one through four are a series of novellas, not regular length books. Book five is a regular length novel, book six is back to the novella, and book seven is a full length novel due out in November 2023. You can buy a collection of the first four hardbacks at a nice discount.
https://www.amazon.com/Murderbot-Diaries-Artificial-Condition-Protocol/dp/1250784271?tag=ttgnet-20/
The author has a website at:
https://www.marthawells.com/
There is a wiki for Murderbot including various episodes of “The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon”:
https://murderbot.fandom.com/wiki/Murderbot_Wiki
and
https://murderbot.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Sanctuary_Moon
There is a much better review by James Nicoll at:
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/way-up-in-the-clouds
My rating: 6 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (19,714 reviews)
“400-pound pig named Pork Chop removed from home”
https://www.wdam.com/2023/11/11/400-pound-pig-named-pork-chop-removed-home/
Really ? That is stealing the owner’s supper.
“Biden’s response to America’s latest downgrade really proves the point”
https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/bidens-response-to-americas-latest-downgrade-really-proves-the-point-148438/
The financial apocalypse of the USA is near.
“Tesla Reserves Right to Sue Cybertruck Buyers Who Resell the Vehicle Too Quickly”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-plans-to-sue-cybertruck-buyers-who-try-to-resell-the-vehicle
“You’ll need permission from Tesla to sell the truck during year one or be prepared to pay $50K.”
I am fairly sure that is not going to fly.
And not a problem for me. I am not buying any total EVs, I might buy a hybrid F-150 or Tundra in the future.
That happened to me this morning.
Anyone else?
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
-Auric Goldfinger
@Alan
“1st class parcel rate used to be a good deal for shipping ‘smalls’ sold on eBay.”
The first class package rate was a relatively new rate (May 2007) defined by many rules including over ¼” thick, “rigid”, etc.. replacing “plain old first class” which was the 1-ounce rate plus a reduced weight per ounce for each ounce above the first for anything mailable
In 2006 a 6-ounce package would have mailed for $0.39 +5*0.24, total $1.59.
May 2007 it would have been $1.13 + 5*0.17, total $1.98.
They also put new size limits on first class letter, with an “oversize” fee that socked just about everything larger than a #10 envelope.
After that the package rate was decoupled from the letter rate and they started hitting it hard, including introducing a minimum 3 and later 4-ounce threshold rate, even if your package was less than two ounces. (I can hear Ray, now).
If you ship through eBay, you get the discounts USPS gives to large shippers. Amazon is pretty much the same, and there are a number of internet shipping services that let you access those rates for a fee. Bottom line, though, is the individual walking up to the post office window with a package gets the shaft.
And along those lines, USPS has greatly reduced the number of Priority flat rate boxes that are offered, making it much harder to “make it fit”.
ADDED:
And eBay laughs all the way to the bank as they collect sales tax and their fees on shipping.
@EdH
Your comment from about 9 hours ago was caught by the spam catcher (Akismet). Those ‘spam’ comments are retained, so I restored it. It will show up in the queue according to it’s original time stamp (9 hours ago as I write this).
Akismet is used to grab comment spam with whatever process they use. Admins here sometimes look at ‘held’ comments and release them if needed. Admins don’t get a notice about ‘held’ comments, so we have to remember to go look for them.
In the last six months, Akismet has caught over 200 comments as spam.
Don’t know why comments are being lost. I suspect an inadvertent key press of some sort that deletes text. Nothing in the site (other than Akismet and manual actions by admins) should ‘lose’ comments. Might also be a client-side error.
A quick Ctrl+A then Ctrl+C (or your device’s equivalent) before you hit the Submit button will save your screed in your clipboard.
In reverse order—
@ rick, I went to the spam folder immediately when mine disappeared to see if it was there… It wasn’t. Mine was short so I just re-typed it with minor changes due to brains being what they are… unless there is a different spam folder in addition to the one under the comments/all comments/spam menu?
@Lynn, meloxicam is the one that I miss, it’s a powerful NSAID. I take it daily and have for more than 15 years. With it, minor and occasional pain, usually with a known trigger event. Without, I thought I would black out when I straightened up off the throne this morning. I did end up taking half my usual dose and I’m feeling better, like a ‘normal’ bad day. The cold and damp weather exacerbates all the other issues. Doc did cave when I pushed and said I should wait at least a week, which technically would be tomorrow. I’ll take the half dose until next week. I have to be able to move.
“400-pound pig named Pork Chop removed from home”
– pigs are fat factories. That’s why they exist. In fact their fat used to be so valuable that heritage breeds are crazy fat compared to modern lean breeds. The pork was an afterthought.
