Gonna be another warm one. It was in the 90s yesterday and in the sun, I felt every degree. Had to pause several times to cool off, and I was working at a “deliberate” pace.
Cut up and stacked my tree debris. That took from 10ish to 4ish. THen I did the same at my rent house. Took until about 730ish. Came home and tried to help the neighbor get their borrowed but very new looking gennie running.
Bad gas, varnish in the float bowl, and ultimately a float needle that wouldn’t seal. Told them to order a new carb. It’s not enough to drain the tank, you have to drain the float bowl too, and probably coat the aluminium with vaseline or something similar. Leave the fuel hose disconnected, and the petcock open. That MIGHT let any water that condenses in your tank drain away, instead of ruining your float bowl. Keeping the gennie dry and away from temperature swings will probably help too.
Today will be figuring out how to get the ‘widow maker’ branches down out of the big tree in the front yard. There are a few massive branches among the smaller stuff. Those have to come down.
We were supposed to have power back yesterday, but they were mistaken as we didn’t. That is encouraging though that it might not be 2 weeks or 2 months. I talked to the Centerpoint survey guys driving around and they said it was 20 transmission towers that were blown over. IDK how they are going to fix that in 5 days but that’s what the president of Centerpoint said… although I bet there were some qualification words used.
I’m wiped out. It’s dripping humid, and it’s really hot in the sun. Bad combo. And all my cool vests are at the BOL…
I’ll just have to be careful, I guess.
As far as prepping notes, if this cheap amazon chinese carb works, I’m ordering a spare. Totally worth it for $15. And I’m going to figure out why the propane conversion kit is so sensitive to load and adjustment. Dunno if I’ll get to solar, hope not, but if things go badly…
Stack. And stack some more.
nick
The high school softball team is playing in the sub-state match, at home. It is a big achievement. It is at a city owned park that the school uses. The park floods in heavy rain. The park is next to a TVA owned drain creek and the park is considered a flood plain. TVA refuses to fix the flooding issue.
The game is rescheduled for today due to the rain yesterday. We had a big rain event that closed a couple of roads. The ball field flooded.
This morning at 7:00 AM a couple dozen people showed up to clean and prepare the field. Another event is scheduled for after church, about 1:30 PM. I expect a couple dozen volunteers to continue the cleaning and field preparation. They show up with their own tools, rakes, blowers mostly, to help. The mayor and a few city workers will be present. All unpaid. The field should be ready by 5:00 PM.
NIMBY and more swimming naked.
Google. Back when my wife ran our little whisky business, I spent a lot of time ensuring the website was well-ranked. This was back when Google actually provided reasonable search results, although the quality was declining all the time.
Anyway, it means that I have a Google webmaster account. I still maintain a couple of websites, just for private reasons. Every couple of months I get a message like the one I received today: “new reasons why some of your pages are not being indexed”. The reasons are mostly BS. Usually, it’s something like “not enough whitespace for mobile devices”, “font too small” or whatever. Things that, honestly, a search engine should not care about. A search engine should tell you where to find stuff, not whether it’s formatted according to Google’s particular guidelines.
Related: I read an article that explained why all of the recipe sites are now filled with stupid text, instead of just giving you a recipe. Apparently, one of the criteria that Google now measures, is how long users spend on a page. If you fill you page with crap, making the actual information hard to find – guess what, people spend more time on it.
Also related: Just yesterday I read that Google search for people in the US now fills your screen with their AI scrapings, instead of web links. Apparently, if you want actual search results, you have to type “web” as part of your search query? Is this true? Who would have thought that Google would start deprecating their web search?
It’s actually shocking, how fast enshittification is destroying Google. They’re big enough, and have enough of a lock on the ad business, that they won’t die. They will just stagger on as a zombie, impeding progress for the next couple of decades…
I only run ethanol free gas through the mower. Fortunately, this hasn’t gone away under Corn Pop.
The dim bulb husband of my wife’s associate in WA State helped run a cocktail recipe “blog” as his day job, and his existence on the payroll seemed to be about filling the pages with cr*p.
Now I know why.
Probably will not fix the towers that fast. What they will probably do is reroute power, move some connections in a major substation, get power in the back door temporarily.
