Slightly cooler, still humid, maybe rain. Had overcast most of yesterday and some threatening clouds, but never did rain where I was. It’s lot easier to do auction pickup with the pickup truck but then I need to be fairly confident that it won’t rain.
Pickups are the order of the day, at least the order of the afternoon…
Yesterday’s pickup went well. Got stuff for my non-prepping hobby, including something to flip. In the late afternoon, I finally got together with the craigslist flake and did a deal. Sold my $5 auction purchase for $250. I wish I had more of them… I do have more high value items to sell, I just need to get busy with listing them.
I am starting to see a difference in my house, my office, and my secondary location. It’s just slow going.
And I want to go faster, because the decline is accelerating. The latest is fedgov limiting the drugs that 7 southern states will get to treat covid. We’re using up too much, what with our not vaxxing, and not cowering, so they need to save some for the others, who might need it later, because we’ve been BAD and don’t DESERVE the EXPENSIVE treatment. So, people in Florida and Texas can just suffer and die. If there’s anyone thinking that “well they should hold some back for the other people who might need them later” contrast this action with NY Governor sending State Troopers to other parts of the state to seize ventilators for NYC’s use in the early lockdown days.
The uniparty intends to bring us to heel. I don’t think that is going to work out like they think.
USE the time that’s left. Always be improving your position. And stack stuff. Lots of stuff.
nick
73F and 93%RH this morning. Surfaces look dry outside so that’s a plus.
n
“GM Warns Chevy Bolt Owners Not to Park Within 50ft of Anything You Care About”
Are you freaking kidding me ?
No problem. If the momentum doesn’t change pretty soon, the Hecho in China golf carts that most of the population will end up driving in 10 years under the EV sales mandates won’t have that much battery pack to worry about. 30-40 miles of range and 50 MPH won’t require a splody set of power cells.
There is a new Model 3 “Plaid” Tesla rolling around my neighborhood with the license plate “LUDCRUS”
Indeed.
Apple employees are definitely here already in force. I’m wondering if “LUDCRUS” replaced the German grocery getter with the plate “AAPL” — I haven’t seen that one in a while.
The grocery getter probably broke. Audi. Broken down X5s are not an uncommon sight around here.
Yeah, I read that warning from GM. 50 feet? Who are they kidding? That basically means you can’t park it anywhere except in the middle of some farmer’s field.
Didn’t they just do a full recall of all Chevy Bolts? They should have just repossessed all of them, refunded the full purchase price, and been done with it. That would have cost them a lot less, in the long run, than continuing to rack up all this negative publicity.
On the other hand, this is GM we’re talking about. I know some of y’all like their trucks, but honestly, their quality has been crap for a long time. I decided back in 1981 or 1982 that I was done with American cars.
I’d bet that the primary market for GM cars and trucks is .gov fleet sales.
I see them there, especially municipalities, and at the very bottom of the market with minorities.
n
On the other hand, this is GM we’re talking about. I know some of y’all like their trucks, but honestly, their quality has been crap for a long time. I decided back in 1981 or 1982 that I was done with American cars.
Current GM trucks in the F150 class are not good for much beyond rental car fleets.
Something went seriously wrong in GM’s deployment of the 10 speed transmission they developed with Ford for that class of vehicle.
New Allison signs have sprouted on several buildings along the freeway in Arlington over the last year, near the GM facility which produces the trucks and larger SUVs, an indication, IMHO, of what is happening with regard to transmissions in GM’s commercial vehicles and real “work” trucks.
The C-suite at GM needs to pray that enough engineers stuck around with Allison after the divestiture and aren’t embittered about losing their GM pensions, but 14 years is two full product cycles in the industry and half of a career for most engineers before they lose interest in working for the Pointy Haired Boss in “Dilbert” and pull up a stool behind the register at OReilly’s.
(When I needed a cabin air filter for the Exploder a few weeks ago, the register guy was really knowledgeable/helpful for the Sunday afternoon graveyard slot. Gotta wonder about the story there.)
Sometimes I wonder if Dilbert works for a ward of the Carlyle Group like Allison. I have several friends whose careers and pensions were lost to private equity strip mining conducted by Carlyle and similar companies.
I see them there, especially municipalities, and at the very bottom of the market with minorities.
Municipalities buy the heavier trucks, with V8 engines and Allison (!) transmissions.
