Hot in Houston. Hot at the BOL. Humid. Really humid. More of the same with the added bonus of a possible hurricane coming later in the week. Joy.
Started the day at the BOL. Did a bunch of work, but very slowly. Then just before I was ready to leave, the shower and toilet in the master bath stopped draining. Spent a couple of hours trying to deal with that, and ended up heading home at midnight.
I’ll take the kid to the dentist, grab my auction pickup, load up my drain snake and drain machine, and head back up. I’ll have part of a day to get it sorted. I’d really rather just call someone, but since I’m home to get the fangs polished, I guess I can at least take a swing at it. It’s why I own the machine…
So this post will be very short. I’m up late, gotta get up early, and then have a lot of driving to do followed by pulling a toilet and snaking a sewer line….
I’ve got the tools in the stacks, and the knowledge, I’d just rather not do it but sometimes you don’t get a choice.
Stack some specialist tools. Might come in handy.
nick
Four Minutes, No Questions
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/07/01/biden-shuffled-out-to-attack-the-supreme-court-and-everyone-couldnt-ignore-his-new-appearance-n2641249
FJB is like one of those old tin litho wind-up toys. The spring is bad and could go any time, so it just gets a couple clicks to wind it enough so it moves a bit, albeit slowly. When it stalls they say “See, works just as it should.”
The “Joe Biden” Presidency ended Thursday night.
Looking through the Clarence Thomas concurring opinion on the Immunity case, I wonder if that was a last minute addition over the weekend. Roberts version of “F*ck Joe Biden”.
The bit emphasis about the gallows built for Pence strikes me as projection.
For many Dems, only the sight of Trump swinging from a rope will suffice.
LOL Orange Man Bad 2.0 What, did he go to the beach and tan? That is a lot of makeup, plugs.
The Dumbos always attack SCOTUS, It is like the Constitution: “It gets in my way of getting things done.” Obola, The Commie. The Dumbo’s new mantra is: If tRump is elected, he’ll just start shooting anybody he doesn’t like, call it an official act, and be immune. Nobody believes that is what the ruling says.
Also, tRump will ban abortion Nationwide.
Please, sheeple, don’t be that dumb.
Vertical. Coffee in the mug. Something that might be a frozen breakfast burrito is in the microwave.
Kid has been poked.
Wife is moving…
Day has begun.
n
“If tRump is elected, he’ll just start shooting anybody he doesn’t like, call it an official act, and be immune.”
Not in a million years.
We’ll find them guilty of treason in the morning and hang them in the afternoon.
For some reason that remined me of “Let the Day Begin” by The Call.
“Here’s to the plumbers at their clearing work…”
Has it really been 30 years? Wikipedia says Al Gore used it in his campaign, I did not know that, now I will think of it every time I hear that song.
The sheeple are lining up for retail shearing by the institutions still holding TSLA.
5% sales decline but deliveries are up!
Maybe Doctor Jill Biden called Robert Francis’ makeup supplier.
”We don‘t need ‘Kennedy – Addison’s’, but he does need to appear alive.”
”That’s a big ask with your husband, but we will try our best, Mrs. Biden.”
”That’s Doctor Biden to you, citizen.”
Clean out is done. Annoying but not too bad. I was supposed to finish the fluid in two hours for both sessions. I did it in one hour. That stuff moves fast through the system. 30 minutes after drinking the last it is generally over. The effect takes effect in less than 15 minutes.
No intake of anything from 10:00 AM until after the procedure. Scheduled for 3:00 PM. I have not had any solid food since 5:00 PM on Sunday. I did drink some chicken broth Monday morning. I hope to be out by 5:00 PM and will immediately get something to eat. This lack of food is annoying.
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/02/jake-tapper-they-are-telling-you-that-what-you-saw-wasnt-real-n3791265
Jake Tapper: I was a whore for Biden, but now I’ve been caught and am desperate to keep my obscene salary so I can do it again.
Tapper remains an employee of the Vanguard/Blackrock media subsidiary headquartered at the Old Plantation House in Atlanta.
He didn‘t resign in disgust or risk being fired like Tucker Carlson.
I clearly remember the days when Tapper would be a guest on Hannity’s program. Granted, it was Cutie Pie who is still beholden to the same ownership and a shill, but it wasn‘t the TDS wing of the monolith.
In some hopeful news, a court awarded $700,000 to an employee fired by Tyson foods for refusing the “vaccine”.
