Warm and humid, maybe some rain today. Forecast called for it, but it’s Houston, and you just never know. It threatened all day Tuesday, but never rained on me. It did get uncomfortably warm and humid. I’m hoping it doesn’t rain for the next 4 days.
Did auction stuff yesterday. Took another load to the auctioneer. Chatted for a bit. Did a bit of sourcing on my way and just added that to the drop off.
Went to see D1 play ball. Her team, (and in fact all the various levels, JV, Varsity, Freshmen), sucks. They can barely play at all, and watch the ball fly by about half the time. Oh well, they’ll get better next season. And they look like they’re having at least a little bit of fun. I left after her games, but she stayed with the team. There were at least three school cops there, and STILL a fight broke out. I should note that she was playing an away game against the school we’re actually zoned to. They apparently have an ongoing issue with fighting, according to one of D1’s friends that goes there. Joy. Diversity is our strength…
Speaking of the diversite’, there was a guy at the goodwill who was totally tatted up with south of the border prison tats. Side of his head was Saint Mary, so one of the variants that venerate her… He was disabled, walking with a cane and a soft cast on one foot. So now we’re re-habbing gang bangers. The older illegals are almost all crippled in some way. Joy.
Sliding down the slippery slope. Got stacks?
nick
We normal Americans should institute a Kill On Sight policy for anyone with facial tattoos. That would take care of a number of problems.
The commonly held misconception among the masses is that a creme or fast laser treatment will remove the “ink” mistake.
I see a lot more tattoos on middle aged women lately. It is as much a midlife crisis purchase for them as the four door Wrangler is for Y chromosomes.
Not having a Speaker to schedule spending votes is only risky if you view the cutting off of the funds to Ukraine as a problem. I don’t. Many Republicans don’t either.
The international press is as corrupted by money and institutional ownership as the US media.
In Europe, Black Rock and/or Vanguard ownership of media wouldn’t surprise me.
Not having a Speaker also means a vote for a replacement for Vice President couldn’t get scheduled in the House if Biden were to assume room temperature in the interim.
Not that I would view that as a problem either, but the US and international media would flip out.
After St. Floyd was deified, just mentioning his name in vain is immediate cancellation and raycisssss labeling. It will take a major league exorcist, direct from the Vatican, to get the devil out of St. Floyd’s carcass.
I saw a mural in San Antonio over Labor Day weekend depicting St. Floyd with Coach Pop. You can’t get closer to Godhood in that town.
We have a rerun of the Floyd mess running in Austin right now with the cop on trial for Mike Ramos “murder”.
The difference, however, is that Christopher Taylor, unlike Derek Chauvin, did not accidentally pull back the curtain on the retirement scehemes of APD so the police union is supporting his defense.
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/jury-determine-verdict-michael-ramos-christopher-taylor-trial
An acquittal would still be a “powder keg”.
73F and mostly clear. Time to start the day.
n
Thank all of you for your support.
I’ve buried a daughter who died from her third bout of cancer, etc., after living at Camp Lejeune (long story I’ll save for another time) and my wife so I’m well aware of the morticians and their games. I called all of the ones listed by Google maps and the cost of just a cremation varied from $2780 to $975 plus tax and cost of a death certificate. Note that several would not give me a price until I provided details so I terminated those calls. Average was $1650.
More later.
It’s a possible societal good, but I’d miss my first-born son.
I had my Mom’s remains cremated in Las Vegas going on 7 years now. The cost was around $1,000. Perhaps “The Neptune Society” can provide a better cost. Mr. CowboyStu has mentioned them many times. You prepay for cremation while alive. I’m not sure if they can help after the fact, but worth checking.
My best in this time of grief, sir.
The states tax cremation! Cretins. Another necessity of life in which the money grubbers have stuck their evil sticky fingers. End of life requirements should be tax exempt and not another financial burden on the family.
I don’t remember if California taxed us on my mother’s death. Knowing California, I highly suspect they did.
I bought a prepaid funeral for my aunt when she was put in a nursing home. It was part of a process to get her assets below $2200.00 to allow Medicaid to pay for the nursing home. Buying a funeral, clothes and personal items was one way allowed by the state to reduce assets.