The low end of the market is going to go where they can get creative financing terms to fit their monthly payment goal. Often, the big GM dealer in a market will offer the most flexibility through both Ally — where the Fed owns (owned?) most of the stock — and long-standing ties to local banks.
Most people still have no idea what kind of risk they are taking buying a $50,000 truck on a 90 month loan from a manufacturer offering a three year warranty.
Weather here in the Olympic Peninsula is getting the first major storm of the season. The usual windy weather, with moderate rainfall. Outside (somewhere opposite Mutiny Bay, WA) now are winds at about 15mph, gusts to 25mph. Lots of leaves still on the trees, so a few small power outages already. Rain hasn’t started yet, but radar shows it close by.
So yesterday, did some initial preps for the storm. Ran the portable generator for 15 minutes – started up and ran smoothly, even though the last time it ran was last winter. Gas-powered, but the fuel has been treated with Stabil, so it’s still good. Oil level good, and relatively clean. So it’s ready.
And I know where all my FLASHLIGHTS are. Ready for possible outages. Food supplies OK (even “BMTP”). Amazon music playing through the Dot. And don’t have to go anywhere. My plan is to work on my latest web project while watching through my window overlooking the Sound, and the trees bend outside.
There’s a good demand for trucks – for all of those big RV trailers that people have bought since the cooties started. High increase in demand for RV’s, and seeing more on the road. All being pulled with F150’s or better. Even lots of Class C, which use the 350/450 class. Chip shortage reducing supply of trucks. Manufacturing delays of RVs, including quality control problems on new models due to labor shortage. An older (2-8 year) RV is going to have better quality than a new one.
Which turns the used RV’s into a seller’s market. Even now, after the end of the normal summer travel season, I still see lots of RVs on the road. Many with home-schooled children.
“Still waiting for two thirds of polar bears worldwide to disappear due to lack of summer sea ice”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/09/15/still-waiting-for-two-thirds-of-polar-bears-worldwide-to-disappear-due-to-lack-of-summer-sea-ice/
“It’s hard to believe that a polar bear specialist would claim that their predictions have come true, given the facts of the matter: that polar bears arguably number over 30,000 worldwide and regions with the most dramatic sea ice declines have not documented reduced polar bear health or survival. But in mid-July this year, Andrew Derocher – one of the field’s most vocal promoters – did just that: proclaimed on twitter that “virtually all of our predictions are coming true.” Except, none of them did, especially the most widely-promoted one, which failed spectacularly.”
Not a single climate doom prediction has come true that I know of. Not a single one !
https://extinctionclock.org/
I recently calculated the waste heat of the human race on the back on an envelope. We are all going to die from waste heat heating the Earth to the point where all of the water is vaporized (212 F, 100 C) is the latest theory. My calculation said that the waste heat of the human race is five orders of magnitude less than the amount of heat hitting the Earth from the Sun. In other words, insignificant.
There’s a good demand for trucks – for all of those big RV trailers that people have bought since the cooties started.
The V8s are an endangered species, and the market knows.
Municipalities buy the heavier trucks, with V8 engines and Allison (!) transmissions.
There’s a good demand for trucks – for all of those big RV trailers that people have bought since the cooties started. High increase in demand for RV’s, and seeing more on the road. All being pulled with F150’s or better. Even lots of Class C, which use the 350/450 class. Chip shortage reducing supply of trucks. Manufacturing delays of RVs, including quality control problems on new models due to labor shortage. An older (2-8 year) RV is going to have better quality than a new one.
Which turns the used RV’s into a seller’s market. Even now, after the end of the normal summer travel season, I still see lots of RVs on the road. Many with home-schooled children.
The only problem with RVs is that they are tornado magnets. And usually not insulated very well. That said, I would like to spend the summers in Montana in an RV, fly fishing occasionally.
There’s a good demand for trucks – for all of those big RV trailers that people have bought since the cooties started.
The V8s are an endangered species, and the market knows.
“Court Docs Suggest Repeat of Obama/Copenhagen, Biden EPA Plans to Spring Unprecedented “Back Door” Climate Rule, One Obama’s EPA Chief Called “Not Advisable”, in Glasgow”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/09/16/court-docs-suggest-repeat-of-obama-copenhagen-biden-epa-plans-to-spring-unprecedented-back-door-climate-rule-one-obamas-epa-chief-called-not-advisable-i/
Looks like O’Biden is getting ready to drop his $5/gallon CO2 tax on gasoline and diesel. That should go over well with the general populace.
