Cold and wet. Probably still raining. It started with a light drizzle in the afternoon, and continued all night. Temps rose a bit, then fell to mid 30s F. I don’t think we got near freezing though. I expect the suck to continue.
I had a fairly productive day yesterday for all that I didn’t get done. I did two loads of laundry and started a third. Did some cleaning and putting away, but didn’t get anywhere near done. I was in both attics stacking decor. I even got the leaf blower and blew out the whole house. It’s amazing how much hair, dust, and little bits of paper will accumulate, and how much better it looks when that mess is gone. You can’t even really see it, but you are aware it’s there.
I spent the longest part of the day doing electronic troubleshooting on the thing I want to put on ebay. I REALLY want it to work as that will double the value. I was hoping for a configuration error on my part, but my wife was able to rule that out, mostly. We did find some indication that there might actually be a hardware problem at the root of all the unrelated issues. I’ll talk to tech support today. Hopefully they can point me to the solution, and maybe I’ll even spend a bit on repairs if it’s not too much. It’s older gear but well supported. Wife has some diagnostic tools at work that she can bring home too. I normally don’t pull her into my reselling, but she’s got the experience, and it’s worth a couple thousand dollars more if it works. That kind of money is worth spending some effort…
Today will be more of the same. Clean, put away, work on getting stuff ready for ebay (and out of the living room, toy room, and kitchen). Maybe I’ll even get some other stuff done. There will likely be more domestic bliss too.
Not sure I’ll stack anything today, but I will be working on stacks. Some days that’s enough.
nick
Good luck getting it working again!
No jail time/fine/probation/etc. The Dems want to hang that “convicted felon” label on Trump for the rest of time and Merchan will oblige with minimal risk to himself.
Bad Daddy!
37F and not actually dripping water from the sky at the moment. Looks ugly though.
FedEx issued a service disruption notice for the Memphis hub due to weather. That’s usually a good indication the storm was real, and big.
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Had to grind more coffee this morning so that delayed starting the pot. No coffee in my blood yet. SOON, so very soon.
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This weather hurts. No me gusta. I’d be surprised if anyone here didn’t have similar body pain from a lifetime of abuse and use. Cold and damp hurts.
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Let’s get this show on the toad.
n
Barrett and the Old School Marm sided with the Liberals 5-4.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/010925zr_2d8f.pdf
Roberts could have been more sensitive to the optics.
The net result is going to by a multiplied incentive to indict Garland and Smith, and not only hang the “convicted felon” label on them, but set it in bold type with jail time.
Every school system in TN has closed for the day. Many businesses in my area are closing at noon when the snow is supposed to arrive.
Same for North AL. As of 0700 we have about an inch of snow. It’s still snowing, though not hard enough to get 6+ inches like was being screamed about last weekend.
The Old School Marm has been consistent in trying to keep The Court from being used as a means to bail voters out of their foolish (IIRC, his word) political choices.
My only question is why his ward, The Boy Wonder (Kavanaugh), didn’t go along as well.
Barrett sits in the Payola seat. We still don’t know the terms of the deal that put her there like we did the previous two occupants of that chair.
I don’t see how preventing an illegally appointed special prosecutor from doing even more damage can be construed as bailing voters out.
I can see how Garland and Smith in protective solitary confinement in a Supermax prison could go a long way toward fixing the optics.
Speaking of optics:
https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2025/01/10/turn-out-the-lights-gavins-partys-over-n3798664
Split screen video with “I’m on the phone with the President” on the left and FJB sitting at JEC’s funeral and the time stamp below each can run in a 15-second spot 100 times a day for very little money as those things go.
The damage is limited to adjunct regulars in Arts & Letters College faculty lounges at mid-tier state schools all over flyover country being able to hang the words “convicted felon” around Trump’s neck until the end of time.
Hut Hut Hut, Woe-toe-hice. Hut Hut Hut.
Not to be confused with “The Blues Brothers”.
Hut. Hut. Hut. Hut. Hut. Hut. Hut. Hut.
BTW, one thing I never caught watching that flick on home video but managed to catch on Tuesday night is that even Spielberg is holding a gun aimed in the direction of Jake and Elwood right before the cut to the prison musical number scene and end credits.
These days, The Beard is so establishment that the gift shop on Martha’s Vineyard with his picture on the wall received the image from his publicity people, who had a professional photographer take the pic while Spielberg visited the store.
