Hot and humid, chance of rain. Yesterday was the same, but it never rained on me. Even though it was 90F+ it was ok in the shade with a breeze.
So that’s where I spent my afternoon and evening, in the shade of the overgrown trees and bushes in the back yard. I pruned. I cut. I stacked. I chainsawed… and it looks better. More importantly, the branches around the power, data, and telcom lines have been cut back.
That gave me access to the broken fence, and allowed me to do some half @ssed repairs. I decided to do something, since I had the stuff, and the neighbor (who owns the fence) hadn’t done anything. Took an hour and wasn’t hard. I used a metal post support thing driven into the ground at the base of two posts, and put some long fence pickets along the top rail and across the posts so as to reinforce and force the panels to be straight… It worked pretty well. If I could find them, I’d put in another post support or two. Eventually I’ll find them. Or the neighbor will decide to fix the fence. It’s far from perfect, but it will do for now, and it was cheap.
In order to do that work, I had to fix my string trimmer and pole saw. I put a new bump head on the string trimmer. And I think it was low oil in both power units that kept them from running. Changing the oil in the dirty one, and topping up the oil in the other got them both running. 2 stroke engines are easier to run, although the 4 strokes are supposed to be better. 4 strokes need the oil and regular gas. 2 strokes need oil IN the gas. I’d like to be standardized but I bought what was cheap in the auctions. Small gas tools are like PCs in that you need n+1 to keep n running…
I ended up cutting the grass in the back yard with the string trimmer again. Too long between mows, and I can’t get the mower through it. I pulled up the collard plants, and weeded the herb garden too.
All in all, a pretty productive afternoon and evening.
Today I’m doing indoor stuff in the morning, mostly auction, but also some hobby website work. I will continue with the office cleanup project as well. I’ve got jury duty Tuesday so I have to get some stuff done today.
Stay busy, work to improve your situation, and stack. The world is more unsettled today than it was a few days ago, and that trend is likely to continue.
nick
(title is because D1 was on a trip with a girlfriend and her mom to Florida, but she’s home now…)
Right now, the rule is that there are no rules.
Someone other than Kamala or Big Mike at the top of the ticket will require a lot of Walkin’ ‘Round money from the donors.
DNC with rules? They change the rules, bend the rules, ignore the rules, to do whatever they want. That pattern follows the candidates into office. Spongey was especially egregious in his attempts to bypass rules and laws. The student loan fiasco being the biggest example.
I believe that the Camel (let’s call her the “Humper” in support of her methods of rising to prominence with apologies to real Camels) is frantically doing what she can to gather enough votes and finding ways to bypass rules.
The Humper has no real qualifications for the office. Supporters claim she was tough on crime in California. Uh, no she wasn’t. Her time in the VP slot she produced nothing or did anything useful. The same could be said about Spongey but at least he attended meetings.
I despise Trump as he is an egotistical liar. He was a ruthless business person and maybe that is what is needed in the White House. I am just concerned he will go off half-cocked and do something stupid when dealing with other countries.
The Humper would never get my vote, even if she was the only person on the ballot like they do in Russia. I would write in my dog before I would vote for the Humper.
I do suspect that the Humper will be the democratic candidate. I also think she will pick a female running mate, some minority, to gather in the minority vote. Qualifications are secondary to finding someone to attract voters.
I also think that the Humper will lose the election following in the footsteps laid down by the Hilliary. Spitting nails and kicking chairs after the votes are counted.
I suspect the Democrats have decided that this election cannot easily be won, even if they cheat, since the failed assassination attempt boosted Trump’s popularity enormously, and since his supporters and the USSC will be more vigilant and active against fraud this time around.
They won’t want to burn out M. Obama for 2028 as a losing candidate in 2024, and they don’t much mind what happens to Harris, and she might just win, if enough undecided low-information female voters support her. The horse might learn to sing.
As always, my predictions are worth what you paid for them…
Don’t forget Pete Bootyjuice. The Dumbos believe teh Gays represent all the Alphabet people, who will sway the election. LOL.
Does Amazon sell popcorn by the pallet?
I get this, sort of.