I say $5/gallon CO2 tax because studies have proven that in order for a serious drop in hydrocarbon usage, gasoline and and diesel need to cost the consumer well over $6/gallon.
Same neighbor that was ok with the cheapest possible roof is now using the cheapest (well, shoddiest) tree trimmer to take down two giant oaks in the back yard. This is their second day and they are hacks. They managed to drop on limb into a crotch and made a widowmaker that is still there right now. They haven’t even addressed it. They are super slow too.
n
Actually, I think that only the single-wides (and maybe the double-wides) in trailer parks are ‘tornado magnets’.
Towable RV’s not so much – they are easier to get out of the area.
“The Mouse Sander And The Coffee Cup” by Sarah Hoyt
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/09/17/the-mouse-sander-and-the-coffee-cup/
Cute time travel short story.
I hope it clears up a little for our 19:40 departure from SEATAC. Flight should be OK, just the drive from Bridgeport. Rain can slow things down a lot.
So how does the CDC respond to this:
HUGE: Uttar Pradesh, India Announces State Is COVID-19 Free Proving the Effectiveness of “Deworming Drug” IVERMECTIN
Probably claim India is lying out the wazoo! I know I would want everything tRump and Joe Rogan took. Speaking of which, what is the standard hospital protocol for a COVID patient? Throw them on a respirator and come back in two weeks? I need to find me a reasonable Medicare doctor who will prescribe the tRump/Rogan protocol.
This is nuts:
Federal Court Ruling Just Made the Border Crisis Infinitely Worse
When the MZBs show up at the border, they just get to come in? Idiot judges.
Same neighbor that was ok with the cheapest possible roof is now using the cheapest (well, shoddiest) tree trimmer to take down two giant oaks in the back yard. This is their second day and they are hacks. They managed to drop on limb into a crotch and made a widowmaker that is still there right now. They haven’t even addressed it. They are super slow too.
The widowmaker is positioned above your property?
Yeah, I read that warning from GM. 50 feet? Who are they kidding? That basically means you can’t park it anywhere except in the middle of some farmer’s field.
Didn’t they just do a full recall of all Chevy Bolts? They should have just repossessed all of them, refunded the full purchase price, and been done with it. That would have cost them a lot less, in the long run, than continuing to rack up all this negative publicity.
On the other hand, this is GM we’re talking about. I know some of y’all like their trucks, but honestly, their quality has been crap for a long time. I decided back in 1981 or 1982 that I was done with American cars.
If GM recalled all the Bolts and turned them into scrap, they would have to recalculate their Corporate CAFE and buy more credits from Tesla. No go on that one.
“These scientists want to bring back the woolly mammoth. Ethicists aren’t so sure.”
https://www.chron.com/news/science-environment/article/Scientists-Woolly-Mammoth-Ethics-Cloning-16467170.php
“Could a behemoth similar to the one that roamed the Earth 4,000 years ago could be engineered?”
Bring on the velociraptors !
“Biles: FBI turned ‘blind eye’ to reports of gymnasts’ abuse”
https://www.chron.com/sports/article/Biles-Congress-FBI-Nassar-abuse-testify-court-16461419.php
“WASHINGTON (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles told Congress through tears Wednesday that the FBI and gymnastics officials turned a “blind eye” to USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of her and hundreds of other women.
Biles told the Senate Judiciary Committee that “enough is enough” as she and three other U.S. gymnasts spoke in stark emotional terms about the lasting toll Nassar’s crimes have taken on their lives.”
“McKayla Maroney, another gold medal winning gymnast, told senators that one night when she was 15 years old, she found the doctor on top of her while she was naked — one of many times she was abused. She said she thought she was going to die that evening.
Maroney said the FBI “minimized and disregarded” her after she reported Nassar and said the agency delayed the investigation as other gymnasts were abused.”
Not good. I would have that thought that the FBI would have jumped on these allegations with hob nailed boots. Instead, they wasted their time investigating fake reports on Trump.
If you think that the swamp is going to protect you, good luck cause it is not going to happen. This shows that the rot in the FBI goes all the way down the front line troops.
I hope it clears up a little for our 19:40 departure from SEATAC. Flight should be OK, just the drive from Bridgeport. Rain can slow things down a lot.
