Overcast, possibly raining, and probably a bit cooler today than yesterday. Yesterday got pretty warm and damp by late afternoon, despite the almost solid overcast. There was some sun poking through, mostly when I was driving into it…
Spent the morning at the doctor’s office, then got the kid from school early. Did my pickups, which were mostly for the BOL. I really need to make a trip up there to get all the stuff out of the driveway and living room where it is staged. Got home in time to do a few things around the house. Dinner was crockpot beef pot roast. Yummy.
Today I’m headed to my client’s house to install a new TV to replace a dead one, and to troubleshoot his new issues with control. He said they had a lightning storm so there might be actual dead gear, or some stuff might just need to be rebooted. I am betting that there is some damage. We’ve gone to pretty extreme lengths to protect the gear, but lightning is pretty powerful.
Hopefully it will be straightforward, and I can get him back up and running quickly. Kid has things I need to drive her around to because it’s Thursday…
Busy is good, but I’m falling behind…
I can still make improvements, and still stack, but I need some ‘catch up’ days. Probably not going to get them, so I guess I’ll just soldier on.
But you can stack…
nick
Safe travels.
Good God, man, Patents are at stake.
Seriously. My current employer likes to brag that they had more Patents last year than IBM.
A mechanical device or fastener has more limited Patent opportunities, but the pressure is always on at any company that does manufacturing in the US.
Patents are something to weaponize against competitors, domestic and overseas. Overseas are especially important since the US doesn’t really make consumer goods or even much capital equipment anymore.
BTW, where do you think those fast selling servers for the monkey trick get made?
65F and dripping, if not actually raining. Everything is wet, so it must have rained overnight.
Coffee is brewing. Lunch is in the bag. Everyone is on notice….
I am feeling almost back to normal. Hah.
n
Yeah, light misty drizzle. It is actually raining.
n
Fifth post.
Subbing today. Computer Science class in high school. Yeh, right. 99.9% is just copy and paste. Or build something, copied from the books, using Arduino. No one understands the concepts. Maybe that is not needed anymore. Sigh, not my problem.
Truck is still in the hospital. I suspect there is a lot of labor to get to the parts that need replacing. That labor accounts for most of the $1800. When I had the diverter door replaced, $20.00 part, $1400 in labor as they had to take out the seats, center console, and the entire dash.
Good thing it broke before the tariffs otherwise the parts would be much higher.
The AI is going to write the code so the managers don’t have to deal with “The Spectrum”.
”The Spectrum” may want to get paid fairly for the ability.. God forbid.
I generally have no need for expensive tools. Most of my basic stuff is old Craftsman. I only by a tool if I have a need. So lately I’ve been buying Kobalt stuff when needed. Quality is ok and lifetime warranty at Lowes, which is just 3 miles from my house.
Having said that, sometimes it is worth spending more for the better tool. I was doing a complete overhaul of the brakes on my 71 Corvette last year. New calipers, rotors, master cylinder, booster, and soft lines. I have a set of Craftsman flare wrenches, but they weren’t able to remove the first line I tried – the nut was starting round over. I stopped and thought about it. One option was to use some vice grips and then replace that section of hard line as well. I then checked ebay and found a set of used SnapOn flare wrenches for $50. I gave it a shot. I was amazed – the tolerance on the SnapOn was so much better – it fit the nut tightly and it was off in seconds. I’m not going to go out and replace everything I own, but I do see the value, especially if you make your living with tools.
I might try some Icon tools when I have a need pop up.
Yep.
In exremely close quarters the “slop” in Craftsman ratchet sets can be hard to deal with, resulting in a single click of the pawl, or none.
It isn’t worth paying extra for everything (to me), a basic high quality ratchet set can be worth it
Bring back Gravatars
Bring back Gravatars
Bring back Gravatars
Book rate for auto repairs is tricky.
My son is a 43 year old ASE Master Mechanic and Ford certified Master Mechanic. He started out with a 2-year degree in Auto Mechanics from a local community college.
His most recent job was at a Lincoln dealership, where he worked overnight with an unskilled assistant, doing rehab on trade-ins and warranty work, with the odd engine replacement thrown in.
He booked 80 hours of book time in his 40 hour weeks, consistently.
They put him on overnights because he’s antisocial, even worse than me. He can’t tolerate stupid customers and stupid co-workers, and it turns out he thinks thery’re all stupid.
He admitted to me last year that he can’t physically keep up that pace much longer, and he’s looking for a n exit path.
