Hot, hey boy it’s hot. Thought we were gonna head into Fall, but nope. Well into the upper 90s yesterday, and as humid. Soaked me to the skin to do some work in the garage. Today will likely be similar. Not looking forward to it.
Did my hobby meeting yesterday. Got an overview of how the club did with our show, we lost ~$70. We usually make a couple of thousand dollars, but attendance was down. If not for a new deal with the table rental company, we’d have lost almost $2000. We have money in the bank, but the yearly show is our only real fundraiser, and it pays for the stuff we do during the year. I grossed somewhere between $1200 and $2400 for my three days. Dunno where I ended up net, because some of the stuff I sold I’d had so long I couldn’t even guess what my cost was. Since I didn’t take any big hits, I’m guessing somewhere around $1000 net. That will fund my hobby for the next year, mostly, and the main point is to be out there talking with people and interacting with them. Just like my hamfest sales.
After the meeting, one of the guys locked his keys in his truck. A newer F-150. I have a slim jim and a chinese made kit of “entry tools” in my truck, but I didn’t have my air wedges. The F-150 door is solid enough that without the plastic pry bars and the air shims, I was afraid to try to open it. The guy he called opened it in 1 minute using 2 air shims and a big long metal stick. He used the stick to push the unlock button… I want one. Charged $200 and had the nerve to ask for a tip. My buddy is considering getting an AAA membership…
Getting into your own vehicle is something everyone should learn to do, and practice at least a couple of times. And a spare key in a magnet storage box tucked up under the frame is a good idea. $10 to save $200, and a half hour waiting… that’s a good prep.
Speaking of “entry tools”… one of the auctioneers I was talking to this week had their work pickup truck stolen from their office complex. They had previously had their catalytic converter stolen, and then the replacement was stolen a week later. This time, 4 guys in two cars drove up, one guy messed around under the middle of the truck (my guess, disengaging the transmission or putting it in neutral) for a few seconds, then they pushed it out of view of the camera. Don’t know if they towed it from there or did more breaking in away from the cam… The office is in Stafford, generally considered a decent and ‘safe’ area. Lots of ‘immigrants’ in the area now.
The security situation is degrading everywhere.
Today I’ll be doing stuff around the house. What stuff will mostly depend on the heat. There is a big list, so I’m sure I’ll find something to do to avoid it đ
Stack some friends, stack some knowledge, and maybe stack some specialty tools…
nick
Most of those logos belong to media organizations heading to the scrapheap.
Any ânewsâ division under CBS/Viacom/Paramount and Warner Discovery is carried on the books with an effective value of zero.
ABC News is dead newsroom walking.
Disney âwonâ the show down with DirecTV as division play in the SEC loomed, just like they did with Charter last year, but cable and satellite TV won’t survive without the freedom to omit the sports channels.
That would be fine. Comcast charges me for sports channels. I donât want sports channels. Comcast charges me for local channels. I donât want local channels. I despise paying for something I donât want.
The office is in Stafford, generally considered a decent and âsafeâ area. Lots of âimmigrantsâ in the area now.
Stafford has always been a dumpster fire but it has gone south lately and is not coming back this time. Too many cheap apartments with too many people crammed in them. Stafford is where the poor relatives of the wealthy minorities living in Sugar Land go to live.
Sugar Land has gone south too. The population is at least 40% Asian now. Maybe 25% of the total population is muslim with new temples popping up all over the place. One of the muslim temples has over 5,000 adherents with serious traffic problems every day.
75 F outside. Gonna be 100 F again today. ERCOT will be rolling the gas turbines at 4 pm as the solar power starts to wane. Or ERCOT may try to roll over the peak with a skinny spinning reserve.
The NCAA football packages have given Disney the upper hand in the last two showdowns with major carriers, particularly the SEC as of late.
âArchâ Manning lighting it up for UT last night against a woefully overmatched UTSA secondary further reinforced Burbank’s position with the next carrier who decides to play tough. That game was otherwise not available outside of the I-35 corridor.
What? Ask the SEC football fans to pay the actual costs of providing that package? Are you nuts?
Subcontinent Muslim?
I tried reading that â the idea seems interesting â but the book seemed boring, I just couldnât get into it. Maybe the movie is better?