Bridgeport to SeaTac. Hitting Seattle after 3PM? Yikes!
If you are able to get out and arrive down in the SeaTac area early, I used to eat at Mi Chalateca in Federal Way about once a week when I lived in the in-laws no-tell motel across the street. Cheap for Seattle. Picky eaters are safe with the Pollo Asado, but I ordered that because I liked it.
Wave at my inlaws from the window. From what I understand, the aunt has kidney failure, but we don’t get involved there since we left.
Salvadoran is closer to Cuban than Mexican. The restaurant was as close as I could get to decent Cuban in the Pacific Northwest.
If you are pressed for time, anything in Issaquah off I-90 is safe for quick food pickup … including the flagship Costco!
I’d recommend the Rogue in Issaquah, but my guess is that their dining room is closed.
“FDA panel votes against Pfizer’s booster shot”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fda-panel-votes-against-pfizers-booster-shot-193422705.html
“A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted Friday against approval of Pfizer (PFE)/BioNTech’s (BNTX) third dose for the U.S.
The vote comes after a heated debate in recent weeks over the need for booster or additional shots, which both mRNA companies — Pfizer and Moderna (MRNA) — have advocated for.
Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA’s leading expert on vaccines, touched on the controversy in his introductory remarks.
“We know that there may be differing opinions of the interpretation of the data regarding the potential need for additional doses, and we strongly encourage all the different viewpoints to be voiced and discussed regarding the data, which is complex, and evolving,” Marks said.
He added the meeting focused on almost real-time analyses compared to what is happening in the world, and the goal remains slowing the spread of COVID-19, which is killing almost 2,000 Americans daily.”
Looks like the science is not settled yet.
And there is a difference between dying with covid and dying because of covid. But the stats do not reflect that. They just give the stat of those dying with covid IMHO.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
And the CDC excess deaths are rising but not skyrocketing.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Looks like the science is not settled yet.
The VA is out of Pfizer, and vials of the trade name for the vaccine would go unobtainium the moment the third shot was approved.
If you want a booster, then go get one. Nobody is tracking this crap. Just find a shot clinic that’s using Pfizer or Moderna, walk in and act like you’ve never had the vaccine before. They’ll shoot you up and you’ll have your mRNA booster. A million plus people have already done it.
I had an ’85 Chevy Cavalier. It was a good set of wheels. The various kids have an assortment of Chevy and GMC pick-ups and ‘burbans. They like them, have had no problems.
My 2002 Dodge, well. It has a rebuilt engine. It showed 240,000+ before I had to replace the instrument cluster. The previous owner put a lot of money into the truck and when the heater core went said screw it. So I have various water leaks and the a/c needed work. Finally fixed all of the coolant leaks and cylinder #2 decides to pop the head gasket. Just out of engine warranty time.
Yeah, a grand for the truck plus various repairs and wait a minute, now I’m suppose to drop eight grand for a new engine? I didn’t sign up for a $13,000 truck. And sure as whatever, a few months after a new engine the tranny will spray parts on the highway. Good bye truck.
Buying a new Dodge? Yeah, no. For that kind of money I can buy some land, move a single wide on and become a slum lord.
The Chevy Colorado gets good reviews. So I looked. Does not fit. But that Nissan Frontier over there…. is nice. It fits. I haven’t found much in the way of bad reviews. It has all of 24,000 miles on it. 4WD. Loaded but for the trim package that adds a moon roof, leather, and power seats left and right. Looks nice sitting in the shed.
The only problem with RVs is that they are tornado magnets.
Actually, I think that only the single-wides (and maybe the double-wides) in trailer parks are ‘tornado magnets’.
Towable RV’s not so much – they are easier to get out of the area.
I’ve got an RV park with 100 towable RVs and 100 self propelled RVs in it about a half mile away from the office. I would guess that half of each are not movable. During hurricane Harvey, there was three foot of water from the Brazos River in the RV Park, many RVs were totaled. They found a whole bunch more of broken up old RVs to replace them with.
https://www.google.com/maps/@29.5424879,-95.6455437,392m/data=!3m1!1e3
One of these days, I am going over there for a $8 burger at their burger shop, The Flying Cow. My friends say that the burger are “real good”.
https://www.theflyingcow.us/
The problem is light weight construction (flimsy) and they are not anchored to the ground. Easy prey for a tornado.