I can’t imagine what he’s spent on tools over the last 20 years. I believe he speds over $1000 a year on software updates to hihs OBDC scanner.
“Vibe Coding”, ugh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
There will be proposals to ban it for human-safety projects, which proposals will fail.
If you think software quality is bad now, just wait until it is created by the lowest bidder & offshored.
‘Offshore Vibe’ might become an epithet.
“thery’re all stupid.”
Accurate to a first, maybe even a second, approximation.
Ruh-Roh:
So, That Signal Chat ‘Breach’ Thing Just Got a WHOLE Lot Shadier – Check Out WHO Sits on Signal’s Board
I didn’t even know. This makes Signal look like shit. Now I have to find an alternative.
After doing some reading, maybe I’ll keep Signal. I’m just pissed some PLT dooshnozzle is on it’s board. That’s bias. Maybe Signal thought that gave them some goobermint influence.
Anybody got comments on Signal or other secure app they use?
@Ray: Ah, students.
I had an “amusing” situation this week in the trade school. I’ve said that the students are, overall, surprisingly motivated. Most of them.
Side note: Most students are 15 or 16. A couple are significantly older, indicating either a career change (fine, no problem) or significant problems (can be a problem).
I gave a test last week. It’s a practical exam, where you download the test, work out your solution (create a tiny website), and then upload your solution. Which means, of course, that the students walk away with both the test and their solution.
A couple of students were out sick, one of them an older student. Fair enough, no problem, I gave a make-up test this week. It should come as a surprise to no one that the make-up test was *different* from the test last week.
So what does this student turn in? Exactly the solution from one of the students last week. He didn’t change a single character, nothing. So, of course, it didn’t match the exam he was actually supposed to be taking.
Clever, this guy…ain’t.
I use WhatsApp to communicate, text, audio, and video to former exchange students overseas. Supposedly encrypted end-to-end. I can create groups of people and everyone gets the same messages. Beyond standard texting that is about the extent of my use of messaging apps.
Yeah, I tried WhatsApp. Very similar, but owned by Meta. I remember I had to turn on encryption since it wasn’t on by default. Did I mention Meta? The family switched to Signal. Signal also does vid chats and calls and is always encrypted.
The most creative I have witnessed is the use of a shared Google doc. One student would create the document, then others would access the documents. A student would type in a question on a test and others would provide the answer. When the class was over the document was erased so no paper trail.
I informed the school administration of what was happening. They said it was not against policy so there was nothing that could be done. I then asked if cheating on tests was against policy. They said there was no proof of the cheating. I mumbled something about there being no evidence of intelligence in the school board.
There is that. But it is what the exchange students prefer so that is what I use.
That’s tin-foil hat stuff. Honestly, some leftist on the board does not matter. The board didn’t invite the journalist – that was a stupid mistake by whoever organized the chat. Signal is open-source, it has been audited, and I fully believe that it is secure. As along as we’re not talking about communications that must be logged, why not use it?
Of course the journalist stayed in the chat. I mean, seriously? Of course he did.
I haven’t read the article in the Atlantic, because it’s behind a paywall. I did see Hegseth claim that no classified information was discussed, that no specific plans, targets, etc. were mentioned. Have any of you seen the Atlantic article?
WhatsApp vs. Signal: WhatsApp claims to use the same encryption as Signal. If true, then it is just as secure, however. Your messages may be secure, but WhatsApp logs who you are, who you send messages to, when you send them – basically all the metadata it can grab. All stuff that Signal explicitly does not track.
Absolutely. I do believe there is a RINO or DeepState prog involved. Maybe somebody fat-fingered the add, but, still, stupid.
The NPR CEO on the board was grilled by Congress the other day. She is a complete liar, anti-tRumper, and was called on her lies. She is as bad as Randi Weingarten, teacher union head, who gets $500K alone from that and sits on a dozen other boards, probably raking in a million or two by being anti-tRump and a Dumbocrat.
There’s a lot of politics going on, but in other news: it is Baseball Opening Day.
Mike @ Chicago Boyz has a few thoughts:
However I’m not going to do a George Will-type poseur piece like “Why The Pitch Clock Violates Natural Law” or “How Federalist 68 Predicted the Free Agent Era.” Just some memories about baseball, family, and home.
That post reminds me of the decade before and after the turn of the century, when once a month (or more) I’d hop into the car or suv and drive the 400 miles from SoCal to the Bay Area to visit the parental units.
