Fri. Oct. 4, 2024 – and I’m on the road again, going places.

Warm and clear, gonna be hot later. Yesterday didn’t break 90F in the shade but in the sun it got brain boiling hot. Today will probably be the same. No rain forecast either.

I think I saved the grass in the front yard, or at least most of it. It seems to not be as brown or crunchy.

I spent yesterday moving stuff on the back patio. I swapped an open shelf for a close cabinet, that is also in the same color as our house siding. It will look a lot neater back there now. I ran out of daylight, so I’ll be reorganizing and putting stuff away for a couple of days.

I’d do it today, but I have to go pick up my lots in Leander… that is about 6 hours of driving and some time to load up. Then later I’ll have to sort and store it. Should be a good quick flip though that is worth all the driving.

I’ll try to check in during the day, but you should talk amongst yourselves…

And stack.

nick

56 Comments and discussion on "Fri. Oct. 4, 2024 – and I’m on the road again, going places."

  1. Greg Norton says:

    –Hung Cao, Republican candidate for Tim (beat-male father of terrorist) Kaine’s Senate seat in virginia

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2024/10/03/hung-cao-debate-n2645680

    I would like very much for this man to guard our lives and liberties as a U.S. Senator.

    The Weed Moms in the DC suburbs are not going to let Kaine lose. They may even try to return the KKKlansman to the Governor’s Mansion if they pull off putting Kamala in the White House.

    Stop bogarting the edibles and pass that bag!

  2. Nick Flandrey says:

    73F this morning.   Not cool, and suggests we’ll get pretty warm this afternoon.   Coffee is made, bacon is made, kids are moving.

    Get them out the door, and then I’ll get ready to leave.

    n

  3. brad says:

    Coffee is made, bacon is made

    Essentials of life 🙂

    I have OJ, coffee, bacon and eggs almost every morning. I switched hotels, where I stay during lectures (typically 2 nights/week). The new hotel is more expensive, but has nicer rooms and a proper breakfast buffet → including bacon and eggs. Spoiling myself during my last full year before retirement.

    Funny: this hotel is absolutely full of Chinese guests. This time, reception messed up and handed me my check-in documents in Chinese. Doesn’t matter, since I know what it all says anyway, but amusing…

  4. Greg Norton says:

    Funny: this hotel is absolutely full of Chinese guests. This time, reception messed up and handed me my check-in documents in Chinese. Doesn’t matter, since I know what it all says anyway, but amusing…

    Professional conferences with heavy Mainland Chinese participation in Fall 2019 became superspreader events for the Wuxu Flu getting established elsewhere.

    I remember reading one story about an aging conference in Boston in late 2019 which researchers tied mathematically to over 500k+ cases of Covid within a year just in the US alone.

    The conference included talks about Amgen’s then new controversial Alzheimer’s drug so the hookers and steaks probably flowed freely, with professionals brought in to work the booths on the show floor.

  5. Greg Norton says:

    Professional conferences with heavy Mainland Chinese participation in Fall 2019 became superspreader events for the Wuxu Flu getting established elsewhere.

    I worked for the tolling company in Fall 2019, and I had something bad with a severe cough that Fall which I just blew off as a bad cold.

    A co-worker joked that I had tuberculosis, but I knew I was negative thanks to a test.

    Unlike Covid, a positive TB test on the record triggers a strict public health quarantine protocol subject to enforcement by arrest for violations. And, again, unlike Covid, TB is generally treatable.

  6. drwilliams says:

    Harris is hidden because she is stupid;

    Walz because he is a liar

    https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/10/04/politico-notice-tim-walz-is-a-liar-n3795355

    Tampon Tim is working hard to fill the big lying shoes left by Joe Biden. 

  7. drwilliams says:

    “The Weed Moms in the DC suburbs are not going to let Kaine lose.”

    Bring back Paraquat. 

  8. lpdbw says:

    And, again, unlike Covid, TB is generally treatable.

    There’s two schools of thought about whether Covid is treatable.  One is doctors who care about their patients, and the other is the official government line.

    Of course, the caring doctors got censored, shut down, and deplatformed.

  9. Greg Norton says:

    “The Weed Moms in the DC suburbs are not going to let Kaine lose.”

    Bring back Paraquat. 