I paid $1100.00 for the cremation policy. When she died four years later the cost of cremation had gone up to $1400.00, the policy was worth $1250.00. The funeral home had to eat the additional cost. The funeral home used another facility for the cremation and had to pay the other facility.
Miss as in being a target, or miss as being a person?
I will let myself out after a thorough, and well deserved, thrashing for being so crude and insensitive.
Are you getting in on the lawsuits? Or is that only for the victims and spouses, and not parents? Or is it like many such lawsuits, drag it out long enough so the people truly damaged are no longer living?
Sort of like the VA disability claims. String it out long enough and the VA does not have to pay as the veteran is deceased. Benefits due from the date of filing are not payable to family members. Once the veteran is deceased, disability cannot be approved.
When cleaning up after my mother’s death – which was done under a lot of time pressure – I remember the funeral home trying to upsell. Did you know you could buy a solid copper casket for $30k? I involved the boys in the decisions, as much as I could (early teens). The boys and I picked out the cheapest casket that looked decent. It had to be nice for the family viewing and graveside ceremony, but that was it, no extras. The attempts at upselling stopped at that point – apparently the message was understood.
The worst pain was getting accounts cancelled. That’s when I discovered that apparently a lot of people try to fake their own deaths to get out of contracts. Some places were happy when I sent a death certificate, others didn’t want to believe even that. The worst were the ones that tried to say (wrongly!) that I was somehow on the hook for the contracts. I totally lost it at GMAC (now Ally), because they were absolutely shameless. In retrospect, I feel sorry for the call center agent, who was probably just following her script, but what a slimeball company.
Small lesson learned: If there are accounts with money in them, empty and close them immediately. I had more than one company that wanted to do a direct debit out of her accounts. Nope, person deceased, you don’t get to take a last bite without going through the executor.
Discover tried to pull that stunt when my mother died. She owed about $450.00 on the card. I called Discover to cancel the card. Discover told me that I was responsible to pay the balance. I told them no. Discover refused to cancel the card until the balance was paid. I then told Discover I was going to toss the card in the parking lot of Best Buy and I hope the person that finds the card sticks Discover for a few thousand in TV’s and computers. Discover finally agreed to cancel the card.
But Discover persisted in trying to collect the balance. Discover finally said they would send my mother to collections. I said that is a really good solution as my mother probably no longer cares.
I called the cable company cancel the service and to have their box picked up. The cable company said I needed to bring the box to their office. I said, nope, I don’t have the time. Cable company was adamant that I return the box otherwise they would charge the account $400.00 for the box. I said fine, no one is going to pay the account anyway. Again, termination of the service and collections was threatened to which I agreed was a good solution.
Myself and my brothers were shown a $50K coffin that had lots of gold trim. It was also explained there was a much better mattress for extended comfort. We said the person is dead, comfort is not an issue. The funeral home stated for some families that was very important. Nope, not for us. Show us the cheapest you stock. Even that was too much to pay.
I never thought of doing that or that people would even do such.
If possible. If the person attempting to close the account is not listed on the account, the institution will not do anything. We faced that with the MIL accounts. We knew that my wife was a secondary account holder. But somehow the credit union lost that information. My wife was not allowed access until probate was settled with her as executor.
We sold the MIL’s car without telling Carmax that the MIL was dead. We used the POA to sell the car even though the POA was no longer valid. Otherwise it would have taken six or more months with the car sitting in storage. We could not legally drive, register, or insure the car. Best option was selling quickly.
The CU balked at accepting the check, payable in the MIL’s name, to deposit into the checking account. The teller had to get a manager approval.
Another CU, where my wife was joint, had no issues with giving my wife all the money in the account.
For my mother, my youngest brother was a secondary account holder on her checking account. He immediately withdrew all the money and we all went out to a nice dinner.
I also cannot recall if CA hit me with a death tax or not, but I think not OTOH, they did mandate a state death certificate, but that was covered in my Neptune Society fee.
Re Camp Lejeune
The short version: My ex wife married a marine. They and my three children were stationed there during the time of water problems. My wife passed away in 2005. The marine refuses to provide me with anything the shows he was there … etc.
It would be very difficult to prove a link as my daughter passed away before the law suits …
The events with the water occurred before all of the lawsuits. I know it is disgusting, but maybe contact one of the shyster law firms looking for plaintiffs. It won’t cost you anything and the lawyer may be able to get information that you cannot get access.