â The movie is a bit dated simply because effects have gotten so much better, but it’s a GOOD movie. Aimed at children but not childish.
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83F in the swamp now, so it must be climbing rapidly.
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Overcast, so the sun isn’t beating down. Still, I think I’ll do mostly indoor stuff today.
come on coffeeâŠ. drip dang you âŠ
n
Good advice. With some conditions.
A new key for my brothers 10yo Mazda coupe is $400. And they have a minimum order of 2X. it’s probably cheaper to break a window and get to a key you have hidden inside the carâŠ
In addition some keys are now âalways onâ, so they broadcast a signal that someone could detect if left outside a faraday cage & outside the car.
@EdH, for the most common lockout scenario, you don’t need a chipped or active key, you just need a key to turn the door lock. They are much cheaper. Or hide a key fob. Also much cheaper.
I hid a slim jim under the bumper cover of my old Expedition, and I could use it on that truck. Despite years of anti- slimjimming features, it’s still possible to jimmy most cars. There are even tools specifically for Teslas.
n
Note that in many places the tools are legally risky. Extra keys or fobs are not.
There are also âadd onâ keypads the program like a keyfob, then stick to your vehicle, and add on wired keypads. I use the keypad on my new expy every day, sometimes multiple times.
n
I do miss the feeling of security that the keypad gave me on my old Explorer. Even though it had a design flaw and would always set off the alarm until I could get inside and turn it off.
I didn’t realize that you could get them as an aftermarket ad on.
One of my brothers had a plastic key that he kept inside of his wallet. I suppose they won’t work to start the car these days without the electronics, but maybe for entry.
Back in the 90s heyday of basic cable, ESPN was important to Big 10 fans transplanted to Florida for work.
I had a Penn State grad co-worker at GTE who actually got miffed that I passed on a basic cable package beyond the bare minimum local channels because I didn’t want to pay the (then) princely sum of $5 which Time Warner would sneak onto the cable bills to subsidize ESPN’s NCAA football contract.
I cut the cable cord in Austin when the line item went above $20 added to a $50 basic cable package.
Wolfgang Petersen. His first US film after âDas Bootâ was such a surprise hit.
At the time, the buzz was the flick was semi-autobiographical for Petersen since he had a hard a** Naval officer father.
IIRC, Siskel & Ebert liked the flick which propelled the box office.
Fortunately, all of the ârebootâ attempts have failed, including one from Kathleen Kennedy.
It is impossible to lock the key (electronic) for my Highlander in the car. Attempting to lock the doors with the key inside will quickly unlock the doors if no one is inside.
For my truck there is the external keypad that can unlock the vehicle. Unless the battery is dead, lesson learned.
@EdH
One of these?
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/why-the-credit-card-key-could-be-a-lifesaver-if-you-had-your-wallet-1.5244448
Late 1980’s product of Credit Card Keys. Some dealers gave them away with new cars and had them available to purchase. Popular at some trade shows.
The Ford key had two versions–short bit and long bit. Same configuration used today in Ford keys. They have no chip to be programmed but can unlock the doors. Easy to carry. You could also detach the door key and tape it under the bumper or attach with RTV silicone without worry about corrosion.
@drWilliams:
I asked but my brother doesn’t remember exactly. It was a new 90’s era Chevy S-10 so it’s possible.
More Horror Pictures Emerge Showing Locations of Met Office âExtremeâ Record Temperatures
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/14/more-horror-pictures-emerge-showing-locations-of-met-office-extreme-record-temperatures/
Classic GIGO.
You would think that Anthony Watts’ Surface Stations project:
http://www.surfacestations.org/
which revealed the abysmal state of temperature measurements in the U.S. at sites that did not meet guidelines (64% with CRN 4 rating of ±2°C and 6% CRN 5 ±5°C ) would have resulted in a wholesale cleanup of siting problems all over the world. Not so. Famous poster children like the U of AZ site next to A/C heat exchangers in an asphalt parking lot got retired, but the GW scam loved GIGO because the temps are always biased on the hot side.
We need temperature measurements at runways at airports because temperature determines the lift available (see Chuck Yeager’s biography), but those measurements are totally unsuited for climate calculations.
