Cool and clear again. Cold even as anything less that 50F feels pretty cold to me. It did warm up over the course of the day. Flaming nuclear fire in the sky helps with that.
Spent the day driving back and forth. First to do my pickups, then Costco, then D2 pickup from school, deliver to appointment, rush to pickup D1 from school, return to D2’s appointment, then gas fillup and home… Running from 1130 to 530 without a break. Mostly stuck in heavy traffic too. Yuck. 1 star, cannot recommend.
Costco was odd. Prices have come down on some stuff, but remain high on other things. Pork was cheap and they had the standing rib roast cut I love, which they only carry for Christmas and Easter. Bought two big ones that I’ll cut in half and vac seal for the freezer. The imported Australian lamb was LESS than it has been in a while, and that’s saying something because the price has remained pretty steady for years.
Rice and flour were still higher than they were, and selection was limited. My favorite shelf stable take and bake loaves of bread were damaged. Many of the packages showed mold in the packaging, on the loaves. They were well within sell by too. Weird that staff didn’t pull the bad packages, and weird that it was usually one loaf of the three in the box. They still haven’t gotten the frozen cheeseburgers I like back in stock. Prices for paper goods were high. No sales this month on paper. List price for Charmin blue is now double what it was pre-wuflu.
There was also more chinese prepared food from china than there has been in the past. Dunno if that’s significant but I’m not a fan of food prepared in china for safety reasons.
I’ve stopped buying vegetables and milk products at Costco and I was a bit rushed so I didn’t even stick my head in to check stock levels. I’ve also decided to not buy more of the Kirkland bacon, even though the price is now competitive with HEB. The Kirkland bacon leaves a hard crusty black film in the bottom of the pan. I think it’s burned sugar. It needs to be scraped off the teflon, and it’s bitter so I can’t reuse the fat either. The bacon tastes fine, but the other things are too negative.
And hey, they had both the socks I like and the underwear so that was a score. Set for a year or two now. Stacks…
It wasn’t a cheap trip, but then my average ticket had increased 50-100% even though I’m not buying bulk to stack anymore. I’m not going as often either. In fact I’m shorter than I’d like to be on TP again, and I kept kicking myself and wondering why this has happened again… and I think it’s because I only buy it when it’s on sale, and it hasn’t been on sale as often, so my two bales run out before the next sale. Girls might be using more too, but the frequency of purchase definitely contributes. I need to run to my secondary (for a number of things) but I’ll also be grabbing an extra bale of TP out of deep storage.
Our usage patterns for a lot of things have shifted with time and changes in our lives. I’m not making the kids’ lunches anymore, so I haven’t bought peanut butter in a long time. Same for white bread. D2 is making her own ramen so I’m not making soup for her. Kraft mac and cheese consumption is way down… take a look at your assumptions and see if they still are a good match for your real usage. Adjust as needed.
Today I’ll be doing some more domestic bliss, and household errands, as well as picking up TP and dropping stuff off at my secondary location. Got kid pickup duties in the afternoon too. Might hit the HEB and see if there is any meat on sale, and get D2 some eggnog. Normal stuff. Auction stuff will happen too, and I’ve got a few things I still need to get for my party this weekend. Busy day.
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Whilst in the midst of your ordinary everyday stuff today, take a minute to consider this day in 1941. People all over the world went to bed with the world in one condition in their minds. They woke up and everything had changed. Plenty of people saw US involvement in the war coming. Plenty of people from individuals to companies to the government worked for or against our seemingly inevitable involvement. Almost universally I bet they thought they would have more time. Despite all the time they’d already had.
It’s my contention that we are living through one of those times in the world where everything changes. Not all at once, and not in obvious ways, but the world of 1950 was completely different from the world that rang in the century. Most of that change happened in a very short time, from ~1911 to ~1946. And you could argue that the big chunk happened in an even shorter period between those years. We know change is coming. We think it’s probably gonna be bad change for a while, but we hope it will get better. It’s likely to be very disruptive to the way things have been for all of our lives.
