Fri. Sept. 6, 2024 – Friday so soon? Well, we did miss Monday…

By on September 6th, 2024 in culture, decline and fall, mainstream media

Cool and wet. OR Hot and wet. Won’t know until we get there. But yesterday was overcast and cool almost all day, and actually cool once the rain started. Some cool would be nice.

Spent the day at home. Had to take the kid to the orthodontist, then school. The other kid stayed home sick. And the plumber came to do the gas line for the whole house gennie. Yep, the one that has been sitting there for years.

It lives! Started right up too. Now I’ve got some electrical to do, a battery to buy, and some sound absorption stuff to install. It will be nice to have finally made progress on that project. Honestly don’t know why it’s taken so long, but part of it was biting the bullet on the expense. Part of it was “just do it.”

Cooking a nice brisket for dinner rounded out the day.

Today should be domestic bliss, and some auction stuff. I’ve got one pickup to do, maybe two. I need to talk with the auctioneer that’s been selling for me and get that going again. I need to move some stuff to storage, and look to see what electrical stuff I’ve got stored deep at the secondary location. It would be nice to get some other stuff done too. The week flew by.

Like they are wont to do.

So stack what you can while you can. Make a little progress every day. Like the rapidly vanishing year, you’ll be amazed what the little steps add up to.

nick

59 Comments and discussion on "Fri. Sept. 6, 2024 – Friday so soon? Well, we did miss Monday…"

  1. Greg Norton says:

    “Smallpox – Eradicated or Renamed?”

        https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/smallpox-eradicated-or-renamed-a3047fb1

    I do not understand this article.

    The article smells like an AI generated it.

    The whois information for trialsitenews.com is fairly useless.

  2. Greg Norton says:

    “At the time of this writing, WHO has declared mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) as a PHEIC (Public Health Emergency of International Concern), the second time since 2022.

    Avoiding “Mpox” is fairly simple but no one wants to dare suggest that people “keep it in their pants”, particularly when addressing the behavior of the gay male segment of the population in the US and Western Europe.

    If you don’t want to catch Mpox, stay out of the bathhouses, both in a literal and figurative sense.

    And, please, spare me the “Bathhouses don’t exist anymore” spiel.

  3. Greg Norton says:

    Hurray! We can import more coal-generated power from Canada and Nevada!

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/01/climate/klamath-dam-salmon/index.html

    Oregon used to have a site which would display the origins of the state’s electricity supply in real time, but the facts got embarrasing within the last couple of years so the page came down.

    BTW, the girl on the right in the picture of the fish parade from the “salmon festival” is wearing a $350 pair of boots. Tecovas Annie. Probably got them at the company’s showroom here in Austin during one of the bacchanalia events.

    Gotta love Progs in the Northwest – always wearing pricey shoes and/or outerwear and drinking the finest craft cocktails.

  4. Greg Norton says:

    Man, Tecovas has been busy putting showrooms in other “entertainment districts” of towns known for fine parties.

  5. Nick Flandrey says:

    @greg, it’s Willie Sutton’s advice, he robbed banks because that’s where the money was…

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    Cool and very wet.   Dunno if it’s actually still raining, but stuff is falling out of the sky.  COULD just be falling from the trees…

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    Mmmmmm coffee.   The ~$4/lb Kirkland Colombian Supremo whole bean coffee is really not bad at all.  I’m not a snob, as long as it’s dark, full, and strong, and it is.

    ———-

    I think D1 is recovered enough to go to school today.

    n

  6. Greg Norton says:

    @greg, it’s Willie Sutton’s advice, he robbed banks because that’s where the money was…

    The showroom may feature a bar in Austin. I know Yeti has a bar in their outlet nearby on South Congress.

    I swear I remember my wife being offered a glass of wine in Nashville at the Tecovas showroom when we stopped for her to look, but the staff were subtle about it in front of “the husband”.

    My friend’s divorce lawyer – a woman – always has a forensic accountant go over the “ladies only” weekends in party cities, particularly 50th birthday party junkets. My friend was amazed at what his wife had been up to in Vegas on multiple trips once the accountant did the deep dive.

    Not that it really matters in Florida, with “no fault” divorce, but the right judge will still weigh the debauchery when considering the settlement.

    In my friend’s case, following the accountant’s audit, the wife moved to settle and give up her half of the house for a reasonable number where she had been seeking 100% of the house previously as well as all of her 1099 cash from being a DEI consultant on the side.

  7. drwilliams says:

    re the Georgia school murders

    Georgia has the death penalty.

    Are you saying the father should be executed?

    I’m not sure how they can charge the father with murder.

    “Because he gave a gun to a minor and enabled him.

