Cooler, but still damp. Rain later? Dunno. And neither does anyone else! But we pretend because it gives us a feeling of control. I do think we might get a smattering. We’re in the zone for it nationally. I never saw any moisture from the sky yesterday, but the clouds around here suggested that someone in Houston did. I just had a nice day, shirtsleeves weather, with some clouds but mostly blue sky. And I drove all the way across Houston to Baytown, so I really saw both sides of town too. Didn’t get too far south or too far north, which is where the weather really changes.
I did one pickup on the east side. Then I dropped some stuff at my secondary location, and stopped by my selling auctioneer. He still can’t take more of my stuff. I really might have to try another seller again to move some of it.
I ordered stuff for my client’s place. Besides the point to point wireless ethernet link, he pulled the trigger on a new network video recorder for the cams. It won’t be in until some time next week but I’ll head to the house on Friday to do the P to P link and get ready for the NVR. I was going today, but have kid stuff in the early afternoon that would cut short my work time.
I’ve still got a list of stuff to do around the house this week, as the week rapidly disappears into the past. I feel like Paula Abdul this week.*
So today I have some pickups south of town that I have to get a jump on early. Not too early, as they don’t even open until 10am, but earlier than my normal ‘leave the house at 1 or 2 pm.’ Until then it’s auction stuff, cleanup and put away, and maybe a maintenance item if I’m really motivated. Need to do the ‘small’ grocery trip too.
Yep, I’m a slacker. Been slack. Am slack, will be slack.
That doesn’t mean YOU can’t stack some stuff…
nick
*ah, the 80s https://youtu.be/xweiQukBM_k?t=49
Cool and a bit cloudy this am. Still, not raining!
NYC Mayor Eric Adams Complains That 50% of City’s Hotel Rooms Now Occupied by Illegal Migrants – Hurting the Economy
Bet we’ll see more of this next story, without the 20 yr work history…
20-Yr Disney Employee, Father-of-Two, Arrested On Child Porn Charges After Photos of Children Under 10 Having Sex With Adult Men Were Found On His Computer: “hot teens in mouse ears are a weakness of mine”
and even Gateway Pundit gets it wrong, it’s “Adult men RAPING children under 10”. Children under ten don’t “have sex” with anyone. This shift in language is deliberate, and it’s clearly working.
n
Someone pays for the hotel rooms.
What amazes me is that the sickos keep showing up at Sheriff Grady Judd’s child sex sting operations, which tend to follow the same basic MO – stucco 3/2 cr*p shack in Davenport, cul de sac, “My parents aren’t home this afternoon”.
After getting slightly lost on the Disney property during our trip in March, we stumbled across the Western Way entrance and the complex of hotels, restaurants, and big box stores which cater to the high school athlete events held in The Mouse’s facilities, conveniently located near the same stucco cr*p shack developments where Sheriff Judd conducts his sting operations. I doubt that is a coincidence in planning.
OF COURSE he would…
–were all 1500 on the dem donor list?
And for those with short memories, this directly contradicts SEVERAL articles earlier this month, and last month, and also common sense.
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battlespace prep
Trump could re-take the Presidency, but it would be a costly victory long term, starting with the close Senate races in 2024 and continuing into the 2026 midterms.
Absent Trump at the top of the ticket, there is no energy among the Dem base to vote next year unless the party attempts to run Moochelle as a Jesus Candidate.
back from the 6th grade awards ceremony. D2 looked like she was going to a funeral, not receiving an award. Literally every other kid was smiling and happy.
Now to head out on errands. Gotta be home early so I can take kid to eye exam, then 8th grade “graduation” tonight, despite still having a week of school left. WTF, over.
n
WJAR Providence’s own weather graphics girl speaks out against her management’s decision to go for the ratings gold with Trump.
https://www.thewrap.com/christiane-amanpour-is-first-cnn-anchor-to-call-out-trump-town-hall-video/
I guess I’ve been doing this too long, but my first thought upon seeing the headline yesterday that the FBI thinks they’ve identified the Zodiac Killer, was “why now? Did they wait until they needed a win to counter bad press?”
Then I see this.
Investigators Claim FBI Knew Identify of Zodiac Killer Since 2016, Kept DNA In Headquarters
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That would be the same “journalist” who said on camera that she believed it was her duty to bring down the Bush presidency?
F#ckery is afoot.
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Site not found error.
n
A reality check on that statement. You aren’t going to run Chatbot on a Macbook.
A 40 GB A100 Accelerator is only $10k on EBay. Cheap!
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/running-your-own-chatbot-on-a-single-gpu
Another data point to question my sanity for subbing at the school. Especially considering my pleasure, and well known stance, on taking up cell phones.
https://www.wvlt.tv/2023/05/17/antioch-student-be-charged-after-allegedly-pepper-spraying-teacher-police-say/
If that happened to me I would be pressing criminal charges against the girl and a civil lawsuit against the family. My law firm of Dewey, Cheatum and Howe would be pleased to take the case.