Do what you can to ease your way through this coming disruption. That’s what I’m prepping for now, the local or regional disaster will happen but they will have to be considered against the bigger picture of the complete realignment of the world order. Be flexible, be cautious, be wary, and be as prepared as you can think of ways to be.
And stack. It’s easy and likely won’t hurt.
nick
Imputed income tax. The Dems raise the possibility from time to time, going back to Gore in 2000.
The cost of living in your house to you is C per year. The house could rent for R annually in the market. You owe taxes on R – C annually, and the number counts as part of your taxable income for limits on things like IRA contributions.
My mother was born just shy of nine months after this date. Coincidence? Maybe…
They do something like that here. If you own a house, you pay taxes on R: the amount of money you could rent it for (imputed rental value). The reasoning is that – if you didn’t have the house – you would have to pay rent. So owning the house is providing you with that much income.
Homeowners find this tax really unfair. Renters see it as entirely fair. There are occasional moves to abolish the tax, but since renters are the majority here, it never goes anywhere.
45F. Sunny and clear. Looks like a nice day. Brisk for sure.
Flags at half staff all day.
Never noticed that the presidential order ends with this… “in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.”
Is that typical?
n
Changes are gradual, but wow, do they accumulate. The 1950s one could almost name the “high-and-tight” decade. Super-patriotic, commies hiding under every bush, who must be rooted out. The 1960s brought sex’n’drugs’n’anti-establishment to the young folk (I was too young to live it, but old enough to notice it). The 1970s calmed down the 1960s, but the anti-military sentiment remained huge, thanks to Vietnam.
The 1980s? What the heck were the 1980s?
The 1990s, end of the cold war – wow, life is gonna be good! Those war premiums never did materialize, though, as military spending continued apace. Also the birth of the Internet – more wow! The over-optimism came crashing down in 2001, and again in 2008. The 2000s were crappy in another way: lots of wars, maybe needed to justify the continuing military spending. Yet, somehow everyone now adored the military? You couldn’t go anywhere without being “thanked for your service”. Having come of age in the 1970s, I always found that really weird and awkward.
And all of CNN has nothing.
Yes, I lived through all of that being in the USAF from 1969 to 1979. It was necessary to travel in uniform to get airline discounts. Walking through airports and being called a “baby killer”. Getting spit on a few times generally by some freak in his hippy clothes who has never held a job. I was told to give up my seat on an airplane because a full passenger needed the seat. Refusal to be served in a couple of restaurants. Harassed on a bus. It was not fun.
Vietnam was a political pawn and fodder for politicians while enriching the portfolios of many of those corrupt politicians.
Why, it’s almost like President Eisenhower knew what he was talking about.
Nick,
I am curious if you have documents describing your stash, what it contains where its located. Your strategy so that if the unexpected happened to you, your family could understand and use it instead of looking at it like a vast array of unknown stuff.
Eisenhower presidency was a gift due to his time serving as commander in WWII. He was really not qualified to be a president.
Kennedy and his cronies got us into Vietnam. LBJ and his illegal voters (the voter registration exactly matched the order of gravestones in the local cemetery) got him the vice presidency. The death of Kennedy, and LBJ taking over merely extended Vietnam. LBJ had extensive modifications to his house in Texas at government expense. LBJ profited handsomely while Kennedy was in office and LBJ continued his corrupt practices. Keeping Vietnam alive was instrumental to LBJ investments and money-making schemes. LBJ was a loathsome creature, not unlike most politicians today.
@darryl, that is a great question and probably a whole series of posts worth of blogfodder.
The short answer is that my wife is aware of the fact that there IS stuff elsewhere, although not necessarily all the details. I’ve been cluing the kids in on stuff as appropriate, and when it’s convenient. Especially if it’s obscured in some way.
This is partly because of the very common tension between prepper and spouse. Even now, when it’s shown it’s value so many times I’ve lost track, my wife will say something that boggles me.