I helped fund 17 other lawsuits that are in progress. I don’t know how many more there are out there.
Larry Correia: Dept of Flock Your Job Security
https://x.com/monsterhunter45/status/1807825782385017011
Judge lists LNG export ban effective immediately
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/01/federal-judge-sides-with-louisiana-and-strikes-down-joe-bidens-illegal-assault-on-american-energy/
“The is no factual or legal basis” for the ban, so the lawless Biden administration, like the lawless Obama administration that spawned it, did it anyway.
If it gets appealed we’ll have another ten pages from The Bunny on “standing”.
Spent a bit talking to one of the neighbors, the mom of the guy who gave us the heads up about this place. The lot in her part of the loop that sold recently for mid- $700K is being torn down to start fresh. Someone paid >$700k for a lot. Holy cow.
Granted it’s lakefront, and a decent size, about half acre or more, but that’s crazy.
n
I know that you have OPSEC but I would love to see the URLs for these properties. If, they are listed.
People buying property in Texas now are going to flip when they get their 2026 trim notices.
OTOH, it could be a REIT.
Texas is getting ready to have a property price crash. I’ve seen it before in 1986, this looks just like it.
Just wait until the mortgage rates hit 20%. People just walk away from properties then if they have adjustable rate mortgages. And nothing on the market is sold at even half of list price.
“Ram Tops 2024 J.D. Power Initial Quality Study”
https://www.carpro.com/blog/ram-tops-2024-j.d.-power-initial-quality-study
Wow, who would have ever thought that Dodge would be better then Ford in any category ?
“Larry Correia on Presidential elections after the Chevron decision”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/07/larry-correia-on-presidential-elections.html
“In his usual famously polite, delicate, shy and retiring way, author and friend Larry Correia points out what’s needed after the Chevron precedent was overturned. I’ve edited it for language (this being a family-friendly blog), but if you want the unexpurgated original, it’s at the link.”
I am with Larry Correia, fire everyone in the federal government that is not elected or in the military. And fire anyone in the military who is in anyway remotely connected with the DEI crap.
Ford leads the industry in recalls this year.v
Plus Ram, not Dodge. Trucks.
“2024 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter Electric Cargo Van Review” by Jerry Reynolds
https://www.carpro.com/vehicle-reviews/2024-mercedes-benz-esprinter-electric-cargo-van-review
“This is the 2024 Mercedes-Benz eSprinter Cargo Van. The big van is 23-feet long, almost 9-feet high, and has a gross vehicle weight rating of over 11,000 pounds. So, who is the customer for this vehicle? Companies who use their vans to work out of and for deliveries. Amazon for instance, has a ton of electric Rivian vans you’ve probably noticed. The electric Sprinter version doesn’t have the capability, towing, or range of the Sprinter diesel, but it is more environmentally friendly and over time, it is potentially more economical to operate. Like its diesel sibling, there is a total of 488-cubic feet of cargo area behind the driver.”
“Powering the big van is a usable 113-kWh battery that drives a 150-kWh motor that puts out around 201-horsepower going to only the rear wheels. There is also the smaller 100-kWh motor available but it only puts out 134-horses. Regardless of the standard- or high-output like I am testing, all eSprinters feature the same peak 295 pound-feet of torque and a 2,624-pound payload, and a 4,277-pound towing capability.”
“MSRP: Exact amount unknown, base price is $75,316.”
I would have thought a 250 kwh or 300 kwh battery. This vehicle will need to be plugged in every night.
$12K more than the diesel van. This might be cheaper than the diesel van to drive. If, the battery does not fail early.
Haircuts are coming in house values. I don’t see how we get back to anything close to normal without houses going back to being places to live and not “tenbagger” investments.
When we couldn’t afford real estate in Vantucky, I taught another 3000 people the central lie of Obamacare.
If you like your doctor…
Wow, the solar power plants in Texas are producing 19,459 MW in Texas right now. That is amazing.
The wind turbines are producing 15,347 MW in Texas right now. Amazing.
The total demand right is 79,000 MW in Texas. We will probably hit 83,000 MW of total demand at 6 pm, right as the solar power starts to die off with the sun setting.
https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards
Haircuts are coming in house values. I don’t see how we get back to anything close to normal without houses going back to bebig places to live and not “tenbagger” investments.