It is not generally recognized, but solar panels are thermal absorbers. Take the solar energy incoming, subtract the solar energy reflected and the solar energy converted to electricity, and the balance is the solar energy absorbed and then radiated at heat, raising the temperature of the local environment. The net effect is the same as UHI on a smaller scale. Put enough solar panels into an area and there is an effect on the local climate.
@EdH
Credit Card Key’s were patented and I don’t know of any competitors. They were molded of Delrin II, and engineering thermoplastic that was very flexible. The plastic keys could be swung out from the frame to fit into a key machine for cutting, then returned to the frame. The hinge was good for thousands of cycles and returned to flat so the product could be used many times.
I used to carry keys for both my car and the wife’s on my keychain. That way, if she was locked out, I would have her spare with me. With everything on a fob now, it’s just too bulky. Plus, I think I needed to unlock her once, maybe, in the past 25 years. I just make sure the spares for each car are in the key cabinet at the house and call it good enough.
I do need to get a spare fob for the boy’s Mustang. It only came with one. Dealer want’ a couple hundred, plus another hundred or so for programming. I can get one online for less than a hundred. I might also get a Forscan subscription so I can program it myself. Hopefully I don’t procrastinate until he actually needs the spareâŠ
Car Keys Express has a deal with Costco to roll the vans out to stores on a rotation schedule. You may get lucky and get a fob from them for about half of the dealer cost programmed.
Of course, programmed is the catch. The crew at the store in Cedar Park two weeks ago couldn’t program a fob for my 2001 Solara so I’m still down one when I go to sell the car.
Cool. I will send him the link,
I bought a pair of blank Nissan keys on eBay for about $12. I took one to Lowes because the local hardware store refused, âbecause of liabilityâ to have it cut. I don’t care about having the chip programmed to the truck. Not programed is a feature if someone finds it. I have it in a magnetic box under the lip of the bed. The magnet seems weak so it it falls off, the box will be in the bed.
The only purpose of the key is to unlock the driver’s door when some fool parks, opens the door, hits the lock button on the door, and set the keys down on the seat while fumbling with a cell phone or an umbrella and then shutting the door. <cough>
I have not tried it in the ignition. I want to. With my luck it would brick the computer. But it works the locks on the tailgate and the glovebox and the door. That’s all I want.
I bought a couple of remotes on eBay for all of about $8. Batteries included. They are not the proximity type where the car unlocks when you get near and all you have to do is push a button on the dash to start the engine.
Programming them was just some voodoo and you can’t screw it up. It a routine of lock all of the doors, turn the ignition from off to run, not to start, four times, press the unlock (or lock, I forget) button on the door and the same button on the new key fob. The instrument cluster chirps if you do it right. Oh wait. That’s sort of how my 2002 Dodge truck worked.
The directions for my Nissan say âget in the vehicle, close the door, press the lock button on the door to lock all the doorsâ. Then (voodoo time!) âinsert your key into the ignition and remove it at least 6 times, might take 10 times. But not too fast. If you do it right the hazard lights flash twiceâ. Then you put the key back in the ignition switch and turn to ACC. Push any button on your new fob once. The hazard lights flash again. If you have a another fob, unlock the driver’s door with the power lock switch and lock them again. Press any button on the next remote. Turn the ignition off and remove the key.
It’s easier than it reads. I can’t imagine how it would be much different for a 2001 Toyota.
There are some settings that you have to buckle and unbuckle the seat belt⊠every sensor is an input for the minicomputer in your car.
The ford remote reprogram is similar, turn key on and off several times, press the button⊠splash some chicken blood.
I always make an extra fob for my Ranger. I can just take it, and either leave the truck running but locked, or leave the keys in the truck. very handy for jumping in and out at a yard sale, or similar.
n
Seen This Movie: TX Lawmakers Planning to Seize Private Land for Bullet Trains
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/09/15/seen-this-movie-tx-lawmakers-planning-to-seize-private-land-for-bullet-trains-n3794531
Let’s hope they’re really not this stupid. â Beege Welborn
Funny how it doesn’t matter whether states are red or blue , When it comes time to get bribed with campaign contributions and create an âindependentâ body to wield government powers, the electeds all put their little pink (or other color) butts up in the air.