A week ago when she wasn’t feeling well, she was suddenly concerned about it, so I got the fingertip pulse oximiter and blood pressure machine out of the cabinet and checked her stats. They were within normal range. But she said “you have a pulse ox reader and a blood pressure machine???? OF COURSE you do.”
FFS. Of course I do. The fingertip thing was a vital first screen for covid back when it was killing people, and I’m in my fifties so being able to check my BP seems pretty important… and I’ve had them in the cabinet with the other medical stuff since 2020… She knows there is medical stuff in the cabinet, but apparently hasn’t ever looked at it.
I put the snarky response down to tiredness and being worried, but yeah, FFS I’ve got 3 AEDs … I’m going to have a simple BP machine and fingertip pulse ox reader. Got thermometers, and stethoscopes too. And reference materials.
The kids are not prejudiced against stacks of stuff. My wife grew up in a household with very little beyond necessities. She thinks freezers should be half empty “so you have room for food” and that shelves and cabinets should have plenty of blank space, “so you could put stuff there.” She doesn’t GET IT that our shelves/cabinets/freezers are full because I PUT STUFF THERE. The kids are willing to actually look and see the stuff that is stored as an asset. Wife sees it as stuff that is filling spaces that should be empty. This is irrational childhood conditioning, but it’s danged hard to overcome.
n
(The crazy thing is that as a troop leader she’s got more first aid certs than I do. The KIDS both have a collection of certs from GS and their babysitting training. Officially they are WAY more qualified than I am. But they didn’t have the stuff to do anything with their training, until I put it in their hands, bags, and vehicles. Which I did.)
My wife views the shelves of stuff as things that she can use without having to go to the store and spend her own money to get. We’ve discussed here some of the issues involved in attempting to be prepared for shortages when one’s spouse is not supportive or, as in my case, actively opposing.
Daughter is aware of the stuff and knows that it’ll keep us fed for a good while but she’s not at all interested in what goes into planning and obtaining and maintaining the food and other things. I think that’s half because I’ve always provided and she figures that I always will, and half because of typical teenage self-centeredness and laziness and short-sightedness. Maybe she’ll grow out of it, but my fall-back plan if she doesn’t is to get her married off and make her someone else’s problem. Alas, I made the mistake of revealing my evil plan and she not only isn’t cooperating, she said that I’m objectively awful for even thinking of it. -sigh- Children.
>> It wasn’t a cheap trip, but then my average ticket had increased 50-100% even though I’m not buying bulk to stack anymore. I’m not going as often either.
@nick, are you an Executive member? Sounds like you (still) are spending enough to make it worthwhile? Plus using a cash-back credit card? Paying less for your stacks is a prep too.
>> Spent the day driving back and forth. First to do my pickups, then Costco, then D2 pickup from school, deliver to appointment, rush to pickup D1 from school, return to D2’s appointment, then gas fillup and home…
Is there not a return bus in the afternoon? Plus, before you know it, D1 will be driving,
oh joy!>> In fact I’m shorter than I’d like to be on TP again, and I kept kicking myself and wondering why this has happened again… and I think it’s because I only buy it when it’s on sale, and it hasn’t been on sale as often, so my two bales run out before the next sale. Girls might be using more too, but the frequency of purchase definitely contributes. I need to run to my secondary (for a number of things) but I’ll also be grabbing an extra bale of TP out of deep storage.
No interest from the distaff side for a lesser grade of TP? Maybe just for what goes into deep storage? After the SHTF (hmm, yeah) any brand of TP will be prized versus tree leaves, or worse…
>> Maybe she’ll grow out of it, but my fall-back plan if she doesn’t is to get her married off and make her someone else’s problem. Alas, I made the mistake of revealing my evil plan and she not only isn’t cooperating, she said that I’m objectively awful for even thinking of it. -sigh- Children.
@SteveF, consider the Convent option. Didn’t get any traction when I suggested it to @nick, but who knows, you’re good at ‘evil’ plans.
That’s assuming a complete breakdown in commerce.