The wife sold her Dad’s townhome last Thursday for $379K. She started the listing at $425K back in March in a very popular area of north Dallas, Carrollton, Texas. I told her that she barely got out in time before the great housing crash.
“Tennessee woman awarded nearly $700K after being fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccine requirement”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/tennessee-woman-awarded-700k-fired-refusing-covid-19-vaccine-requirement.amp
“Federal jury awards former BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee employee Tanja Benton over $687,000”
“A federal jury found that Tanja Benton “proved by a preponderance of the evidence” that her decision to refuse the vaccine was based on a “sincerely held religious belief,” according to the settlement obtained by WTVC.”
“For a total of over $687,000, the jury awarded Benton more than $177,000 in back pay, $10,000 in compensatory damages and $500,000 in punitive damages.”
“Benton, who worked at BCBST from 2005 through November 2022 primarily as a bio statistical research scientist, said in her lawsuit that her job did not include regular contact with people, WTVC reported. She said she only interacted with 10 to 12 clients each year and sometimes those occasional interactions were not in person.”
The trials are starting now. This will be appealed to the maximum court level.
“U.S. Will Pay Moderna $176 Million to Develop mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/u-s-will-pay-moderna-176-million-develop/
This will be worthless, just like the Covid-19 so-called vaccine.
Initial quality awards are far less important to most people than longevity. Practically none of today’s new cars (and to me that includes almost everything smaller than a big rig) will die premature deaths before they are 20 years old. Many of the complex systems depend on proprietary modules that will fail, and won’t be available in the replacement market. Meanwhile, the Model T keeps running.
OK, that is an exaggeration, but just try to get some special parts for a 20 year old car today. I don’t have figures, but an increasing number of young cars are being retired as unserviceable, and the trend is growing. Don’t believe me, take a look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6wZT7pvroY
That video is a bit long, and doesn’t exactly match my point, but it puts some detail to what I am saying here.
There is a parallel. In the 1920s, cars became very complex. They didn’t have electronics, but had almost everything else present in today’s cars. After the Depression, cars were redesigned to be simpler and easier to maintain. They had less complexity, but what they had was better engineered to maintain and last longer. This lasted until somewhere around the late 1960s. Again, a bit of an exaggeration, but a trend. Today, there are cars way over 30 years old still running.
I just realized my 1994 Dodge PU is 30 years old. It has an engine computer, but I could get a replacement from a junkyard. In the extreme, I could install a carburetor and points distributor without much difficulty. Since the body and interior are in excellent condition, I could keep it running for decades. That is longer than I will live, and probably longer than its next owner who has already offered to buy it when I die.
I like my old cars for their personality and relative simplicity. I have newer ones, and like them too, but they won’t last. Meanwhile, that Dodge PU was a fraction of the cost of a new one when I bought it in 2015. It replaced a 1977 Dodge D100 I had for 28 years. That one took just regular maintenance and tires, and is now owned by that same friend who wants my newer one. He loves it.
“‘The First Amendment Is Out of Control’ – NY Times Piece By Ex-Obama & Biden Official”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/the-first-amendment-is-out-of-control-ny-times-piece-by-ex-obama-biden-official/
“Former presidential advisor triggered government can’t have MORE CONTROL over free speech.”
“The New York Times published an op-ed on Tuesday that claims the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution “is out of control.””
“The article was authored by legal scholar Tim Wu, a Columbia law professor who served on the National Economic Council under both the Obama and Biden administrations.”
“Wu basically wrote Biden’s 2021 Executive Order on Competition.”
“In his NY Times piece, Wu argued American judges have twisted the free speech amendment into “an all-purpose tool of legislative nullification that now mostly protects corporate interests.””
No.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Federal court judge bans Biden administration LNG export pause, immediate impact unclear”
https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/government/article/55093153/federal-court-judge-bans-biden-administration-lng-export-pause-immediate-impact-unclear
“A US federal court judge in Louisiana on July 1 blocked the Biden administration’s pause on LNG export permits. The real-world impacts of the ruling remain uncertain.”
YES ! The administration cannot randomly make law !
“eSprinters feature the same peak 295 pound-feet of torque and a 2,624-pound payload, and a 4,277-pound towing capability.”
Now compare the curb weight and the cargo capacity.
The sheeple are lining up for retail shearing by the institutions still holding TSLA.
5% sales decline but deliveries are up!