    It is a stretch if you ask me.”

    Georgia School Shooter Had Been Flagged to the FBI and Interviewed a Year Ago

    In a joint statement, the FBI’s Atlanta field office and Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said the agency’s National Threat Operations Center received an anonymous tip about threats posted online regarding a possible school shooting in May 2023.

    The agencies said that the threats contained images of guns.

    Within 24 hours of receiving the anonymous tip, investigators determined the threats originated in Georgia and the matter was referred to the sheriff’s office.

    “The Jackson County Sheriffs’ Office located a possible subject, a 13-year-old male, and interviewed him and his father,” the FBI said.

    That 13-year-old student was Colt Gray, who was identified as the shooter yesterday. At the time of the interview, Gray denied sending the threats and claimed the email connected to the threats had been hacked.

    The Sheriffs Office decided there was no cause to arrest him and closed the case. His father said he did keep guns in the house for hunting but also said his then 13-year-old son had no unsupervised access to them. 

    https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/09/05/georgia-school-shooter-had-been-flagged-to-the-fbi-n3794084

    Not a stretch at all. 

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  8. Ray Thompson says:

    Charging the father with murder in the Georgia case is a very slippery slope. The supposed reason is because the father gave the son the gun that was used in the shootings.

    Let’s take that rational further. Suppose I gave my son a car on his 16th birthday. He then kills someone with the car. Can I now be charged with accessory to murder, manslaughter?

    My wife gives me a gun as a Christmas present. I go berserk and kill a couple of people (mostly ’cause they needed killing). Can my wife now be charged with murder simply because she gave the weapon?

    A friend asks to borrow my car. The friend did not tell me why. He then uses that vehicle to rob a bank and, in the process, kills someone. Can I now be charged with accessory to murder?

    A friend kills a couple of people. He then comes to my house and asks to stay there for the night. I have no knowledge of what he has done. When he is found the next day can I be charged with harboring a criminal and accessory to murder?

    I am afraid that in all of the above cases the answer will be “yes”. In actual practice the DA can charge me with anything and make my life miserable. I would have to prove innocence, prove I didn’t do something or had no knowledge. Anyone can be charged with a crime, at any time, for any reason, if the DA so chooses. The Humper explained that very clearly

  9. drwilliams says:

    You MUST watch Tulsi Gabbard’s video about the Harris-Biden administration’s Stasi-style governance

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/you_must_watch_tulsi_gabbard_s_video_about_the_harris_biden_administration_s_stasi_style_governance.html

    Small correction: Obama-Harris-Biden administration

    A vote for Harris is a vote for totalitarian government. 

  10. drwilliams says:

    Remember the Zulocks, the Gay Activists Who Abused Their Sons? Here’s Where Their Cases Stand Today.

    For William, it’s now just a matter of how much time he’ll be behind bars — if it’s 25 years, the mandatory minimum, or nine life sentences plus 140 years in prison, the maximum amount allowed under the law. That’s, of course, all dependent on whether the sentences run concurrently, as opposed to consecutively.

    “Are you, in fact, guilty?” Judge Jeffrey L. Foster asked William.

    “Yes, sir,” a despondent William said.

    ,,,

    Then there’s Zachary, a retail banker and the Atlanta-area pedophile operation’s point person, allegedly, as he’s resolved to take his chances of acquittal at trial.

    Zachary’s court-appointed attorney, Reginald L. Winfrey, prodded Foster to postpone the trial into next year, noting that the judge had previously floated a February trial date. Foster, dead set on October 21, didn’t budge.

    “Guess what? I got a second judge to help cover trials. So we’ll be trying the 21st [of October],” Foster retorted.

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/09/06/zulock-guilty-plea-and-trial-n2644088

    I hope the state of Georgia is proactive in providing for the protection of criminals. They should make condoms freely available to the inmates before this pair is place in genpop.

  11. MrAtoz says:

    Not a stretch at all. 

    I think the GBI overreacted and overcharged. I don’t know if GA has any “red flag” laws, secured weapons laws, or State background checks. Murder, how do you prove intent, is slim. Manslaughter, look how they charged Killer Baldwin, I can see. But, a jury can flog a dead horse and get any conviction. Then it is up to the corrupt court system.

  12. Greg Norton says:

    Remember the Zulocks, the Gay Activists Who Abused Their Sons? Here’s Where Their Cases Stand Today.

    Things that make you say “Hmmm ….”: IIRC, the Zulocks’ mansion wasn’t far from the town where the shooting took place.

    Something in the water.