– I know, we’ll ask for a TRILLION dollars, yeah… Oh, ok, FOURTEEN TRILLION dollars…
–so like 4-5 times the GDP of all of africa… because the 43M blacks in America are just worth it…
Or look at it this way… with a GDP of 3B and population of (very generously) 1B blacks, blacks in their native Africa are productive at a rate of $3 per year per capita.
So assume a baseline of $3/year of work as the native economic value added by a black person, and there you go. Any net difference can be awarded, or REMOVED. Time to pay us back for providing all that excess…
See, you can make any argument you want with some stats and an attitude!
n
Powerful individuals still desire to get their strange on with The Squad.
I totally agree with the post. However, I would never state that on MSNBC.
They owe us money for increasing their standard of living, not gonna fly on MSNBCBS?
Dang.
n
The Illusion of Consensus
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/18/the-illusion-of-consensus-n551609
I have not sampled the podcast that is the basis fr this story, but I intend too.
Likewise, I haven’t looked to confirm that the Great Barrington Declaration has over a million signers.
But I would dearly love to get some research grant money snd use it to query that group. First question wiuld ask if they thought there was a wider application to the lesson of the covid “consensus” The follow ups would include asking about their previous position on global warming, and if they had re-examined that position based on their recent lesson in consensus.
One can only dream.
Umm…uhh…what was the question?
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/05/17/dianne-feinstein-absence-audio-benjamin-oreskes-cnntm-vpx.cnn
Phew… no need for Ray to back off the fart jokes…
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/politics/supreme-court-twitter-google-social-media/index.html
Ah, I feel a great pressure has been removed.
Boy, almost out of popcorn…now whose serve is it??
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/media/disney-florida-desantis/index.html
I get phone calls from random numbers. I don’t answer, if you’re not in my Contacts or I’m not expecting a call from the local a/c or plumbing company, local numbers anyway, to voicemail with you.
Besides that, if you know me and I don’t answer, you know to send a text message. I’m not especially known to carry my phone with me.
I checked my voicemail. I’d like to turn that off but it doesn’t seem to be an option, It was full of bill collectors. Who is “necapitalrecovery.com”? That was the only URL provided.
The Duck sent me to https://www.scam-detector.com/validator/necapitalrecovery-com-review/ which says “The Rank of the website you are interested in is:
0.0
High-Risk. Phishing. Beware.
The rank is based on a 1-100 scale, with 100 being the most reputable.”
Huh. There were a few messages that were trying to serve papers to me at home or at work and I need to contact them right now or there may be additional penalties.
So someone says I owe someone or something some unstated amount of money plus interest or it’s gonna be dire consequences. No amount mentioned, no “who” sicced the collection companies on me. Seems all legit, right?
Yet? In my actual US Mail mail box? Nothing.
Plenty of junk mail… I like the ones offering to buy the 24.x acres of land, sight unseen, for all of $5820 an acre. They pay all costs. Looks like a lot of money, but it’s less than half of last year’s county appraisal. Not for sale anyway.
Had a text message from my brother about an hour ago. “It’s a nice day to go for a 400 mile drive.” Where are you going? “We should be in Burnet about 8:30 tonight”.
Ah. Wait. What? You’re just going to show up unannounced? At dark-thirty? That’s when I go to bed because that’s when the dogs go to bed.
Ok, I’ll get a bed ready. I hope you eat supper on the way ‘cause otherwise it’s peanut butter sandwiches on store bought sourdough bread with water to wash it down.
Actually, the bed is sort of ready. It has a fluffy mattress pad the dogs love laying on. Clean sheets on that and then a waterproof mattress pad cover. Because dogs like to roll around in the dirt. So, keep the sheets clean.
I suppose I should dust stuff and then sweep the kitchen. Too lazy to vacuum. I hope they don’t bring their chihuahua and chihuahua dachshund mix. Penny will be unhappy. Buddy, who knows.
Seems kind of rude to just drop in with no notice.
The “news” in that story is pretty stale except for the announcement about the Galactic Starcruiser hotel – an authentic “Star Trek” experience – which will make its last “voyage” in September.
Future occupants of the Imagineering campus in Lake Nona were pushing back against the move in Burbank, and Florida taxpayers pocket a huge subsidy which the state will avoid paying for the relocation.
Disney is out of money and time. It is only a question of when Iger’s jet lands in Tallahassee, not when.
Of course CNN woudl get a quote from Jerry Demings. The machine tried and failed to get Demings’ wife elected to Little Marco’s Senate seat, and the margin was 70-30 thanks in part to Florida ballot layout rules.
Home from my pickups. Stuff for the BOL mainly. Ready to take the kid to her makeup eye appt.
Maybe I should get one of my own.
n
That’s “rescheduled,” not “cosmetics,” right, or not? And one for you?? Is there something you forgot to tell us? 😉
Another $1 billion for Tom Cruise.
Another Summer box office disaster for Disney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NawzlSevKg
“The Haunted Mansion” might work as a cult flick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjLKTz81bj8
Fun!