Tesla is still a growth stock based on future deliveries. The new robot taxi in August and the Tesla Bot in December will be million sellers according to Musk.
In some hopeful news, a court awarded $700,000 to an employee fired by Tyson foods for refusing the “vaccine”.
I helped fund 17 other lawsuits that are in progress. I don’t know how many more there are out there.
Their name is Legion for they are many.
This is completely wrong. Now, if you include state and local level officials, then you are starting to make some really good changes.
Didn’t they do the same on shutting down on a pipeline (Keystone?) from Canada?
Procedure is done. They found three polyps and those are being sent to pathology for examination. The doctor also found internal hemorrhoids, and what that means I don’t know. If the polyps are benign then I am good for another five years.
It felt good to finally eat something.
Procedure is done. They found three polyps and those are being sent to pathology for examination. The doctor also found internal hemorrhoids, and what that means I don’t know. If the polyps are benign then I am good for another five years.
Get some hemorrhoid suppositories from the drugstore. You will thank me later.
The procedure causes those internal hemorrhoids to swell up for 2 or 3 days, blocking the exit channel. You want that channel good and greased up.
And buy N. some earplugs.
“The Supreme Court rules for a North Dakota truck stop in a new blow to federal regulators”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-regulations-north-dakota-debit-cards-9ff39be52325ea4d11bd0742e5f3c344
“WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court opened the door Monday to new, broad challenges to regulations long after they take effect, the third blow in a week to federal agencies.”
“The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of a truck stop in North Dakota that wants to sue over a regulation on debit card swipe fees that the federal appeals court in Washington upheld 10 years ago.”
“Federal law sets a six-year deadline for broad challenges to regulations. In this case, the regulation from the Federal Reserve governing the fees merchants must pay banks whenever customers use a debit card took effect in 2011.”
“Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the court’s conservative majority that the six-year clock didn’t begin to run for Corner Post until it started accepting debit cards when it opened for business in 2018.”
Dadgum, SCOTUS is the gift that keeps on giving. I keep on saying that all I wanted from Trump was a conservative Justice and DJT gave me THREE ! I look forward to his second term.
Hat tip to:
https://www.scotusblog.com/
Maybe they will train the robot to shear sheep just for the symbolism.
VIGAX was unwinding its position, but the algorithms keep TSLA in the top 10 of the index fund’s holdings, just ahead of Visa. The rest of the list looks like AI plays.
I saw an article today predicting that AI spending may generate $30 Trillion in private debt.
Sshh. That was a favor to the Geico Gecko.
Under “emergency use” exemption for the safety testing protocols no doubt.
More money for the coffers of Baillie Gifford.
This will waste some of your time – but you may not be able to look away …
https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/
“Supreme Court’s Chevron, Corner Post decisions could delay energy investments, spur litigation: analysts”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/supreme-court-chevron-corner-post-energy-sector-ferc-transmission/720413/
“FERC Chairman Willie Phillips defended the commission’s transmission planning rule after the court eliminated the Chevron deference for federal agencies.”
“The energy sector faces uncertainty following back-to-back U.S. Supreme Court decisions that limit federal agency authority for new rules and sharply extend the statute of limitations for filing suits for existing regulations under the Administrative Procedure Act, according to ClearView Energy Partners.”
“The Supreme Court on Friday struck down the Chevron doctrine in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and on Monday said plaintiffs can sue over regulations for up to six years after they are affected by them, instead of six years after they take effect, in Corner Post v. the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.”
Sweet, maybe FERC and the EPA will not decimate the power generation system of the USA after all as they had planned to.
Was Barrrett a Bunny? She strikes me as a bit young for that, but a licensed club existed in Las Vegas at one of the hipster hotels until about 15 years ago.
Jeb! has an ex-Bunny girlfriend … or had. Cynthia Henderson.
Up until 2002, the pics were all over the Interwebs, but they mostly disappeared when the reelection campaign got rolling.
Gas shortage in Texas for the rest of the Summer!
Maybe even until Christmas.
https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/storminfo/#02L
“Americans Are Already Sticking It to the Permanent Bureaucracy Just Days After Landmark Supreme Court Ruling”
https://thelibertydaily.com/americans-are-already-sticking-it-permanent-bureaucracy-just/
“(DCNF)—Just days after the Supreme Court struck down the precedent of automatically deferring to bureaucrats, it is now ordering lower courts to reconsider some cases where federal agencies have interfered with the activities of Americans.”