The problem is, except for the “ruthless business person”, I think he at least tried to fulfill some of his promises. And I distinctly remember being explicitly lied to by these egotists:
Both Bushes. Both Clintons. Tip O’Neill. Jimmy Carter. Al Gore. Teddy Kennedy. Barack Obama. Every Speaker of the House except Newt Gingrich, and I may have just missed his lies. But they all had a veneer of “genteel” over their ruthless lying.
And you’re worried about his dealing with other countries, when his first term was the longest peace we had since, well, forever? Have you considered that he had more experience as a negotiator going into the job than anyone since Eisenhower?
Yes, I have. But lately Trump seems to have changed. A little more abrasive.
I am of the opinion that all politicians stretch the truth or downright lie.
I really don’t think Spongey has, or had, Covid. I think it was an excuse to isolate him and get him out of the public scrutiny for a few days. The White House spin machine fabricating in-truths.
One of my RSS feeds is Stilton Jarlsberg, and one of his commenters asks innocently what the source of all the stories about Kamala’s knees was.
Another commenter answered, and won the internet: “Kamala sat on Willie Brown’s staff for a number of years.”
87F and sunny. Could still change, but maybe it will just be hot and humid today.
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Nothing I can do about the Dems candidate, so I’m just going to wait and see. Won’t change my vote, nor how I organize my life. It’s fun, for certain values of fun, to speculate, but it’s a lot of distraction, and wasted energy and attention. Still gonna watch as the choice will tell us a lot about the long term wants and desires of the puppet masters….
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I woke up thinking about how Americans are/were often seen as ungovernable, too independent, tenacious, and our myths were too powerful – the self made man, the lone hero, the cowboy, American Exceptionalism, the Protestant work ethic. So what to do if your plan is to rule the world? You have to attack those strengths.
Attack the individual. Attack the American Dream. Attack the myths. Dilute the culture. Neuter the rugged male.
They’ve been doing their best, and it’s worked to an astonishing degree.
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I need some coffee.
n
Nick, the coffee will make you more aware of what you just wrote.
Wow. The Director of the USSS is being proven a complete trash person in front of Congress. The Dumbos don’t hold her accountable, of course. It is the White Devil’s Orange King who is responsible. Plus, the shooter’s rooftop was really hot and not “pristine,” whatever that means. The World is laughing at us.
The joke will be on them when our Orange King jacks tariffs on their crap imports, withdraws treasure and ends the war in the ME.
Gavin Newsom had a matching set of knee pads in Willie Brown’s desk drawer.
Brown is the last pol standing who directly benefited from Jim Jones/People’s Temple influence in San Francisco politics in the 70s.
Stay thirsty my friends.
I recall reading a history of airbags.
The regulators originally assumed that the rugged individualist Americans would refuse to wear the mandated seatbelts, and the airbags were a backup system that they could force manufacturers to install by fiat.
To the regulatory system’s astonishment Americans agreed to wear seatbelts, and in reality the airbags weren’t needed to achieve the original goals. So they moved the goal posts. Because bureaucracies never surrender power and/or authority.
I didn’t notice, but news sites are reporting plugs’ drop-out letter isn’t on POTUS stationary nor a wet signature. Tweeting it out is also kind of wonky. plugs hasn’t been seen for five days and the press pool is silent.
Weekend at Bernie’s
n
Something is wonky about the whole thing. A letter instead of in person? He did not even appear to endorse the Humper. Covid? I am suspicious. I think something happened to Spongey that is medical related. The propaganda machine at the White House is covering up something. I doubt Spongey died as the Humper would be all over that. A minor stroke perhaps.
Something sure isn’t right.
n
Maybe they’re keeping his death from Kamala so she won’t find a justice of the peace and swear herself in. To give themselves a little more time to
destroy the evidence–clean up the crime scene– prepare for an orderly transition. Yeah, that’s the ticket.It’s not just a fringe idea..
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13659637/president-joe-biden-rumor-ill-dead-dropped-race.html
n
n
Dead would put Speaker Johnson the proverbial “heartbeat away” and take away the tiebreaker in the Senate. The Dems would want to rectify that as soon as possible even if it meant a compromise interim VP like Mittens.