Often there would be a game on, and I would listen until it faded into the crackle and pop of AM static, and have to check when I arrived to see who won. Dodger’s in the south, Giant’s in the north. If desperate there were always the AL (which was sort of a pseudo-baseball knockoff popular at the time) Athletics and Angels.
So, Kaitlin, you refuse to admit that CNN is still trying to screw over veterans despite losing a $5 million defamation case?
https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1905077744607637576
“IRS Official Involved in an Obama-Era Tea Party Scandal Is Quietly Running a Key Tax Division”
https://thelibertydaily.com/irs-official-involved-obama-era-tea-party-scandal/
“The Tea Party scandal centered around allegations that the Obama IRS subjected conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status to extensive scrutiny that was not applied equally to progressive groups applying for the same, with the IRS ultimately apologizing in 2017 for its conduct.”
“Paz was a top deputy to Lerner at the IRS until she was replaced in 2013 following the Tea Party controversy. She appears to have re-joined the agency sometime during the Biden administration.”
Every single supervisor in the federal government needs to be fired, RIFfed, etc.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Busy is good, but I’m falling behind…
I can still make improvements, and still stack, but I need some ‘catch up’ days. Probably not going to get them, so I guess I’ll just soldier on.
I have fallen behind totally. I have way too many things going on and am dropping them all over the place. That is why I am thinking about selling both of my commercial properties.
WhatsApp has to provide backdoors or weaker encryption in order to operate as a commercial entity in certain jurisdictions. Even where they don’t, the meta data qualifies as maintenance data and is available to any authority with a court order and not a warrant.
Meta is not an ISP. Privacy was much better on paid AOL IM 20 years ago.
Progress.
three weeks shy of todayThat should be “three weeks shy of a year today”. My proof reader is slipping on the job.
I was thinking that it was not that long ago that he passed away.
Tell Buddy ? and Penny ? that they need to step up on the proof reading. They may need new reading glasses.
BTW, I would look into going to the local Senior Center for their low cost hot lunches and activities. Some social contact would be good. My friends in Abilene have pool tables in their Senior Center and go once a week for a hot lunch and play some pool.
Bring back Gravatars
Bring back Gravatars
Bring back Gravatars
Be happy if the site continues to work well. Upgrading WordPress scares the you know what out of me and I actually have a teeny tiny experience in this.
“Vibe Coding”, ugh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding
There will be proposals to ban it for human-safety projects, which proposals will fail.
If you think software quality is bad now, just wait until it is created by the lowest bidder & offshored.
‘Offshore Vibe’ might become an epithet.
I would expect anything coded offshore to have backdoors in it.
“Ghost Gun Challenge Shot Down by Supreme Court”
https://www.libertynation.com/ghost-gun-challenge-shot-down-by-supreme-court/
“A 7-2 opinion allowing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to continue treating certain gun-parts kits as if they were completed firearms came late yesterday (March 26) – but it did not come as a surprise. Despite its label as a conservative court, SCOTUS leaned into the argument that these kits – which include the essentials of building what leftists call a ghost gun after just a bit of fabrication work – are complete enough that they should be treated as any other firearm.”
“At issue was a Biden-era regulation that permitted the ATF to restrict access to these kits. The decision by the High Court can be viewed as a win for those who advocate for robust gun control.”
So, we only have two real conservatives on SCOTUS, Thomas and Alito. But, we already knew that.
“Elon Musk says Trump’s auto tariffs won’t be a problem for Tesla”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-says-trumps-auto-tariffs-wont-be-a-problem-for-tesla-164553149.html
“New tariffs on trade partners? Not a problem. Get rid of the EV tax credit? Sure thing. Trump’s moves appear to hurt Tesla’s competitors more than Tesla.”
Trump has been telling auto makers to make vehicles in the USA for several years. He now has the ability to enforce that.
However, Ford, GM, and Stellantis ??? need to get rid of the UAW. That organization looks to be toxic.
“Alert Texas: EPIC City’s Sharia Compound Can Be Stopped—Here’s the Blueprint to Shut It Down”
https://rairfoundation.com/alert-texas-epic-citys-sharia-compound-can-be/
“Texas has some of the strictest laws in the country designed to prevent foreign legal systems from taking root, prohibit public money from entangling with religious entities, and restrict financial secrecy in large-scale developments. Yet despite these safeguards, an alarming trend is unfolding—the rise of self-governing Islamic enclaves, operating outside of traditional municipal oversight and expanding at an unprecedented rate.”