Eventually we might get a court opinion that it’s not constitutional to severe state powers from the elected officials that are directly responsible to the votes through the ballot box.
Yeah. After attempting the ritual myself, I watched a locksmith try the voodoo for about an hour at my house one day. No charge since he couldn’t get the fob to work.
Car Keys Express claimed that a fuse was burned out somewhere and I would have to get the dealer involved. Right now, the car might be worth what I put into it in tires so a buyer would have to accept one manufacturer fob/key and my three key duplicates.
I’m not in a big hurry to sell, however.
Population really is a problem. Worse is that (highly non-PC veiwpoint incoming) the successful populations are declining, while the non-successful ones, supported by aid from the successful, are exploding. Basic genetics tells you that this will not make the world a better place in the coming decades and centuries.
The only populations on the planet that are expanding are India and Africa. And I am not sure about India. Or Africa.
Some portions of the Middle East may be expanding. And South America.
China has been faking their population for decades. Reputedly they have at least 150 million less women than stated. The âOne Child Per Familyâ was wildly successful. Their population may be 60% men, 40% women now, a recipe for a near term war, civil or outside.
Texas had a high speed rail commission which âstudiedâ the problem of linking San Antonio, Austin and Dallas for 20 years, filling lots of consultant soupbowls before being disbanded after concluding that without the cooperation of the freight carriers, a line would be impossible.
Brightline in Florida is a project of the dominant freight carrier along the East Coast.
The carriers in Texas might get interested in a link running from Georgetown down to San Antonio, centered on San Marcos, once the NFL expansion happens. The stadium site struggles to deal with Texas State games this year, and that stadium is about a third of the capacity of a typical new NFL venue.
The politicians know that Eminent Domain would get some people shot in some areas of the I-35 corridor which still feel burned after the state’s bullying for the Trans Texas Corridor boondoggle.
Remnants of the Corridor which got built are visible along US-183 running from Luling up to Austin-Bergstrom airport.
This makes me laugh. And good on you for jerking the teacher’s chain!
I don’t remember how it was in Mobile but I think there was a foreign language class. French or Italian or Spanish. Bleh. How about German? Nope.
Anyway. We moved to Texas in time for my 10th grade. No second language class required. Perhaps a Texas thing. Perhaps because La Joya is about 10 miles north of Mexico and the total high school was all of 650 kids. With 20 anglos and a couple of japs. Everything was in Spanish.
I got sent to the office because I didn’t do something. The Principal asked why? I said the morning PA announcements are in Spanish. I moved to Texas four months ago from Mobile, Alabama. My Spanish is stuff like taco, enchiladas and the guys in gym class have taught me some really bad things to say about your mother. Besides, we are not in Mexico and English is the standard in the US. So we should use English because not everyone in this school if going to live in this area forever.
Oh.
Mr. Salinas was a really cool guy. He was like a Dad to everyone.
A couple of days later the morning PA announcements were in English. There were complaints about that. The reason was explained. I was not blamed.
An ABC employeeâs sworn affidavit claims ABC cheated to help Kamala win
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/an_abc_employee_s_sworn_affidavit_claims_abc_cheated_to_help_kamala_win.html
and a few recorded conversations to spice things up
January 2026 â After being denied government press credentials, losing all appeals, and seeing ad revenue in their news operations drop 80%, ABC annonced massive layoffs closing of the news divisionand a pivot to concentrate on sports, introducing Roone Arledge IV as their new Division Chief of Soccer Broadcasting.
ABC News will get sold to Faux News by the Disney Bankruptcy trustee as part of the deal where News Corp gets the Fox Sports assets back for pennies on the dollar.
If The Mouse needs the cash before then, ABC was already shopped to major affiliate groups such as Sinclair and TENGA but that went nowhere at what was The Weatherman’s asking price back then.
Another possibility â the Geico Gecko has the cash and owns the big ABC affiliate in Miami. He also supports the agenda.
OTOH, WPLT is the Gecko’s last TV station and most likely not sufficiently profitable.
I’ve lived the soft authoritarianism of Number One Son and Number One âBossâ Cousin games among ethnic Chinese.
âOne Child Per Familyâ doesn’t leave any siblings or cousins for Number One Son to boss around, and that will eventually lead to social unrest in the population.
