Cooler, and damp, but should be clear. It might even warm up a bit later. It was pretty nice until about 4 pm yesterday, when some moisture from the sky started hitting me in the face. I think today will be even nicer.
I did get to storage yesterday and did move some stuff out of the house. Spent some time sorting there. When the rain started, I wrapped that up and went to get the kids. Their rehearsal went longer than previous days, so it didn’t limit my afternoon much.
Today will be more of the same. I’ll try to get some stuff done around the house, and then head to storage to do more sorting. Stuff I can pull out for the “collectibles” auction will make room in the unit, and provide some cash flow.
Bigger picture I need to get serious about the garden, and really soon. I’ve got some trees to buy and plant too. Here I’d like to plant two more apple trees, to replace the citrus I lost in the freeze. Needs to be two, because I can’t remember which variety I still have, and they need to be different for pollination. If I get one from each group, I’ll have the pair set, and one or the other is bound to be the complement to the surviving one. I’m done with trying to keep citrus alive, unless it’s in pots and can move indoors.
I’ve also got to do some landscaping and yard work, to include repairs to the freeze damaged sprinklers here. Then I need to do sprinklers at the BOL. And gardening. And trees. Oh, and having the dead trees cut down… It’s a big list.
About this time, I’m sure my rental house will need some work or repair too. Because that’s how it works…
No complaints though, it’s a good life. It can take it out of you though.
Hard to stack up time, but using money to have someone else do the work effectively increases your time. The trick is having the money, and FINDING the someone else. When you find good someone elses, you stack them high!
So stack some good helpers. They are literally a force multiplier.
nick
When it comes to the Joetato, the P is replaced by *.
Well there’s your mistake right there. When it comes to teenage daughters, I think that the only reasonable thing to do is trade them in on a dog. You like dogs, right?
Case precedent probably exists defining “General Welfare”.
Helvering v. Davis established Social Security as part of “General Welfare”, but Fleming v. Nestor upheld the Constitutionality of Congress setting the payouts to individuals, including zero if they decide to do so.
Thank Florida Dems for dredging all this stuff up in the 90s as they fought losing their power and took one last stand to keep the Governor’s Mansion and, thus, the Supreme Court heading into the 2000 redistricting. The party used telemarketing boiler room operations to scare the oldsters into voting for Lawton Chiles over Jeb! in 1994 on the premise that the Bush family’s scheme to put one of the sons into the White House was part of a secret plan hatched by Prescott Bush to wipe out Social Security.
Lawton Chiles won, but, long term, FL Dems lost power. All they managed to do with the dirty tricks was switch out which Bush brother became President in 2000.
No more free cereal for you!
Things must be serious at Facecrack if the CIA’s German media division is reprinting quotes reported by Pinch’s Brood sourced from online sources such as the YouTube vloggers, where I saw this stuff first yesterday afternoon.
“They’re saying it’s ‘Hunger Games’ meets ‘Lord of the Flies,’ where everyone is trying to prove their worth to management.”
Soy Boys vs. Girl Bosses vs. the small percentage of employees who actually do any work. It has been a long time coming.
Twitter seems to be doing ok with far fewer people.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-facebook-employees-complain-perks-food-options-cost-cuts-report-2023-4
Cool and clear so far this morning. Coffee is brewing and the world is still there…
n
Bud Light’s parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev has lost more than $6 BILLION in market cap in just six days after Dylan Mulvaney partnership sparked backlash
– whoddathunkit? Drinkers of mid range beer don’t like to be associated with ‘teh ghay’ which is what trans looks like to most people. Imagine that.
n
– I see the “11 million followers” and I get why someone might want to get that exposure, but FFS, tying your brand to satan or the austrian house painter would probably do less damage…
n
Satan’s Brew: So smooth, it’s like going down a slippery slope.
Hmm, if I was a click farmer, I wouldn’t hesitate to post this, but, well, don’t know if I need the distraction. It is an example of why I don’t like Branca. This from his post on the decision in TX to find Sgt Perry guilty. Contrast this with Branca’s comments (and those of others that he would like to consider “his people”) about the workplace accident on the set of Rust…
– seems a bit, idk, hypocritical to me.
n
– NOW can we call the top on woke?
n
I know! Beau was killed during the Great Irish Potato Famine War defending great-great-grandpa’s taters.
Beau…Beau…Beau…
I doubt anyone in the throes of passion is worried about the color of the dick. Case in point; a hot pink dildo.
