Cold and clear again. Nice day in other words. No precip. Just sunshine. I’m looking forward to getting more of the same.
Did get out of the house. Did do my pickups, at least the three that made sense for location and timing. The other three will have to be done today. There’s a bit more detail in yesterday’s comments, if you are really bored.
Today will be some more pickups in a different part of town. They will cluster, so I can get them in one trip. That minimizes my time, money spent, and impact on the environment. Go me!
Then there will be the usual kid taxi service.
All in all, an ordinary day. Which is kinda extraordinary.
Stack what you need.
nick
Re the stock markets: my wife keeps reminding me “think long term”. The current disruptions will pass. If the idiot politicians will only take Musk’s hint: what Trump apparently wants is for everyone to eliminate all tariffs. Instead, we see the politicians getting all offended.
Cut N Shoot hasn’t truly been “The Sticks” for a long time.
Too many Progs like the idiot husband of my wife’s associate in Vantucky, the “spirits blogger”.
“I come from a town called Cut N Shoot.”
He had a line of schtick playing up the hick part to cover up that the wife didn’t last a full year in her first job out of residency at Methodist San Jacinto.
Not that it really mattered since clinic management was more interested in his wife’s family money buying her a partnership with cash.
IIRC, Idiot Boy’s parents worked for NASA 40 years ago when it was still possible to get to JSC from Conroe in less than an hour.
Capital will have to be reallocated to actually make things and sell them in physical transactions rather than shuffling paper. That isn’t sitting well with the crowd used to $120/lb lobster salad takeout in The Hamptons.
Even “merchants” like Tractor Supply and Dollar General are really just paper shuffling as retail of last resort in many rural areas.
45F this fine morning. Slept reasonably well.
Tasted my coffee already and it is good.
Lunch is packed.
Time for some intarweb browsing.
n
One of the things I salvaged from the medical carts was a dell mouse. It’s almost the same as my old one. No side buttons. It’s missing the button that changes the speed of the scroll wheel, but that speed is fine with me. The scroll wheel has slight detents and fewer than the MS mouse, so you feel them and they stay where you put them.
IOW, I’m happy with the simpler mouse and it’s red eye.
n
The problem at Apple now is Mac OS.
I went to run one standard command line program while experimenting with my M1 recently, and I got a message hinting that a shared library wasn’t found.
IIRC, tclsh, which has been deprecated in Mac OS for a while but provided by the manufacturer with a warning. The shared library is still important to Python even if Tcl totally goes away in Mac OS.
Tcl will be tough to eliminate even if it wasn’t part of Python. I schooled a young’n
The M1 MacBook Pro still has full support, and that may last longer than usual since the laptop is among the last with the touch bar instead of function keys.
I’m not the only one with Mac OS gripes.
… on the advantages of event driven I/O at the last job when he tried to rewrite my program with some Hot Skillz trainwreck.
I have a 14″ M4 Pro MacBook Pro. One of my rewards from the VA back pay. I can say that the machine is fast. About as fast as the Intel I9 in my desktop running W11 Pro. No specific benchmarks, just an overall feeling when importing 2K pictures into Lightroom, a process that saturates either CPU platform for 4-5 minutes.
I also run a version of W11 Pro, the ARM version, with Parallels. The boot time is under 10 seconds. I have nothing to compare that against other than my desktop which also boots in 10 seconds. For reference, the installation of W11 on my desktop from a USB 3.2 thumb drive was under a minute.
Some of Trump’s decisions I am not so certain, including tariffs. He strikes me as an impulsive individual making hasty decisions. And when he is wrong he twists the truth in bizarre ways. Not that that is much different than any politician.
I rely on my investment advisor. That is his job, he has a lot of certifications, has a lot of training in financial affairs, and I pay him to manage my portfolio. He got me through 2008 even though I was panicking. I went agains his advice in my TIAA-CREF funds and that proved to be a mistake.
Yes, the markets bother me. But not enough to go out and make my own decisions. The markets, historically, have always recovered, have always beat inflation.
As I stated, in 2008 I lost 50% of my investment value. It took several years but I got it back and then some. But it was scary. My advisor said to stay with my plan, not panic, or do anything rash. He said I was positioned well to survive significant down markets. He was correct. I don’t see that changing.