Well, the Solara is a 2001. After 23 years, let the buyer deal with getting another fob/key.
My truck came with one fob and two keys. Should have two fobs and two normal keys plus valet key. The valet key is fine, it just doesn’t unlock the glove box.
When Mom went to the nursing home, her Freestar van had a Bluebook value of $400. We put tires on it a couple of years ago and it was around $750 for new tires at Discount Tires.
Nice tires, the âroarâ noise we thought was because of âbottom of the lineâ model went away. The van is actually nice to drive now. Still need to figure out what I think is a bad ground somewhere so the locks will UN-lock ALL of the time. But, who’s gonna steal it anyway?
One thought says to sell the van and save on insurance. It should go for a couple of grand, it has almost 58,000 miles and the a/c works, and the paint is very good. The headlights are hazy but they do polish up clear for about six months.
Then again, if I sell the van, if the Frontier has to go to the shop for some reason, I’m stuck with driving a tractor to the grocery store. I’m cool with that, I’ll mow the side of the road on my way to the HEB. Plus the van is great for taking the dogs to the vet. And the van has Purple Heart plates, so that’s like $11 a year instead of $75 for plates.
The âsweet spotâ for vehicles is after EFI but before computers spread like the metastasizing cancers that they are.
Another attempt to assassinate Trump. Desperate opponents.
I recently discovered that there are solar arrays now using double sided panels mounted straight-up vertically. They are more expensive, but they run cooler and have a longer lifespan, so the life-cycle cost may be less.
Apparently, the heat reduces the lifespan.
It opens possibliities to use them as fencing, and mount them high enough to use the ground between rows for grazing or crops.
I have been using IOS 18 for a month. The notes stuff is quite amazing. You will like it.
I was puzzled by âNotesâ suddenly showing up on my devices.
My cynical guess is that the default will be for your notes to end up in the cloud to feed Apple’s AI.
With all the other metadata they can come up with to associate with your notes: your buying history, your age, sex, and race, your browsing habits, your iBooks, your medical history from that app and iWatch – all will be multipliers.
Subcontinent Muslim?
Yup, most are Pakistani.
Apparently, the heat reduces the lifespan.
Heat reduces the lifespan of EVERYTHING.
BREAKINGâŠanother attempted assassination of President Trump.
Occurred approximately 1:30 PM EDT at Trump’s FL golf courseâŠ
SS advance agent a few holes ahead of Trump spotted a rifle muzzle poking out of some bushes. SS immediately fired in the direction of the rifle causing a person or persons unknown to flee.
An eyewitness provided a description of the vehicle which was intercepted by SS and one person was taken alive into custody.
Suspect had two backpacks reportedly with ceramic plates, a GoPro camera and an AK-47 âstyle rifleâ with a scope.
Shooter was 300 to 500 yards from potential target area.
How long before an arson or bomb attack on someone’s house because of a Trump flag or sign?
Crazy guy who got shot was probably firstâŠ
n
While rummaging around and filling bags full of trash of things like the leases from the apt in Garland and Erricson stuffâŠ. all more than 20 years old, I found a key ring.
A couple of house keys and key for a Club. One house key is for the front door. The missing key. See, when we bought the house they had one key, might work on the back door, we don’t know, we never locked the house. And ya know, a mile from the paved road, just come in a steal my stuff with out smashing the windows.
So I replaced the front and back door knobs. Four keys. Jim and Brad each have a key. Perhaps they still do. It’s been a few years.
After replacing the back door knob, worn out from use, and then adding a door knob to the bathroom door, Kwikset lets you change the keying. So everything is keyed like the front door. Pretty cool.
One mystery solved.
I found keys for a Club. That thing you put on the steering wheel. We had two. The yellow one is in my truck. The white one is somewhere in the boat shed. Too hot to actually dig through all the clutter out there.
But I did find a nest of five kittens whose eyes are just opening. Five is a lot. Three kittens is the normal. Yes I picked up and petted all of them. No hissing at all. There were a couple of momma cats around that did not seem happy. The momma cats are litter mates. I think I found a communal nest.
I pulled the the neg wire off of the Jeep’s battery. Connected a maintainer charger and as expected the battery is too dead. Well, here comes Mr. Motorcycle One Amp Charger. Might be able to salvage the battery.