For the much more likely scenario of scarcity and of costs increasing relative to income, there will not be a great shock to knock people out of their expectations from the fully-functioning world. “Well, why couldn’t you get the good stuff?”
To be honest, though, I’m not sure that even a complete collapse would be enough to knock half of the people out of their previous expectations. I’d expect a large fraction to simply fail to adapt to products no longer being available and their jobs as diversity consultants no longer existing.
As evil plans go, that’s a good one, what with my daughter being an atheist.
(And, I mean, what’s with that nonsense? Shouldn’t she at least believe in me? Or rather, believe in Me? I’m not sure that I’m a god but I’m not sure that I’m not. The exact parallel of Pascal’s Wager states that one should therefore believe in Me.)
Oh, I believe in You.
Just don’t ask exactly what I believe.
@alan, yes, still getting cash back every year beyond the cost of the Exec membership. They always have a good price for gasoline too, and we’ve got three vehicles to keep filled. Getting to and from the BOL takes one tank each, for me and the wife. That’s $50-75 each. And while I don’t drive as much as some people, I do drive much more than I used to when I worked full time. That was 5000-7000 miles a year. Now I’m doing 10k-15k.
The savings on TP and laundry soap would probably pay for the card… as the bale is bigger, the rolls are wider, and it costs less than the equivalent at HEB, ditto for detergent, IF you wait for the sale.
n
There are return busses but after school activities preclude that several days of the week.
n
I received a package from Amazon earlier in the week, a couple of bottles of hair tonic and beeswax.
So, after inquiring with the brothers and friends for the jokester, it appears that it might actually be an incident of “brushing”.
https://www.howtogeek.com/828288/brushing-scams-heres-why-youre-getting-random-packages/
Strange world.
I never get random packages. I suppose it’s the same luck as buying a winning lotto ticket.
“Brushing”. So bizarre that it can even work. Of course, Amazon could crack down on it – for example, not allowing the purchaser to review a product sent to a different address (and restricting frequent address changes). They won’t, because they earn money from it too…
Amazon has become a real crap-fest. I only buy from them when I absolutely cannot find another source.
It wasn’t a cheap trip, but then my average ticket had increased 50-100% even though I’m not buying bulk to stack anymore. I’m not going as often either. In fact I’m shorter than I’d like to be on TP again, and I kept kicking myself and wondering why this has happened again… and I think it’s because I only buy it when it’s on sale, and it hasn’t been on sale as often, so my two bales run out before the next sale. Girls might be using more too, but the frequency of purchase definitely contributes. I need to run to my secondary (for a number of things) but I’ll also be grabbing an extra bale of TP out of deep storage.
Sam’s Club now carries 32 super rolls equals 132 regular rolls of Blue Charmin for $32 each.
Sam’s Club was carrying 32 super rolls equals 105 regular rolls of Blue Charmin for $25 each.
I suspect that Costco is carrying the same stuff.
There is no discounting of Blue Charmin or Red Charmin anymore since they are the premium TP. Buy it, pay the elevated price, and be glad you can. These are the good old days.
The days of twigs and bark in our TP is coming soon. Dad brought back TP from Poland back in the 1970s from a “five star” hotel. It had pieces of bark in it.
Well, I think I just got scammed. Not for a whole lot of money, but irritating.
I ordered a Christmas gift for my wife. The site seemed legitimate. Until I got the email confirmation. Something did not seem correct. The transaction went through Paypal. I got email confirmations from Paypal, the address was Paypal, it all looked good.
I checked their website and the order, placed on November 29, has not shipped. Yellow flag.
Today I checked Paypal and they have no record of the transaction. Either by the merchant or the transaction ID. Red Flag.
A search on the web for their company name and the top hit is a site that monitors scams. Double Red Flag.
Multiple attempts to contact the company via email and Whatsapp have failed to produce any results. Triple Red Flag.
I found a phone number on the website, I called it. Angry lady said this is not Diannecraft and will never be. Quadruple Red Flag.
I have opened a dispute with my credit card company. I really don’t think the email from “Paypal” was really Paypal and the from address was being spoofed. There are no odd characters in the from address and the email looks completely legitimate.