As does my advisor. He says looking at the markets daily is a fool’s game. Long term, 2, 5, 10 years is what people should be watching. Daily, weekly, monthly fluctuations are normal and healthy. My advisor likes big drops as he says that is a time to buy more.
His other major advice is make a plan, stick to the plan, long term. A couple of my accounts have a dozen or more individual funds within the accounts. Somewhere, someone, somehow, moves money around in those accounts, buys and sells, almost monthly. There is no charge to me as the funds are in the same account. Someone with a lot more market savvy than I will ever possess does all that leg work. It may even be automated.
Wrong. There is always the guarantee of death. That life will end. The only thing that is certain.
Ding, Ding!
It got cold last night. 35F. The small electric heater on low could not keep up. The interior temperature dropped to 56. Got up and turned the heater on high and over the last 1.5 hours the temperature rose to 70. Yes, we have a gas heater in the RV. It is noisy, scares the dog, and uses propane. Why not use the park’s electricity? So I do. I just have to be careful what I run as I am limited to 30 amperes current draw. I also have an electric, or gas, water heater. I use the electric. I have tripped the breaker on the pedestal more than once over time.
Looks like yesterday was the market bottom? Crazy fast times we live in.
Everyone on Wall Street probably goes home at night and sacrifices a chicken to Chat GPT and asks the same questions, and gets the same answer, the one that that the aligners thought was ‘right’ … last year.
China is the big unknown, and the impression I get is that Xi doesn’t have a lot of maneuvering room.
LMAO:
‘Inverse Cramer Undefeated’: That Black Monday at the Stock Market Didn’t Happen
Is the guy ever right?
That is a good way to get your Elysium Ticket pulled. You’ll need to get an iPhone 17 to get it back. The $3,500 one thanks to the tRump tAriffs.
I changed my Gravatar to recognized the tRump tAriffs total destruction of the entire Universe.
Shouldn’t the skull be wearing a MAGA hat?
I am expecting my iPhone 11 to age out this year, and had planned on a 17 (wanted a better camera too).
But if they aren’t available the Pine Phone might do.
Or Apple might suspend the 5-year guillotine for one more year.
A friends wife ordered an iPhone 16 last week, she is on a 4 line family plan. Since her business is winding down she decided to put the business and former personal cell lines on one phone (two numbers, Verizon’s Second Number plan) and so needed a newer 2-sim primary phone for herself.
This change apparently broke the people on the other end of the sales line, she timed out twice before the third representative understood this basic concept.
I rely on my investment advisor. That is his job,
– yeah but he should be working to your direction. If you say “I don’t have time to lose half my retirement money, again, for the third time, and I want to be sure it’s safe.” He should use his big wrinkle-y brain to ensure your capital preservation, while still at least treading water overall.
Wouldn’t you be better off if you HADN”T lost that money but shifted it into someplace safe before using the collapse as a buying opportunity? You lost YEARS of growth just to get back even, discounting inflation.
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The oracle of omaha apparently shifted to cash just in time… following him, if your goals align, seems to be as good a strategy as any. Like being opposite Cramer.
n
Weird. Since my power outage, I’ve had to log back in to everything that normally just logs in automatically. Even commenting here.
n
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/04/08/bombshell-about-military-members-getting-covid-in-2019-puts-joe-bidens-corruption-back-in-the-spotlight-n2187609
Unexpectedly, we have more evidence that FJB, as well as his entire administration, are corrupt liars without conscience or morals.
I have given the advisor three priorities, in order. 1, protect the principle. 2, avoid the IRS. 3, realize some gain.
No, I would not. I was well over 10% growth over time, including the losses during the dip in 2008. This recent plunge has dropped that amount based on Quicken numbers but since 2008 I have captured much of that growth. And Quicken does not consider dividends that have been added to the account in the growth numbers.
One example is TIAA-CREF. I converted all my funds to cash shortly before the 2008 crash. The interest rate has been OK. But had I kept those original funds the money in TIAA-CREF would be about 30% higher than what currently exists. Converting to a cash fund cost me some significant money. Based on advice from a person who thought they knew everything about everything. Bzzzzttttt, wrong.
My advisor has been quite good in managing my goals and using investments to manage the goals. One fund is guaranteed to never go below the purchase price regardless of the stock market. I can lose nothing. Yet the fund still provides gains that match growth in the stock market, just not at the same pace as the market. It satisfies two of my goals.