I bet Hunter “The Bad Son” Biden is sweating bullets right now.
I bet Hunter “The Bad Son” Biden is sweating bullets right now.
Hunter got his sealed pardons years ago. They will be produced before he goes to prison as a last resort.
“The entire Trump assassination plot is about to blow up thanks to a mysterious ATF agent who just went dark…”
https://revolver.news/2024/07/entire-trump-assassination-plot-about-to-blow-thanks-to-mysterious-atf-agent-just-went-dark/
“There’s a major shroud of mystery and unanswered questions hanging over the Trump assassination attempt, with new bizarre details coming out daily. The latest bombshell involves a mysterious ATF agent who appears to have secretly gotten involved in the case but has suddenly gone dark. Senator Ron Johnson is all over this new twist. If his findings hold water, they could blow the lid off the entire plot to kill President Trump. In short, according to Senator Johnson and his inside sources, a sniper team was the first on the roof, taking pictures of the scene and the dead shooter. Shockingly, they were approached by a man in a suit who they thought was from the Secret Service and were instructed to text those photos to a phone number that turned out to belong to an ATF agent. Now, attempts to contact this mysterious agent have failed because he’s gone completely dark.”
The Trump assassination attempt is either a seriously horrible conspiracy or, a total new level of incompetence for the US Secret Service. Or, both.
The USSS director is a joke. “Rep Pat Fallon to Director Kimberly Cheatle: “Go Back to Guarding Doritos””
https://rumble.com/v57zmat-rep-pat-fallon-to-director-kimberly-cheatle-go-back-to-guarding-doritos.html
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
I didn’t notice, but news sites are reporting plugs’ drop-out letter isn’t on POTUS stationary nor a wet signature. Tweeting it out is also kind of wonky. plugs hasn’t been seen for five days and the press pool is silent.
I am wondering if Bidden had another stroke and they are trying to get him to wake up out of a coma.
xkcd: CrowdStrike
https://www.xkcd.com/2961/
Make the best of bad times.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2961:_CrowdStrike
I would not put it past the scum in the White House that they are working on an AI presentation of Spongey, thus the delay in the appearance. I don’t trust the current White House staff as they are sinister, lying, cheating, thieving scum and will do whatever to protect their jobs.
Of course, doing so would signal the end of the democratic party so my first sentence is just me being a fool. The second sentence is true. No such thing could happen without a lot of people knowing and would eventually get out.
In reality I think Spongey had a minor heart attack, a minor stroke, or some other such affliction. The White House is taking great precautions to hide such a condition. Why I don’t know. The Humper would invoke the 25th, and assume the role. That is not a permanent change as the 25th does not mention removing the president from the office, only making the holder of the office temporarily unable to function in the role. There is a lot of language about acting president, not actually becoming president. Spongey would have to resign or die for the Humper to become the president.
Somewhere in all of this I believe Jill Biden is maneuvering to stay in the White House and keep receiving all the perks of being the 1st lady until the end of Spongey’s term. She likes traveling on AF1 and having people at her call on a moment’s notice.
Perhaps that is why Spongey’s real issues are being hidden. For some reason perhaps the democratic coverup machine really does not want the Humper to get in the office just yet. Something is being carefully controlled while the people are not being fully informed of what is happening. If this is a big coverup that would put Trumpster in the driver’s seat of a single seat vehicle.
I have thought the same thing. If he is in a coma, the 25th should have been invoked immediately. It is not permanent removal from office and Spongey could assume the presidential role when he recovers. All provided in the 25th.
If Spongey is truly in a coma, (induced or natural) not informing the senate, congress, judicial, and the American people would be a major issue, perhaps even a crime. It would finish any trust in the Democratic and destroy any legitimacy of the Democrats in power.
“SpaceX has dreamed up a Dragon ship on steroids to drag the ISS out of space”
https://www.space.com/spacex-dragon-iss-deorbit-vehicle-design-revealed
“The super-sized Dragon spacecraft has a larger trunk and a whopping 46 Draco engines to send the ISS to a fiery doom.”