But, what do I know. Maybe the entire thing with the lawsuits is a scam. Most people harmed will be deceased before there is any settlement. The only real winners are the law firms, which keep the majority of the award. A minimum amount or percentage, both significant, whichever is higher.
And sometimes letting the past be the past is the better solution rather than continue to drag events through the mud and relive the memories.
Latest from the teens that ran over retired Captain Probst in Las Vegas: Taunting his family in court
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/teens-accused-of-killing-retired-ca-police-chief-taunt-his-family-in-court/
They should be made a horrible example: kill them painfully and public the screaming audio.
Then evaluate family and associates for cleansing.
Another insult to honest feces.
Nothing much needs to be stated. Low life scum. Seems like that conclusion, and a remedy, was posted earlier. The only issue with these losers is that now the state has to pay a lot of money for their maintenance. A cheaper, and more effective solution, would be to strap them to an unused section of asphalt and let them rot.
I’ve buried a daughter who died from her third bout of cancer, etc., after living at Camp Lejeune (long story I’ll save for another time) and my wife so I’m well aware of the morticians and their games. I called all of the ones listed by Google maps and the cost of just a cremation varied from $2780 to $975 plus tax and cost of a death certificate. Note that several would not give me a price until I provided details so I terminated those calls. Average was $1650.
Sounds like you have a plan. I thought cremation was a good option when you told us yesterday.
My father-in-law buried his second wife in a blue cardboard box with an interior wood frame back in 1999 or so. She already had a burial plot. The box was the cheapest option he could find and worked just fine.
So a young woman with a congenital heart issue and a sensitivity to caffeine and other stimulants orders and drinks an “energy drink” and dies. That is what was behind the previous article headline about suing Panera Bread.
Turns out, energy drinks are loaded with caffeine and sugar. Who knew? Besides everyone with 3 brain cells and the ability to read?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12666137/Panera-Bread-charged-lemonade-lawsuit-caffeine-drinks-safety.html
The death of this young woman is certainly a tragedy for her family. Their loss is terrible. But. If you have a known, potentially deadly health condition linked to what you eat and drink, WTF are you doing consuming things you don’t understand?
It’s all lies and “marketing terms.”
D1 wanted an energy drink when we were shopping at the grocery store. Specifically she wanted the Kim Big-ass-ian branded one. So I ask, why does she want that one? What caused that desire in her? Which influence did so? And then we looked at ingredients. On the KK can and on other typical drink cans. All of them are loaded with sugar and stimulants. Some have some additives that are known to make a person feel flushed, which I’m sure adds to the felt effect. AND THEN even knowing it was all lies, she bought one anyway. Had a couple of sips and left it. It was bitter and nasty, despite all the sweeteners.
I’m hoping that a lesson was learned, but she’s still a kid swimming in the sewer of media influence.
Vigilance, always, but it’s never quite enough.
n
FWIW, we rented the coffin for my grandmother’s funeral and viewing, then had her cremated, as was her wish.
n
“Rep. Mike Johnson voted new House speaker”
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/house-speaker-vote-10-25-23/index.html
About time. Now they can get to work sending our grandchildren’s money to Ukraine.
“Federal judge finds New York City ‘moral character’ gun regulation unconstitutional”
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/10/25/federal-judge-finds-new-york-city-moral-character-gun-regulation-unconstitutional-1407257/
“New York City can’t deny firearm applicants based on its assessment of their “moral character,” a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge John P. Cronan, a Trump appointee, struck down part of the city’s gun restrictions that provide for denying a license when the applicant is not “of good moral character” or “good cause exists for the denial of the license.” Cronan found that the “magnitude of discretion” the law gives licensing officials is unconstitutional under both the Second and Fourteenth Amendments.”
““The constitutional infirmities identified herein lie not in the City’s decision to impose requirements for the possession of handguns, rifles, and shotguns,” he wrote. “Rather, the provisions fail to pass constitutional muster because of the magnitude of discretion afforded to City officials in denying an individual their constitutional right to keep and bear firearms, and because of Defendants’ failure to show that such unabridged discretion has any grounding in our Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.””
Nice. And it has the additional benefit that gun grabbers in NYC are dying of apoplexy today.