“At the center of this movement is the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC), a powerful Islamic mega-mosque that has acquired vast land holdings to construct an autonomous Sharia-adherent Islamic community.”
“EPIC-affiliated entities have acquired 402 acres of land just 30 minutes from downtown Dallas as part of their latest expansion project, EPIC City. On this site, they are developing a large-scale Islamic community that will include more than 1,000 homes. But this is far more than just another housing project—it is a deliberate blueprint for an Islamic enclave, structured to bypass city zoning laws, evade government oversight, and operate as a self-contained, religiously governed settlement.”
We are getting a lot of muslims in Texas.
“Thomas Jefferson on Judicial Tyranny”
https://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2012/06/04/thomas-jefferson-on-judicial-tyranny/
“Thomas Jefferson, a stanch advocate of decentralized power, recognized that a federal government empowered to judge the extent of its own authority was one that would never remain limited in size or scope. Because of this, the power of the federal judiciary was always of great concern to him. The following is a small, but representative, sample of a number of Jefferson’s views on the power of the judicial branch of the federal government.”
“He said judicial tyranny made the Constitution “a thing of wax.””
“If [as the Federalists say] “the judiciary is the last resort in relation to the other departments of the government,” … , then indeed is our Constitution a complete felo de so. … The Constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they may please. It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also; in theory only, at first, while the spirit of the people is up, but in practice, as fast as that relaxes. Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law … — Letter to Judge Spencer Roane, Nov. 1819”
Thomas Jefferson’s worries came to fruition many years ago. Now they are a roaring lion who needs to be bearded.
“Planet Topide, please reply! (Perry Rhodan #75)” by Kurt Brand
https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Topide-please-reply-Rhodan/dp/B0006W589K?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number seventy-five of a series of one hundred and thirty-six space opera books in English. The original German books, actually pamphlets, number in the thousands. The English books started with two translated German stories per book translated by Wendayne Ackerman and transitioned to one story per book with the sixth book. And then they transition back to two stories in book #109/110. The Ace publisher dropped out at #118, so Forrest and Wendayne Ackerman published books #119 to #136 in pamphlets before stopping in 1978. The German books were written from 1961 to present time, having sold two billion copies and even recently been rebooted again. I read the well printed and well bound book published by Ace in 1975 that I had to be very careful with due to age. I bought an almost complete box of Perry Rhodans a decade or two ago on ebay that I am finally getting to since I lost my original Perry Rhodans in The Great Flood of 1989. In fact, I now own book #1 to book #106, plus the Atlan books, and some of the Lemuria books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan
BTW, this is actually book number 83 of the German pamphlets written in 1963. There is a very good explanation of the plot in German on the Perrypedia German website of all of the PR books. There is automatic Google translation available for English, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, French, and Portuguese.
https://www.perrypedia.de/wiki/Hallo_Topsid,_bitte_melden!
There is alternate synopsis site at:
https://www.perryrhodan.us/summaries/83#
In this alternate universe, USSF Major Perry Rhodan and his three fellow astronauts blasted off in a three stage rocket to the Moon in their 1971. The first stage of the rocket was chemical, the second and third stages were nuclear. After crashing on the Moon due to a strange radio interference, they discover a massive crashed alien spaceship with an aged male scientist (Khrest), a female commander (Thora), and a crew of 500. It has been over seventy years since then and the Solar Empire has flourished with tens of millions of people and many spaceships headquartered in the Gobi desert, the city of Terrania. Perry Rhodan has been elected by the people of Earth to be the World Administrator and keep them from being taken over by the robot administrator of Arkon.
In the beginning of 2044, Perry Rhodan has just been informed by his spies that the Arkonide fleet of robot space ships fighting the Druufs is replacing the robots with experienced Topide reptile officers. The Topides are much more successful at fighting the Druufs so Arkon is not losing as many ships. As the Druuf universe rift is slowly closing, Perry knows that this will allow the robot regent of Arkon to spend more time looking for Terra. And Perry suddenly realizes that the Topiders actually know the location of Terra from the distress signal of the crashed Arkonide space ship on Earth’s Moon back in 1975.
Two observations:
1. Forrest Ackerman should have put two or three of the translated stories in each book. Having two stories in the first five books worked out well. Just having one story in the book is too short and would never allow the translated books to catch up to the German originals.