    Weed is legal in DC, and Florid will vote on legalization next month. Spraying Paraquat could result in a lawsuit or even intervention from a government agency.

  10. drwilliams says:

    State law does not override the federal classification schedule of marijuana. 

    Absent action by Congress, the next president should announce a 12-month deadline requiring a medical finding that marijuana in the current potency is harmless and a change in federal law allowing the states to decide. If both do not happen, the feds should raid the dispensaries and growers, levy ruinous fines, and lock up the people involved as conspirators to harm the public health. 

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  11. Ray Thompson says:

    Subbing again. I hate the Chromebooks.

    The problem is not the actual Chromebooks, it is the way they are being used. The teachers can monitor the student’s activities on the devices. As subs, we have no access to anything. The kids claim they have finished their work and start playing games. I have no idea if they are done with their work. Somewhere I just decided it is not my problem.

    It might be easier for teachers as they don’t have papers to grade and all the grading is done on Classroom. Some classes have papers that need to be turned in but that seems to be the exception.

    The students never seem to have their Chromebooks charged when they come to school. Many have to connect to power to get their work done. But by gosh their cell phones are fully charged. Priorities.

    The Chromebooks are really cheap devices. Poor screens, poor trackpad, poor keyboard. Very little memory and almost no local storage as everything is stored in Google  Classroom. The devices do have a USB-A port, HDMI port, and a headphone jack. Bought in bulk the devices are probably $100 each, if that much.

    The devices are fairly well constructed based on some of the abuses I have seen the students heap on the machines.

    At the end of the school year the devices must be turned back to the school. The next year the student gets the same machine, except for seniors of course. For seniors they should be allowed to keep the machines. A four year old machine, that has been less than carefully handled, is worth scrap value. The time and effort to account for the machines is just not cost effective in my opinion.

    I do know the Chromebooks have really destroyed the ability to write, as put words on paper. I was writing better in third grade than most of the seniors in high school.

  12. brad says:

    I do know the Chromebooks have really destroyed the ability to write, as put words on paper. I was writing better in third grade than most of the seniors in high school.

    The coming of the AIs may well perpetuate that trend. Write some barely understandable gibberish and ask the AI to clean it up. Don’t bother looking at and understanding the corrections, just turn it in.

    I’m seeing exactly this in my programming classes. I use ChatGPT too, but I look at what it produces. Students don’t. What makes it really dumb, is that the exercises don’t count toward their grade – they are just provided to help them learn. Then comes the exam: entire pages left blank, or maybe filled with nonsense, because they haven’t got a clue.

    On the positive, it does serve to separate the good students from the lazy. You know the classic bell curve for grades? Last semester, it was upside down. About half the students had top grades, and half failed. Not one single person in the middle. First time it’s ever been that extreme.

  13. Lynn says:

    “Costco expands ‘doomsday’ lineup with new product after gold bar demand exploded with customers spending $200m a month”

        https://www.the-sun.com/news/12596945/costco-platinum-bars-gold-silver-doomsday-prep/

    “The wholesale retailer is now selling bars of platinum after their 1-ounce gold bars sold out in a few hours when they first went on sale last year.”

  14. Lynn says:

    “Port strike ends as workers agree to tentative deal on wages and contract extension”

       https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/03/port-strike-ends-as-workers-agree-to-tentative-deal-on-wages-and-contract-extension.html

    “A major union for U.S. dockworkers and the United States Maritime Alliance agreed on Thursday to a tentative deal on wages and have extended their existing contract through Jan. 15 to provide time to negotiate a new contract”

    One wonders if cargo will be slow walked until the new contract is agreed upon.

  15. Greg Norton says:

    “Costco expands ‘doomsday’ lineup with new product after gold bar demand exploded with customers spending $200m a month”

    Issaquah is all about the cashflow even if the margin is razor thin.

  16. Ray Thompson says:

    The coming of the AIs may well perpetuate that trend. Write some barely understandable gibberish and ask the AI to clean it up. Don’t bother looking at and understanding the corrections, just turn it in.

    I was talking about physical writing, as in pencil on paper, making letters and words manually.

  17. Lynn says:

    “Houston’s early risers sound off after Blue Alert jolts the city awake”

        https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/blue-alert-houston-19815158.php

    “Millions of Texans were jolted out of bed just before 5:00 a.m. Friday when Hall County—somewhere north of Lubbock, population 2,810—issued a Blue Alert after a deputy was injured by a fleeing suspect, sending people and social media into a frenzy.”