I have no concerns about losing my money as the credit card company will refund to me and charge back to whatever entity got the money.
I am really careful with online transactions and websites. I failed this time to adequately vet the website before placing the order.
My Land’s End long sleeve shirts size 17.5 – 37 are getting smaller. I blame the shirts. After, it could not be me putting on weight ?
My 18 – 37 shirts fit just fine. Crap, it is me.
“EPA releases 1,600 plus page methane rules document”
https://www.gpamidstream.org/news/epa-releases-1-600-plus-page-methane-rules-document
“It will take some time to wade through the massive new set of regulations on new and existing methane sources from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but so far it looks like a mixed bag for GPA Midstream Association members.”
These new rules have teeth and penalty taxes in them. Billions of dollars of penalty taxes targeted at a half TRILLION dollars in 2024. The new rules are guaranteed to put several oil and natural gas company executives in jail for decades. All in the name of nonexistent Climate Change. I am worried.
Pearls Before Swine: Rebar
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2023/12/07
No, no, no, no, no.
Over The Hedge: George Is Educated
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2023/12/07
I had to look up the word Cycad. Who knew that dinosaurs had an educational system ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycad
“Biden Moves to Forgive Nearly $5 Billion in Student Loans”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/biden-moves-forgive-nearly-5-203854365.html
This is unconstitutional. Biden thinks that he is a dictator.
Daughter is aware of the stuff and knows that it’ll keep us fed for a good while but she’s not at all interested in what goes into planning and obtaining and maintaining the food and other things. I think that’s half because I’ve always provided and she figures that I always will, and half because of typical teenage self-centeredness and laziness and short-sightedness. Maybe she’ll grow out of it, but my fall-back plan if she doesn’t is to get her married off and make her someone else’s problem. Alas, I made the mistake of revealing my evil plan and she not only isn’t cooperating, she said that I’m objectively awful for even thinking of it. -sigh- Children.
I am living the dream. The 36 year old disabled daughter is incredibly expensive.
The common thread I’ve noticed lately on the Financial Audit YouTube channel is the confidence that the interviewees have that their student loans will not be a factor in their financial future since the goverment will have to do something … or else …
Monday’s subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XKdschzLgk
She outright says it. $200k isn’t happening in her view.
Wednesday’s subject is more subtle. She doesn’t say she’s not expecting to pay the loans back, but that’s the implication when the subject comes up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKM9uVpPmDk
Yes, Austin Soy Boy turned Soy Girl. Even has a dog.
Strictly anectdotal, but the attitude isn’t unusual.
The other day I read somewhere that even if the address looks right, they can use a letter from another alphabet.
Like, the letter O. Real in English, fake in Cyrillic. Same for P and W and T along with a few more. They look the same, different ascii code.
О or O. The first O is Cyrillic.
Darn if I figure how to type the letter ala alt 0162 to get ¢ I don’t know how to paste in U+041E
Back in 2019 or very early 2020, when Bernie the Commie was promising student loan forgiveness, my commietard coworkers were fully on-board with it. All of the data scientists and I think all of the vaguely-medical-field 20- and 30-somethings had student debt, usually a lot of it, and were barely making ends meet and getting rid of the student debt would help a lot.
Of course, they all had new cars (or new when they bought them a few years ago) and every single one of them took at least one expensive vacation – Ireland, New Orleans during Mardi Gras, a cruise ship – and few if any of them cooked their own meals, using restaurants, take-out, or heat-and-eat. Oh, and the expensive coffees at least once per day. And the new iPhones every couple years. And most of them went out drinking at least once per week. And…
I’m pretty sure that their student loan payments were not the main source of their financial hardship.
But no, it’s Trump’s fault that they’re struggling to pay the bills. It’s old people’s fault for screwing up the economy. And the younger people can’t afford a house or to get married, and it was somehow my fault because I’m married and have kids and a house. It wasn’t the fault of the other grownups who had houses and families because they spoke the libtard cant but as a non-libtard, it was all my fault.