“Biden Shuffles Away, Ignores Reporters After Claiming His $3.5 Trillion “Infrastructure” Bill Would End Inflation and Extreme Weather (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/biden-shuffles-away-ignores-reporters-claiming-3-5-trillion-infrastructure-bill-end-inflation-extreme-weather-video/
“Joe Biden on Thursday delivered remarks on the crappy economy under his presidency.
Biden admitted life sucks under his presidency because of inflation, rising gas prices and unconstitutional Covid mandates.
Biden shuffled away from the lectern after absurdly claiming his $3.5 trillion “infrastructure” bill would end inflation.
Joe Biden also claimed his infrastructure bill, which has nothing to do with infrastructure, will also end extreme weather.”
How do you tell if a politician is lying ? His lips are moving.
One of these days, I am going over there for a $8 burger at their burger shop, The Flying Cow. My friends say that the burger are “real good”.
I’m not sure a trailer park should have a restaurant called The Flying Cow, evocative of images from “Twister”.
The “Twister” attraction at Universal Orlando just closed within the last decade.
How do you tell a politician is lying?
How do you tell a politician HE is lying?
…if he walks away. Serious question.
What if Plugs is just pretending senility to attempt to distract from his egregious agenda? Possible.
If true, Oscar material: writers, director, producer, and of course best actor in a serious role.
Oh wait… I just woke up from a dream. 😕
What if Plugs is just pretending senility to attempt to distract from his egregious agenda? Possible.
There was a SNL sketch like that about Reagan during the second “classic” era of the show. Phil Hartman was Reagan.
The sketch I mentioned. The original cast gets the press, but 86-93 was consistently decent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5wfPlgKFh8
I have what I think is a minor cold. Coughing, sore throat, that is all. I have been informed by the school administration that I need a negative COVID test before I can return.
My primary care physician’s office does the test. Two possible tests. One is quick but if it says negative the second test that requires a lab is required. A positive result on the quick test and no further testing is needed.
Doctor came out, (tests are done outside the office) checked my temperature, checked my lungs, checked my throat. Says he doesn’t think I have COVID. But does the nasal swab anyway as school needs a piece of paper.
In some small way I hope I am positive. If this as bad as it gets, good excuse to stay away from people for 10 days.
So much for that tiny bit of income. Get in the truck and drag that trailer across the USA. More fun than taking cellphones away from a-hole kids.
It’s like a vision of the promised land!
o/~ The Rio Grande is deep and wide, milk and honey on the other side… o/~
In some small way I hope I am positive. If this as bad as it gets, good excuse to stay away from people for 10 days.
Another reason is that you will have 27 times the resistance that the vax confers, and no further side effects.
Whoa, we are going to sell nuclear powered submarines to Australia. I wonder if O’Biden knows of this and will change the submarines to be solar powered ? “France, still mad about that submarine deal, just recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/france-recalls-ambassadors-to-us-australia-to-protest-submarine-deal.html
“President Biden this week unveiled the formation of a new partnership between the U.S., Australia and the U.K. that includes nuclear-powered submarines for Australia.”
“The U.S. and the U.K. agreed Wednesday to assist Canberra in acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, which will allow Australia’s navy to help counter Chinese nuclear-powered vessels in the region.”
Too many doctor appointments and therapy sessions for both me and the spousal unit. Mine for the knee, hers for her heart. The cardiologist is not taking any chances and the care seems fairly thorough.
I am not so sure. I really like the ones that beg saying it is their second time and now they have to go to alternative school for three days. Sorry, but “you made the choice, you got caught, welcome to adulting. Give me the phone or go to the office”. I guess they really think they can pull a sneaky one on the old fart substitute. I really don’t understand the seniors who have experienced my methods for three years, and still don’t learn. Sexist maybe, but data supports my theory. Females are the worst. The need to gossip, snipe on others, is stronger than the “force”.
A year or so ago, when it became obvious that “fifteen days to slow the spread” was a lie and as several of my coworkers were getting antsy about staying home all the time and not interacting with each other and the clients and were just going stir-crazy from being by themselves, I pointed out that they were living the flip side of what I’d had to put up since I started with this company. “Open plan” office with people babbling all day long. Work-related conversations were seldom a problem, but there was a babbling-beacuse-I-don’t-feel-like-working conversation going on at all times, often more than one. When I suggested that they take their non-work babbling elsewhere, I got bitched at for not being a team player, that this is the environment we’re in and I just needed to deal with it, that I needed to be more like the extroverts who were more comfortable with talking than with working.*
Once people had to be by themselves or with their families all day, the extroverts were really really suffering. “Suck it, losers,” is what I had to say to them. “This is the environment we’re in. You need to be more like me.” Amusingly, I got bitched at because I wasn’t sympathetic to their suffering. You may be surprised to learn that the CEO and every one of the department heads** is an extrovert who sure spends a lot of time talking.