    And this is why my phone sleeps in our kitchen.  The wife’s phone also.

  18. Lynn says:

    “September jobs report builds case for smaller Fed rate cut in November”

       https://finance.yahoo.com/news/september-jobs-report-builds-case-for-smaller-fed-rate-cut-in-november-144604615.html

    “But Friday’s report countered any signs of slowing across a variety of metrics. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday showed the labor market added 254,000 payrolls in September, more additions than the 150,000 expected by economists. Revisions to both the July and August report showed the US economy added 72,000 more jobs during those two months than previously reported.”

    “Meanwhile, the unemployment rate the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, from 4.2% in August.”

    Two notes:

    1. the feddies have faked the jobs number consistently in 2023 and 2024, why would they stop now ?
    2. I suspect that all of the jobs are federal or state as they are on hiring binges before the election
  19. Lynn says:

    “Jen Psaki: Where Are George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Mike Pence? You Have 33 Days To Endorse Harris For “The History Books””

        https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/04/jen_psaki_on_cheney_endorsement_of_harris_where_are_george_w_bush_mitt_romney_mike_pence.html

    Yup.

  20. Lynn says:

    “The relief effort following Hurricane Helene appears to be as chaotic as that after Hurricane Katrina…”

       https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-relief-effort-following-hurricane.html

    “I can understand one or two screw-ups like that, but they appear to be so widespread that they’re affecting everybody.  Try these headlines for size.  I can’t vouch that they’re all true (I presume some will be at least exaggerated, if not false), but there are enough of them to suggest a pattern.”

    Ronald Reagan said it best, “The most scary words are I am from the federal government and here to help you”.

  21. Ray Thompson says:

    faked the jobs number consistently in 2023 and 2023

    Well, that covers one year, twice.

  22. Lynn says:

    faked the jobs number consistently in 2023 and 2023

    Well, that covers one year, twice.

    Incompetent, I am.

    Fixed.

  23. Lynn says:

    “Supreme Court declines to block EPA methane, mercury rules”

       https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/10/supreme-court-declines-to-block-epa-methane-mercury-rules/

    “The Supreme Court on Friday turned down a request from Republican-led states and industry groups to block a rule from the Environmental Protection Agency that imposes more stringent standards on emissions of hazardous air pollutants from coal-fired power plants. At the same time, the justices turned down a similar request from Oklahoma and industry groups to block an EPA rule that seeks to regulate emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from crude-oil and natural gas facilities.”

    Yup, I figured that this was going to happen since the new Methane rule was passed by Congress and signed by the President in the Inflation Reduction Act.

  24. Lynn says:

    “Female, black applicants who failed Maryland State Police tests likely to receive $2.75M in back pay from discrimination suit”

       https://www.theblaze.com/news/female-black-applicants-who-failed-maryland-state-police-tests-likely-to-receive-2-75m-in-backpay-from-discrimination-suit

    So if the failed applicant is 5’2″ and weighs 400 lbs, will they get the back pay and be instated in the job ?

  25. JimB says:

    I’m seeing exactly this in my programming classes. I use ChatGPT too, but I look at what it produces. Students don’t.

    I see this in so many situations. People turn a key in a lock, and assume the door is locked without checking. I once had a coworker do this with an important lock. To be fair, he said he did check every day for a year, and there were no failures, so he stopped checking. NO! If it is important, verify.

    However, this checking can be overdone. My father would shake our house door to be sure it was locked. He did it hard enough that he had to replace the lockset about every few years. He said it was worth it.

  26. Lynn says:

    “Judge: ‘Tough on crime’ means imprisoning Blacks”

        https://www.fbherald.com/news/judge-tough-on-crime-means-imprisoning-blacks/article_e93bbdcf-d497-5de5-8c09-bc0b45ff20e8.html

    “A Fort Bend County judge said candidates for public office who claim to be tough on crime are really saying they’re tough on Blacks.”

    “Republicans from the top to the bottom, we know what they stand for,” said Democrat Tameika Carter, who was elected as presiding Judge of the 400th District Court on Nov. 3, 2020. “When I tell you that they’re tough-on-crime philosophy means locking up as many of us as possible, that is what they run on, and that is what they do.”