The Jeep has about 240K miles. The serpentine belt blew apart one morning. My guess is it was the factory belt. He said F it, I’ll drive the van.
So, he âgaveâ the Jeep to a son. Said son has almost no mech skills and even we did replace the belt, he has no room at his house to park it.
The Jeep is configured to be towed behind a motor home. I have the hitch. My plan is to tow it like a trailer to the repair shop and have the belt replaced. If that fixes the Jeep, sell it.
It’s a 2000 two door Jeep Cherokee. Kind of special. The prices seem way up there. But I’ll sell the Jeep to get it out of here and give him half of the money.
Trump is unharmed btwâŠbut reportedly in a foul mood.
Not so sure about the acting SS DirectorâŠJosh Hawley will certainly chime in.
So far, FBI reports only a lone shooter. All bets are off if they find any connection to PA.
@paul, a lot of stuff builds up over the yearsâŠ
n
93F in the shade and not a whisper of a breeze.
It’s HOT in the back yard. I placed new rat poison boxes and re-baited the ones I could find. Then I did the attic. Yeah, hot as hades up there. No possums in the traps. I’ll re-bait those with apples and peanut butter.
I threw chunks of poison in different parts of the attic too, places that looked like rat runs.
n
I have actually done that very thing.
When I was on the farm I was 14 years old. I had a special driving license that allowed driving within the farm boundaries plus a couple miles either direction. The license was not good enough to get to town.
My aunt and uncle had left for a week leaving me and my brother alone on the farm. I think that is when they bought the Port Townsend place on Beckett Point, little road off to the left just before the big right hand curve that leads to the bottom, second to last house on the right (Rick knows the place). For some reason I had to get to town, Rogue River, Oregon.
I couldn’t drive that far and being young and stupid I never thought to ask the neighbors. The trip to town was 15 miles each way on a two lane road. So off I went at a whopping 13 miles an hour. Made the entire journey in about 3 hours.
I have driven the tractor further, pulling equipment, when we were processing hay on a leased field in Grants Pass, another 8 miles from Rogue River. Four different times I had to make that trip.
Things were different in farming country. Our place was in open range area. If an animal got out, was hit by a vehicle, the driver of the vehicle was responsible for the accident, including the cost of the cow and removal of the carcass.
Ended up on yesterdays blog:
There is now one less Kamel Humper voter in the FUSA. The SS finally did its job.
âAstronomers Stunned by Unexpected Discovery of New Celestial Bodies in the Outer Solar Systemâ
https://scitechdaily.com/astronomers-stunned-by-unexpected-discovery-of-new-celestial-bodies-in-the-outer-solar-system/
âUsing the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have identified previously unknown celestial bodies in the outer Solar System, suggesting a larger, unexplored expanse that parallels other planetary systems.â
âThese findings, including a possible second ring of Kuiper Belt Objects, could reshape our understanding of planetary formation and potentially boost the chances of discovering extraterrestrial life by revealing a more extensive and typical structure of our Solar System compared to others.â
There ain’t just dark matter out there.
>> I found keys for a Club. That thing you put on the steering wheel.
The problem with the Club was that the bad guys soon figured out that while it was hard to cut off the Club, it was relatively easy to cut through the steering wheel and then remove the Club still locked.
@paul
You could change the serpentine belt in the time it takes to put the tow hitch on the Jeep. 2001 Cherokee video is about three minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaT_ImY6jKI
Belt cost online is about half what the garage charges.
Belt diagrams are usually on a sticker on top of the radiator, but if not easy to find online. Confirm it before you pull the old belt.
The suspect fled the scene an was apprehended in Martin County according to some reports. Even on a Sunday, that’s a haul, easily 20 minutes up the Interstate.
Someone dropped the ball again.
No, the local LEO’s did the work.
Kind of like PA, come to think of it.
New meme: Gunmen shooting at Trump, female SS hiding behind him while he fends them off with his long game.
Walz: Time to Accost Strangers in the Produce Aisle for Kamala
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/09/15/walz-time-to-accost-strangers-in-the-produce-aisle-for-kamala-n3794535
In other news:
Emergency rooms report spike in number of emergency removals of large fruits and vegetables from both ends of alimentary canal, and are relieved that most of the â22%â symbols written on foreheads were done with Sharpie and not hot irons.