“What Do We Expect From New Speaker of the House Mike Johnson?”
https://thelibertydaily.com/what-do-we-expect-new-speaker-house-mike/
Ok, that is a tough road to stay on. However, being from Louisiana, he is well acquainted with staying out of the ditches.
“Fed wants to lower ‘swipe fees,’ a potential blow to banks and credit card giants”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-wants-to-lower-swipe-fees-a-potential-blow-to-banks-and-credit-card-giants-165923447.html
I just hope they they pass the lower fees on to me. I typically pay 4.5% to 5% fees on credit card transactions of $1,000 to $10,000.
Went to see D1 play ball. Her team, (and in fact all the various levels, JV, Varsity, Freshmen), sucks. They can barely play at all, and watch the ball fly by about half the time. Oh well, they’ll get better next season. And they look like they’re having at least a little bit of fun. I left after her games, but she stayed with the team. There were at least three school cops there, and STILL a fight broke out. I should note that she was playing an away game against the school we’re actually zoned to. They apparently have an ongoing issue with fighting, according to one of D1’s friends that goes there. Joy. Diversity is our strength…
Softball, basketball, volleyball, etc ?
“Oil drops for third straight session on weak European economic data”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-prices-rebound-israel-hamas-005927667.html
“Brent crude futures fell $1.76, or 2%, to settle at $88.07 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell $1.75, or 2.1%, to close at $83.74 a barrel.”
I am amazed that crude oil is not $150 per USA barrel. I have seen one crazy prognosticator calling for $300 oil very soon.
“ACLU Rips Judge’s ‘Gag order’ Against Trump In Jan. 6 Case”
https://valiantnews.com/2023/10/aclu-rips-judges-gag-order-against-trump-in-jan-6-case/
“The ACLU is arguing that the gag order imposed by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan is overly broad and infringes on Trump’s right to free speech.”
Wow !
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Over The Hedge: Word For Today
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2023/10/25
Yes, that is a good word.
xkcd: Daylight Saving Choice
https://xkcd.com/2846/
Yes, I like the compromise of just moving all clocks 39 minutes forward year round.
Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2846:_Daylight_Saving_Choice
I will just assume that the R’s will find a way to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.
Sacrificial family member with the rest of the family hoping to win the lawsuit lottery. If you are dying of cancer stand in front of a train. Then have the family sue the train company. Or confront the police and do something stupid and have the family sue the police and the city.
Where? Rooms To Go? Or Coffins ‘R Us?
I did not know that coffins could be rented.
I will just assume that the R’s will find a way to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.
Yes, that goes without saying.
Where? Rooms To Go? Or Coffins ‘R Us?
I did not know that coffins could be rented.
That implies that there is a market for used coffins too.
“Lessons for today from the Civil War era”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/10/lessons-for-today-from-civil-war-era.html
“The growing, already possibly unbridgeable divisions in American society today have deep parallels with the pre-Civil War society of our forefathers. The lack of tolerance, open hostility between factions, and propensity to violence erupted into the first American Civil War during the 1860’s. Can it happen again? Might we be on the brink of a second American Civil War? It’s possible. It most likely won’t be along the same lines as the first, with formal armies and battlefields and rival governments. It’ll be more like the conflict in “Bleeding Kansas“, where pro- and anti-slavery militias waged internecine warfare on their neighbors, butchering in the name of their beliefs and causing chaos and misery that lasted for generations.”
One set of my great great grandparents moved to north Texas from Missouri in the late 1800s. I have wondered if they had problems during the Civil War.
And Matt Gaetz can go back to running for Florida Governor, secure in the knowledge that he has the vote in The Villages locked up while the folks back home in FL-1 continue get the benefit of DoD pork spending paying for the “wars” of the last 21 years. Now with more Ukraine!
The Witch didn’t vote for the “motion to vacate”. She’ll be lucky to survive reelection.
Look for a Gaetz/Witch ticket in Florida in 2026, regardless.
“Arrested Alaskan Air pilot who stopped engines was far-leftist tripping on shrooms”
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-off-duty-pilot-arrested-after-trying-to-turn-off-alaskan-air-engines-mid-flight-was-tripping-on-shrooms-arrest-docs
“It has been revealed that the off-duty pilot who allegedly caused a San Francisco-bound Horizon Air flight to divert to Portland by attempting to turn off the engines mid-flight told police he was high on magic mushrooms at the time.”