Why is “womanface” acceptable but “blackface” is not”?
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/womanface-is-the-new-blackface
The guest speaker at the conference my wife attended in Orlando on the last morning was one of the Navy Physicians who take care of Biden, having been part of the team since the One Observatory Circle days starting in 2009. The doctor probably went a little too far off the reservation in his talk, but one of the key takeaways was that the Beau obsession goes way deeper than even what we joke about here.
Beau was supposed to run for President, and when he died, Corn Pop felt he had to do it to honor the son’s memory. At least, that’s what he told his doctors who advising him against running.
Again, I gotta wonder how far off the reservation the doctor went, but that may have been intentional.
Dolf’s Doppelbock. One mug and you’ll be poking the bear.
Dolfbrew: Two isn’t enough. You need a third reich now.
So, am I missing something or did “electronic propulsion” for spacecraft go from “It can’t work, it must be a scam” to “such a system…should be able to display orbital agility via a propulsion system… Electric propulsion may consume as much as 15 watts of power.” become a mission requirement in less than 10 years??
Electric propulsion is the ionic thruster, right?
n
Bah. Typo. Too many things going on this morning.
@Nick – I think you might be thinking of a reactionless drive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive
Ion drives have been used before.
The medical associations have been warning students and residents about not being photographed in “drag” due to what they see as long term consequences being similar to what happened with the KKKlansman Governor in Virginia, who, interestingly had the photograph appear in his med school yearbook on the page amusingly titled “Ralph ‘Coonman’ Northam”.
The picture is online if you care to search. It is left to the viewer to decide who is the future governor in the image, but my money is on the person in the Klan robes.
Maybe he aspired to be Grand Kleagle, like Robert Byrd.
Back in my school days, I understood that to be the preamble, explaining the intent of the document. Everything that follows is the definition. Hence, it’s not open-ended at all…
There’s also a theory that a reaction less drive may be possible. It uses microwaves in a resonant cavity. Pournelle’s wrote about it, I think, saying that proof in a vacuum chamber ought to be possible, but somehow never was.
I think these guys have now launched a satellite. Measuring the supposedly tiny thrust up in orbit will be…difficult, given atmospheric drag and other factors. I suspect shenanigans.
Crone Ginsberg, Pelosi and half of Congress, Dumbocrats and Redumblicans alike. They just won’t give up the power:
California Senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, asks to be temporarily REPLACED after fellow Democrats called for her to resign over month-long medical absence
Mostly rich, in your 80’s and that’s the life you want? Term limits are necessary. Temporarily replaced? Is that even a thing?
How about dying with some dignity instead of being rolled around on a gurney a half dead, mummified, corpse.
I’d like to see a freeze on salary and benefit increases until the budget is balanced and Social Security is solvent again.
It will NEVER happen, of course.
I could balance the budget. Give me a dizen budget axes, a dozen personnel axes, six full-time axe sharpeners (temps for six months), and a good supply of coffee and pizza.
And, yeah, lots of deadwood bags.
Interview Day at EPA:
“Do you know thermo?”
Whack.
“Next!”
@Nick – I think you might be thinking of a reactionless drive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive
Ion drives have been used before.
–yep, that must be it. Thanks!
n
From the same magazine, I was going to share this a couple of months ago when I first saw the ad..
https://digital.militaryaerospace.com/militaryaerospace/202303/MobilePagedReplica.action?pm=2&folio=C2#pg2
Look at the wearable computer featured on the left hand page. F me that’s a lot of capability in a small box.
n
I know what I want for my birthday. A “Sightmark Wraith 4K Mini Digital Night Vision Riflescope”.
https://www.amazon.com/Sightmark-Wraith-Digital-Vision-Riflescope/dp/B0B3MSSTFX?tag=ttgnet-20
Surely she will think that this is cool also, right ?
Crone Ginsberg, Pelosi and half of Congress, Dumbocrats and Redumblicans alike. They just won’t give up the power:
California Senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, asks to be temporarily REPLACED after fellow Democrats called for her to resign over month-long medical absence
Mostly rich, in your 80’s and that’s the life you want? Term limits are necessary. Temporarily replaced? Is that even a thing?
How about dying with some dignity instead of being rolled around on a gurney a half dead, mummified, corpse.
She can’t vote in the Senate from California. I vote she stays in office but with home rest for a year or two.