A vehicle ran into a major transmission tower in Oak Ridge. It knocked out power to half the city. Within six hours power was back on but the tower was still broken. It took a week to fix the tower. Oak Ridge was able to reroute power bringing it in from a different direction.
There is a small amount of redundancy in the grid, especially locally, to get power moved around. Then there is Texas which managed to bork most of the grid in the state. Either through incompetence, lack of planning, or more likely skimping on the infrastructure. Such skimping the result of management, boards, and commissions, many of which are incapable of changing a defective outlet. Changing a light bulb is the pinnacle of their electrical knowledge, but only after searching YouTube.
In Texas? All of the above.
The complicating factor in Houston is the gentrification in the city core where 4000-5000 sq ft McMansions, duplex townhomes, and Soy Boy apartments with EV charging get built on infrastructure still suited for serving the 1200 sq ft 50s era single family houses being replaced.
Plus, the city entity of “Houston” is insolvent.
Much like Austin, a pigment challenged male city official will get blamed and fired for what happened this week.
TV commercial from a scammy private mintt:
A few years ago [2006] the U.S. Mint issued a gold coin that was a repro of the 1913 buffalo nickel in solid gold. This was the first issue using an extremely refined 99.9999% gold, and it sold out quickly and gained collector value.
The scammy private mint shows a graph of the value zooming above $3000 {certainly the proof version]
Now the scammy private mint has made a replica clad in gold. They breathlessly tell you about the “14 milligrams of pure gold”. They don’t mention that what is under the gold is base metal.
That is 1/2,221 of an ounce of gold.
Thescammy private mint doesn’t tell you that there are variation on the U.S. Mint Gold Buffalo–bullion, proof, half-ounce, one-ounce, etc.
The current price on the bullion version is about $2350 [slight premium to gold price, just like Silver Eagles].
So the actual gold value on the replica from the scammy private mint is: about $1.
This commercial is targeted at the millions of older people who have never collected coins and don’t know an obverse from a reverse, wouldn’t know a milligram from a photogram, but have vague thoughts about buying their grandchildren something as a investment.
Scammy private mint, aka grifters, con artists, and dishonest human beings.
Growth is good? Stagnation is bad?
Revenues (at the federal level) are at all-time highs. C’mon government, do your job.
If unhappy, vote the bums out. Get new bums.
An uncirculated 2023 Eagle one ounce gold coin, delivered by the Mint within a few days, is $3170 as of this morning.
I’d be suspicious about anyone selling a real one ounce Buffalo for that number. $2400/ounce is the current paper gold price, which is heavily manipulated by the Fed playing the futures market.
GLD at $224 is even more divorced from reality.
Wait for the numbers on the 2024 Eagles, which the Mint will drop in a couple of weeks. That’s reality.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13435325/Iranian-president-Ebrahim-Raisi-involved-helicopter-hard-landing-incident.html
I think the odds are even between crap maintenance and outside help taking it down.
Someone going for an assassination at that level would have made sure the helicopter couldn’t land intact and face retailation.
If you’re going to shoot the King, don’t miss.
The problem with gold and silver is that few people are expert enough to check quality, to detect plating vs. solid, etc..
Losing a high-trust society would be a disaster.
The may not have. Last update says the helicopter has not been found yet. So “hard landing” is a euphemism for “crash”.
@Greg
I used this page for Gold Buffalo prces:
https://www.apmex.com/gold-price/gold-buffalo-value-chart
and you’re right, they look low based on current gold.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t change the conclusion:
The price of gold would have to go up another 800% or so to break even on the $9.95 price from the scammy private mint.
Except there’s shipping and tax…
and no one will even want the darn things.
There’s more gold in a 1k memory module from a 1990 IBM computer.
Shortage of coal in hell as the fires get stoked for the new arrival.
Report update notes that Iranian news service deleted the tweet that claimed he was headed home in a motorcade.
>>It’s actually shocking, how fast enshittification is destroying Google. They’re big enough, and have enough of a lock on the ad business, that they won’t die. They will just stagger on as a zombie, impeding progress for the next couple of decades…
Looks like my pre-Google choice (www.altavista.com) now just redirects to Yahoo. I wonder what MS has done to Bing…
Ok, day of rest and all that…
Got up and had breakfast at a reasonable time, but spent some time on the phone chatting with W. We have family at the BOL for the coming long weekend and she’s cleaning and prepping for that. Also, D1 turns 15 this week. I probably won’t be there, and it’s the first one I’ll miss.