  13. Greg Norton says:

    You MUST watch Tulsi Gabbard’s video about the Harris-Biden administration’s Stasi-style governance

    This is Tulsi’s soup bowl now. Keep that in mind.

    Three acres in Leander, TX is still a big chunk of cash that came from somewhere.

    Who are Tulsi’s Kenny Boys?

    UPDATE: I swear I remember seeing a report about Gabbard buying 20 acres outside of Leander. Interwebz.

  14. Denis says:

    On school shooters

    … these losers should get one mention of their name once for any network/newspaper that decides to include it. And no pictures ever. No  interviews with family/friends. And so on.

    A modern-day Damnatio memoriae. If the press had morals, they would do it themselves to help prevent copycat behaviour.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

    On charging the father of the Georgia school shooter. It might or might not stick as a matter of law, but it will certainly catch attention “pour encourager les autres”. That might be reason enough for the prosecutor to proceed.

    On Karma. My elderly MIL was involved in a fender-bender yesterday. Nothing very serious, and no injuries, but the driver and occupants of the vehicle that caused the crash declined to identify themselves, and vociferously called for “no police, no police!”, thereby clearly intimidating an already-shocked senior. Vociferously enough that plain-clothes officers overhearing the commotion during their lunch-break summoned uniformed colleagues to intervene.

    MIL is OK, if upset. Fortunately her guardian angel was on the ball. Apparently charges have been laid by the officers against the other parties. They also reviewed CCTV footage and produced a written assessment exonerating MIL from any fault in the accident. Moral: if you are going to cause an accident and then deny your involvement, don’t do it directly outside a police station. 

  15. MrAtoz says:

    Charging the father with murder in the Georgia case is a very slippery slope. The supposed reason is because the father gave the son the gun that was used in the shootings.

    All of what you said, sir. I grew up with the gun rack over my bed. .308, two 20’s, 410, two 22LR, and a Ruger 22 Bearcat wheel-gun, all of which I had access to and fired before I was 16. I was encouraged. My parents were potential murderers.

    I smell politics and name-making in the GBI. Will Trent would be embarrassed. Wait a minute, Hollyweird, so rah, rah, hang ’em by the neck until dead. The father was probably some Redumblican Redneck anyway. GA could build a father-son gallows.

  16. Greg Norton says:

    All of what you said, sir. I grew up with the gun rack over my bed. .308, two 20’s, 410, two 22LR, and a Ruger 22 Bearcat wheel-gun, all of which I had access to and fired before I was 16. I was encouraged. My parents were potential murderers.

    I smell politics and name-making in the GBI. Will Trent would be embarrassed. Wait a minute, Hollyweird, so rah, rah, hang ’em by the neck until dead. The father was probably some Redumblican Redneck anyway. GA could build a father-son gallows.

    The gun, purchased for a 14 year old, was an AR15 variant IIRC.

    Of course it is politics. The family is white and the gun is an “assault weapon”. The victims were “people of color”.

    The scenario isn’t 100% what the media wanted in a mass shooting case leading into the election, but they never let an opportunity go to waste.

    Plus Athens has a lot going on this time of year with school in session and one more patsy being fed to Uga the Bulldog at Sanford Stadium on Saturday.

    Party on Wayne. Party on Garth -er- Bubba.

  17. drwilliams says:

    Taking a wild guess, the difference between the millions of fathers that have given their young sons rifles and the father of the young Georgia murderer is:

    —most of those fathers, if not all, did not get a visit from the sheriff after their son’s social media account was used to post a threat of a school shooting

    —most of those fathers, after assuring the sheriff that their son did not have unsupervised access to guns, bought the son a rifle and did not supervise his access 

    —most of those father’s sons did not take their rifles to school and murder four people

  18. drwilliams says:

    @Ray Thmpson

    Charging the father with murder in the Georgia case is a very slippery slope. The supposed reason is because the father gave the son the gun that was used in the shootings.

    1. Let’s take that rational further. Suppose I gave my son a car on his 16th birthday. He then kills someone with the car. Can I now be charged with accessory to murder, manslaughter?

    2. My wife gives me a gun as a Christmas present. I go berserk and kill a couple of people (mostly ’cause they needed killing). Can my wife now be charged with murder simply because she gave the weapon?

    3. A friend asks to borrow my car. The friend did not tell me why. He then uses that vehicle to rob a bank and, in the process, kills someone. Can I now be charged with accessory to murder?

    4. A friend kills a couple of people. He then comes to my house and asks to stay there for the night. I have no knowledge of what he has done. When he is found the next day can I be charged with harboring a criminal and accessory to murder?