* Note that when I joined the company, I was employee #15 and that usually under ten people were in the office. Not a problem. But as the company grew and the space did not, there were generally a dozen and a half people in the open area, a third to a half of whom were talking at any moment. Yes, I counted and took notes.
** Even when the “department” has only one person. I didn’t realize it at first, but there’s a lot of making sure that the friends of the CEO (or the wife of a friend of the CEO) get well paid.
Yeah. The booster might up your chance of not getting COVID in the first place, but without it you still are very unlikely to get hospitalized. And for teenage boys, there is the risk of myocarditis. The risk with initial vaccination is less than getting it from COVID, but since teens are at little risk of serious COVID if vaccinated, there’s no reason to risk the side effect.
The CDC has done a deep dive into the data and has tried to separate out the two situations by reviewing last year’s submissions. It would take a review of all the medical records to get a really definitive answer.
I’ve watched that with my sons and now my daughter, as well as other teens here and there. They do X and then Y happens 90% of the time. Even a hamster is smart enough to learn from that pattern, but not teens. I’ve read about how the brain doesn’t finish developing until age 23 or so, but that’s just plain stoopid.
It’s one of the biggest flaws in most fiction which contains teens or younger kids. They don’t act like kids and if the viewpoint is such that we see inside their heads, they don’t think like kids. They’re usually short 40-year-olds who have a lot of experience and have picked up a lot of knowledge here and there. It’s not just amateur authors doing this, either.
September 17, 2021
One reason for the push for COVID vaccination may be to eliminate a potential control group
By Peter Skurkiss
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/09/one_reason_for_the_push_for_covid_vaccination_may_be_to_eliminate_a_possible_control_group.html
September 17, 2021
Why is COVID Natural Immunity Being Ignored?
By Brian C.Joondeph, MD
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/09/why_is_covid_natural_immunity_being_ignored.html
The CDC has no credibility left.
The doesn’t mean that everything they say is a lie. “Even a blind pig…”
We bought a copy of Twister last month. I got to wanting to watch it, thought we owned the DVD, but couldn’t find it. It is still a good, fun movie. Love the storms!!!!
I’ve had a sore throat, runny nose, cough, misery, for the past week. I knew it was not COVID, but had a Dr appt for bloodwork already set up. They took blood in the parking lot, then sent me around to their Covid-testing-area, where they came out in hazmat and took swabs for a “respiratory panel”.
The verdict? Rhinovirus. Yep, Ye Olde Common Colde. LOLOL
It made me happy, partly because I don’t know how I caught it (I still mask, and we are hermits), so it indicates that life (and sniffles) really are getting back to normal.
I misread that as “fifteen years or so ago, when …..” LOLOL It seems like 15 years doesn’t it?
Why? Because those children live with adults. Because those children can spread it to them.
And the side effects are less serious than getting COVID. The most serious side effect, myocarditis, has a lower incidence among the vaccinated than in COVID cases, and the myocarditis is less severe than in COVID cases.
That’s clever naming. I’d giggle each time I saw the sign.
But, I also like “Dad Jokes”.
Oops, sorry, our bad…
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/politics/kabul-drone-strike-us-military-intl-hnk/index.html
Who will be held responsible?
ADDED
“We didn’t take the strike because we thought we were wrong — we took the strike because we thought we had a good target,” McKenzie said. While he acknowledged that the strike “was a terrible mistake,” he said he would “not qualify the entire operation” as a failure.
Asked by a reporter to explain how the “complete and utter failure” could have occurred, McKenzie said, “While I agree that this strike certainly did not come up to our standards and I profoundly regret it, I would not qualify the entire operation in those terms.”
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?
Seems in one part of Florida (where else?) having a sore back may be contagious.
A Florida chiropractor signed hundreds of mask exemption forms for students.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/16/us/florida-chiropractor-mask-exemption/index.html
“Why? Because those children live with adults. Because those children can spread it to them.”