“State of emergency declared in Fort Lauderdale as heavy rain drenches South Florida”
https://www.accuweather.com/en/severe-weather/state-of-emergency-declared-in-fort-lauderdale-as-heavy-rain-drenches-south-florida/1511926
“An epic deluge with over 25 inches of rain hit the Fort Lauderdale area on Wednesday, forcing a closure of the Fort Lauderdale Airport and leaving many parts of the region underwater.”
Wow, what a mess ! Looks just like Harvey did here five years ago.
Apparently the planes are having trouble landing in three feet of water.
Hat tip to:
https://drudgereport.com/
“Ex-wife of murdered Cash App founder Bob Lee says arrest of fellow tech exec who he KNEW is the ‘first step towards justice’ – but has no idea what motive was for stabbing attack”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11969477/San-Francisco-police-arrest-fellow-tech-exec-murder-Cash-App-founder-Bob-Lee.html
So it was not one of SF’s homeless who murdered Bob Lee but a fellow tech worker that he was driving around with. That actually may get the murderer charged and imprisoned in the wild west city of San Fran.
And
https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob-lee-killing-arrest-made-san-francisco/
and
https://www.tmz.com/2023/04/13/cash-app-bob-lee-murder-suspect-arrested-tech-executive/
@Lynn
I take it your marksmanship in the dark is not as good as it once was?
No one’s marksmanship in the dark is as good as it was…
n
Fort Lauderdale is a piece of poorly drained swamp land. A minor tropical storm floods the streets.
On the upside, the water runs off pretty quickly and people down there know how to deal with it.
Broward County is a mess politically, but it isn’t New Orleans.
The Dems are currently down three Senators who can be on the floor quickly since Blumenthal hurt himself at a victory parade for UConn.
Kamala can break ties if they are down only two, but a VP vote would be deadlocked if Kamala suddenly moved up.
Being three Senators down leaves the Republicans deciding a VP without Mittens doing something stupid.
–first McD’s now a chunk of BK, all the Church’s Chickens around me closed, and the Sonics left too.
n
Riiiiiiiiiiight.
—
I held back from taking care of the chicks since yesterday morning, mostly because I was away from the house for most of the day. As expected, none of them had any water and the week-old chicks didn’t have any food, either. They were ailing. Not sure what to do. It’s obvious that no one else will be doing the daily work, so should I let them all die? I hate to do that but I’m sick of the crap.
Find them a new home? Make one last ultimatum then stop?
n
Wizard Of Id: Historical Society
https://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2023/04/13
I doubt many medieval soldiers can read.
Not where they are.
Marksmanship in the dark is not easy*.
Reading is more difficult.
*You thought I was going to say “hard”, didn’t you?
Back when I investigated raising my own chickens, I came across this piece of advice. I’ve googled, but I can’t find the original quote, so no source for you.
“All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, 1)” by Martha Wells
https://www.amazon.com/All-Systems-Red-Murderbot-Diaries/dp/1250214718?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number one of a seven book series of science fiction novellas. I read the well printed and well bound hardcover published by Tor in 2017 that I bought new from Amazon. I purchased the hardcover since it was cheaper than the trade paperback. This novella won the 2018 Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus awards. I have ordered the next three books in the series.
Murderbot is a secunit, a cloned genderless human upgraded with replaceable trunk, arms, and legs using it’s external autosurgeon cabinet. All of the major arteries and veins have clamps to stop bleeding in case of damage. There is a medsystem computer with an AI, a hubunit computer with an AI, and a governor module that can force the secunit to follow orders using pain sensors in the brain. It has a energy gun in each arm and several cameras, all directly wired to the brain. The secunit can sustain severe damage to everything but the head and still survive.
Murderbot is a self named secunit due to an unfortunate circumstance with 57 miners on a remote moon. It has hacked its governor and no longer allows the governor to give it orders or inflict pain. It prefers to internally watch its 35,000 hours of downloaded episodes of “Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon”. Even though it has a face, it does not like to interface with humans, yes, very introverted. It will follow human orders if necessary as it is owned by an interstellar corporation who leases it out.
Warning: The violence is graphic and extreme. And this is a series of novellas, not regular length books so the price is quite high to acquire all seven books.
The author has a website at:
https://www.marthawells.com/
My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (38,313 reviews)
That‘s why I sit.