“On June 28, the Supreme Court overturned Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, a case that set a precedent requiring courts to defer to reasonable agency interpretations of a given law when the language used in the law was ambiguous. Now, the Supreme Court has ordered lower courts to review Foster v. U.S. Department of Agriculture and KC Transport v. Secretary of Labor, two cases where judges limited the commercial activities of Americans due to the precedent of deference set under Chevron.”
Excellent. There is no greater fear in an American citizen’s heart than to hear a government employee utter the words “I am from the government and I am here to help you.”.
Update on the Georgia child rapists
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/07/02/zulock-guilty-plea-likely-n2641182
I have no sympathy for the perps or their attorney.
The latter is upset because the terrabytes of recordings from the 16 security cameras in the horror house cannot be copied and can only be reviewed at a secure county location. Attorney Haldi wants the GBI to give hm a list of the date stamps of the crimes. Ain’t going to happen.
One thing that I missed in earlier reports was that the two children, 6 and 8 at the time the abuse started, were classed as “special needs”. I believe the most compassionate resolution would be to execute both perps and send them to h*ll where hey can begin their eternal damnation forthwith. Having them raped and beaten by other inmates–frequently–would put too much stain on other souls. Unfortunately, the death penalty is not on the table and the taxpayers will be spending millions.
@Lynn
Unfortunately “I am from the government and I am here to help you.”, the oft-cited chilling phrase, has at its heart the idea that the bureaucrats do believe they can help. That is so mid-twentieth century. For decades we’ve had the petty tyrants purposefully spend their night dreaming up ways to screw the citizens.
Defeating Chevron brings the pendulum back only microscopically. It will be approaching the zero point when Lois Lerner is tried, convicted, and rotting in jail. After Jan 20 maybe we can get a reopening of the statute of limitations for “egregious multiple violations by government employees”.
@Greg Norton
“Was Barrrett a Bunny? She strikes me as a bit young for that, but a licensed club existed in Las Vegas at one of the hipster hotels until about 15 years ago.”
coney
Another win for the sheeple:
Federal Court Halts Biden Administration’s Operation of Title IX Rule
Federal agencies and plugs, cannot make laws nor change existing ones to whatever they want.
tRump, tho.
Orange Man Bad! He’s a dictator.
And plugs is…. Well, he is Obola “pen and phone” 2.0, otherwise known as a dictator.
@RickH
“This will waste some of your time – but you may not be able to look away …”
I see ya comin’, and choose not to go there…
From X.com, Brian Ward posts about the lawsuits in progress:
Even with the changes from old Twitter, Brian seems to be muted or shadowbanned.
@Ray Thomas
“The doctor also found internal hemorrhoids, and what that means I don’t know.”
Congratulations! You are not a perfect a$$hole!
“DEI crap.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/07/my_farewell_address_to_the_duke_university_health_system.html
We need a SCOTUS ruling that DEI violates equal protection.
Report: ‘Anxiety is Only Increasing’ Inside Biden’s White House
It would be delicious and give us a new definition of irony if Doctor Jill had a stroke from the stress.
Wouldn’t want her mind affected, just the body.
Too much to hope that Hunter followed.
One Arrested in Connection With Attack on Jews, Elderly Veteran at North Carolina Library
Monica Buckley, one of the victims: “The only reason the police knew what was happening was because of the livestream that I had on — and people who were watching the live stream are who called the police. The library didn’t call the police, not a single person there called the police while we were being beaten by a mob.”
If the 911 record confirms, a lawsuit will follow.
This from the link:
The library was actively hosting a hate group.
How Biden’s Mental Decline Went From ‘Misinformation’ To Fact In A Week
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/02/how-bidens-mental-decline-went-from-misinformation-to-fact-in-a-week/
Trump Executive Order January 20, 2025
Events of the last year have proved conclusively that many “traditional” news organizations, notably ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post, have vacated any effort at discharging their First Amendment obligations in favor of being fully committed apparatchiks of the Democrat Party and conspired with that party to hide the mental decline of Joe Biden from the public. The result was to keep an elderly man with deteriorating faculties in an office he was not longer able to competently fill, putting the citizens and the republic at risk. The Presdiency of the United States is not a 10AM to 4PM job.