    I am afraid that in all of the above cases the answer will be “yes”. In actual practice the DA can charge me with anything and make my life miserable. I would have to prove innocence, prove I didn’t do something or had no knowledge. Anyone can be charged with a crime, at any time, for any reason, if the DA so chooses. The Humper explained that very clearly

    The answer in all cases is indeed yes, but there are additional questions that could elicit facts pertinent to the application of the law and the success of any defense:

    1. Did he have a license? 
    2. Did you have a history of mental illness and/of violence?
    3. If he brings it back and tells you what he did, and you help him cover it up?
  19. MrAtoz says:

    /Whiiinnnny:

    —most of those fathers, if not all, did not get a visit from the sheriff after their son’s social media account was used to post a threat of a school shooting

    So, what did the Sheriff do, the school, and the GBI? Nothing. Are they responsible in any way? They knew about the kid, also.

    —most of those fathers, after assuring the sheriff that their son did not have unsupervised access to guns, bought the son a rifle and did not supervise his access

    So, why should anybody do what a LEO says? LEOs lie, cajole, arrest, try to enter your home, inventory your weapons, etc., all under the auspices of the law.

    —most of those father’s sons did not take their rifles to school and murder four people

    Well, duh. My point exactly. There is no way any type of murder charge applies to the father. Maybe he made a video “Now, son, take this new AR15 and kill your classmates.” Negligent homicide, a jury will decide. This could be as bad as tRump’s trial. The judge said convict him on any charge that you feel like and he’s guilty on all charges.

    /Whiiinnnny

    Bring in some fresh horses!

  20. CowboyStu says:

    Are you saying the father should be executed?

    I’m not sure how they can charge the father with murder.

    Formally:  “Accessory before the act……:

  21. nick flandrey says:

    Revealed: The key sign that indicates a woman might be a PSYCHOPATH 

    –  you mean, other than the obvious?

    – the jokes just write themselves…

    n

  22. nick flandrey says:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-13818687/dollar-tree-ceo-responds-outrage-price-hikes.html

    They want to have items costing up to $7 and have already transitioned some stores, where they are seeing higher tickets as more “wealthier” customers stop in to shop.

    There comes a point where there isn’t anything meaningful or useful to sell for a dollar.   And suppliers are going to balk at creating packaging with smaller amounts of their product, just so the unit price is under a dollar…

    n

  23. Ray Thompson says:

    there are additional questions that could elicit facts pertinent to the application of the law and the success of any defense

    Do you really think any DA is going to ask any of those questions? The DA wants to get someone charged. The fact that it costs the defendant tens of thousands of dollars in attorney fees, then is found innocent, is of little concern to the DA. The DA wants public opinion on their side and will do what is necessary to get someone charged. When the case quietly goes away the DA does not care, they made their headlines.

  24. Nightraker says:

    Dollar stores should transition to “Fin and Sawbucks” 🙂

  25. lynn says:

    It is always the cable ! ! !

    JEP was at least 99 and 44/100ths correct on just about anything to do with computers.  I am still waiting on time for his CoDominion theory but that has at least a hundred years to go.

    After talking with Xfinity advanced support, I walked the fence line and found the cable disconnected back at the pole.  I reconnected the cable and Bobs yer uncle.  The wife is now happy.

    They are still sending the tech since the cable is banging in the wind, that caused the connection to come loose.

  26. nick flandrey says:

    I’m going to drop this here, and then leave for a while to do errands.   Not ideal.  Observations, not judgements.

    @drwilliams, you are arguing from the leftist perspective that the GUN is important, and also from the idea of group guilt.  This is uncharacteristic of you.  The crime the kid committed was the unlawful taking of life.   What he used to do it is immaterial wrt the crime committed.   The kid, individually, made choices. ACTIVE choices.   He decided to steal the gun.  He decided to bring it to school.  He had to have separated the upper and lower to conceal it in his bag.   He assembled it.   He went to the classroom.  He chose to insert a magazine, pull the charging handle, and then pull the trigger.   He made that decision many times.  At ANY point in the chain of decisions he could have ended without bloodshed, and then later without as much blood shed.  HE made the decisions.  HE has sole responsibility for taking those lives.

    There is no collective or group guilt or responsibility for the kid’s actions, unless it turns out the father egged him on or encouraged him.   

    The most deadly school killing incident was a fire.   It does not matter how the killing was accomplished, the victims are dead, and how they got dead is a distraction at best.

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    Absent encouragement from the father, or some other person, there isn’t and can’t be group guilt.   It’s opposite what our whole legal system is built around.

    You can’t be an accessory unless you KNOWINGLY contribute.