“”REVEALED: Border Czar Kamala Harris Purposely Sent At Least 80% of Haitian and CHNV Migrants to Red States That Did Not Vote for Her â When Do They Sue Her?”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/revealed-border-czar-kamala-harris-purposely-sent-least/
âElon Musk retweeted a post today by @fentasl on X on Joe and Kamalaâs Haitian migrants flown into the United States.â
â81% of the Haitian migrants â 362,000 out of 448,000 â were flown into red states.â
âThese are the states that refused to vote for Joe and Kamala or that they could not steal.â
âElon Musk chimed in: âMassive voter importation to make swing states permanently blue and turn America into a one-party state. It is rational from the Democratic Party standpoint, as it guarantees victory if successful.ââ
Add in Haitian Creole voting forms and all of the elections in those states are thrown to the dumbrocrats.
SS advance agent a few holes ahead of Trump spotted a rifle muzzle poking out of some bushes. SS immediately fired in the direction of the rifle causing a person or persons unknown to flee.
An eyewitness provided a description of the vehicle which was intercepted by SS and one person was taken alive into custody.
I do not think that the dumbrocrats understand that if Trump is assassinated, Civil War 2.0 starts immediately. It will be open shooting on all federal officials.
https://rumble.com/v5f2gaj-hannity-another-assassination-attempt.html
âBan democrats from owning guns. Why would they object?â
âBan democrats from owning guns. Why would they object?â
The null hypothesis would be that Democrat and Republican voters are equally likely to be perpetrators of violent gun crimes such as armed robbery, ADW, manslaughter and murder.
Give me $25 million I will do the study. The cost is high because we will need a large comprehensive study design to control for all variables developed with the aid of top-level statisticians.
The Importance of Being Patient
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/09/15/the-importance-of-being-patient-n2179353
I’ve considered becoming a paying subscriber in large part so I can read all of Ward Clark and a handful of other contributors.
Possum just knocked over my attic camera.
I’m going up there to bait the traps.
n
I followed a link on AoSHQ to this:
New Generation Postal Trucks May Look Goofy, But Mail Carriers Love Them
https://jalopnik.com/new-generation-postal-trucks-may-look-goofy-but-mail-c-1851647926
and an internal link to this:
New USPS Mail Trucks Get Dog**** Gas Mileage
February 2022
https://jalopnik.com/new-usps-mail-trucks-get-dogshit-gas-mileage-1848481048
EPA âcombinedâ (i.e., the weighted average of separate tests for highway and city driving) bears no resemblance to the daily duty of an suburban mail carrier, which travels (warning: SWAG’s ahead) about 100 feet between stops, during which it accelerates half the time, brakes the other half, and attains a top speed of about 15mph. That’s maybe 120 start/stops per hour, with an mean average speed of about 2mph. (yup, and a modal average of zero)
Try that in your Ram TRX (6.2-l V8, 8-speed auto, Supercharger, $78k MSRP, and 6,440 lb without mail)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_1500_TRX
The city part of the combined rating is 10mpg. The Rammer couldn’t get half that if the route was all downhill. It would, however, result in a new truck statistic: Transmissions/year. Might even have another: a/c compressors per year. If the a/c even worked under those conditions in Houston in July.
I won’t say the author of the article is dog****.
âIâm going up there to bait the traps.â
Wear protective clothing.
Remember what happened to Darryl.
Yeah, that’ll work.
There are so many studies that could be done, but won’t, because they’ll upset somenes applecart.
Vaccine damage, for all vaccines.
âAmishâ crime stats.
IQ by race. IQ correlated with financial outcomes.
Age discriminatin in the workforce.
White male discrimination in the workforce.
Remember, in my lifetime, it was viewed as tragic that women were underrepresented in colleges and that needed to be FIXED RIGHT D*MN NOW. So they went from under 40% of enrollement to over 60%.
Funny, now that men are underrepresented by nearly identical numbers, there’s no effort to fix that.
Someone should do a study.
D1 is freaking out because of some social media fear spiral. Someone posted a threat, maybe, to some schools in Houston, maybe, and one of them might be near her high school. Maybe. The district is not communicating. The social media has a screen shot of an email from the affected middle school’s principal about having âbeen made awareâ of âa threatâ and they are increasing the PD presence as a result.