2. Anyone liking Perry Rhodan and wanting a more up to date story should read the totally awesome “Mutineer’s Moon” Dahak series of three books by David Weber.
https://www.amazon.com/Mutineers-Moon-Dahak-David-Weber/dp/0671720856?tag=ttgnet-20/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 5 out of 5 stars (1 reviews)
Lynn
Lefty Liars Lying Leftishly:
NPR CEO’s Testimony on Capitol Hill Yesterday Was a Disaster
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2025/03/27/must-watch-republicans-grill-npr-ceo-n2654542
Inside Columbia
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/inside-columbia.php
Quit messing around.
Kill PBS/NPR funding.
and
Hammer Columbia flat:
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/03/27/axios-trump-may-end-foreign-student-visas-at-pro-hamas-colleges-n3801208
Offer the STEM faculty the option of re-applying for their research grants if they relocate to another school.
And find a conservative law firm to file a class action on behalf of Columbia STEM students, arguing that the school failed to protect the integrity of their product and is responsible for its own destruction.
Thomas Jefferson died in 1826. He was smarter than 99% of the people in today’s Congress. We will never have a “Star Trek Future” at this rate.
Okay, so now I’m getting pulled into more videos from Royalty Auto Service:
We Had To Swap Out All The Oil Filters In Our Shop!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8kbR7YlVOM
In short, they found out (ca May 2024) that Napa Gold filters are no longer rebranded Wix Gold (Made in USA) but are an unknown made in China.
Napa discontinued their Platinum filter line, also made by Wix.
For a number of years I’ve purchased filters from a vendor in California. The Napa Gold and Wix brands for autos were treated interchangeably, but bulk packs were Wix only. Now I need to take inventory and see WTF I have, and start doing some research before it’s time to order again.
enshittification is everywhere
“Is the left-wing politicization of our military a threat to our country?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/03/is-left-wing-politicization-of-our.html
“Shortly after President Obama took office, word began to circulate among veterans and those of us with current service contacts that our military was being deliberately politicized. Those with combat experience were being sidelined for promotions, those with conservative viewpoints were eased out of the ladder for promotion, and specialized units like Special Forces received particularly close attention, almost amounting to the appointment of political commissars to ensure that they were “purged” of any disloyalty to the progressive left then in power.”
“That appears to have had a lasting effect. Cynical Publius warned about it yesterday.”
Yes. First, all of the skirt and makeup wearing males are mentally ill.
Second is the support for Ukraine.
That’s been obvious since 2010. EVERY current general or flag officer (GOFO) was promoted by Obama, and the ones he didn’t like, he didn’t promote them – which usually forced them to retire. Obama was building a military that was loyal to HIM, and not to the Constitution.
At this point, Trump needs to fire or retire EVERY GOFO and rebuild the military from the O5/O6 level. And a lot FEWER of them; we have more admirals than ships, and more generals than divisions. And based on the performance of former MAJOR Pete Hegseth, I’m confident that a lot of mid-grade officers would be capable of of stepping into a suit with stars on it. And that’s PART of the current “fire Hegseth!” insanity; if Pete can do it a LOT of O4 and O5s can do it.
Frankly, Trump SHOULD have done that in 2017!
“Satellite Imagery Confirms Stealth Bomber Buildup At America’s “Unsinkable Carrier””
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/satellite-imagery-confirms-stealth-bomber-buildup-americas-unsinkable-carrier
“At the start of the week, multiple open-source intelligence accounts on X reported that U.S. stealth bombers were deployed to a strategic island in the Indian Ocean—often referred to as Washington’s “unsinkable aircraft carrier“—located between Africa and Indonesia, about 1,000 miles south of India.”
“Fast forward to Wednesday: new Planet Labs satellite imagery, posted on X by the Indo-Pacific Watch Center (IPWC), shows “3 (or possibly 7) B-2 bombers and 9 KC-135s” at the U.S. military base on Diego Garcia—strongly suggesting a force buildup aimed at projecting power in the region and keeping Tehran in check. “
Looks like Trump is going to take the Iranians nuclear facilities out.
“’We’ll Hunt You Down’ – At Salvadoran Prison, Noem Warns Gangs To Flee USA”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/well-hunt-you-down-noem-uses-salvadoran-prison-warn-gangs-flee-usa
““Girls, be the first on your block to collect all the ICE Barbie outfits!””
“Like…Night-Cop Barbie!”
“…Firefighter Barbie!”
“…Gunboat Barbie!”
“…Assault Force Barbie!”
“…Pilot Barbie!”
“…Cowgirl Barbie!”
“…Border Guard Barbie!”
“…Daredevil Barbie!”
“…and now Space-Hero Barbie!”