    Someone can be accused of being an accessory to a crime by:

    • Coming up with the idea
    • Commanding someone else to commit the crime
    • Hiring someone to commit the crime
    • Instigating the commission of the crime
    • Giving advice on how to carry out the crime
    • Concealing the crime, before or after the fact

    Essentially, someone can be nailed for being an “accessory” to a crime if they in any way knowingly assisted, contributed to, aided, or offered advice to another so they could commit a crime.

    Group guilt is absurd on its face.  What about the guilt of the LEOs involved?  The neighbors?  CPS? the school and school district staff- after all, the evidence  that they failed in their duty of care is smeared in red on the floor…    The school district hired consultants, spent taxpayer money to “secure the schools”, institute anti-bullying schemes, train teachers in SEL,  hire councilors, hire cops to be in schools,  determined the schedule and assignments for those cops, and has declared the schools to be “gun free zones” yet there was a gun there…   so they are all guilty too.

    What about the press that glorifies these murderers?  Or the internet providers who carry the ‘news’?  Where is their guilt?  How is it parceled out?   

    When everyone is guilty, no one is guilty.   

    Our western world is built on the idea of free will, that INDIVIDUALS can choose and act or not act.  And it’s built on the idea that there must be an ACT.   Thinking about a crime isn’t one.   Talking about a crime isn’t one.  Only when there is a ACT, a choice, an expression of volition, does there become a crime.

    It may yet come out that the father did have some participation in the crime, beyond buying a gun for his son’s use (which is legal.) 

    Remember that the bug eyed freak that murdered people at Sandy Hook Elementary killed his mother to get access to her secured guns.   Should she have bought a better safe?  Maybe put it in a concrete vault?  Stored firing pins in a bank safe deposit box?   Where does it start and where does it end?   That’s why group guilt isn’t a thing, and why the only one (so far) who committed a crime is the kid.

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    sorry to drop this  and leave, but stuff isn’t gonna get itself and the kid needs a ride.

    n

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  27. Ray Thompson says:

    I think it is really not the group guilt that is being used. I think that charging the parents is a way for the legal system to cause people to fear having guns. A way to stop stores from selling guns. A way to stop manufactures from making guns. A way to remove guns from legal ownership. If a gun owner, store, manufacturer  is liable to get charged as an accessory to any crime, simply because they own, bought, sold, or made the gun, then owning a gun becomes somewhat of a crap shoot. The risk from collateral legal problems is becoming too great.

    If I break into Mr. Nick’s home, steal his guns, kill several people, is Mr. Nick also responsible for the crime because he did not secure his guns? If Mr. Nick sells me one of his guns and I commit a crime with that gun is Mr. Nick responsible because he did not do a background check on myself?

    This charging people who had no knowledge a crime was going to be committed, just because it was their property used is a real slippery slope. Yes the father knew his kid had problems yet still bought him a gun. Probably not the smartest thing. Did the father think the kid was going to shoot up a school? No reasonable parent would think their child would do such a horrific event.

    It is the same thing as family of the victims suing the gun manufacturer. The maker has no knowledge on the use of the gun. Yet in all the cases that I remember the maker has been sued. The store that sold the gun to the father in this latest case will also probably be part of the inevitable lawsuits.

  28. Greg Norton says:

    JEP was at least 99 and 44/100ths correct on just about anything to do with computers.  I am still waiting on time for his CoDominion theory but that has at least a hundred years to go.

    We have a CoDominium in telecom in the US.

    T-Mobile and CenturyLink are allowed to remain intact to keep regulators at bay, but everyone else of meaningful size is gone.

  29. Ray Thompson says:

    From CNN

    “What that Michigan case did is that they put the world and the country on notice that as parents, if you are in possession of a firearm, that you are responsible for the actions of your son,” former New York prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Bernarda Villalona told CNN.
  30. Lynn says:

    Dr. Eades has been posting about vaccines the last few months on his newsletter The Arrow.

    He references two books:  “Turtles All The Way Down” and “Dissolving Illusions”.

    Prior to Covid, I was a true believer in vaccines.  I took every one my doctors ever offered, except flu shots, and I even took them when required by my job.  I got hepatitis, shingles, and pneumonia shots.

    But the mania surrounding the rollout of the mRNA therapy, its lack of testing and long term study, caused me to balk.

    Since then, I’ve learned a lot about vaccines, and none of it is good.  The best of them is a tradeoff of risk of death and severe illness from the vaccine itself vs. a reduction in disease and severity of illness from the purported disease.  The underplaying of the risk and the overstating of the benefit is important.  Informed consent is a joke if you don’t provide all the information.

    There’s a theory, supported at least minimally by charts (see his newsletter link), that all viral infections including smallpox were in decline due to imroved sanitation, BEFORE the rollout of their various vaccines.  And that’s the REAL vaccines, not the mRNA experiment.