    Oh my, look what Fort Bend County has gotten itself into.

    I’ll bet that our indicted County Judge KP George hopes that he gets her as his judge.  She will probably dismiss all charges against him since he is such a kind man to her.  Me, she would put in jail until the sun dies.

  27. JimB says:

    “The wholesale retailer is now selling bars of platinum after their 1-ounce gold bars sold out in a few hours when they first went on sale last year.”

    Oh goody, Kirkland Signature platinum.

    In other news, I didn’t know that platinum is now less expensive than gold.

  28. Greg Norton says:

    “Jen Psaki: Where Are George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Mike Pence? You Have 33 Days To Endorse Harris For “The History Books””

    Reading between the lines in the piece, Mittens kinda sorta endorses Kamala in the recent interview in The Atlantic but The Elders are not going to permit him to give full, open support while he sits in one of their Senate seats. 

    Plus, there are still many variations on Electoral and Succession calculus which could see Mittens in the VP chair as a “compromise”, albeit briefly. His Daddy issues won’t let him walk away from that possibility.

    The Bush cabal won’t let Shrub endorse Harris/Walz lest that come back to haunt them when they run George P. (Diddly) for Governor after Abbott steps down.

    Shrub is still popular in Texas.

    Pence? Who knows. He likes to spend a lot of time in SW Florida on Sanibel, and that place leans right with a former CIA director under Shrub living on the island and God-only-knows who out on nearby Useppa, literally the former CIA training facility for the Bay of Pigs invasion.

    BTW, the Perot family had a big house out on Useppa in the 90s along with a monstrosity of a yacht which H. Ross kept hidden there away from cameras lest it ruin his “populist” image.

  29. Nick Flandrey says:

    Home from my pickup.   Lotta driving.

    Swung by an estates sale and picked up a solar charge controller too.  It was all I won despite bidding on 100 ham radio lots.

    I took 290 between Houston and Austin this trip.  I haven’t done that in 7-8 years.   Holy crow.   SO MUCH new housing going up east of Austin.  Stop and go lights all the way to the toll road are going to be brutal during the commute times…

    Austin has an incredible amount of elevated highway, especially considering its population.   WAY more than they should, and new, and in good repair.   Guess the suck ups take care of Austin ‘cuz they know who butters their bread.

    Lots of Tesla cars, no cybertrucks.

    I’m not taking 290 to Austin again.

    The transition from 183 Toll south to 71 east is still one of the most confusing and poorly marked in Texas, and that is saying a LOT.

    Looks like rain here, but I don ‘t expect to actually get any.  Unless I  leave stuff in my truck bed, then it will rain for certain.

    n

  30. Alan says:

    Heard from a former work colleague concerned about stocking up on some emergency supplies but doesn’t have a lot of time to have this become a big project. I gave him some general info and recommended some lead dispensers. With regard to food, he’s interested in the commercial “25 breakfast/lunch/dinner meals in a bucket” concept. Does anyone have any recommendations for any of these that aren’t a rip-off?

    Funny what gets your attention when it’s just a month until election day and we have 220+ dead Americans in the southeast.

    Hey Joe, how’s the water down at the beach?

  31. Greg Norton says:

    The transition from 183 Toll south to 71 east is still one of the most confusing and poorly marked in Texas, and that is saying a LOT.

    If you have time one day, try 71 west to 183 south without ending up on 183 north and having to resort to the u-turn at Montopolis.

    Southbound, the 183 toll/freeway hybrid is *done*, unlike five years ago when I started driving down to work at the tolling company when the road was still under construction and undergoing the split.

    All of 183 from the airport up to Cedar Park will look like that hybrid road eventually.

  32. Lynn says:

    “Collapse (Kelly Turnbull/Peoples Republic)” by Kurt Schlichter
       https://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Kelly-Turnbull-Kurt-Schlichter/dp/173419930X?tag=ttgnet-20/

    Book number four of an eight book alternate history series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by Kurt Schlichter in 2019 that I just bought on Amazon. I am now reading book number five in the series (which is a prequel) as I have purchased several of the books now.

    In an alternate universe, the USA split into two countries in 2022: the People’s Republic (the west coast and the northeast) and the United States (flyover country). Initially people can cross the lines easily but that gets more difficult as the years go on.