Protection from the IRS seems to be the most difficult goal. Some things can be done, but not much.
Uh, no. What Trump wants is to have trading relationships where America always has a surplus with every country, as he views any deficit as a loss. Which is enormously stupid and unworkable, but since he has surrounded himself with 3rd rate yes-men, there is no-one nearby with the guts or knowledge to tell him to stop chasing his own personal economic fantasy. (Not having anyone even proof-read the announcement to notice a tariff on an island populated only by penguins says everything you need to know about the quality of the people he has surrounded himself with).
It makes economic sense to sell more to some countries and buy more from others. It also makes sense to tariff some countries (e.g. – China) that are cheating via state subsidies and dumping, and are serious security threats. I can only describe the rest of the tariff announcement (and the calculation) as stupid. Of course, everyone keeps trying to find a way to normalize, rationalize, and explain what Trump is doing in an effort to predict next steps. Good luck with that. The sh1t-show continues.
Converting to a cash fund cost me some significant money.
– STAYING in cash cost you the opportunity to ride up on the market recovery, over the period of years, but it didn’t “cost” anything (other than losses against inflation.) And to add, the “significant money” you missed out on was by no means guaranteed, and is only obvious in hindsight. If you needed that money in 2009, for medical care, you would have had permanently lower net assets.
Just curious, but your spread sheet says that getting out before the crash, waiting for a reasonable recovery, and then getting back in wouldn’t match your current situation, which was “just leave it alone”. Because that 50% reduction in value surely took a while before you were back to even, and having that 50% intact would have STARTED your recovery much higher, leading to even more gain.
I watched this happen with my 401k at bigcorp, and it took years, while I was still making contributions, to get back to even before I could start recovering. I missed out on ALL the growth the recovery provided, just getting back to where I started.
n
@tv, the previous several administrations’ plans we not exactly producing a sustainable and laudable result. No one can argue that living extravagantly on debt is a sound financial strategy for people or governments.
Something had to change, we’ve been talking about it here since before Robert died.
This may not be the best, right, or even reasonable change, but unless you’re really Buffett using a screename your economic chops are just as good or as bad as anyone else’s. (I’d be willing to privately review screenshots listing 7 figure bank balances, and eat a big bowl of crow, my email is here.) Plus they are tinged with political extremism. That’s fine with me, I want to be a place where people can voice an unpopular opinion.
There’s plenty of extremism to go around at the moment.
We’re not even a quarter of a year into things, and while he’s moving very fast for a politician we haven’t even begun to see the real results of even just the fact of his election, let alone policy changes.
I’m pretty sure every country in the world uses tariffs to protect their favored industries. That includes Canada, btw. We dropped most of ours, and the result was the destruction of the steel and auto industries, shipbuilding, textile creation, furniture manufacturing, and on and on.
Those changes mostly impacted the middle class, blue collar labor, negatively, and benefited the white collar bankers and financial middlemen extracting money from the larger economy for their benefit.
We lost the solid middle class, and gained oligarchs. Then the oligarchs decided they wanted more serfs and began importing the uneducated, violent, and ignorant to provide labor in their post Industrial economy.
We’ve been systematically fleeced for decades and farmed like cattle, and people are getting tired of propping up the whole world to their own detriment.
There isn’t any stopping the reaction at this point, short of a progrom to kill almost everyone outside of the major cities- which would promptly go dark, and starve to death.
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The BEST scenario would be everyone settles down, adjusts tariffs to level the playing field, and gets back to making things and babies. The best never happens. The worst is that after a series of very bad things, no one has the time, money, or security to do anything more than subsist. It’s happened in the world MANY times over. VASTLY reduced populations labor away, living their tiny and restricted lives for hundreds of years before some happy accident results in a change that lets the cycle start over.
The next time, there won’t be any tablets, scrolls, manuscripts or books to jumpstart the renaissance, because today’s knowledge exists in arrangements of electrons and needs them and a whole ecosystem of other tech to manifest.
I’m hoping that the timeline extends past my concern, and my children’s concern. I’m not counting on it though.
n
(I’m not an accelerationist, but sometimes you have to just pull off the bandaid and deal with what’s underneath.)
In your opinion. Let me throw a Kanklesism at you “what difference, at this point, does it make.” We are $20 trillion in debt. Nothing tRump does makes it any worse. It is time to try something bold. Don’t forget the goobermint trimming in waste, fraud and abuse, and firing the deadwood. People think tRump is an idiot, but he said this is what he is going to do, try and make us a super power again instead of a welfare state.