ROTFLMAO. More power to her and I hope that she does not become pissed off at me.
“Looks like Trump is going to take the Iranians nuclear facilities out.”
Nothing says “I Love You” like a B-2 at 50,000 feet loitering over your head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_B-2_Spirit
“Darn! This targeting map shows a uranium enrichment facility deep under the mullahs city of Qom!”
Dark of the Moon coming up. Best time for it, if you are going to do it.
Because radar stealth is all fine and good but it’s nice if the a/c and contrails are hard to see as well.
The question is: is the Pentagon parking lot filling up and are they ordering more pizza than usual?
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/03/27/outclevered-themselves-german-carmakers-face-billions-in-tariff-losses-mexican-locations-no-relief-n3801232
The static analysis is that the automotive tariffs would bring in $1 trillion in revenue. I didn’t get the breakdown on cars vs. parts. I do not have the sadz about Beemer drivers paying 25% more for parts, but the fun is going to come when the dealers immediately hike the prices on their inventory, they get investigated and fined under the price gouging laws, and the price of auto parts from Mexico actually goes up 50% because the plants are more expensive to run at half or less production.
In other important non-political and non-war news my Fruitless Mulberries leafed out overnight.
It would be a lovely day is the local atmospheric conditions couldn’t be represented as a vector labeled 30mph@230deg.
“my Fruitless Mulberries leafed out overnight.”
On first reading I thought this was a delicately phrased announcement related to catastrophic underwear failure…
Cue Aykroyd in “Tommy Boy”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16RuiTTQsus
“What the American public doesn’t know is what makes them the American public.”
Thinning the herd.
Very unique 2/2.5/15 (estimated) house for sale three miles south of my house:
https://www.har.com/homedetail/9702-surrey-ln-richmond-tx-77469/2527183
No HOA, no city, probably take the sheriff an hour to get there.
I love it. The garage / shop is bigger than the house (1,800 ft2 out of 4,000 ft2).
What? We live on Ferenginar now, complete with a Grand Nagus.
We could do worse.
So foreign automakers take advantage of NAFTA by building plants in MEXICO not the US… Yeah, suck it b!tches. Your tax avoidance scheme just blew up. They do that.
And my wife is shopping for a new vehicle… lamenting potential increases. My answer didn’t thrill her- Buy American.
Or toyota.
n
The property across from my BOL is for sale, and we can’t afford to buy it because we didn’t think anything was coming available this year and we’ve allocated the money to other projects.
I have a sad.
n
“Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa”
–Secretary of State Marco Rubio
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/03/27/secstate-rubio-on-fire-canceling-studen-visas-left-and-right-n2187194
300 and counting.
Needs to count faster.
Noem Has Two-Word Message for Criminal Aliens During Trip to High Security Prison in El Salvador
“Leave Now”
‘–Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2025/03/27/noem-visit-to-high-security-prison-in-el-salvador-n2654503
If I had time I would get AI to create a Dr. Suess riff on that.
9mm bullets travel at about 1200 feet per second. If you live in the country, you have to be your own first responder.
The property across from my BOL is for sale, and we can’t afford to buy it because we didn’t think anything was coming available this year and we’ve allocated the money to other projects.
I have a sad.
n
Just a lot, a house, or a barndominum with awesome storage ?
9mm bullets travel at about 1200 feet per second. If you live in the country, you have to be your own first responder.
9mm bullets travel at about 1200 feet per second. If you live in the USA, you have to be your own first responder.
Fixed that for ya.
Lot has an expanded single wide on it now, but they are pulling it off the lot. They’ve listed the lot with the “house” several times but wanted too much money. What they want is reasonable if you have a 10 year timeline. Maybe even 5 years.
It’s a great lot with a lake view, and it’s on a bit of a hill so no worry about flooding.
Next year would have been ok…
n
If the Texas Legislature fails to pass another property tax “reform” package for the November ballot, you may get another shot at the lot down the road.
The House hadn’t passed a single bill at the mid-session break, and the weak Speaker will need Dem votes to pass anything.
I already pay taxes in three school districts and two counties. I wish they were better stewards of my money. The DOGE thing is opening peoples’ eyes to the possibility that they don’t actually need more money every single year, and I think that’s gonna apply locally too.
Lot of grandiose plans will need a bit of pruning. I hope.
n
I’m headed to bed. I skipped the last half of my daily Dr Pepper, so I’m pretty tired tonight.
n
Yay, Gravatars!
Ditto.