    In 2032, the People’s Republic has been selling old US Navy ships to China to pay off some of their debts and buy more food for their starving populace. But now they are selling the USS Teddy Roosevelt, a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, and the USA cannot allow that. So the USA sends Kelly Turnbull to fix the situation.

    My favorite caliber is .44 Magnum. 

    My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    Amazon rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars (3,145 reviews)

    Lynn

  33. Lynn says:

    Funny what gets your attention when it’s just a month until election day and we have 220+ dead Americans in the southeast.

    Hey Joe, how’s the water down at the beach?

    They are expecting the death toll to rise to 1,000 to 1,200.

  34. Greg Norton says:

    Lots of Tesla cars, no cybertrucks.

    Bonus/stock grant season was good at the tech companies around town, but not Jesus Truck good.

  35. lpdbw says:

    Had my first auto accident in decades today.

    I was the front vehicle of a 3-car pileup.

    The State Farm adjuster already called me and let me know they’re taking full liability for this accident.

    Two Kia Forte’s and my F-150.   

    If my truck was 10 years old, I’d just shrug it off.  But since I’ve only had it for a little over a year, it’s getting fixed.  Mostly a scratched bumper, but I want all the cameras and sensors checked out.

    All that time driving in Houston, and I get in an accident in Southern Illinois.  Go figure.

  36. Nightraker says:

    With regard to food, he’s interested in the commercial “25 breakfast/lunch/dinner meals in a bucket” concept

    The “Wise” buckets are not well thought of.  In general, I’d prefer #10 cans by the case, being a better sealing system to my mind as opposed to pouches in buckets.  There are kits from Emergency Essentials (beprepared.com), Safecastle, Auguson Farms .  Mountain House is the preferred Cadillac brand for freeze-dried, but pricey.  Any reserve food benefits TREMENDOUSLY with cool and dry storage.  Just ask Nick. 🙂  Examine any system/kit VERY carefully for unappetizing filler items.  I’d take their calorie count and serving size with a bit of salt and overbuy accordingly. 

    Prices have doubled and doubled again in the last few years.  It’s hard for the vendors to keep to a price point for a specific duration.

    To my mind, YMMV, backing a truck up to Costco/Sam’s or some other shopping system for regular canned goods/pastas/condiments/spices is more confidence inspiring.

    This lady’s Project/System is well thought out: https://youtu.be/gOLuIApyNPc

    Ancillary items like grain grinders, evaporator tray machines, pressure canners, vacuum sealers and other non-standard kitchen tools add up very quickly but are worth their price in gold comes the day.

  37. Nick Flandrey says:

    I like the Mountain House variety boxes that Costco used to sell.   I’ve got a bunch on the shelf.  I do add to them, instant coffee, instant oatmeal, koolaid powder,  and some leftover plastic utensils.  Then I reseal the box.

    Hmm, it’s a bucket now.

    https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-House-Essential-Backpacking-Gluten-Free/dp/B0843J11JW?tag=ttgnet-20 

    https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-House-Expedition-Backpacking-0081664A/dp/B082WZZ6SN?tag=ttgnet-20 

    https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-House-Backpacking-Servings-0081635A/dp/B0843HYLK9?tag=ttgnet-20 

    https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-House-Emergency-Survival-Servings/dp/B0898QSCNG?tag=ttgnet-20 

    https://www.amazon.com/Mountain-House-Emergency-Survival-Servings/dp/B084GVLG9B?tag=ttgnet-20 

    Costco has a couple of choices https://www.costco.com/s?dept=All&keyword=emergency%20meals 

    and the 5 day box I use as a base.

    The other bucket sellers vastly under provide calories “per day”, and they are mostly salt, sugar, and TVP.   No meat at all.   They are counting on you NOT eating their bucket.  I will not recommend one, although I have a few at the BOL as a base to meals, providing side dishes to the canned meat.

    Mountain House expects people to eat the food.

    My wife takes MH with her out of the bucket when she does GS camping.

    Freeze drieds will  give you “something” that is light weight, prepackaged, and very easy.    Add a pump water filter, and a Jetboil stove with a couple of cans of fuel, and you won’t starve.  Upgrade with a decent camping cookware set, and a couple of big metal cups, full set of cheap metal silverware for each family member.   A folding plastic “cube” water carrier fits in a small box with the rest of your cooking stuff.

    n

  38. paul says:
    Shrub is still popular in Texas.