These same organizations showed previously that they were willing conspire to attack a sitting president in full command of his faculties in an effort to prevent hi from leading the nation, also putting the citizens and the republic at risk.
This is not freedom of the press–it is an abrogation of everything a free press stands for.
Access to the president and other government officials is not a universal right for any group claiming to have first amendment privileges. Going forward, such access will be considerably decreased for those who have been shown to repeatedly abandon their obligations in favor of partisan activity. There are many non-traditional news organizations and individuals, both on the left and on the right, who have shown themselves to be worthy of more access so they have the opportunity to ask the tough questions that our citizens deserve to have asked.
Trump Executive Order January 20, 2025
Everyone taking an oath of office in my administration will be signing a legally binding document. Follow the rules. If you make carp up, you go out the door and leave your pension behind. And the marshalls may be waiting for you.
That should be – and should have been! – the policy since 1789. I hope they enforce it viciously.
Feds say “damn the whales” in the Gulf of Maine
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/07/02/feds-say-damn-the-whales-in-the-gulf-of-maine/
PLT’s are whores. But I repeat myself.
Third Federal Court Puts Preliminary Injunction on Biden’s Title IX Rule
“After review, the court finds that the unambiguous plain language of the statutory provisions and the legislative history make clear that the term ‘sex’ means the traditional concept of biological sex in which there are only two sexes, male and female.”
–Judge John Broomes
Might want to look at him for SCOTUS. He could give a chalk talk to certain members.
You got out of Carrollton at the right time.
The homes are still nice for the most part, but, from what we saw driving through there on the way to the comic event at The Boozy Bird a few weeks ago, the neighborhoods are starting to change subtly.
If you wanted that, you should have voted for DeSantis in the primary, even if it was just a protest vote. That’s how he operates.
DeSantis don’t surf.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXjB30rAUbw
>> No intake of anything from 10:00 AM until after the procedure. Scheduled for 3:00 PM. I have not had any solid food since 5:00 PM on Sunday. I did drink some chicken broth Monday morning. I hope to be out by 5:00 PM and will immediately get something to eat. This lack of food is annoying.
For my last scope, the ‘no food’ edict got to me late on the first day so I snuck in a lightly scrambled egg white. Figured it would sneak through and afaik wasn’t “spotted.” (IANAD and YMMV)
>> https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/07/02/jake-tapper-they-are-telling-you-that-what-you-saw-wasnt-real-n3791265
Jake Tapper: I was a whore for Biden, but now I’ve been caught and am desperate to keep my obscene salary so I can do it again.
I’d say 99% whore and 1% conscious.
More gibberish…and the last clip with the ‘Amish’ guy is a bit scary…or just a new fetish??
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/07/02/biden-remarks-on-extreme-weather-n2176281
Maybe they will train the Tonybots to shear sheep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUbjO-eWj_g
Sheep shearing video is almost three years old.
Hope they are still doing well.
More gibberish…and the last clip with the ‘Amish’ guy is a bit scary…or just a new fetish??
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/07/02/biden-remarks-on-extreme-weather-n2176281
THAT WAS CREEPY ! ! !
I needed a red flag warning on that one.
Kamala Harris Delegate Says They Will Blow Up the Democrat Party If a White Man Is Chosen Over Her
https://redstate.com/levon/2024/07/02/kamala-harris-delegate-says-they-will-blow-up-the-democrat-party-if-a-white-man-is-chosen-over-her-n2176299
Let’s say Biden quits and Harris steps up.
The videos of Harris’ word-salad performances are almost as bad as Biden’s drooling dementia. The prospect of her debating Trump is a bad SNL skit. But there is no way she steps aside, no matter color or gender. What bribe could they offer? SCOTUS?
The wind turbines are producing 15,347 MW in Texas right now. Amazing.
— I passed a train alongside the Hardy Tollroad today that had 24 giant wind turbine blades, each fixtured across 2 flatbed cars.
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I’m at the BOL. My hand snake wasn’t long enough to hit the clog. My power snake/drain machine sat outside too long and the motor is seized. I called a plumber for tomorrow. Dammit. I’m upset with myself, as I thought it was covered well enough. And I was pretty casual about getting started because I was sure I could do the job.
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Pecking at a few things before the family gets here tomorrow late morning, and my sibling and spouse get here in the evening.