Unless the adults are vaccinated… oh., yeah, that’s right… new definition of vaccination.
Or unless the adults have had ChiFlu… oh, yeah, that’s right… we’re supposed to follow Fauci (top contender for the Joseph Mengele Memorial Award) and deny that such a thing exists.
“And the side effects are less serious than getting COVID.”
repost from 10 Sept
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/09/universal-vaccines-nope.php
liars cherry pick:
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/09/what_the_new_cdc_report_on_unvaccinated_left_out.html
I’ll take that under advisement. Has it ever been proved? That is, by a reputable organization, not the CDC?
I’ll take that under advisement. In fact, in the case of under-18s, I’ll rate that claim as deserving the uncoveted Pants On Fire award.
Well, home, fed, girls are out of the house and on their way to camp. All the girls and their moms loved little Zeus. I thought I was gonna have to fight to keep him.
Did my pickups. Got another portable A/C unit, the kind that rolls from room to room. I’ve got two of them now and four window units. Despite my huge bill at my secondary, the A/C doesn’t actually get it cold. A couple of portables should! Or one or more could cool my garage to icy… or they can keep the house cool if the A/C craps out and there are supply chain issues.
In Houston, I consider having backup to keep cool as important as most people consider backups for winter heat. I feel pretty well covered now. Being that it’s hot, prices have been crazy high, but this one had a visible crack in one of the outlet fittings. Happens that I have both epoxy and a replacement for the fitting…. paid less than $70, so if it runs, I stole it. I’ll test it tomorrow.
Scored a bunch of high tech fasteners too. Like drywall screws but approved for structural use. They are crazy expensive in the store. Not so in the auction where they just look like a partial box of drywall screws. I used a bunch in my bathroom/closet remodel and will use more when the project restarts. Nice to get them cheaply.
Also grabbed a ’tile niche’ blank for the eventual bathroom project.
A bunch of CB and possible ham antennas rounded out one pickup.
I did have to sit in stopped traffic for most of an hour while the contents of a garbage truck burned on the tollroad, blocking all the lanes. That was a WTF? moment when I figured out the truck and the pile…
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Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in India, 240 million people with a vax rate of 5.4%, has an effective KungFlu rate of zero:
https://ussanews.com/News1/2021/09/17/uttar-pradesh-india-announces-state-is-covid-19-free-proving-the-effectiveness-of-ivermectin-the-horse-drug-democrats-mocked-and-lied-about/
Must be the masks.
And plugs walks out the back door to the beach. He is despicable.
from AoS today:
Looking forward to college football tomorrow.
Hope my new
FJB
jersey gets delivered early so I can show my support.
There’s a good demand for trucks – for all of those big RV trailers that people have bought since the cooties started.
The V8s are an endangered species, and the market knows.
Don’t tell Ford ! “Return of the Big Block: 2020 Ford F-250 Super Duty 7.3 Gas V-8”, “Ford’s 7.3-liter truck engine is back, and this time it’s a gas.”
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a34184515/2020-ford-f-250-super-duty-7-3-liter-v-8-drive/
“This is deliberate. Ford could’ve designed its new big-bore gasoline truck engine to any size it wanted, but it chose to give each cylinder a 4.22-inch bore and a 3.98-inch stroke. Cylinder volume multiplied by eight gives you 445 cubic inches of displacement or, more to the point, 7.3 liters. Which happens to be the displacement of Ford’s first direct-injected and turbocharged diesel V-8, the filthy and indestructible 7.3 Powerstroke from the 1990s and early 2000s. Those torque ogres were basically Navistar bus engines that laughed sooty smoke rings at the burdens presented by mere pickup trucks. Plenty of them racked up round-trip-to-the-moon mileage, and the phrase “seven point three” remains an incantation that fills F-series Super Duty fans with the warm and fuzzies. Ford is sorry not sorry if truck buyers develop a deep and inexplicable belief that its new V-8 is similarly immortal. You know, another eight cubic centimeters per cylinder and it would’ve been a 7.4. But it’s not.”