    Besides sanitation, there is the natural tendency of diseases to attenuate.  If they’re too deadly, they kill the host and can’t propagate.  So the theory goes that the same disease changes, becomes more transmittable, and less deadly.  Perhaps this explains the smallpox/mpox/impetigo phenomenon.

    No vaccine, ever, has been tested against a placebo in a randomized controlled trial.  Let that sink in.

    All I know is that I took version 2.0 of Dr. Salk’s vaccine in 1971 and I did not get Polio.  My Dad talks about growing up in the 1930s and 1940s and people being careful to not touch each other, even in church, due to the fear of getting polio.

    I used to know somebody that took version 1.0 of Dr. Salk’s vaccine in the 1950s ??? and he did get Polio.  He passed away a few years ago after being in a wheelchair or a powerchair all of his life.  He baptized his son, a friend of mine to this day, in our home’s swimming pool in 1974 or 1975.  It was a moving event since several men helped carrying him in and out of the pool.  There was no way they could have gotten him in the church baptistry.

    I think that there is a minimal set of vaccines that one should take, polio being one of those.  I am on the fence about the smallpox vaccine, I remember taking that in 1971 also.  My son took the smallpox vaccine in 2006 before his second all expense paid trip to Iraq, courtesy of Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children.  They gave him over 30 vaccines before each trip to Iraq, running a gauntlet of several navy corpsmen with his company, Weapons Company of the 1/7.  He thinks that the experimental flu vaccine with all 7 ? types of the flu was the worst vaccine.

  31. Lynn says:

    Hurray! We can import more coal-generated power from Canada and Nevada!

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/01/climate/klamath-dam-salmon/index.html

    Oregon used to have a site which would display the origins of the state’s electricity supply in real time, but the facts got embarrasing within the last couple of years so the page came down.

    BTW, the girl on the right in the picture of the fish parade from the “salmon festival” is wearing a $350 pair of boots. Tecovas Annie. Probably got them at the company’s showroom here in Austin during one of the bacchanalia events.

    Gotta love Progs in the Northwest – always wearing pricey shoes and/or outerwear and drinking the finest craft cocktails.

    People are freaking nuts.  Power generating dams are the most ecological thing that you can use to generate electric power.

    The eco people want us to go to back to being transient hunter gatherers on the plains.  They don’t realize or don’t care that the USA can support at most ten million (SWAG) of that type of people.  And it is a harsh life with no doctors and no dentists.

  32. nick flandrey says:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13817367/I-demanded-divorce-blue-five-years-later-Im-love-husband-wish-together.html 

    Dude didn’t quite dodge the bullet, but he got wise…

    The pain she clearly feels is self inflicted.   Interesting article because I’m sure she’s not the only one.  Sucks to be her current victim.

    n

  33. paul says:

    The air fryer arrived yesterday.  It’s smaller than the Keurig Duo I have.  The fry basket is almost square by about an eighth of an inch.  You would never notice but the rack fits only one way.  I suppose there is a reason. It has a decently long power cord, none of the eighteen inch nonsense.  All in all it seems to be very well built. That it sells for $50, delivered, is pretty wild.  

    My only gripe, so far, is there should be some kind of “things” on the back side to wrap the power cord around for storage.  Just a J shaped post at the bottom and something like a kitchen drawer pull at the top.  A triangle pointing down with the top thing doubling as a handle, even, make it a carry handle,  to make it easier to remove the fry basket.  But, $50, well. 

    The controls default to Air Fry at 400F.  Duh.  I figured out the controls before I read the directions beyond “wash the parts with warm soapy water before use”.  That’s me, I do this all of the time.

    I cooked a handful of Ore Ida french fries last night.  The “fast food restaurant” variety.  I like the skinny fries better and you have to buy what is on the shelf.  I cooked almost too big of a handful, a bit more that I wanted to eat.  The fries turned out great.  

    Today I recalled I might have some Hot Pockets Snacks in the beerator’s freezer.  Sure enough, there they were.  Open the bag, spray a bit of olive oil, shake it up and spray again.  Not a lot of oil actually, I spray more AXE on one armpit.  The Hot Pocket’s turned out looking great.  But…. what can I say, the Best By date was in 2016. They sure looked pretty.   I wasn’t expecting much, that’s why they’ve been in freezer for almost ten years.  To the bag o’ trash in the freezer.
    They suck anyway, more crust than filling.  I eat Hot Pockets for the filling. Well, I did when I worked at HEB.

    I’m having fun. 