The district hasn’t sent anything to the other three schools that share the city block parcel. Nor have they put anything on their web page or the ISD PD’s web page. They are always bare minimum and vague when they send out a CYA email statement.
There is also a picture of a screen possibly showing an instagram story warning about someone shooting up a school. It’s blurry, half out of frame, and generally stupid. If you really want to share a warning, why wouldn’t you get the best pic possible? Why would your post be in barely understandable mix of ebonics and english?
D1’s friends are passing around the email and the insta story pic, and working themselves into a frenzy. She’s legitimately freaked out and doesn’t want to go to school tomorrow.
And that’s the dilemma. It’s not this threat that concerns me, it’s the response to the next one, and the one after that, etc. It leads to not going to school ever. It leads to a life of fear. The easy answer is âjust skip school tomorrow.” but the repercussions of that are potentially far reaching. So are the repercussions of choosing badly.
Standard risk assessment says very small chance of happening, big downside, take small and easy mitigating steps. IE. Stay home. But staying home turns out to lead very quickly to big and not so easy steps.
My risk assessment says I don’t have enough information. Is the school responding to the instagram shooting threat? Or some other threat? Is it at all credible? Is the insta threat even about our district and school? In the absence of reliable info, I don’t think the risk is any higher tomorrow than it was yesterday or will be next week. The threat is ALWAYS there. The awareness of it isn’t.
Some other considerations are that the district can’t be trusted. They always act in their own interest, not in the interest of the students or the parents. They don’t actually communicate. I’ve personally caught them in systematic attempts to lie by omission or thru implication. So I don’t expect them to be forthcoming about this any more than their financials, or the fights on campus.
It’s no consolation or comfort to her that the real killers don’t make threats ahead of time, or that ÂŒ of them had been assessed by a campus threat assessment team, and allowed to return to/stay in school, only to kill years later. It’s no comfort that I think the threat is there every day. And it certainly won’t comfort her to put the soft armor I have for her in her backpack and then go to school anywayâŠ
No good choices. Long term or short.
n
@lpdbw,
and how can they be âminorityâ when they are 93% of the student body?
n
added – fun fact, the 82% that are “economically disadvantaged” matches almost exactly with the largest ethnicity…
edit- D1’s school makeup…
â’Doom Pixie’ Greta Thunberg Wins Antisemite of the Week Awardâ
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/09/15/doom-pixie-greta-thunberg-wins-antiemite-of-the-week-award-n2179363
âThere is a great irony in a certain autistic Swedish teenager who wants to save the planet from the evils of fossil fuel but is, at the same time, willing to turn over a significant portion of that planet to Bronze Age barbarians who care as much about the environment as they do women’s rights.â
“But that’s the case. The Swedish teenager in question is the Swedish Doom Pixie, Greta Thunberg, and in recognition of her support of Hamas, she has been named “Antisemite of the Week” by a group called StopAntisemitism.”
This young lady is continuously racking up new awards.
Third, how was Routh able to get so close to Mr. Trump? He was within 350-500 yards of the former president. Since heâs not the sitting president, it was determined that Secret Service protection was not allocated to the perimeter of the golf course, something that I find baffling given that he was shot a little over two months ago (via Fox News)
(emphasis added)
@nick, can you reasonably tell D1 that you’re comfortable (as you can be) with the âactive shooterâ protocols at her school?
If not, does she in fact have a case for staying home?
Nick, I’ve seen âschool backpacksâ for sale that had a pocket designed for a ballistic vest chest plate. Would something like a âbody armor backpackâ offer either some actual security or at least a little mental security?
https://www.thetimes.com/world/us-world/article/trump-assassination-attempt-update-latest-news-2xpldkjcl
(name redacted by me)
Still no clarification that I have seen as to who exactly fired shots.
HmmâŠ
Some dweeb wants attention, or just wants to watch the general freak-out. Probably. Almost certainly.
Well, actually, sometimes they do. The freak-out cycle works, because sometimes the dweeb actually is a violent nutcase.
Sorry for D1. OTOH, this could be a teaching moment.
IMHO that’s a serious argument for a private school.