–first McD’s now a chunk of BK, all the Church’s Chickens around me closed, and the Sonics left too.
n
Uh, this is a sign. It is up to you to take it or not. Note, it is not a good sign.
>> (from yesterday) As we get closer to the day they have to do that cut, the politicians (mostly Dems, since the stupid party has talked about SS reform for a long time) will wake up and do something.
Whether it’s a good thing, like modest delays in benefits, slight tax increases, and some sort of reduction in benefits for people with high non-SS incomes, or a bad thing like means testing (Own a house? No SS for you!) or drastic race-based reductions for married white people, remains to be seen. But politicians being politicians, they’ll do something.
All of this presupposes that the US government and economy will continue to exist in the future. Which was never guaranteed, even back when we had more-or-less free and fair elections.
Every politician representing a state/district with any substantive senior population will want to remain in office (they’re entitled to lifetime employment, right? I mean, come on, DF is “only” 89,) and will do everything possible to ‘kick the can down the road’ yet again.
The one thing I could see getting traction (ignoring for this comment any possible needs for bi-partisan support) is a removal of the yearly cap on FICA withholding.
“…even back when we had more-or-less free and fair elections…” Uhh, how far back are you willing to go??
The one thing I could see getting traction (ignoring for this comment any possible needs for bi-partisan support) is a removal of the yearly cap on FICA withholding.
And adding FICA to Capital Gains. The Medicare tax is already added to Capital Gains above a certain dollar amount. If I sell my office complex, I will probably be pushed into the Medicare tax on it.
>> (from yesterday) re: speedloaders
I can hide my Charter Arms .38 Undercover snubbie inside the waistband, either appendix or 4:00, but the little 5 shot speedloader goes in my pocket. Most belt pouches like the one Lynn linked seem to shout “I have a gub!” , especially in tactical nylon. May as well carry your gub in a belt holster.
I am resigned to “5 shots and done”. Not happy about it, but it’s better than being unarmed.
A little searching turned up a few ‘combo’ revolver holsters.
Here’s one for example: https://www.madcityoutdoor.com/products/galco-walkabout-for-revolvers?variant=39996520628260
They’ll raise the monthly SS payout to $1M per week, and it will buy you a hamburger if you’re lucky.
Maybe the cartels will issue currency, backed by their GDP and land… soldiers and the ability to impose your will on others seems to be the basis of fiat money anyway…
n
Some hosting issues earlier; appear to have cleared up.
Here.
The idea is that the police can fire the GPS tracker which will stick to the vehicle, and they can break off the pursuit and follow the GPS device at their leisure. However, the people in the car would almost certainly hear the device hit the car. Once the cops have stopped pursuing them, the people in the car could stop and remove or destroy the GPS tracker, so perhaps it’s not all that certain to lead to the capture of the fugitives.
I left the Delta II Launch Vehicle Propulsion Group 20 years ago. We launched the GPS and Iridium satellites. Back then, I never heard those terms of Electric Propulsion and Iconic Thruster. I still had not heard of them until the last few days on this forum. Shall I ask Greta Thuneberg, AOC, Pelosi or Newscum?
The one thing I could see getting traction (ignoring for this comment any possible needs for bi-partisan support) is a removal of the yearly cap on FICA withholding.
And adding FICA to Capital Gains. The Medicare tax is already added to Capital Gains above a certain dollar amount. If I sell my office complex, I will probably be pushed into the Medicare tax on it.
Yup, if married you pay Medicare tax (3.8%) on any capital gain above $250,000 in a year. Less if single. No dollar averaging over multiple years.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/net-investment-income-tax
Hence the “more-or-less”.
I grew up in Illinois, so fixed elections was a common thing. We got used to it for statewide offices, but we considered the 1960 fix to be an aberration. We did believe that the local races were probably fair, but any office that included voting in Cook county was probably rigged. So the cheating for Kennedy vs. Nixon shouldn’t really have surprised us, but what do I know, I was 6 years old at the time and can claim naivety.
At this point, I figure 2016 was our last “fair” presidential election, and even that was rigged, it was just that they didn’t rig swing states, so it didn’t matter.
OBTW, here’s some food for thought: If you’ve always voted, and you have decided that it’s pointless now, I suggest you continue to vote in the future. Not because it will make a difference, that’s been taken away from you. But the traitors at the deep state can analyze voter rolls, and if you suddenly stop voting after a long history of voting, you’ll go on yet another list. As long as you continue to vote, they’ll believe they’ve got you fooled into playing along. If you stop, they’ll infer that you’re one click closer to taking more kinetic action.