Convcted felon, with zero punishment? That’s as close as the judge can come to overturning the jury verdict.
All the Dems cared about was getting the words “convicted felon”. The talking points memos are hitting the fax machines now ahead of the networks locking the guests for the Sunday morning talk shows.
I doubt the sentence would have been much different had Trump lost the election. Maybe a fine.
Look what taking things as far as a mug shot did for the career of the DA in Fulton County, GA.
Think Trump doesn’t have Mechan’s cell phone location data? Maybe even his SMS conversations?
Merchan is trying to have his cake and eat it too.
He wants to be the guy who “got” Trump and the guy that let him go.
Merchan is trying to have his cake and eat it too.
He wants to be the guy who “got” Trump and the guy that let him go.
I want to see Merchan frog marched out of the USA in chains back to his native Columbia. The guy broke many rules of law in his kangeroo court. Is he even a legal immigrant to the USA ?
Tyler Durden cowardice discouraging panic buying of gasoline in Las Vegas.
Of course, coverage like this will have the opposite effect on supplies, hence the cowardice.
Gas shortage for the MLK holiday weekend/Inauguration Day!
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/do-not-panic-buy-la-fire-crisis-disrupts-main-fuel-pipeline-las-vegas
Say it like Gibson: Guzzoline!
Remember when “Mad Max” movies actually had a Mad Max, even if it wasn’t Gibson in the role?
Hollywood will be living “The Road Warrior” for real soon enough.
“Brushfires: It Isn’t Just The Government, Stupid”
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2025/01/brushfires-it-isnt-just-government.html
“As Bayou Renaissance Man noted, some other bloggers have offered explanations for the current fire situation hereabouts. Without questioning their bona fides on the topic, we have lived in the exact area in question our entire life (save for a few transitory changes of address required by Uncle Sam), and from time before Reagan was governor, let alone president. In our youth, we and some friends sat on our house roof and watched the hillsides gloriously aflame in all four cardinal directions at the same time, and watched 150′ tall flames overtop those same hillsides. This is not a novel phenomenon, and we possess a wee bit more precise and firsthand handle on the situation, and a great deal more historical context than most.”
“As we pointed out in comments to an earlier post on BRM, insurance companies abandoning coverage in Califrutopia was a net plus, not a terrible thing, because they were otherwise being forced to subsidize (on the backs of ordinary policyholders) rich, entitled idiots building mansions inches away from literal tons of fireload, in brush-choked wind-tunnel canyons that burn regularly for not years, not decades, not centuries, but for millennia, since Hammurabi himself was in diapers.”
I just spent $5,000 clearing 20 feet by 900 feet of brush along the side of my main road of my 14 acre office complex here in Fort Bend County, Texas. Are you telling me that people could not clear the brush around their homes ?
Gas shortage for the MLK holiday weekend/Inauguration Day!
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/do-not-panic-buy-la-fire-crisis-disrupts-main-fuel-pipeline-las-vegas
Say it like Gibson: Guzzoline!
There are only two or three operating refineries left in California. The other 15 or so refineries have given up on fighting California bureaucrats and converted themselves to tank farms. California imports gasoline nowadays from Washington state and Texas (Panama canal).
Hawaii does not have an operating refinery either. They import all of their gasoline and diesel from Washington State. There are only 90 or so operating refineries in the USA now, down from 250 in 1980. There are new refineries in South Dakota and in Port Arthur, Texas.
“Homeless man ‘with blowtorch’ in LA is tackled and zip-tied by furious locals as cops confirm latest wildfire is ARSON – while Khloe Kardashian leads anger at ‘scum’ firebug”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14270193/homeless-man-blowtorch-la-kenneth-fire-cops-arson.html
“A homeless man allegedly trying to start a fire with a blowtorch was tackled and zip-tied by furious Los Angeles locals carrying out a citizen’s arrest.”
“Locals claim the man was riding a bicycle around the Woodland Hills neighborhood on Thursday afternoon and carrying a large ‘propane tank or a flamethrower’.”
“Community members claim they surrounded the man, brought him to the ground and detained him up with zip ties after they allegedly saw him trying to set fire to an object behind a vehicle.”
I am surprised that they did not kill him. He will be back on the streets in a matter of days.