Took a while to get moving today, haven’t even cranked up the gennie, although I’m doing that next.
Then it’s generators and tree stuff.
Maybe a road trip to fill 4 BBQ bottles. I’m starting my last full one.
n
I strongly prefer DuckDuckGo as a search engine. hardly ever go to Googol. But I’m also reading good things about https://freespoke.com.
It’s interesting that a whole new crop of search engines are popping up. I’m not motivated to research into them at the moment, but I probably will at some point. Google has become near useless DuckDuckGo isn’t awful, but it’s just a wrapper around Bing, which was never great. Sometimes it just cannot find something that I know darned well exists.
AI has potential as an intelligent search engine, but it’s not good at the details. Specifically, if you ask it for a link to some piece of information, the link it creates is often incorrect. The AIs need to not just train patterns, but also retain specific information when it is application. Recreating something like a URL doesn’t allow for any cross-contamination from other sources.
Random thought: Wouldn’t it be a shame if – in the midst of the current confusion – some of Iran’s drone factories went up in flames? Seems like a great opportunity; it would be a shame to waste it.
There’s also the problem that it takes 10X the storage and 100X the compute power as ordinary search. People were already complaining, in the long-gone days of two or three years ago, about the amount of power and other resources needed to hold Google’s data and its search service. Baby, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
They’re forcing
smartrip-off meters into residential homes so they can penalize people who work during the day and can’t use the cheaper electricity produced by solar.Curious people should inquire as to the suspected existence of an inverse-duck curve for use of Google, Farcebook, AI, etc, and whether these entities get special pricing treatment so they don’t pay rip-off rates and do inflate the wallets of the rich-boy (mostly) owners who in turn take their wealth and try to force their visions of a bug-eating totalitarian future with 90% of the population exterminated and 99% of those remaining as serfs serving the ruling class to which said owners expect to belong.
(darn, how did Faulkner do it with a straight face?)
We got a “smart” meter installed a couple days ago. No warning that it was about to happen, unless my wife got an email that she didn’t read. They put a tag on our doorknob telling us all of the wonderful benefits it would give us. Riiiiight.
Spanish Meteor from Saturday night….
https://x.com/QuickNewsAlerts/status/1791991733753888907
He was a disaster, but for strange reasons. He’s too nice. He is a great human being and therefore completely unsuited to DC politics.
Nope. Jimmy Carter was and is a jerk. He got Congress to pass the Fuel Use Act of 1978, getting federal takeover of the electric utilities of the USA. He also actively discrimated against the nuclear power industry, trying to shut down nuclear power plant construction. These items and several others distorted the energy markets in the USA, costing us much money and capital.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Plant_and_Industrial_Fuel_Use_Act#:~:text=It%20prohibited%20the%20use%20of,MFBI)%20consisting%20of%20a%20boiler.
Don’t even get me started about his his part in the regime change in Iran in 1979 from a friend to an enemy of the USA.
We are off the water and back in Helena. 47 F, rainy, and windy was too much for my dad. 6am flight in the morning.
I know what I said I was going to do but I got bored. Plans change. I went looking for a new router. I started at Newegg. I have a $15 credit from the last PC I bought the expires in a month. I want 10/100/1000 LAN ports. I found a couple. One for $50 and one for $60. Ok, look at Big River. Both about $10 less.
On both sites the reviews are sketchy. Are we talking about the same item? No, it seems not. We’re just reviewing any D-Link router. Useless.
I did some searching for more info on both. Somehow I ended up at Wal-Mart. And you know, that DIR-657 looks good. It’s $20 at Wal-Mart and $50 at Newegg. Hmm. It looks familiar so I checked the trash bag. It’s the same model that was fried when the radio blew up.
Ok. It was problem free. Maybe the new one will be as good. $23 with a $2 extended warranty (yeah, I know) and sales tax.
It had good wi-fi, I could sit on the back porch and connect with my phone from 200 feet away. I turned the radio off when I installed a UniFi in the house for wi-fi.