This is not a stable person. And he was a commercial airline pilot ? Really ?
Things that make you say, “Hmmmm …”: Oregon legalized shrooms.
Maybe the pilot is a regular at PDX. Still, Salem is a haul since the airport in Portland is almost in WA State, on the Columbia River just across from Vantucky.
“Republican Floats Kicking Ally Out of NATO”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/republican-floats-kicking-ally-out-of-nato/ar-AA1iQpyg
“Senator Rick Scott, a Florida Republican, has called for NATO to “seriously consider” Turkey’s membership after the country’s president said that Hamas was not a terrorist organization.”
“Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also called on Wednesday for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Gaza.”
Things that make you say, “Hmmmm …”: Oregon legalized shrooms.
Oregon legalized shrooms. I highly doubt that the FAA did.
I forgot to add that Salem is home the only shroom dispensary in Oregon for now, until the state can license private businesses.
70% of the counties in Oregon banned shrooms. Interestingly most of the Portland metro bans them except Mutnomah, the narrow county which includes the airport.
Rick Scott is up for reelection next year, and he only defeated Bill Nelson by 10,000 votes.
If the Dems had any bench in Florida left, Scott would be in trouble.
I did not know that coffins could be rented.
– the mortuary provided the coffin.
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Israel is losing momentum in Gaza. That’s what all the US interference and squawking are all about, slowing them down to kill the momentum. They are hot and looking for revenge, but that will fade with all the wormtongues whispering in their ears.
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carnitas for dinner tonight, had hamburger helper last night. Interesting to see that the Hamburger Helper had an alternative instruction on the back to substitute a can of black beans for the meat. Getting ready for people to not have enough money for meat? Or just vegan/veg permeating the culture. The language was matter of fact, didn’t mention veg or vegan, so my bet is getting ready for “meatless Monday” or similar.
n
n
Most of us have smartphones or smartwatches, and few of us are working in agriculture and still tied to the land. So I recommend GMT for everybody, around the world. No time zones. Whatever time your watch says is the time. Businesses can set working hours of whatever is convenient; here in San Antonio, that might be 1300 to 2100. Want “Daylight savings time”? Declare earlier “Summer Working Hours” of 1200 to 2000, or whatever times work best for your business and/or customer base.
We don’t need to be tied to the pocketwatch of the railroad conductor to tell us the time, and haven’t needed it for 40 years.
One secondary advantage; observing the precise time at Local Apparent Noon, when the Sun is as close as possible to straight overhead, will tell you your longitude precisely.
The importance of booster shots is to eliminate statistically significant Control before the lawsuits begin.
Any change in timekeeping or work hours is going to run afoul of recent code changes to electrical, lighting, and HVAC loads in commercial buildings.
They are all using “daylight harvesting” to meet code requirements. Can’t harvest daylight if it’s dark out. New offices don’t even let the occupants turn on the lights.
n
“Israel is losing momentum in Gaza. That’s what all the US interference and squawking are all about, slowing them down to kill the momentum. They are hot and looking for revenge, but that will fade with all the wormtongues whispering in their ears. ”
Israel should call for pace talks, wait until Hamas has been partying for hours, then go in with everything.
Netanyahu can tell Biden to back the play of Qom and Tehran get the first nukes*
*Note the headline today that the Persians trained the Hamas terrorists. Maybe start the war by nuking them.
Florida “Deactivates“ Students for Justice in Palestine Chapters Based on SJP “Support of Terrorism”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/10/florida-deactivates-students-for-justice-in-palestine-chapters-based-on-sjp-support-of-terrorism/
Isn’t there a federal law against providing material support for terrorism?
“New offices don’t even let the occupants turn on the lights.”
Only a matter of time before someone trips and falls in the dark and gets seriously injured or dies.
Possibly an Amish citizen whose family employs Mr. Crump to extract a $100 million + settlement.
Then the actuaries can calculate how many centuries of “daylight harvesting” it would take to recoup, assuming, of course, no other lawsuits.
Every second you are off on the observation of Local Apparent Noon is 4 nautical miles error in the estimate of position.