  34. nick flandrey says:

    Bought some stuff from a local retailer while waiting for my chiropractic office to reopen.   Paid a small per piece premium over an online seller, but don’t pay any shipping… and I’ve got it in my hands.

    The shelves had stock, and the prices were ok adjusting for inflation.

    Need to find some time to convert my money into smoke and noise.

    n

  35. paul says:

    I watched Austin Powers …. last night.  Other than his ridiculous chest hair and Dr. Evil with his “100 Billion dollars” shtick.  Well, I’ve finally watched it.  I guess I’m comic impaired. 

    Although the “push a button and incinerate the guy that’s disagreeing” was sort of funny.  Tho, why would anyone sit in a chair?

    Oh well.  I had some tasty french fries.

  36. Lynn says:

    “Progressive insurance ditches Texas after rising storm loss costs”

        https://www.chron.com/business/technology/article/progressives-texas-home-insurance-19747472.php

    “Approximately 40 percent of Progressive’s storm losses occurred in Texas.”

    They will be back.  Second most populace state in the Union.

  37. Lynn says:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/consumer/article-13818687/dollar-tree-ceo-responds-outrage-price-hikes.html

    They want to have items costing up to $7 and have already transitioned some stores, where they are seeing higher tickets as more “wealthier” customers stop in to shop.

    There comes a point where there isn’t anything meaningful or useful to sell for a dollar.   And suppliers are going to balk at creating packaging with smaller amounts of their product, just so the unit price is under a dollar…

    n

    I see no difference between Dollar Tree and Dollar General now.

  38. Lynn says:

    “Great Replacement Job Shock: 1.3 Million Native-Born Americans Just Lost Their Jobs, Replaced By 635,000 Immigrants”

        https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/great-replacement-job-shock-13-million-native-born-americans-just-lost-their-jobs-replaced

    “At the start of the year, many months after we first pointed out that the biggest untold story of the US labor market was the “great replacement” of native born workers with foreign-born workers (most of whom we subsequently learned were illegal aliens), we asked how is it, that the ongoing replacement (because that’s what it is) of US workers is “not the biggest political talking point right now” considering that since October 2019, native-born US workers have lost 1.4 million jobs; over the same period foreign-born workers have gained 3 million jobs””

    At some point, people are going to get upset.  One hopes that they show this while voting in November.

  39. Ken Mitchell says:

    Vaccines;  Most children’s vaccines are multiples; one shot that is supposed to protect against several diseases. When our son was born, my nurse wife demanded separate shots for each disease, separated by a week or two. She believed that multiple vaccines at once were causing problems. 

    Our son is now 40, healthy and thriving, and no weirder than either of us are, so I guess it worked. 

  40. MrAtoz says:

    tRump/Vance 2024!

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  41. Lynn says:

    “A Navy officer is demoted after sneaking a satellite dish onto a warship to get the internet”

        https://finance.yahoo.com/news/navy-officer-demoted-installing-unauthorized-205415900.html

    “SAN DIEGO (AP) — A U.S. Navy chief who wanted the internet so she and other enlisted officers could scroll social media, check sports scores and watch movies while deployed had an unauthorized Starlink satellite dish installed on a warship and lied to her commanding officer to keep it secret, according to investigators.”

    “Internet access is restricted while a ship is underway to maintain bandwidth for military operations and to protect against cybersecurity threats.”

    Ok, this is hilarious.  Starlink should advertise this.

    “She and more than a dozen other chief petty officers used it to send messages home and keep up with the news and bought signal amplifiers during a stop in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after they realized the wireless signal did not cover all areas of the ship, according to the investigation.”

    Ok, that was over the top.

  42. Greg Norton says:

    “She and more than a dozen other chief petty officers used it to send messages home and keep up with the news and bought signal amplifiers during a stop in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after they realized the wireless signal did not cover all areas of the ship, according to the investigation.”

    Ok, that was over the top.

    The demotion or the out of control Interwebz addiction?

  43. Lynn says:

    “She and more than a dozen other chief petty officers used it to send messages home and keep up with the news and bought signal amplifiers during a stop in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, after they realized the wireless signal did not cover all areas of the ship, according to the investigation.”

    Ok, that was over the top.

    The demotion or the out of control Interwebz addiction?

    The out of control interwebz addiction.

    My son reminded me of the fact that cell phones have GPS trackers in them.   While he was in Iraq, the Syrian cell phone towers were tracking anyone with a GSM cell phone.  They had to ditch all cell phones once the brass figured that out.

  44. Lynn says:

    She believed that multiple vaccines at once were causing problems. 

    I believe that also.  Although, my son did not have allergies for over five years after running the gauntlet of vaccine wielding corpsmen once per year.  But, he was an adult, not a small child.