I don’t know if my electric meter is “smart” but I don’t have to read it and enter the numbers on the bill when I mail PEC a check. And they don’t show up randomly once a year to read the meter. They read it remotely and having direct draft from checking is pretty nice.
Last month’s bill for April was $65. The heatpump did both heating and cooling. The next bill, for May, should be lower. I haven’t run the heatpump at all and I’m not cooking everyday. I’m spending more time making hummingbird water than cooking. I haven’t turned the TV on since middle of April but I suspect running the stereo makes up for that. I’ll find out in a couple of weeks.
Judge Upholds Arkansas Town’s Bid to Block Gun Store From Opening
Cross out “gun shop” and write in “mosque”.
For those of you scoring at home, Houston has endured.
2015: Memorial Day flood
2016: Tax Day flood
2017: Harvey
2019: TS Imelda
2020: TS Beta
2021: Grid collapse due to freeze, Hurricane Nicholas
2022: heat/drought
2023: Hottest summer on record
2024: Derecho
https://x.com/mattlanza/status/17
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-weather-hurricane-tornado-storms-19466748.php
We are all going to die.
After Biden’s performance yesterday at Morehouse during which he lied repeatedly with little to none of the fact-checking that would accompany a Trump visit anywhere, president Trump should throw a demand on the table that Biden doesn’t have to take part in: That the MSM completely, fairly, and thoroughly fact-check this speech and his other false statements of the last 30 days to prove that they are capable of doing so, and then commit to doing so after the first debate.
…as if everything that Trump says in his speeches are truthful …
Oh, boo-hoo. Trump says that the number was 100,000 when the real number was 97,000. That’s exactly the same as Braindeaden claiming that inflation is under 3% or that he’s created more jobs than anyone in 20 years or whatever the lie of the day is.
Climate Change Claim: People will be 31% Poorer by 2100
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/18/climate-change-claim-people-will-be-31-poorer-by-2100/
Bidenflation clocks in at 19.1% since Joe Biden took office
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/bidenflation_clocks_in_at_19_1_since_joe_biden_took_office.html
19.1 x (48/40) = 22.9 projected for 4 years of Bidenomics
31.0 – 22.9 = 8.1% to go.
Thousands of old people are reaching for the phones to order those gold-washed buffalo nickels (GWBN*) to protect their savings.
* Not to be confused with the GWBM, which is what you get when you trade in your Old Dollars for New Dollars.
LLMs’ Data-Control Path Insecurity
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/05/llms-data-control-path-insecurity.html
Prohibit the sharing or selling of personal data.
Impose strict liability on businesses that lose personal data.
Prison sentence for theft of personal data. Length as described in the criteria previously discussed (based on victim time lost multiplied by a multiple)
I have an RT-AC66U B1 as my main router/WiFi hot spot which is still available on Amazon as a clearance bin item from resellers.
ASUS does a decent job keeping the firmware up to date, and I’ve never had a problem with the networking in the house since plugging it into my network.
“Spring” in the Northwest. Memorial Day on the Oregon Coast always looked like a North Face catalog shoot.
I’m not kidding when I talk about my “it” moment. I really didn’t care if anyone escaped with me, but the cat was ready to go when the time came.
I’ve read good things about ASUS routers. I just went the easy way and bought another D-Link. Learning curve and all that.
I replaced my cable modem (Arris Surfboard SB6141; DOCIS 3.0) with a faster Surfboard SB8200 (ARRIS SURFboard SB8200 DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Modem 1 GB speed – here ) yesterday. It’s connected to a TP-Link Smart WiFi 6 Router (Archer AX10) – 802.11ax Router (here) . Installation was easy – just had to tell my ISP the MAC address on the new one.
I ran the ‘speedtest’ before and after the new cable modem was installed. Went from about 200-225Mbps (download) to about 515 Mbps, as measured on my laptop (with WiFi 6). ISP plan is a 1GB plan with unlimited data. Upload speed was unchanged at about 12 Mbps.
I originally bought a refurbed (‘renewed” according to Zon) SB8200, but it didn’t work well. Didn’t like my 10.x.x.x wifi router (cable modems were set at 168.x.x.x ), so returned it (full credit) and got a brand new SB8200 via Zon (2 day delivery). That worked just fine.
