09:15 – Fortunately, Barbara has a sense of humor about these things. The library is now so full of boxes from our wholesale suppliers that the floor is barely visible. We’re building inventory for the autumn sales rush, on the theory that we can’t build the kits if we don’t have the components. Actually getting them built is another matter, but we’ll manage somehow.
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
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From your comments over the years, it’s been obvious that you married a
tolerant woman. Very tolerant. (Unless you’re exaggerating for humorous
effect some of the things you get up to, a possibility not to be
discounted.)
For storage of the bazillion boxes, can you put high shelving in some
less-used
rooms? It doesn’t look especially attractive, but shelves around the
room at two meters high would let you stuff in a lot of boxes.
Hmm. NYTimes describes Wisconsin governor Walker as
9:00 pm Exit Polls Show Extremely Close Race as Voting Ends
then
9:58 pm Walker Survives Recall Vote
Now, at 22:57, here are the published counted votes
Scott Walker 880,458 57.2%
Tom Barrett 650,628 42.3
Hari Trivedi 8,669 0.6
That appears to be quite a decisive win to me,—not even close,—but the NYTimes just cannot concede defeat—heavy as it was.
Pretty definitive results in Wisconsin, good to see. The big question: what happens now? Will the Governor use this confirmation to push ahead with reforms, or is he now gun-shy? Will this inspire any other states to start much-needed reforms?
Edit: Just as feedback, the comment editing is working fine for me. Nice to have it.
The media did its usual schtick of calling that election as extremely close even though it wasn’t; they did the same thing many years ago when BU President John Silber was running for Governor in MA and his group would not concede defeat until every last vote was counted, knowing how Dem chicanery always seems to play a part in these things. The local nooz anchors Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobson (hubby and wifey then) grew increasingly irritable and nasty as the night wore on, thus exhibiting their obvious bias for all to see.
Apparently the Dems and union stooges out there had also been engaging in shady tactics for the last few days. Par for the course, this stuff is very blatant nowadays.
Naturally they will spin this today as just an insignificant little local dust-up meaning nothing, nothing to see here folks, move along. But if Walker had been defeated it would have become an international sensation, a wonderful new dawn, a new day in America, a major national referendum, etc., etc.
Looks pretty decisive to me; the union stooges and their media lackeys and Dem enablers have been told straight up to take a hike. Not that the Repubs and their stooges and lackeys are any day at the beach. A pox on them all.
LOL, the Leftist Media Bias is apparent and obvious. Up here in Canada, our “right” wing PM Stephan Harper finally won a majority of Parliament. The CBC was outraged by this. Their lead news stories the day after the election went in this order:
1) Liberal Leader Ignatieff resigns as Party Leader to resume a role in Academia.
2) NDP Leader Layton becomes Official Opposition Leader (booting the Libs to the back benches for the first time in history).
3) Oh yeah, and Stephan Harper wins a majority. More after this commercial break.
I say “right” wing leader, as that is how he is painted in Canada. Naturally, he is many degrees to the left of Obama.
BBC told it like it is in this morning’s news: pre-election predictions based on surveys showed a very tight race, as did actual exit polls during the voting day. Of course, neither were right.
Makes one wonder what kinds of collusion are going on these days. The US media cannot die too soon for me.
Agreed.
That’s amusing, sort of, how the Canadians describe Left and Right. Down here the media and academic nitwits portrayed the Reagan and Bush regimes as hardcore right-wing. Then people like Palin, Bachmann, Barbour, Perry, et. al. came along and they switched to calling them “extreme right-wing” or “ultra-conservative.” Guys like Larry Klinton and Nosferatu II are “moderate” or “centrist.” And people like Pat Buchanan and me are “fascists” and “reactionaries.”
Except that sixty years ago Buchanan and me would have been in roughly the same strata as the Kennedy brothers. Well, maybe more like Senators McCarthy, Taft, La Follette, et. al.
Life will tend to make you conservative, and if it doesn’t, well then, you have lived off somebody else’s money.
As I’ve gotten older I’ve found I’ve become more fiscally conservative, but much more socially liberal. I was quite the social conservative in my teens. The older I get the more I take a “Let people do whatever makes them happy” approach to most things.
As a moronic teenage boozer and pot-head and acid-head (while also on the Honor Roll every term and doing soccer, track-and-field, and football), I got sucked into the radical lefty hoss shit that was going on at the time, not least in the reading material handed out in English classes, like “Manchild in the Promised Land,” “Soul on Ice,” and graduating to stuff like the Port Huron Statement of SDS. I went to demonstrations in the housing projects in Boston with the Panthers and sold “Challenge,” the flagship nooz paper of the Progressive Labor Party in the Boston ‘burbs. Also brought SDS and the Young Socialist Alliance to the high school in my junior and senior years.
There was not a whole lot of pressure for me at the time to go on to college and by then I hated school and working various part-time gigs at the local department store, Jordan Marsh, and ushering at the cinemas. (plus mowing lawns, shoveling snow, delivering newspapers, selling pot, hash and acid, etc.)
So just to get out of the house and away from parents and four siblings and that whole suburban Boston zeitgeist of the late 60s, I enlisted in the AF. Let me tell ya; boot camp, AP/SP school and subsequent experiences here in CONUS and overseas sure woke me up pretty harshly. That, and the subsequent ten years or so of street cop work in some of New England’s cruddiest urban ‘hoods. Mostly on nights.
And in the 80s, having done all that, plus a succession of shitty factory jobs, I started reading National Review, Chronicles, American Spectator, the Rothbard-Rockwell Report, etc.
In this Anno Domini MMXII, I am now slightly to the right of Patrick Buchanan. What a long strange trip, etc, etc.
Wow, the temp has rocketed up to 61 and we’ve had a series of driving rain showers alternating with sun and blue skies. Mrs. OFD is in Ventura, Kalifornia and daughter is up in Montreal and MIL is over in lovely Shelburne Bay and I am here with a dumbass mutt and two cats. Watched “John Carter” the other night; it sucked. Watched “Meeks Cutoff” last night. Ditto. Anyone here seen “The Hunger Games” yet?
I’ve not seen The Hunger Games, but I’ve read the books, at the request of my younger sister. They’re alright… too much focus on Katniss’s appearance and image, in my opinion; I wish she did more to actually direct the rebellion, rather than being its figurehead.
Chad,
Yeah, I have a pretty much live-and-let-live attitude to stuff I don’t like, as against my late teenage years when I was very conservative on social issues. I just don’t want people who do stuff I disagree with shoving it in my face.
Chuck,
Isn’t there a saying that if you’re not a liberal as a young person you’ve got no heart, and if you’re not a conservative by your thirties you’ve got no brains…?
Right! That was from Churchill, I believe. However, I agree with OFD that I have become fiscally conservative and socially liberal. My conservative comment above was about money. ‘Live and let live’ is more my motto these days. I have always maintained that bugs of any kind do not belong inside my house. But my method of dealing with them in younger days was to physically exterminate them. For a good long decade or two, I have had a ‘bug jar’ and go to the bother of taking them outside. I also find myself much less interested in changing the way other people think about things. Too bad they are not as enlightened as me, but c’est la vie.
I automatically kill bugs I find in the house. Except for Huntsman spiders, which even I’m not afraid of and which prey on other spiders and bugs, so they’re useful. Too bad there’s no spider that preys exclusively on cats…