My alma matter in Florida hosted a Palestinian Islamic Jihad cell in the Engineering Department going back decades prior to 9/11. The professor who was in charge of the group used his campus mailing address for fundraising.
The state policy throughout the 90s was “hands off”, to the point that even the local FBI agents were told to avoid the cell for political reasons despite the accumulation of reams of evidence.
The Daily Chart: Hate Crimes Against Ethnic Groups
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/the-daily-chart-hate-crimes-against-ethnic-groups.php
First of all Powerline gets a D- for a chart without sources more specific than “FBI, Census Bureau, and Pew Research”
Second, “FBI, Census Bureau, and Pew Research” all have major credibility problems and cannot be trusted.
Third, if Blacks are 7.3 per 100,000, it’s only because they left Juicy Smullay and the other lying hoaxsters in.
The third point is true of the alleged 5.9 per 100,000 for Muslims, also. CAIR has been ginning up the lies for decades.
despite the accumulation of reams of evidence.
– in bizarro world that is true. If we had a functional FBI it would read “BECAUSE OF” the accumulation of reams of evidence.
n
Everyone still works in the daylight hours. The only change is the clock. Based on GMT. For my location to stay on daylight hours the daylight clock would be 12:00 PM until 11:00 PM. People in Hawaii would be 5:00 PM until 4:00 AM.
Samsung fridge doesn’t work? You’re not alone. Complaints are piling up with no action.
Nearly 700 refrigerator incidents across all brands were reported in 2022, the highest number of annual complaints against any appliance type since the data became available in 2011, according to USA TODAY’s analysis of the data. Of those reports, about 70% involved Samsung products.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/samsung-fridge-doesnt-youre-not-090211867.html
LG sucks dead bunnies through a straw, too.
Karnack called me with a report he found in a mason jar under Funk and Wagnalls porch:
#1 problem: EPA forcing manufacturers to use tiny compressors to meet idiotic energy regulations
#2 problem: EPA forcing manufacturers to bow to the ozone hole gods and adopt successively poorer refrigerants with each rule change
Karnack’s Prediction: When cyclo-pentane units start blowing up new complaint records will be set and homeowner’s insurance with have a new exceptions clause.
The local FBI agent in charge of the investigation had the boxes stored in his garage for years up until 9/11 kicked off a “turning over of rocks” in Tampa.
Janet Reno was inclined to look the other way as she laid the ground work for a run for Governor in Florida in 2002. Ironically, she lost partially because of complications with the (then) new voting machines installed to replace the Vote-o-matic system after the 2000 election fiasco.
Greg Norton writes:
I don’t think that’s accurate; I seem to recall (I used to teach this stuff, 35 years ago) that the error factor was substantially less. Let me dig that up…
My bad. .25 nm per second at the equator. The numerator and denominator were swapped. Still, the fudge factor is high. Altitude is also a factor away from the coast.
Greg writes:
Yes, that agrees with my calculations. Thank you. Celestial nav is never precise, and a single line of position is always a WAG. But it IS possible to navigate from California to Hawaii using only observations of the Sun, crossing them when possible by a sight of the Moon or Venus. My students were sometimes astonished to see Venus through the aircraft’s periscopic sextant in the daytime.
New offices don’t even let the occupants turn on the lights.
I had one of those in the previous office building. I had to to wave at the light person detector every 15 minutes because it did not see me typing of the keyboard.
*Note the headline today that the Persians trained the Hamas terrorists. Maybe start the war by nuking them.
Wanna know how to hurt Iran real bad ? Nuke their oil fields. That huge population of 90 million is almost totally dependent on crude oil sales for hard money.
Karnack’s Prediction: When cyclo-pentane units start blowing up new complaint records will be set and homeowner’s insurance with have a new exceptions clause.
Just wait until we start switching back to ammonia as a refrigerant. One small leak and everyone in the kitchen dies. 300 ppm is death for mammals, not much.
However, the current leader in the dash to a perfect refrigerant is CO2. I have to admit, it is not bad. But the dadgum pressures have to be so high to generate a liquid (75 psia).
“However, the current leader in the dash to a perfect refrigerant is CO2.”
But everyone KNOWS it is TOXIC!!!
>> We normal Americans should institute a Kill On Sight policy for anyone with facial tattoos. That would take care of a number of problems.
Including Mike Tyson…and the ‘hard’ drinks he endorses.