Back in Vantucky, “partnership” for my wife was a net of $100 after taxes and payments on the loans used to buy the shares in the practice and the building. For hip doctors who lived in The Pearl in Portland, I figured partnership was a net negative unless they used cash from Daddy to buy into the clinic, as I believe my wife’s associate did.
The ironic thing is that we used to get a lot of bitterness from the nurse practitioners who weren’t allowed to buy into the practice but many of whom probably took home more than my wife annually since they were paid a flat salary with paid vacation.
There was no option about buying into the practice when the time came. The CEO came storming into my wife’s office one afternoon while we were on the fence over the buy in, and she gave the ultimatum — sign the documents or leave.
I regret that we didn’t call her bluff.
Tyler Durden cowardice covering some spin from InBev (parent company of Anheuser-Busch).
““No one at the senior level” of the company was aware of Bud Light’s polarizing partnership with Dylan Mulvaney”
I’m calling BS. Someone senior knew but was probably involved with the marketing droid on a personal level. I’ve worked at enough sh*t show jobs to know how the game works.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anheuser-busch-loses-6bn-six-days-execs-never-signed-trans-ad-campaign
Every driver should be issued a nerf gun with a stupid driver flag on a dart. The tip of the dart is saturated with super glue. When a car accumulates more than three flags, they are given a citation for being stupid. To keep people from just tagging cars “just because”, each dart costs $5.00. I would gladly pay $5.00 to tag some of the stupid people around this area. I suspect the majority of my tags would be for the students at Oak Ridge High School.
“The EPA’s Ban of Gasoline-Powered Cars Will Actually Slow Development of Electric Cars”
https://reason.com/2023/04/13/the-epas-ban-of-gasoline-powered-cars-will-actually-slow-development-of-electric-cars/
“The Biden administration wants as many as two-thirds of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. by 2032 to be electric. But the market should decide how to make that switch.”
“More to the point, while it’s entirely inappropriate for the government to make such mandates, it also may hinder future progress on E.V. technology.”
“President Joe Biden has been pushing for an E.V. future. In August 2021, he signed an executive order advocating that by 2030, half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. should be electric. At the time, the nation’s “Big Three” automakers—General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis—agreed, jointly announcing a “shared aspiration” that by 2030, “40-50%” of their U.S. vehicles would be hybrid or all-electric “in order to move the nation closer to a zero-emissions future.” To that end, the global automotive industry expects to spend $1.2 trillion by the end of the decade.”
I suspect that if these mandates succeed, they will force a premium charge on the gasoline vehicles and a discount on the electric vehicles in order to meet the mandate.
The American manufacturers will attempt to sell pricey garage queen vehicles with standard IC engines and “invest” the profits into EV production.
Right now, that doesn’t seem to be working out for Tommy Boy, however..
Either way, cars and trucks are going away for about 90% of the population.
The public still believe that The Real Live Tony Stark (TM) will solve the range and affordability problems with electric cars so they can cruise to work at Ludicrous Speed. I was behind a new Kia hybrid today with an Avengers logo sticker just below the manufacturer’s badge.
Yes, I lived in Chicago and left in 1962 when I graduated from university at 24 yars of age. I voted Republican so they would have to fake another vote to cover me.
I think I counted 7 FBI agents, full SWAT gear, three vehicles, one an armored vehicle, multiple assault style weapons, all to arrest one person with no weapons, no violent crime, as all he did was release classified material. Probably stuff the Chinese already have. Good thing he did not have a parking violation or the FBI would have really displayed a show of force.
Ray; I’ve long believed that if we were allowed to shoot the cars of bad drivers with paintball guns, the cops should be able to arrest the worst drivers for having obstructed vision.
Greg; If Joe Biden proclaims an executive order to buy electric vehicles, then the next Republican president can UN-proclaim it by repealing Biden’s executive order. Live by the EO; DIE by the EO. Congress is certainly not going to pass any actual law about it, and SCOTUS has already started reining in administrative departments to acting within the parameters of the legislation that created them.
If Trump wanted to guarantee his victory in 2024, all he’d need to do would be to promise to abolish the EPA during his inaugural address.
Wooo!!! I guess I’m getting into the big time finance shirt(-r).