(Missed this earlier)
Define “qualified”. He wasn’t a career politician, which puts him well over his predecessors and successors. He didn’t get us into any wars, unlike his predecessors or successors. He didn’t launch any massively expensive federal programs, unlike his predecessors or successors. So far as I know, he neither was steamrolled by his chief of staff or the agency heads nor did he attempt to steamroll Congress, in either case to arrogate unConstitutional powers for the agencies.
By almost any criteria, Eisenhower was one of the best Presidents of the 20th Century.
(The “almost” weasel word was placed there so that communists, warmongers, Democrats, and welfare parasites (some category overlap may be observed) would be able to claim that he didn’t meet their standards.)
In theory I believe Unicode is “illegal” (not part of the standard) in URL’s. Or used to be, a couple of decades ago.
I’ve written before about the girl I worked with tolling company who went to [The Most Expensive Engineering School In The US … Or At Least Was … Who Knows Now].
Prior to the pandemic, during Texas primary season, the subject of the election came up, and she indicated that she was voting for Mayor Pete because he promised student loan repayment and her education was financed mostly with Parent PLUS loans.
“It isn’t fair to ask my parents to repay that money.”
No, snowflake, it isn’t.
To be fair, the girl was extremely tight with money, and she didn’t indulge in luxury vacations AFAIK. The only extravagance was the education. However, her job at the tolling company didn’t touch her undergrad engineering discipline, and the pay at the place wasn’t anwhere close to what you would imagine possible to ask for with paper from this particular school
New Orleans during Mardi Gras is just about the last place on Earth I want to visit.
I’ll go to Mobile if I want to stand outside in February when it’s darn near freezing to catch candy tossed from the parade floats.
Besides, the last couple of times we have gone to New Orleans, driving, coming home it’s been pull over so I can puke my toenails up. Not hungover at all.
Flew to somewhere. Not Miami but near. Drove to Key West. That was interesting. A rented Buick that was rather floaty on the suspension. Key West is not all that special, just an over priced South Padre Island. With wild chickens running around. Driving back to the airport, quick pull over I gotta puke.
There seem to be sanitation problems.
I go to the RGV. No problem. I go to South Padre, no problem. I’ve been to Puerto Vallarto, food from the street vendor taco stands? No problem. Hawaii? Eating at local/native restaurants? No problem.
Yes, that was one of the first things that I checked when I got suspicious. The letters are genuine. The email address is proper, the email has no misspellings, formatted exactly the same as PayPal. There is nothing that I can see that would indicate the email was not from PayPal.
That is the reason I stated he was not qualified. He had no political experience as his entire career was in the military. Things operate differently in the military world than in the political world. Being popular is not a good metric for the office. Eisenhower was not a bad president, but I don’t think he was a good president either.
I just think that during the time of Eisenhower there was a big opportunity for economic growth and partnerships with the Russians that were not properly explored.
But compared to the lumps of stupid organisms we have had lately, maybe I am being too harsh. He was certainly heads above the likes of Biden and Obama and Carter and probably even the Bushes. None of which I think was qualified. Obama was elected because he was black. By the majority of the black people and by white people who tried to show they were not racists.
Trump is not a career politician. He is an abusive egotistical person with no diplomatic abilities and no interpersonal abilities. The man is annoying, irritating and generally not nice. I do not like Trump. I could never be his friend. Maybe that is what is needed in the environment of today. Someone that owes no favors to anyone and doesn’t care who he pisses off.
I have not voted for a president in the last half dozen elections. I have only voted against the opponent. That is the only reason that I voted for Trump as Hillary was not an option.
There were other, more qualified, people to be president. But they chose to not run for reasons only they know. We have not had the most competent and qualified person in the White House for years. We have had clowns being manipulated by those surrounding them.
Thank Mississippi Native Jimmy Buffett for making Key West a bucket list destination for Boomers and maybe into my generation (X-er) even though the man himself is on the record stating that “Margaritaville” is about Austin and the actual location where they serve the “Cheeseburger In Pardise” is off Fort Myers on Cabbage Key.