The old SB 6141 is available to anyone here, for whatever shipping costs (US only). Still works, just wanted to get the 1GB speed capability to match the ISP plan.
There are about 17 devices on my little network. Primarily the two laptops (mine and SWMBO), the new LG Smart TV, DirecTV, and a few more devices that don’t take up much bandwidth. Response on all seems good.
Well, let’s see. I moved to Houston in… 2014.
Maybe I’m the cause.
And it looks like we missed 2018 somehow.
I replaced my cable modem (Arris Surfboard SB6141; DOCIS 3.0) with a faster Surfboard SB8200 (ARRIS SURFboard SB8200 DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Modem 1 GB speed – here ) yesterday. It’s connected to a TP-Link Smart WiFi 6 Router (Archer AX10) – 802.11ax Router (here) . Installation was easy – just had to tell my ISP the MAC address on the new one.
I bought one of the SB8200 modems back in 2019. Still works like a champ.
The second link to the TP-Link router seems to be the SB8200 modem instead ?
Well, let’s see. I moved to Houston in… 2014.
Maybe I’m the cause.
And it looks like we missed 2018 somehow.
I am sure that if you look hard enough that you can find something for 2018. Maybe a really nasty traffic jam ?
RE Paul: “I haven’t turned the TV on since middle of April…”
Most TVs are “instant on” and they use power to do that. My 57″ LG TV, Roku and local antenna draws 25 watts when “off”. I have them on their own power strip which plugs into my APC UPS so I can turn them off together. (When the first thunderstorm warning was made I unplugged the power strip to elimate the chance of a lightning strike hurting them.)
25 watts isn’t much but it’s not zero. Mine has been off since the end of the “March Madness” basketball tournament.
Probably won’t be on until College football starts.
My TV says it draws 0.33 watts in Standby. Enough for the remote to work and the logo to light. It’s a 55″ Visio. LED display and LCD lighting. 168 watts when on but I guess that’s with the backlights turned to full power. I have the lights cranked down to around 50% I think. I can go outside to get a tan. Just saying.
But yeah, the old Sony 32″ vacuum tube display was always a little warm when off.
I really need to install the CyberPower software on a laptop and connect to the UPS the feeds the stereo and TV and all the rest…. like the Roku and antenna amp.
I just need to figure which laptop is the least shi(-r)ty. They all suck.
Actually, other than turning the TV on to see if the LaserDisc player still works,(It does) I turned the TV off while EMS was here.
Got the big widowmaker down out of the tree. It involved rope, my truck, a ladder, fall protection, and a pole saw. 10″ diameter and30ft long.
Gonna head out to get some propane.
n
I’m sure you just forgot to mention the hardhat, right?
And most people now alive will be DEAD by 2100, and not from climate change. Some of us will be dead by 2050, me included. (I’ve got good genes for longevity, but even I am unlikely to hit my 100’th birthday.)
Be really really too bad if the passengers were dead.
Horribly injured and unable to move …
Go, WOLVES!!!
Some of us will be dead by 2050, me included.
Everyone thinks they have about ten more years . . .
Boos Rain Down As Oregon High School Transgender Runner Places 1st in Girls’ State Championship Race
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/05/19/boos-rain-down-as-biological-male-runner-places-1st-in-oregon-state-track-championship-race-n2174396
Paywalled.
The response should have been to empty the stands onto the track just before the race and stop it cold. Put a few thousand people out there, sit down, link arms, and start chanting:
NO CHEATS!
TWO GENDERS!
NO CHEATS!!
TWO GENDERS!!
Put out the word and you’d get a constant inflow of more people to replace any arrested.
Make the biggest hamashole infestation look like a bug on a windscreen.
“Everyone thinks they have about ten more years . . . ”
I just hope I have one more revolution, if that’s what my country needs.
Climate Change Claim: People will be 31% Poorer by 2100
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/18/climate-change-claim-people-will-be-31-poorer-by-2100/
I figure that by 2100, the climate disruption studies will cost over a trillion dollars per year as compared to the current $36 billion per year.