Musk has quite a few super creative people. I am impressed.
No pictures of ice cream runs, sleeping in the beach chair, strolls in the park, or lid called. Where is he? Where is the press pool? Why is The Kamel/Humper silent?
Unbelievable that there has not been one picture of plugs. Why isn’t a massive gaggle of news trucks parked outside the beach house?
Weekend at Bernies indeed.
Side Quested: Not The Fair Maidens
https://sidequested.com/page/180/
The Fair Maidens can take care of themselves. Or, they can call Babs, the 300+ foot long fire breathing dragon. The Prince is a little over sure of himself.
“Largest Study of Its Kind Finds Excess Deaths During Pandemic Caused by Public Health Response, Not Virus”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/excess-deaths-pandemic-response/5863267
“A study released today of excess mortality in 125 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic found the major causes of death globally stemmed from public health establishment’s response, including mandates and lockdowns that caused severe stress, harmful medical interventions and the COVID-19 vaccines.”
““We conclude that nothing special would have occurred in terms of mortality had a pandemic not been declared and had the declaration not been acted upon,” the authors of the study wrote.”
“Researchers from the Canadian nonprofit Correlation Research in the Public Interest and the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières analyzed excess all-cause mortality data prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, beginning with the March 11, 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) pandemic declaration and ending on May 5, 2023, when the WHO declared the pandemic over.”
I have been wondering this for quite a while. We could not get in to see my father-in-law in the nursing home for over six months due to the Koof lockdown. I think that loneliness contributed to his death in September 2020.
That wasn’t a public health response. That was sickness kabuki.
I disagree. Kabuki is formal, highly stylized, entertaining, and does not kill the audience.
What we got was poorly researched, full of bad science, 100% graft, killed the economy, ruined the budget, caused huge impacts in lifestyle, business, health, education, loneliness, and mental health. Not to mention the “vaccine” that is the probable cause of those excess deaths. Off the top of my head.
What the TSA does at airports is more like kabuki. Although it’s pretty expensive and disruptive, it’s not generally fatal and doesn’t encourage bad outcomes. Doesn’t discourage them, either, of course.
The most positive outcome of the public health response is how many people have their eyes opened about vaccines in general (some are useful, all have risks) and healthcare in general. Which is that outside of acute care and pathology, doctors don’t know shirt from shinola.
I disagree. Kabuki is formal, highly stylized, entertaining, and does not kill the audience.
What we got was poorly researched, full of bad science, 100% graft, killed the economy, ruined the budget, caused huge impacts in lifestyle, business, health, education, loneliness, and mental health. Not to mention the “vaccine” that is the probable cause of those excess deaths. Off the top of my head.
The Koof response by the various governments has killed off ¼ to ½ of the small businesses in the USA. Like mine.
The oil and gas business has dropped from 15 million jobs to 10 million jobs. Where did those five million people go ?
Where did those five million people go ?
– functionally retired, or a side hustle, or the gig economy
n
Didn’t they go learn to code like the tech billionaires suggested?
“Jaw-Dropper! Trump Leads Kamala 64% to 29% in Latest Poll – Up 10 Pts. in PA… Up 30 Pts in AZ… Up 40 Pts in GA!”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/07/jaw-dropper-trump-leads-kamala-64-29-latest/
“Well this wasn’t supposed to happen!”
“Joe Biden aborted his presidential campaign on Sunday. Later in the day, Democrat elites anointed Kamala Harris as the new puppet candidate.”
“This was effectively a successful coup of the Biden campaign. And, the American public has seen no signs of Joe Biden since the Twitter X announcement was posted on Sunday.”
“Following the news, Miss Word Salad, Kamala Harris traveled to Wilmington, Delaware to check out her new campaign headquarters. The Democrat elites already scrubbed the place of any mention of Old Joe Biden.”
3.5 months until the official poll in the USA so this means nothing but, …
If it’s enough to pull it down, it could also push it up. Mass in orbit is valuable.
Big Mike is coming.
Where did those five million people go ?