“Harrowing photos emerge following apocalyptic wildfires in Southern California”
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/harrowing-photos-emerge-following-apocalyptic-wildfires-in-southern-california/1731547
“Homes burned to the ground and entire neighborhoods are unrecognizable in the wake of the wind-driven infernos that erupted in Southern California. AccuWeather estimates the fires caused more than $135 billion in damage.”
Home insurance rates will be rising more all across the USA to pay for this. I just paid $20K for my property and liability insurance of my 14 acre office complex. It was $7K when I bought it in 2011.
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
Swan Eaters: Coming Back Jan 20, 2025
https://www.gocomics.com/swan-eaters/2025/01/06
Sweet !
Now with more Nazis.
In many cases in SoCal, enviro-nazis actively PREVENTED brush clearance; JEP devoted several “Chaos Manor” segments to it, including a few fairly close to his house. And many of the 2017/18 NorCal fires around Santa Rosa were aggravated by the failure of homeowners to clear “defensible space” around their houses. Because people prefer to have vegetation around the house.
The “blowtorch” was probably a weed burning torch attached to a propane tank.
“NEW: Bass Demanded $49M in Additional LAFD Cuts One Week Before Wildfires; UPDATED”
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/01/10/new-bass-demanded-49m-in-lafd-cuts-one-week-before-wildfires-n3798671
“Just when one might assume that the depth of incompetence and mismanagement could not possibly go any lower, the whistleblowers have begun to speak out. An anonymous Instagram whistleblower who regularly reports on the Los Angeles Fire Department leaked an internal memo this morning that Mayor Karen Bass will wish had never come to light.”
“The internal LAFD memo briefed fire chiefs in the jurisdiction that Bass wanted cuts of close to $50 million in this budget cycle. That would be in addition to the $17 million that Bass had already cut out of their resources this cycle, and would have forced the closure of more than a dozen fire stations. And Bass demanded that just days before devastating wildfires began breaking out in Los Angeles, and before the water ran out:”
I guess that feeding the illegals is more important than fighting fires. I wonder if more people will leave Commiefornia now.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
If I had been burned out there, I would certainly depart for greener pastures. I DID leave Cacafornia, 5 years ago, and moved here to San Antonio. We sold our house near Sacramento, packed everything, and abandoned the formerly-Golden State. If I had nothing left to move, I’d have left even more quickly. Even a minimal insurance payout would be enough to get another house here and start again.
“Ram Delays Electric 1500 In Favor Of Hybrid Version”
https://www.carpro.com/blog/ram-delays-electric-1500-in-favor-of-hybrid-version
“So, it’s official: Stellantis says it will pull timing of its range-extended Ram 1500 Ramcharger ahead of the Ram 1500 REV, the company’s first battery-electric light duty pickup truck. Ram brand originally planned to launch the Ram 1500 REV in the first half of 2025. Now it will launch the Ramcharger first instead, postponing the REV a year.”
“”You can tell Tim Kuniskis is back running Ram, ” said Car Pro Show host Jerry Reynolds. “He’s a smart car guy and immediately upon his return shoved the electric Ram back in favor of a new hybrid version. I’m sure Ford’s success with the PowerBoost influenced this decision.””
A total electric vehicle right now is just stupid.
My next truck will be a hybrid. Probably not a Ford if they continue their 50% failure rate on the Hybrid F-150.
POTATUS Pledges to Cover 100% of LA Tab for 6 Months
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/01/10/nc-and-hawaii-weeps-potatus-pledges-to-cover-100-of-la-tab-for-6-months-n3798661
Good for FJB!
I didn’t know he’s saved that much from the years of grifting and theft.
It’s being reported that convent opening for black lesbians in California are getting scarcer by the minute.
BOMBSHELL: Key Reservoir Was EMPTY When Palisades Fire Started, Contributed to Loss of Homes and Life
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/01/10/bombshell-key-reservoir-was-empty-when-palisades-fire-started-contributed-to-loss-of-homes-and-life-n2184190
A fact conveniently omitted across three press conferences.
“She comes from an investor-owned utility where she could easily command twice that amount.”
Not any more. Time to learn to code.
Drained during fire season to fix “a tear in the cover”. I’m sure we’ll eventually find out what that means, but you have to wonder if they didn’t try to find a really big roll of duct tape to lash it up for a couple months.
Last question (Not going to rely on photos): Is s/he a black lesbian, too?