    Not with anyone I know.  He’s a freaking moron.

  39. paul says:

    The food thing…. trot yer ass to Walmart and get a couple/four of pound bags of Riceland Rice.  Or whatever brand you like.  Stick them in the freezer for a couple of weeks and then into a five gallon bucket.  Add a handful of bay leaves.  

    Then canned meat like tuna and Spam or the store brand equal.  The original Spam is all pork.  All of the various flavors are pork and mechanically separated chicken.  So, yeah, it’s protein but do chicken feathers actually digest?

    Stock up on pasta.  And canned or jarred pasta sauce.  Canned veggies that you like to eat.  

    Canned chili and beef stew.  Canned potatoes.   And tomatoes. 

    You have to cook the rice and pasta but the rest can be eaten from the can.

    And that’s your back-up supply.  Stuff you eat when you just don’t want to cook.  Before it all goes to heck, you eat what ya got in the freezer. 

    I might be crazy.  But for me, I can slice and fry a can of Spam and eat on that for a few days.  Add some rice or macaroni…. 

    Ain’t no reason at all for anyone to NOT have a couple of weeks of food stashed. 

  40. EdH says:

    Update to anyone who was interested: The star party at  Red Rock S.P. has been canceled by the club, too hot and a chance of clouds!

    Too bad, I put off my trip to Kennedy Meadows mid week for it, but so it goes.

  41. paul says:

    Well.  Last night’s movie (but tried tonight) was Simpatico.  I made it through 40 minutes and hit eject.  I just don’t care about horse racing anyway.  To the  Library Thrift pile it goes.

    Next on the stack was The Gauntlet.  An old movie I’ve never seen.  It’s a keeper.

    One thing for sure, with all the $5 movies from the bin at the grocery store, if the movie sucks, toss it.

  42. paul says:

    That’s TEN pound bags of rice.   ….  Autocorrect….

    Oh. And canned ravioli. And Vienna sausages. Stuff kids will eat.

  43. Lynn says:

    “Election Emergency! The Desperate Democrat Deep State Has Launched A New Attempt To Take Alex Jones Off The Air By October 17th!”

        https://www.infowars.com/posts/election-emergency-the-desperate-democrat-deep-state-has-launched-a-new-attempt-to-take-alex-jones-off-the-air-by-october-17th

    ““Infowars is facing its potential end, but that’s not enough, they want to shut ME down,” said Jones on his Friday broadcast. “I want the enemy to know we’re getting massive support and that we’re getting the top lawyers to defeat their attempt to literally put me as a 13th Amendment indentured slave.””

    ““The precedent is being set to literally steal my identity and shut down Infowars. The globalist Deep State just took their war on free speech, our very identities and our very freedoms to the next level. They have now introduced a lawsuit against me where they literally claim they own my name, my social media, and me personally in violation of the 13th Amendment that we fought the Civil War over. They’re actually saying that I’m an indentured servant, that I am a slave. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m always the canary in the coal mine. I am the test case. When they get through me, they’re coming after you.””

    Hopefully no one gives him any money until he is out of bankruptcy as the thieves will just take it.  I suspect that he has a lot of money hidden away.

    But, sounds like they want to keep Alex Jones in bankruptcy for the rest of his life.  That is not constitutional nor is it lawful.

  44. lpdbw says:

    Just learned yesterday that my 33 year old grandnephew died of massive heart failure.

    I automatically jumped to a conclusion, but I know that we’ll never know the cause.

    I traveled up here to Southern Illinois for a Celebration of Life, and now I have a funeral the next day.  I’m still deciding whether to go to the funeral, since it’s my ex’s family and I’ve been distant for 10 years, but I was always fond of his mother, and in my heart she’s still my niece even after divorcing her aunt.

    He leaves behind a  very young daughter.

  45. paul says:

    Jeeze.  Sorry to hear about grandnephew.  Go to the funeral.  It will mean a lot to a lot of folks and you, too..  Family, ya know? 

  46. Lynn says:

    That’s TEN pound bags of rice.   ….  Autocorrect….

    Oh. And canned ravioli. And Vienna sausages. Stuff kids will eat.