WRT the acorns, I’ve got a carpet of them on the lawn. My observation was heavy acorns after a drought. The sprouts were so thick after the last big drought that it looked like grass. It’s as if the tree went “WOW, almost died there, I better reproduce pronto!”
JLC was paid sub before it was free.
– I thought I remembered that I used to actually pay for it. It’s a very good magazine if you are at all connected to construction in the US. I will probably pay the sub price, I find it that useful. I dropped my “Fine Homebuilding” sub years ago, but kept the “Fine Woodworking” along with JLC.
WRT ARRL and QST, they had a discussion, a poll, and finally decided to decouple the mag from the membership. Money. Hams are willing to spend $6000 on a radio, but won’t pay $2 extra for a magazine sub. I like QST and if I can get it without the ARRL membership, I’ll probably do that.
on a related note, my non-prepping hobby has a national org that publishes a very glossy and nice magazine, along with a black and white stapled smaller mag, with shorter lead times, little editorial, and mostly user submitted content. They packaged both in a plastic bag for mailing. They announced that they will be including the second mag as a section/department in the main mag henceforth. Costs are getting crazy for magazines.
n
See also: Humans
Our school board is playing games. They’ve been sending out massive amounts of email to push parents to pressure lawmakers at the end of the last session. The problem is, they hate school choice, and they lie. They lie by omission, they lie thru vagueness. They just freaking lie. They were going on and on about budget cuts because of a “$35M shortfall” without ever defining the top or bottom number. IE. how much were they expecting (and why) and how much are they slated to get (and why isn’t that enough). By threatening to cut Gifted and Talented, special choice schools (with alternative teaching models, which both my girls attended), and some other sacred cows they were hoping to rile up the moms and rich white parents… and they sure did. But the parents saw the bait and switch as soon as they announced that the special choice schools were actually scheduled for EXPANSION, and they slipped and admitted that the decisions had been made long ago, without any input from the parents… so the upcoming meeting was nothing but kabuki. And the dire cuts they threatened to make were intended to inflame the parents, nothing more.
At the meeting tonight, there were so many angry parents that it overflowed out of the building, over 100 people were signed up for the public input segment, and the Fire Marshal and Chief of Police ended up shutting down the meeting before it could start. News crews were outside to interview parents. I was sure there would be arrests and screaming matches.
IDK why they thought they could do their standard practice of serving themselves first, and everyone else after, but you DO NOT MAKE THE MOMMIES MAD. They have social media, frustrated type A ambitions, and they WILL come looking to hand you your ass. I’d be surprised if the whole board doesn’t get voted out in the next couple of elections. I’ve seen it happen in our HOA, at our rec association, and now I expect it at the school district. And we’ll be better for it.
n
@EdH and RickH Your comment from about 9 hours ago was caught by the spam catcher (Akismet). Those ‘spam’ comments are retained, so I restored it. It will show up in the queue according to it’s original time stamp (9 hours ago as I write this).
I saw it when I went looking for mine, but as the email didn’t match any previous emails used, I didn’t restore it. @EdH, sorry about that, there wasn’t anything I could see wrong with it, but in my morning haze I also didn’t understand it’s relevance, so I left it.
n
@Nick
“Costs are getting crazy for magazines.”
Woodsmith absorbed ShopNotes several years a go and became Woodsmith Guild Edition with more pages. It had been a separate magazine for 138 issues. I think it was a combination of cost and being in danger of jumping the shark on the complexity of jigs that used up all the time to make that they saved most people on the project.
I told Taunton Press years ago that they should offer combined subs. The obvious was FWW and FHB, but Threads and Fine Gardening would be another, and I suspect a bundle including all four titles would get a lot of takers. Instead they complicated their lives and raised costs by adding specialty issues with separate mailings.
Normal USA professional standards. The Wisconsin Dells at 6 PM on a Friday night at a hotel featuring an indoor waterpark.
The first Jesus Truck deliveries will be to hardcore Tony fans and/or Deep State types who know how to keep their mouths shut. Those people are seriously horny for the vehicle.
Go look at the resume of the person who took delivery of the first F150 Lightning.
Plus, I doubt the trim levels through the end of the year will cover the reservations for the $40k model, the one most likely to be resold.
@Nick:
If any messages have been marked as ‘spam’, either by admnis or the Akismet spam catcher, the count will show up on the main admin dashboard. Click on the link to see them – a bit faster than using the ‘Comments’ menu choice (that takes a while to display because of the massive amount of comments in the database).
Buc-ee’s business model is not compatible with loitering.
The Geico Gecko got his Texas generator slush fund so big changes are coming to Pilot/Flying-J starting next year.