A certain age range just wants to believe that the lifestyle Buffett sings about is possible.
Jimmy himself was a workaholic.
Key West also has the Hemingway connection and Harry Truman was fond of the place.
I’m sure the 1956 speech by Kruschev “We will bury you” was just an indication how wlling the commies were to explore those partnerships.
and re: Trump, please check your media bias.
Yes, he’s rude. To my way of thinking, most of the recipients of his rudeness are fully deserving. He’s flawed, no doubt.
No diplomatic abilities? And yet able to convince bankers to come back to his business, time after time? Able to navigate blue-city bureaucrats to get contstruction projects approved? Able to corral contractors to complete his projects, mostly on time and budget? Able to get middle-Eastern diplomats to come to the table for the Abraham Accords?
Two of his major flaws are listening to his daughter and son-in-law on domestic policy, and actually trusting RINOs to keep their promises.
I think he may have learned his lesson there. I hope so, anyway.
You changed your PayPal password, right?
Did I quote this before? I meant to, but maybe I got distracted.
Big V might or might not have a chance but he’s certainly staked out his territory and going big…
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/speaking-truth-power-vivek-mops-stage-floor-gop/
n
“Catholic Nuns Suing Smith & Wesson Over AR-15 Productions and Sales”
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/12/07/catholic-nuns-suing-smith-and-wesson-over-ar-15-productions-and-sales-n2167299
“The anti-gun crusaders really will stop at nothing to try to disarm law-abiding Americans. Now, in a case filed in a state court in Nevada, a group of Catholic nuns is suing Smith & Wesson over their manufacture and distribution of AR-15-pattern rifles. Here’s the catch: The nuns in question have bought Smith & Wesson stock, and are carrying out this action as shareholders.”
Nuns, go away !
Shareholders do not get to run the company. Shareholders hire company directors who run the company. If shareholders do not like what the directors do then they can certainly vote for new directors. But if the unhappy shareholders only own 5 out of the 60 million shares of stock, that argument will not go far.
“Elon Musk Wanted Confirmation From Tucker Carlson That SecDef Lloyd Austin ‘Really Said This’”
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2023/12/07/elon-musk-wanted-confirmation-from-tucker-carlson-that-secdef-lloyd-austin-really-said-this-n2390603
From Tucker Carlson:
“The Biden administration is openly threatening Americans over Ukraine. In a classified briefing in the House yesterday, defense secretary Lloyd Austin informed members that if they don’t appropriate more money for Zelensky, “we’ll send your uncles, cousins and sons to fight Russia.” Pay the oligarchs or we’ll kill your kids.”
Lloyd Austin needs to be impeached today !
CentCom. Tampa. Nothing more needs to be said about Austin IMHO.
If Trump is reelected, he needs to clean house at the MacDill freak show commands. Lots of mischief is brewing at the south end of the Interbay Peninsula.
Yes, it has been changed. This was my old password (minus the quotes) “Fdggw^B4kqffWX$@Nu&m”. I seriously doubt it was guessed.
A good diplomat can call a person an anal orifice and the person walks away feeling good about themselves. Trump does not do that.
The trumpster is better than the current alternatives. Surely there has to be something better.
The guy is a skilled negotiator, able to manipulate people to get what he wants. He tells people what he thinks without regard to their feelings and what others think. I don’t like that.
Maybe, just maybe, that is what we need in the White House. I still won’t like it but it may have some positive consequences. Telling other countries to stuff it, telling political opponents to put Vaseline on it before putting it where the sun don’t shine, well, it may just be time for that to happen. And I am just pissin’ in the wind.
Can’t use the word “cotton” around blacks anymore apparently.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12838721/google-racism-black-attendees-notebook-joke-cotton.html
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You know why they are called Nuns? They want none, and will get none.
I would like to see the laws in this country changed in regards to lawsuits. The losing party pays all court costs and attorney fees for both sides. May stop some frivolous lawsuits. Or make it harder for people with real complaints.