I get e-mail from Betty Crocker. I, ah, well, a lot is good but I’m not into adding a cup of Bisquit to everything. Today’s winning headline is “The Broccoli Recipe Everyone Loves” and that’s a far as I read.
Mom’s nursing home added that crap to the mashed potatoes. Looked like parsley. Who mixes parsley into mashed potatoes? Stunk. I could smell it from the other side of the table. She wouldn’t eat the stuff.
paul says:
Send him a link to the reservations page of a local hotel.
“Send him a link to the reservations page of a local hotel.”
There are just a few. One might have reservation page.
Anyway. They just hit Dallas at I-30 and 635 half an hour ago. If he drives down I-35 to SH29. he will get here about 10:30.
I found some sausage links in the freezer. Gonna put some grill marks on them in few minutes and call it “better than a peanut butter sandwich”.
I actually like my little brother. He’s kinda of strange. But, like, I have no room to talk.
>> So someone says I owe someone or something some unstated amount of money plus interest or it’s gonna be dire consequences. No amount mentioned, no “who” sicced the collection companies on me. Seems all legit, right?
Yet? In my actual US Mail mail box? Nothing.
@paul, I wouldn’t worry until I get something in the mail.
Meanwhile, keep your credit frozen and review your credit reports once a year.
I guess I wasn’t fully awake when this story came on the news…
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/14/politics/george-santos-2024-paperwork/index.html
… and I thought they said ‘filed paperwork to run for President.’
I swiftly put my head under my pillow and went back to sleep.
What’s in your wallet?
“Bank of America (BoA) gave the FBI’s Washington Field Office a list of individuals who had made transactions in the D.C., Maryland, Virginia area with a BoA credit or debit card between January 5 and January 7, 2021. He also testified that individuals who had previously purchased a firearm with a BoA product were elevated to the top of the list provided by BoA,” it also read.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/fbi-obtained-americans-bank-records-without-subpoena-whistleblowers
“Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ Fails Test of Time” (New York Times verdict in 2007)
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/17/carsons-silent-spring-fails-test-of-time-new-york-times-verdict-in-2007/
The article is interesting and should be read by anyone who is not familiar with the perfidy of Carson’s Holy Green Book.
What is omitted is a bald statement estimating the actual damage done to the Third World and Africa in particular by the White Colonial Economics policies of the First World in denying the use of the most effective weapon against malarial mosquitoes: Millions of lives lost and tens of millions of lives in suffering with malaria.
I always include Rachel Carson when I list grand scale mass murderers.
Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Carson.
Here’s someone’s opinion on the who’s who of such stuff. He omits Carson. I should let him know.
But, but I’ve been told that worries about tracking your every action were just conspiracy fodder!
Now do The Population Bomb and The Limits to Growth.
Amazing how unsupportable pseudo-science becomes the basis for policy. Why, it’s almost like our “leaders” are either following a crazy religion or are following a hidden agenda. But there I go again with the conspiracy fodder.
NB: Tried to post this maybe 15 minutes ago and got both a 503 and a 404 error.
@stevef, I’m not saying that certain subjects will 500 or some other error more than others, because that would be crazy talk, but the first 500 error I got in months was just the other day when I posted about the nattavox…
Some days it’s feistier than others.
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Got home. Rain is just getting started.
Ceremony was nice, if a bit long. 109 students, many receiving awards, some many awards, then every one by name across the stage. They call it a “Moving On” ceremony since there is still a week before they graduate.
No dead classmates. There were several in my high school class, and seems like at least one in my junior high/middle school class.
It’s not a bad thing that fewer kids are dying young, but it’s different and a lot less immediate for this generation.
n
If my suspicions about the mRNA shots are correct, it’s going to be more grim for your daughters as they get older. First for high school and college athletes with heart issues, then later increases in autoimmune disorders and cancers. I had 400 kids in my high school class, and only lost one, in a car accident, before graduation.
@lpdbw
Interesting list. Uncle Ho gets credit up to 1956, then a seven year gap, then it’s Johnson and Nixon. I guess we just ignore some?
SteveF says:
The time between declaring something is a “conspiracy theory” to it being an acknowledged fact has been steadily decreasing. These days, the act of saying “conspiracy theory” is equivalent to declaring that it is true.
it’s going to be more grim for your daughters as they get older.
– just one of my fears for the future, but already baked in the cake, so not much to be done about it.
n
“not much to be done about it.”
DNA files are pretty complete at this point.
;Accountability files are getting pretty complete too.
n
Given their age, I don’t think some of the perpetrators will face justice. But who knows? They just caught that bosnian prison guard in NJ after 25 years.
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ya know, no one NEEDS to drink a particular beer, or use a particular product, or visit a particular place. They choose to. The ad is supposed to influence them to choose to…
the bigcorps are forgetting who their boss is, not wall street, main street. Without customers to buy the product there is no company, no matter what their ESG score is or how much of the stock they bought back to goose the EPS number… If you don’t have customers, you don’t have a business.
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