Phone rang, I, unlike normal, answered it. It seems I have a “personal banker” at Frost Bank now. “Call me any time!” Tossing 51 grand into savings triggered something. Might should have scratched his name down. … Just saying. But, yeah, no. Seemed like a nice guy.
Yeah, you /do/ have to go to the bank to set up CDs. And there are no fees for opening a CD account. So him calling me saved me calling the bank. I’m not in a rush anyway.
I have a question for y’all.
I figure that since 90 day CDs pay the most, that’s the way to go. So, say, with the 50k just added to savings, I think the way to go is with four 10 grand CDs. Set them to roll over automatically. Because if I suddenly “need” the money, because, for example a car blows up and it’s more than what I have in savings, small-ish CDs minimize the penalties and other fees.
Am I over thinking this?
Probably. But that’s what I do.
You don’t have to redeem the entire CD in many cases. Check with the bank. In addition, any interest paid on the CD can be withdrawn without penalty as that interest is not part of the original CD. Again, check with Frost as they could be different. My CU allows partial withdrawal as long it does not change the terms of the CD and interest can be paid to a different account, or withdrawn. Places don’t advertise the capability.
You could also get a money market account at Ally.com. Currently paying 4.00%. Money can be quickly transferred at no cost. That interest is close to many CDs and no long term commitment. FDIC insured.
>> (from yesterday) https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/11/great-car-reset-bidens-epa-to-release-strict-new-fed-emissions-standard-to-move-u-s-car-market-decisively-toward-electric-vehicles-up-to-2-3/
So when does Sec B.Plug announce the mandatory conversion of all commercial aircraft to Electric?
A 747 (say AF1) consumes ~1 gallon of fuel per second. This though dos not take into account the number of passengers on a particular flight.
Car manufacturers have a 5-7 year time horizon for product development, and anything going into production for the 2030 model year will need to enter the “pipeline” in the next 18-24 months.
Biden’s announcement was carefully timed.
The new Air Force One planes will be the last 747s to roll off of the assembly line.
The 757 is already done, and the 767 would have been gone if Boeing hadn’t used their influence to have the tanker contract reopened.
We flew Airbus 319 to/from Florida, both ways, but the future is probably the biggest A220 … ironically built in the repurposed facility in Mobile where Airbus was going to convert planes built in Europe to tankers under the Air Force contract.
The next time we drive to Florida, I want to stop and take the factory tour in Mobile.
@lpdbw
I do not enjoy shoveling chicken poop. But the eating of tasty farm eggs–bright yellow yolks that tower over the pale flat efforts of their store bought brethren–more than compensates.
Fry two farm eggs and two store eggs. Deploy to liberally buttered medium-toasted sourdough bread. Top with a slice of your preferred cheese and three slices of crispy applewood-smoked bacon. Add a touch of your preferred condiment.
Then do a blind taste test. If you can’t taste the difference immediately and though to the end, then your only reason to raise chickens is the joy of shoveling or financial remuneration.
Not included with the Kindle version of these books.
The first honest step in “fixing” social security would be an analysis of payments vs. benefits.
Last I looked there had been a lot of loosening of the qualifications. Minimum benefits not supported by payments. “Survivors” benefits where the deceased never paid for the insurance. And lots of fraud in the “disability” part, even though there is still a lot of unwarranted denial/delay of benefits.
lpdbw, when I said I was tired of the crap, I was referring to my wife, not the chickens’ output.
>> (from yesterday) I will start taking SS when I am forced to retire or when I turn 67 (so I do not get penalized by the income from my job).
What if you didn’t *cough* get paid *cough* but still showed up around the office?
https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/04/13/no-one-believes-the-budweiser-clydesdales-have-been-threatened-n543512
pathetic
Florida professor accused of faking data on racism against Blacks and Hispanics leaves his position
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/04/13/auto-draft-114-n543652
Dragged out into the light because one co-author–Pickett–would not sweep it under the rug.
I have no doubt that racism exists in the United States. I also have no doubt that the prevalence of easily debunked false reports of nooses and anti-black graffiti are mirrored by a whole lot of falsified papers in academia.
The problems in this case make it glaringly obvious that Pickett not only never looked at the data, he probably didn’t read the paper. Give him a bit of credit for standing up. The others apparently simply lent their names to the paper to inflate their pub list, and deserve to be named and shamed.
There have been numerous studies showing the high levels of irreproducible results in academic papers in general, with soft pseudo-sciences leading the way. It’s past time for a study to specifically focus on papers in this area that are widely cited, as such play a large part in shaping misguided public discourse and policy.