– functionally retired, or a side hustle, or the gig economy
n
Yeah, I think that most of them retired for real instead of retiring and did contract work at local plants and facilities.
“The Nuclear Co. exits stealth, plans to deploy standardized 6-GW nuclear fleet”
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/the-nuclear-company-exits-stealth-to-deploy-standardized-6-gw-nuclear-fleet/721983/
“The startup will initially target sites with active Nuclear Regulatory Commission permits, Chief Development Officer Juliann Edwards said.”
I wish them luck, they are going to need it. I just don’t see them being able to compete with federal government subsidized solar power and wind turbines.
“Elon Musk Disses Kamala Harris on X After Biden Drops Out”
https://resistthemainstream.com/elon-musk-disses-kamala-harris-on-x-after-biden-drops-out/
““Imagine 4 years of this …” Musk posted online on Sunday evening, along with a video of a masked Kamala Harris announcing, “I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.””
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1815193874366640591
You know, if Laughing Kamala gets to be Prez, she might just deport Musk.
They will get NIMBY-ed to death. Turkey Point 6 & 7 were approved 20 years ago IIRC.
The Crystal River decommissioning was accelerated by 50 years in part because The Villages keeps growing.
I’ve been saying the same thing for years.
Gah, my wife needs a compact flash card, between 1 and 4 MB for an industrial machine. I’m sure I have a couple, but I just searched the whole drawer where I keep that stuff and came up empty. I can’t believe I would have thrown them away, so they must be in my office somewhere. I must have organized them at some point and now I can’t find them.
NEVER MOVE ANYTHING!!11!!11!!111
Grrr.
n
@Nick – maybe you need a couple of these; them memory cards are small…
From last Friday:
Install enough Cygwin to run OpenSSL and try the following with a backup copy of your *.cer file:
openssl x509 -in cerfile.cer -noout -text
You may have a PEM-encoded cert file. If that doesn’t work
openssl x509 -inform pem -in cerfile.cer -noout -text
I forget a lot of the openssl command line arguments, but it should be possible to extract the private key from the *.cer file using the utility. I think an argument has to be passed to tell the tool to prompt for and use a password.
C:\dii>openssl x509 -inform pem -in test.cer -noout -text
unable to load certificate
9336:error:0909006C:PEM routines:get_name:no start line:crypto/pem/pem_lib.c:745:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE
No joy with this either. I have to have SafeNet running and the USB token inserted in a USB port. Then I have to type in password in a popup text box.
What works is:
signtool sign /fd SHA256 /f test.cer /p password %1
Wow. CF.
Hadn’t thought of those in a while! I think my old Canon Xt used them, but I have no idea where it went. Not in the assorted camera debris drawer.
Maybe you should call IT at Southwest 😉
One of greatest allies:
Benjamin Netanyahu Arrives in US and There’s No One There to Greet Him
Let’s send more billions to Zelenskyy, that’ll show those Jews.
He’s alive… or it’s a ‘cheap fake’…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/jul/22/joe-biden-calls-kamala-harris-event-video
“In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Teller”
https://www.propublica.org/article/jd-vance-alex-jones-leonard-leo-teneo-maddow-video
“Sen. J.D. Vance, whom Donald Trump named as his vice presidential running mate Monday, told a group of influential young conservatives in a closed-door speech in 2021 that they should stand up for “nonconventional people” who speak truth, such as Infowars founder Alex Jones.”
““If you listen to Rachel Maddow every night, the basic worldview that you have is that MAGA grandmas who have family dinners on Sunday and bake apple pies for their family are about to start a violent insurrection against this country,” Vance said. “But if you listen to Alex Jones every day, you would believe that a transnational financial elite controls things in our country, that they hate our society, and oh, by the way, a lot of them are probably sex perverts too.””
Um, the Devil is real. Or, his real name, “The Evil One”.
Alex Jones stretches the truth mightily. Mightily. Mostly the truth.
I knew that I liked J.D. Vance.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
It is hard to believe the Dir of USSS still has a job. Can nobody be fired in the current Administration?
”…go back to guarding Doritos”
>>Where did those five million people go ?
To the BOL of course…