Chilly this morning. Lot of moisture on the ground, so damp too. Stayed pretty cool all day Saturday, and really never got sunny either. Fortunately, I had work to keep me warm.
The fact that it was not work that was on my list was a bit unfortunate, but thems the breaks. Own property and you’ll end up doing stuff. In this case, it was dropping a tree before it fell on the adjoining lot.
I put on all my safety gear, chaps, helmet with screen shield, and ear muffs, and fired up the chainsaw. Got a little gentle mocking from my neighbor, but it would be really dumb to get hurt with the proper gear in the garage. Plus, we’re a long way from any good reconstructive surgeons. It’s one thing to take ordinary risks when you’re 2 minutes from the EMS response, quite another when the first help is 20 minutes away, and has a 20 minute mobilization response time, and then you are looking at lifeflight to Houston for anything major. Never mind the rehab time…
So 50 ft of oak tree is stacked by the fire pit. Funny thing is I brought a new electric chainsaw up here with me this trip. At home I find the electric is great for almost everything I can’t easily get with the pole saw. And I like to have tools with multiple fuel options, so when one came up in the auction cheap, I bought it and brought it up here. Used the gas one for this job though. If in some future time gas is hard to come by, the electric will run off solar and an inverter…
There are a lot of things that might not be life or death during grid up, that would be a really big deal off grid, or grid down. Safety gear is important. The injury you prevent is one you don’t have to treat.
I will mention that I forgot to bring my new logger style boots up here with me. I was thinking about that while tromping around in the mud and branches as I limbed and cut up the tree. The Under Armor tactical boots I usually wear up here are comfortable, but I wouldn’t say they were ‘sturdy’ or ‘durable.’
Footwear is a lot like gloves, cameras, or the right gub, something is better than nothing, but the right one for the job is best.
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I did have a nice little fire and some shortwave listening last night. Heard a show called CruisingTheDecades.com which played one pop song from each decade, 1910 to present. It was really interesting and I hope I’ll catch it again. One of the things I like most about radio is the serendipity and novelty. Of the 12 songs, I recognized 9,and enjoyed hearing all but one.
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Today I’ve still got stuff to put away, and it would be nice to spend some time with D1 and an air rifle. We’ll see how it goes. Kid has school on Monday so we will be headed home at some point.
Stack some safety gear, stack some tools. You never know when you’ll need them.
nick
Cat insisted I get up. He wanted to drink from the bathroom faucet. I wonder if I could train him to start the coffee, if I put a treat dispenser in the loop?
No one “owns” Incitatus but he has handlers who let him roam free in the pasture until he is needed in the Senate for a vote.
The moment he doesn’t stomp his foot – that means “Yes” — twice on command, he’ll be sent to the rendering plant.
Yeh, chainsaw safety. I was about 2 miles up a dirt path in the woods, alone, cutting up Madrone trees that had been felled a couple of years ago. They were now dry and needed for fire wood. Using a tractor and a trailer to transport the cut firewood. The saw slipped and came across my leg. it tore my pants and left a fairly shallow cut about 2 inches long. I cut part of my shirt and wrapped it around the wound and stopped the bleeding. The cut was not life threatening and did not reach the leg muscle. It could have been much worse and I would have bleed out and died. After a short break I continued working.
The saw was a big McCullough saw with a 27” blade. Big sucker, powerful enough to slice easily through an 24” tree. And a really sharp chain. No safety features. I used no protection, leather boots, no hard hat, no face protection, no hearing protection, no chaps. Happy and dumb in 1967.
41 F, clear, and gonna be sunny today. Feels really cold with the breeze. The varmints did not stay outside long. Both of them are sporting real thick coats this winter. The Siamese’s coat is about 5 inches long. Winter is a long time from over.
Too early for writing.
My el-cheapo Black and Decker 14″ electric chainsaw is rated for a draw of 8 Amps. I use it in the yard for everything so I would consider that to be the minimum.
Gonna need a bigger solar panel.
So do I. My favourite classical music channel, BR-Klassik, has a listeners’ choice programme, which is live as I type this. I rarely hear new-to-me classical music that I like (my taste is maybe a bit conservative), but I just heard the Sanctus from the Armed Man Mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins. I had never heard of him or his Mass before, but I immediately opened the Big River app and bought the CD. Technology is magic.
Yesterday was Mozart’s birthday. Play some!
PPE. People often comment on my being fussy about earplugs and safety glasses around hammers, axes and power tools. Mostly the same people who say, “wha?” a lot.
The importance of the “Benevolent Dictator for Life”. This isn’t exactly news to anyone involved with Linux since the early 90s.
The commercial Unix vendors would have gone extinct a lot faster IMHO if it weren’t for the drawn out process of standardizing the C++ STL into C++03. A few Bankruptcies helped that process, but prior to standardization, C++ in a commercial environment with closed source involved a license fee for cover sold to management with Hookers-and-Steaks marketing.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/27/opinion_column/
In the late 90s, you didn’t take a technical position which contradicted the guy supplying the girls and the steaks.