Yes, over 10 years. There were no ongoing contributions during that time.
Very true. The gain from being in cash with the miserable interest rates was much less than the gain of staying in the market.
There are probably several things I could have done in hindsight that would have much improved my situation. There are several things I could have done that would have made my situation much worse. I rely on the advice of experts in the financial world.
“BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks lower court order for Trump admin to rehire thousands of fired federal workers”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-supreme-court-blocks-lower-court-order-for-trump-admin-to-rehire-thousands-of-fired-federal-workers
“The order from the lower court requiring the rehirings has been paused as the case plays out in an appeals court.”
I wonder if Trump told John Roberts that he was getting ready to start arresting federal judges if SCOTUS did not start reining them in..
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“JUST IN: DOJ Releases Chilling New Details On Would-Be Trump Assassin’s Plans”
https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-doj-releases-chilling-new-details-on-would-be-trump-assassins-plans-mstef/
“As the U.S. Justice Department readies its case against Ryan Wesley Routh, the man arrested for attempting to shoot and kill President Donald Trump on September 15th, 2024, prosecutors have released a dizzying set of facts revealing how the assassination attempt narrowly avoided becoming much deadlier.”
“Routh, 59, had previously traveled to Ukraine where he made attempts to ingratiate himself within the ranks of American volunteers. Through his connections, he allegedly attempted to procure weapons of war from Ukrainian authorities while arguing that killing Trump was necessary because he would be “bad for Ukraine” if elected a second time.”
“One device Routh sought was a rocket launcher-style “Stinger or RPG to take out Trump,” a DOJ filing states.”
Surely not. Surely the little dictator in Ukraine did not try to assassinate Trump.
It makes economic sense to sell more to some countries and buy more from others. It also makes sense to tariff some countries (e.g. – China) that are cheating via state subsidies and dumping, and are serious security threats. I can only describe the rest of the tariff announcement (and the calculation) as stupid. Of course, everyone keeps trying to find a way to normalize, rationalize, and explain what Trump is doing in an effort to predict next steps. Good luck with that. The sh1t-show continues.
All China was going to do was shift all of the goods to other countries like Vietnam and Mexico. Then China would not pay the tariffs.
We have seen this before when China was shipping solar panels to Vietnam and other countries when the USA put dumping fees on China for solar panels. All of a sudden Vietnam and other countries were shipping solar panels to us that they claimed to make.
“Trump Administration Proposes Historic $1 Trillion Defense Budget to Bolster National Security”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/trump-administration-proposes-historic-1-trillion-defense-budget/
I do not agree with this. I would like to see DOGE go through the Pentagon with a fine tooth comb first.
“Microsoft is finally fixing my biggest issues with the Windows 11 Start menu”
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-is-finally-fixing-my-biggest-issues-with-the-windows-11-start-menu
“A new Windows 11 Start menu is in the works, and our early hands-on experience proves it’s addressing some of the current one’s biggest criticisms.”
No, no, please just stop. The hole is getting deeper and deeper.
Questionable Content: Couch Surfing
https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5543
I agree, couch surfing makes my hips hurt.
Domestic solar panel production in the US was such a grift in the end. I knew people who worked in the SolarWorld facility in Oregon, and every single one was an a**hole dedicated only to the preservation of their mid six figure salary soup bowl and not in making a solid product at a competitive price.
Good riddance. The US cannot compete in that market and needs to be focused on higher end semiconductor fab operations.
No contributions, no employer match.
Where I currently work, the matching is in cash, up to 6% of salary. This is the only decent benefit we receive, negotiated by the Mormons who ran the last big acquisition target which enabled the company to return to being publicly traded.
DeSantis and Ashley Moody made sure Routh remained in a Martin County jail cell instead of being freed while the Feds figured out what charges to file.
County jail in Florida means everyone in charge answers to the Governor, up to and including the Sheriff
Serfs, peasants tied to the land (which our oligarchy has been buying in record amounts) to do the labor of growing food and maintaining the haciendas, while AI does the intellectual labor previously done by the (in the US) white upper middle class.
They have already converted a significant percentage of the female population to sex workers.
If there is proof that they are buying and stacking luxury goods, you can add that to the factors confirming my theory.
n
Yes, over 10 years. There were no ongoing contributions during that time.