>> Not having a Speaker to schedule spending votes is only risky if you view the cutting off of the funds to Ukraine and Israel as a problem. I don’t. Many Republicans don’t either.
F I F Y
>> Not having a Speaker also means a vote for a replacement for Vice President couldn’t get scheduled in the House if Biden were to assume room temperature in the interim.
Not that I would view that as a problem either, but the US and international media would flip out.
But think of the popcorn sales (but yeah, I know about Johnson.)
>> My father-in-law buried his second wife in a blue cardboard box with an interior wood frame back in 1999 or so. She already had a burial plot. The box was the cheapest option he could find and worked just fine.
A Jewish funeral home should have a plain pine box available.
>> I’m hoping that a lesson was learned, but she’s still a kid swimming in the sewer of media influence.
Gotta put more effort into pushing the Convent option…
There will soon be more screams for gun control and banning “AR style” weapons. Media term, not mine.
>> “New York City can’t deny firearm applicants based on its assessment of their “moral character,” a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge John P. Cronan, a Trump appointee, struck down part of the city’s gun restrictions that provide for denying a license when the applicant is not “of good moral character” or “good cause exists for the denial of the license.”
The Trump Effect beyond his three SCOTUS picks. We need to give him another four years to continue this…
>> I just hope they they pass the lower fees on to me. I typically pay 4.5% to 5% fees on credit card transactions of $1,000 to $10,000.
Hopefully those are cash-back cards.
>> I will just assume that the R’s will find a way to seize defeat from the jaws of victory.
Don’t forget that this hasn’t been changed (yet) …
As of now, 22 dead and ~12 injured in Lewiston, Maine.
Law enforcement officials in Maine say person of interest is a certified firearms instructor and member of the US Army Reserves.
…had also recently been hospitalized for mental problems, but then released, and had recently been divorced and had a restraining order. My question about this is, any sign of Sudden Jihad Syndrome? Could someone have persuaded, or paid, him to act out and create another crisis that the Dimocrats could use to try to enact their assault weapons ban again? Because this seems ENTIRELY too convenient to the Dims.
Rep. Mike Johnson is the new House Speaker—and that’s a good thing
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/10/sen_mike_johnson_is_the_new_house_speakerand_thats_a_good_thing.html
McCarthy reneged on his promises and deserved to be ousted, but doing so without a plan was reckless. We’d still be in limbo if McCarthy hadn’t been worked into a corner where he was revealed as working behind the scenes to spike any other candidates.
Now Johnson needs to take Biden’s kitchen sink proposal, split it into it’s natural parts, bring the Israel aid portion to the floor immediately, and pass it. If the Dems won’t vote for it in the House, or won’t bring it to a vote in the Senate, then the Jewish vote will have to decide what, exactly, they get from the Democrat Party if not support for Israel in a war.
Then Johnson can announce that he will bring the Ukraine spending proposal to the floor just as soon as the $100 billion already sent has been accounted for. I suspect that American taxpayers being bled by Biden’s inflation are not going to be receptive to sending more money to Ukraine after they find that a large amount of the $100 billion was not spent on the war.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/10/25/mass-shooting-maine-n2630389
The feebies are maneuvering to take credit after the locals make the arrest.
>> Then Johnson can announce that he will bring the Ukraine spending proposal to the floor just as soon as the $100 billion already sent has been accounted for.
Let’s see…
Propose structure for Ukraine Audit sub-committee – let’s say six months
Respond to outcries from Professional Auditors Association – two months
Announce sub-committee schedule and witnesses – one month
Draft subpeonas for those that have refused to testify – three months
Etc, etc, etc – twelve months
. . .
PROFIT
Just had another spatter of rain rattle the house. Had a few during the afternoon too. Something picked up my patio umbrella and tossed it around this afternoon too.
Atmosphere is all ‘swirly’ so who knows what might blow in.
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…had also recently been hospitalized for mental problems, but then released, and had recently been divorced and had a restraining order. My question about this is, any sign of Sudden Jihad Syndrome? Could someone have persuaded, or paid, him to act out and create another crisis that the Dimocrats could use to try to enact their assault weapons ban again? Because this seems ENTIRELY too convenient to the Dims.
Did he have a copy of “The Catcher In The Rye” on him ?