I should get some dinner going.
n
Biden’s Cognitive Decline Is A National Security Threat – Invoke The 25th Amendment NOW
Trump should act to put America first, by urging Democrats to admit that Biden is unfit, and then act by invoking the 25th Amendment. It’s hard to say if his dong so would have any effect whatsoever, good or bad, but it would position him clearly in the America First camp, which he has consistently shown he believes in.
The problem, of course, is that Harris is as sharp as ever, which is to say, about as far from sharp as you can get. If Joe leaves, I don’t see Harris keeping his staffers–not that they have been obvious sources of good advice–and she would have to get some heavy hitters in quick. In a perfect world someone is already working on this. Hello?
I’d really like to get to November and on to January without international chaos. The whole thing is unstable, like a mountain before a heavy rain causes a mudslide.
@lynn, check your email…
and there are several lots that are not listed publically… but may list after then holiday.
n
“Alvin Bragg’s Team Agrees to Delay Sentencing in the Trump Trial Following SCOTUS Immunity Ruling”
https://thelibertydaily.com/alvin-braggs-team-agrees-delay-sentencing-trump-trial/
“(DCNF)—Prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office agreed on Tuesday to delay former President Donald Trump’s sentencing, The New York Times reported.”
“A Manhattan jury convicted Trump May 30 on 34 felony counts of falsification of business records. Bragg’s office agreed to a request to delay the sentencing in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling that found presidents have immunity from prosecution for “official acts” taken in office, but called the motion by Trump’s attorneys meritless, according to the NYT.”
““Although we believe defendant’s arguments to be without merit, we do not oppose his request for leave to file and his putative request to adjourn sentencing pending determination of his motion,” Joshua Steinglass, an assistant district attorney, wrote in response, according to the NYT.”
Bragg knows that his case and his pet judge are in trouble.
Did you write this with a straight face?
War in Ukraine.
War in Gaza, with incursions in and by other countries.
Saber rattling in China vs. Taiwan.
Destruction of the petro dollar.
Real estate is crashing.
Inflation is rampant.
Uncountable numbers of foreign agents crossing our porous borders, planting criminals, terrorists, and spy cells here.
Global elitists threatened by populist parties and candidates in Europe, leading the commies to get desparate.
And that’s just now. Wait until the leadup to our election.
One of the little things I took the time to do was sharpen my EDC Benchmade MiniGriptillion pocket knife.
I normally use the spyderco triangular ceramic sharpening jig, but I’ve let my blade go far too long. It was embarrassing when I couldn’t cut tape on a box.
I used this–
https://www.amazon.com/Lanksy-Blademedic-4-Knife-Sharpener/dp/B0085PPSIQ?tag=ttgnet-20
Which is small and easy to carry or store, and does a good job for a touchup with a bit of care. I like it and normally keep it on my desk for quick fixes to dull blades.
Recommended.
They have another without the diamond cone shaped spike, that looks interesting if you don’t have serrated blades. And Lansky has a good rep for sharpening tools.
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One of the programs I caught a bit of on shortwave the other night was in regard to Gert Wilder in the Netherlands. I guess he won something or his party did? Anyway the “journalist” was very dismissive saying several times that they’d have to “look like they were doing something” without really being able to do any of the things the were elected to do. Didn’t occur to her that people might WANT those things, and work to really get them.
And M LePen won in France, at least round one…
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The Liberals need another Justice who can write.
Go read The Wise Latina’s dissent in the Immunity case if you don’t think that they have a problem.
“Exclusive: One in three Democrats think Biden should quit the race, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds | Reuters”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/one-three-democrats-think-biden-should-quit-race-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2024-07-02/
“Among the names of top Democrats put before respondents, only Michelle Obama, wife of former Democratic President Barack Obama, outperformed Biden and led Trump 50% to 39% in a hypothetical matchup. Michelle Obama, author of the best-selling 2018 memoir “Becoming,” has said repeatedly she does not intend to run for president.”
Are the dumbrocrats brave enough ?
Can they get Michelle O on the various state’s candidate slates ?
Will Kamala Harris allow it ?
Will Michelle O do it ?
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
War in Ukraine.
That is way too simple. The chances are very high that the war will spread to Poland, Turkey, Germany, and about thirty other countries that believe themselves prepared for war with a nuclear armed opponent. In fact, an opponent with way more nuclear weapons than possibly the total of every other country on the planet. And, that opponent is incredibly paranoid from the last invasion of their country just eighty years ago.