    Lots and lots of canned food.  And a Coleman propane stove (uses 16 oz propane bottles):

        https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-Portable-Adjustable-Push-Button-Tailgating/dp/B09HN1YW6V?tag=ttgnet-20/

    Or this adapter will allow usage of 20 lb propane bottles:

       https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-High-Pressure-Propane-Available-Lanterns/dp/B0BXB8YRX8?tag=ttgnet-20/

  47. Lynn says:

    You can even get a bread oven for your Coleman stove (Coleman Portable Camping Oven with Thermometer & Adjustable 10 Sq. In. Rack, Designed to Sit on Top of Camp Stoves or Fire):

         https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-2000016462-Camp-Oven/dp/B0009PURJA?tag=ttgnet-20/

  48. Nick Flandrey says:

    Yes to regular grocery store food, but that wasn’t the question or the requirement… 

    n

  49. drwilliams says:

    Marijuana-Using Prosecutor Deemed ‘Too Dangerous’ to Have a Gun

    But because of marijuana’s unique status as illegal at the federal level while legal at the state level, people like Greene exist.

    Yet my question is, how can he still be trusted to prosecute criminals while being too dangerous to protect himself and his family from some of those criminals?

    https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/10/04/marijuana-using-prosecutor-deemed-too-dangerous-to-have-a-gun-n1226456

  50. Nick Flandrey says:

    All restrictions on gun ownership are un-Constitutional.

    n

  51. Nick Flandrey says:

    Boy, I’m telling you, that google live translate for printed text is like living in a sci-fi world.

    Someone posted a meme pic with kanji text, all I had to do to read it was point the phone at it with google translate open.  

    Super cool.

    n

  52. Lynn says:

    All restrictions on gun ownership are un-Constitutional.

    Even convicted felons out of jail ?

  53. Lynn says:

    All restrictions on gun ownership are un-Constitutional.

    I am fairly sure that Kamala is going to EO some serious Red Flag laws that will catch 100% of the gun owners in the USA.  All they will have to do is just show up at your house, note that you are breathing, and grab your guns.

  54. Nick Flandrey says:

    Even convicted felons out of jail ? 

    – yes.   For one, the laws don’t work to keep them from getting guns.   For two, in every other amendment where there are exceptions or limits they are spelled out.   and for three, everything has a good and a bad.   

    Does the felon, who has been punished according to the law, somehow lose his Right to defend himself?  His Right, which  according to our founding docs comes from his Creator?   Should he continue to be punished for his previous crime AFTER he has fulfilled the Peoples’ laws requirements and punishment?  If so, what point is there in limiting or mete’ ing out the legal punishment?

    No one WANTS criminals to have guns, but they get them and use them anyway.   The prohibition on felons owning guns just gives the cops another handle to control people based on who they are, not what they are doing, or for the ACTUAL crime they committed.  It’s rooted in the idea that someone’s rights must be restricted because of what someone ELSE might do.

    I can’t get the allergy meds that make my life comfortable without presenting a government issued ID to a clerk every 20 days, where it is entered into a system that tracks my location, KEEPS RECORDS OF MY MOVEMENTS, and records that I’m buying those meds, and in what quantity.    All because someone ELSE might abuse those meds to make some other chemicals which someone ELSE might use in a way government doesn’t like.  To add to the insult, the restrictions have not reduced the availability of the restricted chemical to any noticeable degree.

    Or consider open container laws.   Driver is sober, passes skill and blood tests.   Passenger has an open container, and arrests get made.  In Illinois in the 80s it was so bad that if you had 5 unopened beers in a six pack ring, the MISSING beer was considered an open container and you’d be charged.     The cops don’t need additional handles to control citizens.  Only tyranny results, and all based on what OTHER people do, or have done, or might have done.

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    Dang, just saw the possum walking around in my attic.

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    Does anyone know if the 911 call system keeps track of who calls and when?  And if it collates or aggregates that information?  Or presents it to the call taker?   Like they get a pop up that says the caller has called for service or made a report x number of times over y period of time… or if that info is available to others, for review, or for identifying frequent callers?  Does it get added to a dossier or file?  Is it searchable?

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    Had my snack, now time to sleep, no matter how engaging the 8th Jane Yellowrock book is…

    n

  55. Ray Thompson says:

    Can’t sleep, still wide awake, check the time stamp. That is the last time I drink a sugar free Dr. Pepper after 5:00 PM.

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