“This new pushrod 7.3-liter V-8 replaces Ford’s overhead-cam 6.8-liter V-10, an engine that sounded like a sick hippo and was even less fun to be around. With a 90-degree V, a forged steel crank, a cast-iron block, and aluminum heads, the 7.3 isn’t exactly a radical design. But it does embrace hot-rodding best practices. Check out those exhaust manifolds, which look an awful lot like headers. On the intake side, you can see straight into the air filter, above our F-250 example’s passenger-side headlight, and from there it’s a short trip to the bundle-of-snakes intake manifold. This thing looks like it’s got a healthy set of lungs, an impression confirmed by a surprisingly zingy (for a gigantic truck engine) 5800-rpm fuel cutoff. Horsepower is 430 at 5500 rpm, with 475 pound-feet of torque cresting at 4000 rpm.”
I can hear Tim the Toolman crowing now !
The RV manufacturers have been screaming for a big block V8 from Ford for years.
https://www.gulfstreamcoach.com/blog/the-new-ford-7-3l-v8-is-here-and-gulf-stream-coach-motor-homes-have-it/
https://spectator.org/a-china-story-bob-woodward-chose-not-to-tell/
Good thing FJB doesn’t have to go through middlemen for help.
Don’t tell Ford ! “Return of the Big Block: 2020 Ford F-250 Super Duty 7.3 Gas V-8”, “Ford’s 7.3-liter truck engine is back, and this time it’s a gas.”
The RV manufacturers have been screaming for a big block V8 from Ford for years.
That engine was ready for production in early 2019, around the same time I grabbed pics of the Crown Vic prototype rolling around in Chicago, but, as Impeachment moved forward, Ford got nervous about the 2020 election and CAFE, cancelling the new Crown Vic and delaying the big V8 for the trucks.
Fast forward two years, and Biden still hasn’t issued a consistent message about CAFE. I guess Ford decided to roll the dice.
Don’t tell Ford ! “Return of the Big Block: 2020 Ford F-250 Super Duty 7.3 Gas V-8”, “Ford’s 7.3-liter truck engine is back, and this time it’s a gas.”
The RV manufacturers have been screaming for a big block V8 from Ford for years.
That engine was ready for production in early 2019, around the same time I grabbed pics of the Crown Vic prototype rolling around in Chicago, but, as Impeachment moved forward, Ford got nervous about the 2020 election and CAFE, cancelling the new Crown Vic and delaying the big V8 for the trucks.
Fast forward two years, and Biden still hasn’t issued a consistent message about CAFE. I guess Ford decided to roll the dice.
Nah, Ford killed the old V10 motor with the new V8. I suspect that the ecoboost V6 was a total gas pig in the RVs and was on the boost all the time.
And O’Biden is going to announce massive CO2 taxes in October. Massive. $5/gallon range for gasoline and diesel. From above:
“Court Docs Suggest Repeat of Obama/Copenhagen, Biden EPA Plans to Spring Unprecedented “Back Door” Climate Rule, One Obama’s EPA Chief Called “Not Advisable”, in Glasgow”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/09/16/court-docs-suggest-repeat-of-obama-copenhagen-biden-epa-plans-to-spring-unprecedented-back-door-climate-rule-one-obamas-epa-chief-called-not-advisable-i/
Looks like O’Biden is getting ready to drop his $5/gallon CO2 tax on gasoline and diesel. That should go over well with the general populace.
I say $5/gallon CO2 tax because studies have proven that in order for a serious drop in hydrocarbon usage, gasoline and and diesel need to cost the consumer well over $6/gallon.
Seems in one part of Florida (where else?) having a sore back may be contagious.
A Florida chiropractor signed hundreds of mask exemption forms for students.
West Coast. Sarasota. East Coast, in Dade/Broward/Palm Beach, it would be a podiatrist signing mask exemptions. Foot problems.
Florida’s case counts this week are half of what they were in July and continuing a downward trend so the media is stretching to make DeSantis look bad.
And O’Biden is going to announce massive CO2 taxes in October. Massive. $5/gallon range for gasoline and diesel.
Please let it happen before Florida-Georgia on October 30.
“F*ck Joe Biden …”
“A.F. Branco Cartoon – Operation Super-Spreader”
https://comicallyincorrect.com/a-f-branco-cartoon-operation-superspreader/
“Democrat strategy is to move illegal immigrants to red states so as to change the voter demography. political cartoon by A.F. Branco.”
And a lot of the illegals are sick also.
This. Now that I have to head into the office semi-normally, a neighbor asked me how I had found the past 18 months. My answer: “like winning the lottery.” the extroverts still don’t get it.