I guess watermelon will be next.
Should read “Big Baby, spoiled for 3 decades by indulgent parents”…
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The Republican alternative for Governor of Florida in 2018 was Adam “Opie” Putnam (RINO-Lake Wales, FL), hand picked by the Bush family for the job after Putnam was the point man for Shrub on immigration in Congress in the mid-2000s.
Putnam would have lost to Andrew Gillum, and instead of FL Dems being out of power for a generation, Benny Crump would have extended his rackets to Tallahassee. Trump knew this.
Vivek needs to be put under a microscope and have his Kenny Boys examined, starting with the people who helped him build his business.
Two EV commercials (that I noticed) in the first quarter of tonight’s Prime game, Honda & BMW.
Yeah. Blacklisting can sometimes be the appropriate thing. I literally wouldn’t let this guy on my property to do yard work at minimum wage.
@Ray Thompson
So Eisenhower wasn’t corrupt enough to be president?
@EdH
Following your brushing link got me to this:
Ina Garten Says Replace This Kitchen Utensil Yearly
In an interview withFood & Wine, Garten explained that your Veggie peelers and zesters need be replaced annually. She told the outlet, “Vegetable peelers get rusty, they get dull, and they’re very cheap, so you can just throw them out and buy new ones. Every once in awhile I do that.”
https://www.lifesavvy.com/42476/ina-garten-says-replace-this-kitchen-utensil-yearly/
Not necessary at all. Just quit buying the cheap stuff made by the Chinese lying noface bioweapon manufacturers.
I have two traditional design stainless steel vegetable peelers I bought from Pampered Chef more than 25 years ago. They have no rust and are still sharp. Yeah, they were probably made in China, but they weren’t cheap.
My Microplane zester is also stainless and worth the $10 ($15 now) I paid for it probably ten years ago.
Chefs who don’t take care of their tools are idiots.
@Lynn
“The new rules are guaranteed to put several oil and natural gas company executives in jail for decades. All in the name of nonexistent Climate Change. I am worried.”
Vote for Trump and the EPA goes to jail.
@SteveF
“He didn’t launch any massively expensive federal programs, unlike his predecessors or successors.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
@Ray
“telling political opponents to put Vaseline on it before putting it where the sun don’t shine, well, it may just be time for that to happen.”
Not next time. Dry, folded to sharp corners, and sideways.
re the interstate system, good point. I should have said that Eisenhower didn’t launch any moneypit projects which didn’t provide any value for the expense. -cough- welfare -cough-
@SteveF
The interstate system should have been limited to intercity highways and city bypasses. Federal money has no business being spent on pork barrel projects to move commuters in east coast cities at $50 million per mile. Or at least invert the ratio from 90% federal/10% state to 10/90.
@drwilliams, it ended up that way but did it start that way? It was supposed to be defense spending, but we have all benefited, most especially the OTR truckers, which lowered the cost of moving goods, which helped us all.
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“The new rules are guaranteed to put several oil and natural gas company executives in jail for decades. All in the name of nonexistent Climate Change. I am worried.”
Vote for Trump and the EPA goes to jail.
The EPA and CARB used to be my customers. Now they use Excel. They are not rigorous. Makes one wonder.
re the interstate system, good point. I should have said that Eisenhower didn’t launch any moneypit projects which didn’t provide any value for the expense. -cough- welfare -cough-
I have no problem with the interstates, in fact we need several more of them. I-14 across Texas needs to be completed, it is the alternate route for I-10, it bypasses Beaumont, Houston, and San Antonio.
I have a serious problem using gas tax money for bike paths. That is just a waste of good tax money.
“Alex Jones Reveals to Tucker Carlson the REAL Reason He Was Banned From Twitter [Not Sandy Hook]”
https://rumble.com/v406mjq-alex-jones-reveals-to-tucker-carlson-the-real-reason-he-was-banned-from-twi.html
“Alex Jones was mean to Oliver Darcy.”
What ? Alex Jones is mean to everybody.