I remember 1986 when the unemployment in Houston hit 50 %. People were scrambling just to eat.
I remember in the ‘60s when gas was 35¢/g. Only a little more in ‘70.
@tv
When I first heard about the unpopulated islands on the tariff schedule, it took me about 3 seconds to hazard a guess as to why. The guess was confirmed two days ago. Dotting all the “i’s” and crossing all the “t’s”, donchano.
We are
$20$38 trillion in debt.FIFY
“I wonder if Trump told John Roberts that he was getting ready to start arresting federal judges if SCOTUS did not start reining them in..”
No. SCOTUS continues to not do their job. They are making the narrowest rulings possible, and Trump is being extrardinarily patient.
But at some point he may send Bondi into a district court and have her tell the judge straight up that he has no jurisdiction, no precedent, and come Friday, no paycheck.
And please, Please, PLEASE, someone start a fund to buy houses next to district judges for the MS-13 gang members that they are so concerned about.
Yowza! Trump Administration to Fine Illegal Aliens With Deportation Order $998/Day Until They Leave
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/04/08/yowza-trump-administration-to-fine-illegal-aliens-with-deportation-order-998day-until-they-leave-n3801579
Clinton-era law and you can bet that there were a lot of Dems that voted for it.
When the current crop of PLT’s finds a chucklehead judge to put a national TRO on it, the administration should demand bond. No bond, shovito, you black-robed socialito.
12 million illegals let in by Biden, that’s nearly $12 billion a day. Mounts up to real money.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/04/eu-mulls-tariff-response-as-top-european-pharma-lobby-warns-of-mass-exodus-of-manufacturing-to-the-u-s/
Bobby should get busy and change the new drug qualification policy from “as good as” to “much better than” currently available drugs. And get the PTO to quit granting patents to combinations of drugs that are off-patent. And about another bazillion things, but that’s a start.
“An important reality is in danger of being forgotten”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/04/an-important-reality-is-in-danger-of.html
“When it comes to the use of handguns in self-defense, the current fashion is to go for high-capacity 9mm pistols. They’re ubiquitous, and for good reason: the recoil is manageable for most shooters, there are plenty of rounds on tap (up to 17 or 18 in many examples), and if a quality hollowpoint round is used, they offer adequate terminal performance. Even compact examples, holding only 6-8 rounds, offer slightly greater power than the traditional .38 Special snub-nose revolver, and greater speed and ease of reloading. All in all, very useful weapons.”
“However, there’s another aspect to it, and that is the age-old topic of “stopping power”. We’ve pointed out before that there’s no such thing, at least in theory, because one can’t measure in any meaningful way how many rounds are required to stop an attacker. If he’s merely out for a quick score, and meets spirited opposition, even one round that misses him might be enough to make him turn around and run for his life. On the other hand, if he’s hopped-up on drugs, he might not feel half a dozen or more torso shots, and carry on attacking until his body finally shuts down. I’ve personally witnessed an assailant who’d been shot multiple times in the chest (including one round that went right through his heart), but he still lived long enough to reach the defender and open his skull with a machete. Both died on the scene. Can one call that a “successful” defense, in that it stopped the criminal attacker, but did not save the life of the defender? I can’t.”
My Charter Arms Bulldog 5 shot .44 special one inch barrel is heavier than my Ruger GP 100 7 shot .357 2.5 inch barrel. But, the Bulldog is a great backup gun.
Josey Wales carried two .45 Colts and two .36 Colts. That might have been an appropriate amount of casual firepower in these wicked times.
I remember in the ‘60s when gas was 35¢/g. Only a little more in ‘70.
Regular leaded gasoline was 27.9 cents/gallon in Houston until 1973.
Not in my portfolios managed by my advisor.
We paid $0.19 a gallon on the farm for gas. It was not taxed. I remember paying $0.24 a gallon as a dollar would buy me 4 gallons.
Checking today, the problem piece of software on Mac OS Sequoia 15.3.2 is wish, the command line interface to Tk.
I noticed an upgrade available to Sequoia 15.4 so I’m installing that now.
The Git “batteries included” GUI, gitk, uses wish. Mac OS does not include gitk, but the program is available via Homebrew.
I’ve fixed seriously trashed Git repositories on more than one occasion with gitk. I generally don’t like GUI development tools, but gitk is one of my exceptions.