  45. Lynn says:

    “The Gulf of Mexico is heating up with tropical activity, but for now we’re mostly concerned about rainfall next week”

       https://spacecityweather.com/the-gulf-of-mexico-is-heating-up-with-tropical-activity-but-for-now-were-mostly-concerned-about-rainfall-next-week/

    We have gotten lots of rain this week.  It was 78 F at my house at noon today.

    Winter is coming.

  46. Lynn says:

    “Then the guns…”

       https://areaocho.com/then-the-guns/

    Is it time to bury our guns ?

    I never thought that I would live through a civil war.

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  47. Ken Mitchell says:

    My son reminded me of the fact that cell phones have GPS trackers in them.   While he was in Iraq, the Syrian cell phone towers were tracking anyone with a GSM cell phone.  They had to ditch all cell phones once the brass figured that out.

    Same problem with fitness tracking devices. I’ve forgotten which service it was, or what brand of trackers, but there was an article on the web 5-6 years ago.  MANY soldiers had subscribed to that brand/service of fitness trackers and continued to use them when they had deployed. The article listed several unknown locations where the soldiers were apparently working out, running around a track. Terrible security risks. 

  48. Lynn says:

    “Lots of Breaking News”

       https://areaocho.com/lots-of-breaking-news/

    “Did you know that the government is also claiming that Elon Musk funded his purchase of Twitter through Russian investors?”

    “Yeah, the government is going to seize control of social media. It’s coming.”

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  49. Ken Mitchell says:

    Is it time to bury our guns ?

    It’s never time to bury our guns. It’s time to USE them. 

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  50. Greg Norton says:

    “Yeah, the government is going to seize control of social media. It’s coming.”

    Control of the social media isn’t nearly as important as control of the apps which provide the carefully engineered dopamine hit that keeps ’em coming back for more.

  51. Greg Norton says:

    Control of the social media isn’t nearly as important as control of the apps which provide the carefully engineered dopamine hit that keeps ’em coming back for more.

    Tim Cook will yank Twitter’s app from the Apple Store.

  52. nick flandrey says:

    It’s been very light drizzle for a few hours now.   Didn’t stop me from doing some fence repair.  Good thing mosquitos don’t really bother me, because they were swarming…

    n

  53. Lynn says:

    “Yeah, the government is going to seize control of social media. It’s coming.”

    Control of the social media isn’t nearly as important as control of the apps which provide the carefully engineered dopamine hit that keeps ’em coming back for more.

    So that is why I keep on coming back here more.  That dopamine is cool stuff.

  54. Lynn says:

    “DOE: Pause on US LNG export permits remains despite New Fortress authorization”

        https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/government/article/55138183/doe-pause-on-us-lng-export-permits-remains-despite-new-fortress-authorization

    “The decision to authorize New Fortress Energy to export LNG does not mean the Biden administration’s LNG export pause is over, a DOE spokesperson told Oil & Gas Journal.”

    It is obvious that if the USA forbids new LNG exports then Mexico and Canada will just import more natural gas from the USA and convert it to LNG in their countries.  The money is just too much to let the business opportunity lay there.

    Yes, we export natural gas to Mexico and Canada in huge amounts from the USA.  The natural gas coming from the USA is way cheaper and cleaner than the Canadian natural gas which is sour, very sour.  And Mexico’s natural gas wells are in sad shape because the government steals the maintenance and upgrade money.

  55. drwilliams says:

    The dye in Doritos can make mice transparent

    “We strongly discourage attempting this on human skin, as the toxicology of dye molecules in humans, particularly when applied topically, has not been fully evaluated,” he tells Popular Science.

    If Yellow 5 dye does prove safe in topical applications…

    https://www.popsci.com/science/dye-mice-transparent/

    Sixty years later the question of topical toxicology on human skin has been field-tested by millions of orange-fingered aficionados. 

  56. nick flandrey says:

    Picked up the kid from her football game.   It was an away game, played in the “big” stadium a couple of exits down the freeway…

    NOW I can relax and get into some comfy clothes…

    n

  57. Greg Norton says:

    I watched Austin Powers …. last night.  Other than his ridiculous chest hair and Dr. Evil with his “100 Billion dollars” shtick.  Well, I’ve finally watched it.  I guess I’m comic impaired. 

    Before you watch “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me”, watch “The Pink Panther” again and pay attention to Robert Wagner circa 1963.

    Then, when you watch the Powers sequel, pay attention to Rob Lowe.

    Genius.

  58. drwilliams says:

    When Adam Savage says you are “brilliant”:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvpb4vm-esw

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