Johnson’s Trump trip unsettles some Republicans: ‘Tell me this isn’t so
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4671263-johnsons-trump-trip-unsettles-some-republicans-tell-me-this-isnt-so/
Not so unsettled as to be quoted without requesting anonymity.
All three seem to be concerned with the salacious background with was only discussed in court through prosecutorial misconduct enabled by a blatantly partisan judge. None of them seem to be concerned at all about the Democratic lawfare, and a thousand problems with the shifting stories of the witnesses. Or the fact that we’re weeks into this shiiteshow and there is a simple question still to be answered: What is the alleged crime?
Bringing in Liz Cheney to spew from her fat mouth is particularly revolting, since as part of the J6 committee she stands accused of a number of crimes worse that anything being litigated in New York.
The delicious part is her increasing hysteria as she contemplates being investigated and charged herself by the newly staffed Trump DOJ. If they can’t find a frying pan big enough for her two-axe-handle-wide lying posterior, maybe they can wing it with a paella pan. Doesn’t have to be cast iron for high heat, donchano?
@drwilliams, I see what you did there…
I’m sure you just forgot to mention the hardhat, right?
—it was in the bucket of stuff…. I tried to be above the stuff that might fall.
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I know it’s fun to beat on utilities but Centerpoint in Houston is doing upgrades and new infrastructure everywhere in town. New poles to replace old rotten wood (taller too), they replaced the transmission lines that pass thru our neighborhood, MILES of old steel towers that looked fine to me. They are adding towers to right of ways across town and out to the new developments. They have added a ton of SCADA infrastructure to the lines and local poles for monitoring. And remember that they have been replacing or rebuilding every single piece of switchgear that flooded during harvey. They came thru this year and trimmed around all our distribution lines too. Those were the contractors that broke my fence so I was aware of them doing it. They don’t always trim…
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My local cell tower keeps going up and down, as I’ll drop to no bars and even texts won’t get thru. I saw portable generators outside the ATT concrete boxes (size of Conex 20ft boxes) in the neighborhood, and a portable along side the tower at the end of my street.
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Got a phone message that I was scheduled to have power restored “by the end of the day today” but it hasn’t happened yet. Some of the surrounding area has lights so I”m hopeful.
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Found propane at the Fry Rd Home Depot, that is about 10 miles away, moving out of town. I think they still had some because their cage was hidden from view, and some sort of automated thing.
I bought 4 bottles, exchange at ~$22 each. NICE shiny new bottles for my old cr@p ones. My ghetto guy fills them for $12 but he had no power, so I sucked it up. New bottles helps me feel better. AmeriGas not bluerino. The bluerino bottles are often just painted old cr@ppy ones.
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BTW it was a lot easier to start the gennie at half choke for a second, then slowly opening over a 5 count while listening to the RPMs, even with all the load attached. First try and with the electric start in fact. You are not supposed to need choke with this kit so I’m going to do more exploring when I install the gas tank I bought last year.
And really I should get the big gennie sitting at my secondary without so much as an inspection running. Or at least look and evaluate what it needs. I’d pretty much forgotten about it, but I stopped there yesterday to pick up more virucide/mold killer and noticed it under a pile of stuff.
Time, ask me for anything but time.
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DInner has been eaten, and now I”m going to shower.
Then I think I’ll write my post, which will probably be short, since this update is long, and go to bed. I was dragging in the heat today…
n
@lynn
“I figure that by 2100, the climate disruption studies will cost over a trillion dollars per year as compared to the current $36 billion per year.”
Yeah, but them’s Old Dollars.
Remember the old joke about the new 1040 short tax form:
Not necessary in the New Democratic Worker’s Paradise.
There won’t be prices on the shelves. Your smart phone will tell you your price. For things like real beef, it will give a warning beef and say “You Can’t Afford That!”. Or maybe it just tasers your skinny starving butt and calls security.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic
@NIck
@drwilliams, I see what you did there…
I’m flattered that you have mistaken me for someone so perspicacious.
It comes from having a capacious mind…
n
If you can’t afford beef, you won’t be able to afford the tolls to leave your house on the privatized roads.
>>Boos Rain Down As Oregon High School Transgender Runner Places 1st in Girls’ State Championship Race
Every girl should have boycotted the race and let the boy run by himself.
Make sure as much press as possible is there.