The wish utility is still broken in Mac OS Sequoia 15.4.
Half of all restaurants fail within a couple of years. Even chains and franchise operations will make mistakes and close individual stores, but this is definitely going beyond that.
Funny than few of them mention “borrowing money we couldn’t pay back, to expand into markets we didn’t need to be in” as the reason for their failure.
n
Bloomin’ Brands (Outback Steakhouse, Carabba’s, Bonehead -er- Bonefish Grill) is inevitable, but, as with Hooters, some restaurants may survive in Tampa Bay, the company’s original market.
On The Border has seen two separate private equity owners in the last 15 years so the books there are probably a mess.
“Kristi Noem dodges kicks from migrant suspect as she leads ICE deportation raids in Phoenix”
https://nypost.com/2025/04/08/us-news/kristi-noem-dodges-kicks-from-migrant-suspect-as-she-leads-ice-deportation-raids-in-phoenix/
“Noem led about 100 federal agents on an early morning raid Tuesday in Arizona’s capital, where they nabbed three illegal migrants wanted on charges from weapons and drug offenses to running a money laundering operation.”
“The Post was there as she dodged kicks from a suspect wearing slip-on shoes and gamely told him, “You’re not scaring me with your Croc.””
Wow, she is not a desk bound bureaucrat.
“Texas AG Ken Paxton officially joins U.S. Senate race challenging John Cornyn”
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/04/08/ken-paxton-john-cornyn-us-senate-texas-republican-primary/
“The attorney general positions himself as a disruptor against the Republican establishment embodied in the longtime Senate fixture.”
Ken Paxton ain’t no RINO. Cornyn is a RINO. Paxton is an attack dog.
We need attack dogs in the USA Senate.
I saw a rumor somewhere that Glen L. Cook had a new book coming out in the Black Company series..
Checking with Amazon it looks like it is due in November. Given that he stopped publishing in the ‘teens you have to wonder if it is actually him or a designated other writer to finish the series.
Lies Weeping.
Austin is a club. Paxton just has a different set of Kenny Boys than Cornyn.
Unfortunately, the cabal behind the Bush family just got a new lease on life with the opportunity for George P. (Diddly) Bush — aka “The Little Brown One” – to get another shot at the Attorney General’s office and Abbott looking at maybe one more term.
If Abbott doesn’t run next year, we might as well start practicing — All right, all right, all right.
I really liked the Annals of the Black Company, as the book club edition was named. I came across a paperback that was later in the series and didn’t finish it.
Maybe I should put that on my re-read list.
n
Cook
wasis a good writer, but his characters were not necessariy likable.Sometimes series went in odd directions, and the individual member novels were uneven.
Which added some interest to things I guess.
Glen wrote his first books while on the night shift at GM in St. Louis.
His Garrett, P.I. series was one of the few fantasies that I found worth reading in the 90’s.
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/04/08/trump-freezes-assets-at-cornell-and-northwestern-plus-obama-weighs-in-n3801603
MFBHO offers encouragement along the lines of “Let’s you and him fight.” Note that Barry, the renowned constitutional scholar, has nothing to say about the actual law.
Meanwhile, Maine received more good news the day after they filed a lawsuit claiming they couldn’t feed their children without the federal funds that the USDA put on hold pending investigation of Title VI violations:
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/04/08/bondi-pulls-all-non-essential-funding-from-maine-dept-of-corrections-n3801591
Whut Suzie do nao?
Such a tease:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/04/08/karoline-leavitt-confirms-horrible-discovery-by-doge-n2655210
But he thought it was a fire alarum:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2025/04/08/fact-complaint-against-cory-booker-n2655180
So, obviously, Chuck Schumer must be fired immediately.
Woke Navy Admiral fired for insubordination:
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2025/04/08/report-nave-vice-admiral-refused-to-hang-portraits-of-trump-hegseth-n2411115
Demonstrating that abject stupidity is no bar to gaining rank in a woke military.
Really curious about the date and score of her last range quals.
It is sad they will just let her retire at current rank. Lower rank officers and all enlisted would be court martialed for blatant insubordination. At least another ProgLibTurd is gone.
And Flag Officers have no qualification requirements if they so choose. Back at my Pentagon days, the Airforce CoS (McPeak) kept flying F16’s “with his boys”, knowing damn well he would never fly in combat, wasting $100,000’s for his ego.