The Lieutenant Wouldn’t Like It
By Sarah Hoyt 6:42 PM on September 30, 2017
https://pjmedia.com/culture/sarah-hoyt/2017/09/30/lieutenant-wouldnt-like-n169120
“Heinlein’s final rank in the navy was Lieutenant.”
In this timeline, Sarah.
Shadowy Figure Behind Sexual Assault Lawsuit Against Trump Revealed
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/04/13/shadowy-figures-behind-sexual-assault-lawsuit-against-trump-revealed-n731069
Another ultra-liberal billionaire with a checkered past that includes “friendship” with Epstein and probably includes Pedo Island.
Yeah, we’ll get that list someday.
behold and despair…
https://twitter.com/TheFigen_/status/1646576481886171136
re: farm eggs
2 corrections:
Yes, I finish the sandwich with a second slice of toast.
If you can’t taste the difference immediately and
thoughthrough to the endSigh. It’s a metaphor. Applies to any hobby or pursuit where your rewards are balanced against the effort. Didn’t specifically mean crap, just the less-pleasant aspects of the work.
But you knew that.
I’m not sure you’re going to make it to the two year mark. I suggest lining up your divorce lawyer in advance, and calculate some lead time. Fer instance, if it takes six months to divorce, file six months early. And move out, with the kid, to avoid child support during those six months. Of course, benighted states like NYFS would make you pay maintenance during that time. Likely, you’ll end up paying for a while after the divorce, too. Sucks to be an employed white male during a divorce.
Also Microsoft/BillG. Reid Hoffman is a board member since Linkedin was assimilated into the collective.
I vote against Hoffman anytime the proxy ballot shows up in the mail.
“Reid Hoffman” is not a name that appears on the flight logs of people going to Pedo Island. Which doesn’t mean he wasn’t there.
Most of the passengers had code names. The legend is that one pilot was so excited to see BillG that he entered the real name.
Sucks to have fanbois when you’re trying to keep your perversions on the down low…
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Crazy times in Florida
Floridians mop up as Governor DeSantis declares State of Emergency after life-threatening flash floods dumped more than 20-inches and left airport and highways swimming in water
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>> I doubt anyone in the throes of passion is worried about the color of the dick. Case in point; a hot pink dildo.
@Ray, only based on hypothetical knowledge of course.
>> Crone Ginsberg, Pelosi and half of Congress, Dumbocrats and Redumblicans alike. They just won’t give up the money or the power:
F I F Y
How a book written in 1910 could teach you calculus better than several books of today
[Calculus Made Easy, by Silvanus P. Thompson, 1910 – full text pdf: http://bit.ly/2pThkf1 or with the table of contents: http://calculusmadeeasy.org]
I wish I had had that book in 1978. I was at the University of Kansas in the late 1970’s. My professor for applied partial differential equations was a Polish immigrant. He really loved his subject, but was hindered in teaching it by a pronounced DEEP Polish accent. He spoke quite quickly and very animatedly, and about 3/4 of the way through each lesson, switched to speaking Polish exclusively. I did not do well in that class.
>> I held back from taking care of the chicks since yesterday morning, mostly because I was away from the house for most of the day. As expected, none of them had any water and the week-old chicks didn’t have any food, either. They were ailing. Not sure what to do. It’s obvious that no one else will be doing the daily work, so should I let them all die? I hate to do that but I’m sick of the crap.
Freezer camp.
>> A pneumatic gun that can fire a sticky GPS tracker at a moving vehicle.
Fourth Amendment – what’s that one say again?? Ohh, right, it’s the NYPD, they’re excused from the Constitution.
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/103554-supreme-court-rules-warrantless-gps-tracking-by-police-is-unconstitutional/
Besides, NYFC has ‘bigger’ problems to deal with.
Latest Sam Brinton update … announcement timed to be buried under all the Dylan Mulvaney news?
>> So the cheating for Kennedy vs. Nixon shouldn’t really have surprised us, but what do I know, I was 6 years old at the time and can claim naivety.
Only six? No worries, they voted for you.
Common sense – TX advancing bill to shift energy to natgas and away from renewables
>> No one’s marksmanship in the dark is as good as it was…
That‘s why I sit.
@Ray, touché.
BTW, there are also these… https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01IT0K2OQ?tag=ttgnet-20/