@Nick, @Rick: I wasn’t even mildly upset, sorry if I gave that impression, I couldn’t even be bothered to repost…
I just wanted to chime in with info if there was an issue, glad it was nothing serious, many thanks again for all your hard work in keeping Daynotes going!
more on shipping costs:
For more than a month eBay has been showing this message in a bright blue box on the “Orders Awaiting Shipment” page.
I strongly suspect that this is an indication that more people are buying shipping labels elsewhere for whatever reason, and further that eBay gets a significantly bigger discount on shipping costs than they pass on to their customers (i.e., the sellers), thus making shipping not only a profit center from eBay fees, but a “profit +” center due to the hidden rake-off.
“Massive Homeless Encampment Fire Shuts Down Los Angeles Freeway Indefinitely”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/13/massive-homeless-encampment-fire-shuts-down-los-angeles-freeway-indefinitely/
“Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said Angelenos should expect the freeway to be close for some time.”
Wow, that is serious fire damage. Replacing five or ten sections of I-10 inside Los Angeles should be doable in a year or so.
Coming soon to a freeway near you !
“Mob of Looters Ransacks Memphis Gas Stations, FedEx Truck”
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/11/13/mob-of-looters-ransacks-memphis-gas-stations-fedex-truck/
So, if you slip and fall and hurt yourself while ransacking a store, can you sue the store ?
So, if you slip and fall and hurt yourself while ransacking a store, can you sue the store ?
– typically yes. If you are cunning, you wait until after you’ve been busted, then you’ve got nothing to lose.
n
Oh FFS, you can’t keep the lead out of kids’ food?
A section of US 183 south of the I-35 interchange in Austin features an underground homeless “city” dug under the road. From what I understand, San Antonio has something similar.
Who knew that piles of dried shirt(-r) in the homeless camp could burn so fiercely.
Latest reports (emphasis added):
Story here and other places. Preliminary information, will change as investigation continues. If you look at the traffic maps in Google Maps, there are massive backlogs in the area. Traffic is much worse than normal.
I was hoping this would turn out to be something else, but it hasn’t.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12744111/Jonathan-Lewis-Las-Vegas-officials-schools-bullies.html
n
This is progressing too.
– and yet, it DID happen there. You are not protected by your area code. Especially if it turns out that they are invaders.
n
@NIck
“In 2021, world production of cinnamon was 226,753 tonnes, led by China with 43% of the total.”
Just guessing…
“Bullies”: Yeah, right. Try “feral ‘Amish’ thugs” instead, as evidenced by the videos accompanying the article.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12744111/Jonathan-Lewis-Las-Vegas-officials-schools-bullies.html
Dried dung patties have LONG been used in place of firewood if wood was scarce.
Jonathan Lewis came to the aid of a smaller friend who had been dumped in a trashcan.
He was in a coma for two weeks before being taken off life support.
It was not until the report of his death that the LV newspaper published his name.
The local and national tv and newspapers have scrupulously omitted the obvious–that Lewis is white and every one of his attackers is black. If the ethnicities were reversed it would have been the lead on four network’s evening news as a hate crime. This was a hate crime.
They beat him to the ground and kicked him to death. There is video from several sources. Every one of his attackers is a murderer. Every person who kicked him on the ground should be charged with murder in the first degree. Open and shut case–kicking someone is premeditated.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/las-vegas-murder-investigation-opened-into-beating-death-of-17-year-old-white-student-by-mob-of-black-students/
Granddaughter received a text message from the long time girlfriend on my son. The crematory will be refunding the fee as the girlfriend will be paying for the cremation; the crematory is claiming that she never signed the paper work.
Also some lawyer in California said the girlfriend is the lawful spouse so she gets everything. WTF. Neither California nor Nevada recognizes common law marriages. Girlfriends lawyer is claiming they were visiting Nevada on vacation. No death certificate yet, Mortuary claiming that granddaughter has not submitted the paperwork needed to create one. Girlfriend’s lawyer has now done so with girlfriend as next of kin.
We were told son worked for Panasonic in the Reno area but this afternoon we were not able to fine a Reno phone number for them. I really would like to find a number for their HR office; I spent an hour tonight and could find no number for any Panasonic office in Reno.
Eight hours of driving, an hour of stops and an hour of time zone change put me in Beaver, Utah tonight on my way to Illinois. Utah roads are great. Speed limit as high as 80MPH. Laramie tomorrow night.
@Bob Sprowl
This smells to high heaven. Time is short. I would suggest getting help from a professional investigator in Reno.
If you have your son’s current cell phone number the cell phone records can be used to establish how long he was in the Reno area, and will likely provide clues to his place of employment.
Where was the truck registered?
You mentioned the girlfriend’s family seems to have money. Seems they may be spreading some around for some reason. Wonder what it is?