Flag officers can even design their own uniform, but none do these days.
“Flag officers can even design their own uniform, but none do these days.”
Bunch of them wearing pixie dust in private.
More good news
https://x.com/kristina_wong/status/1909611016066842652
Looks like Ann Wilson from Heart the day after the all-you-can-eat buffet cage match.
Pixie dust, red heels and leather dog collars…
n
Looks like Ann Wilson from Heart the day after the all-you-can-eat buffet cage match.
Ann Wilson is just a shadow of herself. She has been recovering from serious cancer treatments and just went back out on the road at age 74. She is much tougher than me, I would have taken another year or two off.
https://people.com/heart-tour-begins-ann-wilson-cancer-treatment-in-rearview-exclusive-11688950
Well this is frustrating. I’ve got a dr appointment Wed morning,but they never sent the email telling me which office to visit. Their web portal is useless, as is the provider I’m supposed to see.
EVERY one of these doctors and hospital systems uses different portals too, with no links to each other.
Not helpful.
n
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/04/08/bondi-pulls-all-non-essential-funding-from-maine-dept-of-corrections-n3801591
Is anyone or anything not getting a regular check from the feddies ???
Shoot, my big business just got six ERTC checks from the feddies. We are going to spend it slowly this year but, we will spend it.
“Jeff Bezos Is Secretly Working on Building a $25,000 EV Pickup Truck, Report Claims”
https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a64423500/jeff-bezos-25000-dollar-ev-pickup-truck-report/
“You probably haven’t heard of Michigan-based Slate Auto yet, but they could build your next affordable pickup.”
“Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos appears to further expanding his already broad reach — into the electric vehicle industry. According to a Tuesday report from TechCrunch, Bezos has been funding a Michigan-based EV startup called Slate Auto, which is reportedly focused on producing a two-seat electric truck for as little as $25,000.”
“Bezos is no stranger to the EV market, as Amazon is a massive investor in Rivian. The former online bookstore has invested more than $1.3 billion into the electric truck-and-SUV builder, which is contracted to supply delivery vans for logistics juggernaut.”
The Amazon driver for our neighborhood drives a new Rivian Electric van. It is huge, bigger than the Brown Vans. It makes a lot of weird noises too.
“anything you can do, I can do better…” at least the billionaires aren’t measuring their genitals with proxy yachts this decade…
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we’ve had the rivian delivery vans for a while. They look like cargo pod spaceships.
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>>Half of all restaurants fail within a couple of years. Even chains and franchise operations will make mistakes and close individual stores, but this is definitely going beyond that.
Tampa claims another victim…we ate there a few times when we lived in FL…not all that memorable.
https://www-dailymail-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14584345/amp/health-conscious-fast-food-burger-chain-shuts-locations-evos.html?amp_js_v=0.1&_gsa=1#webview=1
And so it goes on…refinement of previous NYFS gub safety law tracking credit card purchases…can you say ‘national registry?’
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/safer-streets-governor-hochul-signs-legislation-strengthening-new-yorks-gun-safety-laws-and
Certainly falls into the “safety” category, right?
Other two signings…
>>Even “merchants” like Tractor Supply and Dollar General are really just paper shuffling as retail of last resort in many rural areas.
There’s always some value to the ‘dirt.’
Are they retailers or RE holding companies?
>>Some of Trump’s decisions I am not so certain, including tariffs. He strikes me as an impulsive individual making hasty decisions. And when he is wrong he twists the truth in bizarre ways. Not that that is much different than any politician.
Have you read “The Art of the Deal”?
>>I rely on my investment advisor. That is his job,
– yeah but he should be working to your direction.
Is your IA a fiduciary? IMHO he should be (your choice though), in which case he
should bemust be working to your direction.>>One fund is guaranteed to never go below the purchase price regardless of the stock market. I can lose nothing. Yet the fund still provides gains that match growth in the stock market, just not at the same pace as the market. It satisfies two of my goals.
Care to share the fund name?
>>Protection from the IRS seems to be the most difficult goal. Some things can be done, but not much.
More ‘things’ are out there, but I’d guess they would cost you more than they could save you.
>>Weird. Since my power outage, I’ve had to log back in to everything that normally just logs in automatically. Even commenting here.
@nick, did the power outage / restart allow any updates to be installed?