@Lynn
”My next truck will be a hybrid. Probably not a Ford if they continue their 50% failure rate on the Hybrid F-150.”
Ford is pizzing billions down the EV truck rathole, which can only come from overcharging on the rest of the lines. That was the last straw for me. After decades of Fords I didn’t even look at one when I went shopping last month.
”My next truck will be a hybrid. Probably not a Ford if they continue their 50% failure rate on the Hybrid F-150.”
Ford is pizzing billions down the EV truck rathole, which can only come from overcharging on the rest of the lines. That was the last straw for me. After decades of Fords I didn’t even look at one when I went shopping last month.
So what did you get ?
BTW, all Ford trucks are mild hybrids with the mandatory start-stop system.
The LIghtning is just the intermediate step before “T3” (I’m not kidding) begins rolling out of the heavily subsidized factory in Tennessee.
Tommy Boy needed something to fight the Jesus Truck from TSLA when everyone bit on the fairly story of the Cybertruck hitting the streets for $40k.
The AI is going to write the code.
The LIghtning is just the intermediate step before “T3” (I’m not kidding) begins rolling out of the heavily subsidized factory in Tennessee.
Tommy Boy needed something to fight the Jesus Truck from TSLA when everyone bit on the fairly story of the Cybertruck hitting the streets for $40k.
The T3 is nothing but a new version of the Lightning, a truck known for battery failures and battery fires.
https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2023/03/24/ford-to-build-next-electric-truck–project-t3–at-blueoval-city-.html
The LIghtning is just the intermediate step before “T3” (I’m not kidding) begins rolling out of the heavily subsidized factory in Tennessee.
Tommy Boy needed something to fight the Jesus Truck from TSLA when everyone bit on the fairly story of the Cybertruck hitting the streets for $40k.
The T3 has been cancelled along with the electric Expedition.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24225177/ford-electric-vehicle-cancellations-delays-suv-t3-pickup
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
Electric on road vehicles are a dead end. Any battery with the energy density needed can be made to RELEASE that energy suddenly too.
The charging infrastructure doesn’t exist. I linked to the utility level article about how little the generators and distributors want to build giant megawatt substations in bumflock to charge OTR trucks. Since the 70s the producers have done everything they can to REDUCE demand for new generation and distribution. EV charging needs a MASSIVE increase in both.
It’s dumb. Stop trying to be dumb better than the other guy. Stop digging the hole.
n
“GOP senators introduce bill to expand gun owners’ concealed carry privileges outside of home states”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/gop-senators-introduce-bill-expand-gun-owners-concealed-carry-privileges
““The Lone Star State has long championed our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and gun owners in Texas and across the country should not have that fundamental right violated when they cross state lines,” says Sen. Cornyn”
Whoa, my senior senator just slicked up his index finger, put it in the wind, and realized that he had better do something to impress the conservatives in Texas. Because right now I will vote for just about anyone else.
Cool, I just got called a pacifist on another board for saying we need to stop sending money and war goods to Ukraine.
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2025/01/10/bombshell-key-reservoir-was-empty-when-palisades-fire-started-contributed-to-loss-of-homes-and-life-n2184190
A fact conveniently omitted across three press conferences.
“She comes from an investor-owned utility where she could easily command twice that amount.”
Not any more. Time to learn to code.
They spent so much paying her that they could not afford to fix the reservoir.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline
Cool, I just got called a pacifist on another board for saying we need to stop sending money and war goods to Ukraine.
Another person on the board wants to send the USA military into Russia and take out Putin. And he told me that I was not a patriot. I mentioned Putin’s 14,000 nuclear weapons and he said that they probably do not work.
Where do these crazy people come from ?
The charging infrastructure doesn’t exist. I linked to the utility level article about how little the generators and distributors want to build giant megawatt substations in bumflock to charge OTR trucks. Since the 70s the producers have done everything they can to REDUCE demand for new generation and distribution. EV charging needs a MASSIVE increase in both.
It’s dumb. Stop trying to be dumb better than the other guy. Stop digging the hole.
The electric vehicles have nothing on the AI servers. The electricity usage in Texas and the USA is projected to increase 3X in the next ten years for all of the new AI servers.
I am seeing AI server companies buy power plants here in Texas to locate their AI servers directly at the power plant. This is unreal.
And of course Microsoft buying Three Mile Island to restart it.