Funny, I did not start 2020 thinking that this might be the decade that half of mankind nuked itself into oblivion.
Even if we don’t get a global war, the economic news is not good.
Housing and commercial real estate are in the dumper too.
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Currently 85F with a nice cool breeze down on the dock.
Lots of radio tonight. Must be some contests as there were a lot of people calling for DX. 20M was very active. Listened to a guy in Boston working all over, including NZ and a catamaran 60 miles off the coast of California.
Heard several european countries, and Alberta Canada…
40M was mostly southern US.
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dark sky but a bit too much haze around the horizon and up about 45 degrees.
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headed to bed, hope the plumber isn’t too early or too expensive.
Maybe he’ll give me a break as I’ve already pulled the toilet, and I will clean up and put it back.
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Wild, I actually shop at Dollar Tree now occasionally. Not Dollar General, too expensive even though I have one just a quarter mile away (by crow) in Crabb, Texas from my home. I don’t live in Crabb, I live in the county.
Well, that is unnerving. I googled Crabb, Texas and found this picture from the 1913 flood of the Brazos River. That picture is over five miles away from the Brazos River and three blocks away from my house. But, I live across the tracks from that picture, the railroad tracks which form a levee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabb,_Texas#/media/File:Crabb_Texas_1913_Flood.jpg
From
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabb,_Texas
My office building is four miles closer to the Brazos River than that picture. I wonder if my office buildings were above water during that 2013 flood. That flood was six feet higher than the Brazos River was during hurricane Harvey in 2017.
“Shell to temporarily pause on-site construction of 820,000-tpy European biofuels facility”
http://hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2024/06/shell-to-temporarily-pause-on-site-construction-of-820-000-tpy-european-biofuels-facility/?oly_enc_id=8020E7639790J0C
“Shell Nederland Raffinaderij B.V., a subsidiary of Shell plc, is to temporarily pause on-site construction work at its 820,000-tpy biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam in the Netherlands to address project delivery and ensure future competitiveness given current market conditions.”
These facilities only work if they can sell their biofuels at $10 to $20 per gallon. If they are competing against $2 per gallon gasoline and diesel, they don’t work. Somebody just figured that out and got scared that the government subsidies might not continue very long.
headed to bed, hope the plumber isn’t too early or too expensive.
I hope for competence now over price. Plumbing fixes usually get expensed over long periods of time.
Let’s leave aside the fact that this is about vaccinations. Why should someone’s religious opinion have any weight at all? Islamists believe that their religion tells them to enforce Sharia law – should the courts support Sharia, because it is a sincerely held religious belief?
Religion can dictate someone’s personal behavior, but it should not have any importance to their employer or anyone else. If her employer demanded something that her religion prohibits, she needed to find a different job.
Separation of church and state is an important principle, and that includes courts enforcing individual religious beliefs onto others.
That is really excellent news. Time and past time to stop the trans BS. Cosplaying is not reality.
@brad, sharia law conflicts with secular law. In the US anyway, the secular laws against murder and abuse take precedence.
There wasn’t a law involved in the “vax” cases, only policy.
IIRC the heart of the argument was that the origin of the “vax” included fetal cells from aborted babies, and that even if it was quite removed in time or technique, the religious objection was based on that.
Some people used the “my body is a temple, and I don’t alter it from God’s intent” argument. That is a much harder position to defend.
There is a lot of case law around what is discrimination based on religious beliefs, what is supporting a particular religion, what accommodations need to be made…
Never forget the origin of the people who made up the original colonies, they were fringe religious minorities driven out of their home countries by governments telling them what they can and can’t believe and how that was to be expressed. Like the 2A, those experiences formed the basis for the unique “American” and resonate still.
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@brad,
If her employer demanded something that her religion prohibits, she needed to find a different job.
– do the Swiss set aside prayer rooms for the muzzies? How does a Swiss employer deal with the 5x daily prayer? Do the cafeterias serve a halal option? Do they provide paid leave for religious holidays?
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85F and sunny, with occassional mild breezes…
Hot and humid in other words.
Plumbing fixed. Blockage cleared. Young kid, only 20 and has his own license and truck with the company. He thinks he might be the youngest plumber in Texas… his future is bright.
Family inbound, due any moment, sibling and spouse later in the evening.
Time to get moving.
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Wow, slow day. Has the site been down???
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13 hours without a comment? I’m getting weirded out.
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