It seems unlikely that your granddaughter paid a fee without signing something. I’d probably call the crematorium and ask them if they have money to defend a lawsuit for fraud and if they’re willing to ride the publicity that goes along with it.
Safe journey.
“It’s true because it’s true” Huh?? Sorta like ‘alternate facts.’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341048047112
>> Indians set new world record after lighting more than 2.2 million oil lamps to celebrate Diwali
How long did it take to count them?
>>Huh, one of my trade magazines, focused on construction, just sent me an email. “Although we can no longer send you a free print subscription to JLC due to increased costs, we are excited to offer you this special one-time low rate of $19.95 for 1 year (6 issues). That’s a Savings of 52% OFF the cover price!”
“Flandrey Construction” needs to ‘enhance’ their numbers on the subscription reply form.
>> “Buc-ee’s is adding Mercedes-Benz charging hubs to its travel centers”
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/bucees-electric-vehicle-chargers-benz-18488393.php
“These electric vehicle plug-ins may be coming to a store near you this year.”
I predict that they will be rarely used. Tesla would have been much better.
TFA is short on details…are these somehow locked only for MB vehicles? The connectors are the same for Level 3 (fast DC) charging. CCS1 currently and soon to switch to Tony’s NACS which has quickly become the NA standard.
He who sells the most EVs makes the rules.
>> “400-pound pig named Pork Chop removed from home”
https://www.wdam.com/2023/11/11/400-pound-pig-named-pork-chop-removed-home/
Really ? That is stealing the owner’s supper.
When we lived in Tampa, the people next door to us had a Vietnamese pot belly pig as a pet. Most of the time he stayed in the house.
>> “Tesla Reserves Right to Sue Cybertruck Buyers Who Resell the Vehicle Too Quickly”
https://www.pcmag.com/news/tesla-plans-to-sue-cybertruck-buyers-who-try-to-resell-the-vehicle
“You’ll need permission from Tesla to sell the truck during year one or be prepared to pay $50K.”
I am fairly sure that is not going to fly.
Of course…nobody reads the fine print.
Ford had a no-sale provision in their Ford GT contract and the successfully enforced it, most notably against John Cena.
But then the Jesus truck doesn’t quite measure up to a Ford GT.
>> I strongly suspect that this is an indication that more people are buying shipping labels elsewhere for whatever reason, and further that eBay gets a significantly bigger discount on shipping costs than they pass on to their customers (i.e., the sellers), thus making shipping not only a profit center from eBay fees, but a “profit +” center due to the hidden rake-off.
For a long time I’ve been using PayPal which gives me the discounted rates, though not sure they’re the lowest around. Works for any shipping, not just eBay.
>> – I thought I remembered that I used to actually pay for it. It’s a very good magazine if you are at all connected to construction in the US. I will probably pay the sub price, I find it that useful. I dropped my “Fine Homebuilding” sub years ago, but kept the “Fine Woodworking” along with JLC.
JLC appears to still be free for digital only subscriptions.
https://hanleywood.omeda.com/jlc/r-form.do
>> A preliminary investigation determined the destructive fire that indefinitely closed the I-10 Freeway in Downtown Los Angeles was intentionally started with “malice intent,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday afternoon.
Mayor Karen Bass, who also spoke at the press conference, made sure to urge the public not to jump to the conclusion that the fire was set by homeless people in the area, 16 of whom were living in the immediate vicinity when the fire erupted on Saturday.
“There is no reason to assume that the origin of this fire, or the reason this fire happened, is because there were unhoused individuals nearby,” she said.
Yeah, right Karen, sure thing. So I guess Karen is a Karen…
He who sells the most EVs makes the rules.
That would be Tesla with 70% of the USA EV market. Maybe 70% of the worldwide EV market.
Magazine subscriptions. Expensive, yep. A few months ago, I laid out $1k for a multiyear subscription to the German c’t magazine. In the past, I was able to charge it to some school project, but I don’t currently have any funded projects. c’t is pretty close to what the old Byte used to be like, before it lost its way.
Probably the last time I’ll subscribe – this will last me past retirement, and afterwards it would be hard to justify that kind of expense.
You know who it was, and the video shows that you are right. Just like the other mob that kicked a kid to death for defending someone from their bullying. Why, exactly, does the press always omit the race, when race is so obviously a factor? How much longer will people play along with this charade?
Have you read about tumeric in Asia? Good tumeric is yellow. If yours is a bit pale, just add in some lead chromate to make the color right. Bangladesh has just recently gotten this under control. Other countries haven’t. The article says that there may be up to 300 million children in Asia suffering from lead poisoning. If that’s true, that’s practically an entire generation of people with severely reduced intelligence.
How many Western importers actively test imported tumeric for lead contamination? Worrisome…
In the 19th century, trout in the milk was considered an indication of adulteration.
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