Charles Osgood
1933-2024
RIP
I used to not use safety equipment while doing anything. It has cost me dearly with my hearing. I now wear earplugs at sporting events or my AirPods. The AirPods in transparency mode work really well to quench the noise and yet still hear people. They are more comfortable than earplugs. Full noise cancelling almost completely mutes the sound. The AirPods are an amazing product.
I now wear full over the ear hearing protection while mowing along with safety glasses and gloves. I use only the safety glasses and gloves while running the weed whacker as it is electric and fairly quiet. I did not do any of that for many years and regret the lack of common sense. I came close to losing a couple of fingers and one time my leg.
While on the farm safety equipment was non-existent. I wore Converse tennis shoes in the summer while working with cattle. Many time a foot has been stepped on but no broken bones. Operating the equipment was tennis shoes, Levis, and a t-shirt of some kind. Winter I added rubber boots and a jacket, panty hose when it was really cold and wet. Never wore a hat or hearing protection. Knowing what I know now, I would wear a large brim hat, sunglasses, long sleeve shirt, glove and leather boots.
Operating that chainsaw, which was often, would include safety chaps, steel toed boots, full hard hat with face protection and most certainly ear protection.
The damage I did to my body due to lack of protection in my youth is significant. Hearing is really bad, scars on the hands, arms, face and legs, feet that suffer from lack of support and protection, maybe even future cancer from working with products that are now known carcinogens without any skin protection.
Prediction: The phones rang in Detroit and Baltimore this morning, with the Geico Gecko supplying the dimes which got dropped.
49F and bright sun this morning. Clear, beautiful day.
Slept in a bit. I’m pretty sore from the tree cutting yesterday.
Coffee is ready though…
n
Now it’s just casual, “everyone knows this” fact reporting, huh?
n
Weasels.
I spent “at least” $47 on groceries.
I spent “at least” $47 on groceries, every visit to the store.
I spent “at least” $47 on groceries, ever visit to the store that has the best prices, during my once a week trips.
I spent “at least” $147 on groceries, ever visit to the store that has the best prices, during my once a week trips.
I spent “at least” $147 at the grocery store.
. . .
. . .
These statements are all TRUE, I’d be able to testify under oath to it, and they are NOT all the same. They LIE and MISDIRECT, they imply and conceal. When applied to .gov or the influences behind the throne, they are dangerous and intentional.
You should be parsing everything you read in the press looking for this kind of thing, if you would seek truth.
n
These would all be true even if I spent $1000 a day at HEB. They’d all be true if I spent $10K a day across multiple stores. They’d all be true if I did it for one year in 1999, or every year since.
Unless proven otherwise, I assume that the freezing
migrantinvader family was staged.Even if it’s real, I have no sympathy. It’s kind of rough on little kids who didn’t choose to invade, but if their parents don’t care about their safety or lives, why should I?
re not believing what’s reported in the media, if the news organizations wanted the public to believe them, they shouldn’t have lied so much
As for something I actually care about: Five eggs today between dawn and noon! From six hens. They spent about five hours wandering around the garden, yard, and forest yesterday. I let them out more because of bad weather forecast for coming days: rain all night, drizzle, most of the morning, now changing to snow, more snow tonight and tomorrow. (School might be cancelled or delayed tomorrow because of snow sitting on top of ice. Fun!) I don’t know if the extra freedom, fresh air, and ticks they managed to scratch up contributed to the egg increase or if it was just random fluctuation. The latter, likely, as they laid only two yesterday.
I’ll probably get a half dozen more chicks come Spring. Assuming that three are hens, nine hens will be only fractionally more work and expense for me than six hens.
Prediction: The phones rang in Detroit and Baltimore this morning, with the Geico Gecko supplying the dimes which got dropped.
– sportsball?
n
I need to get some decent boots. Had a pair that lasted 10 years or so – cost a few $hundred, but worth it. Since then, I’ve bought cheaper, but they don’t last more than a year. Time to bite the bullet, and spend for quality. Maybe this week…
I used to be mostly careful. After I started saying “wha?” a lot, I got more careful. Better late than never, I guess. Big, fat hole around 4khz. Mostly, I have problems with women’s voices.
Is that really a hearing problem?
“Is that really a hearing problem?”
Maybe it is a feature?
The Adventures of Superman (1952-1958) is one of my favorite classic shows. H&I airs multiple episodes every weekend. You can look ahead at the schedule and catch episodes that you might have missed in the past six decades.
https://www.tvinsider.com/network/heroes-icons/schedule/
One of my favorite episodes aired today: “Flight to the North” (1955, original color) aka “the lemon meringue pie episode”. A true comedy classic, guest-starring Chuck Connors (before he became a star as “The Rifleman”) as Sylvester Superman, Ben Welden as Leftover Louie (how many times was he a gangster named Lou in this series?), and an uncredited mule.
That was followed by “The Seven Souvenirs”. Notable for a rare screen portrayal of a rogue chemical engineer who tricks Superman into using his x-ray vision on an unknown ally, causing it to transmute into “pure radium worth millions of dollars”, and also for an appearance by Phillips Tead as Mr. Willy, in his first role for the series, who made several later appearances as the absent-minded inventor Professor Pepperwinkle.
An oddity is that both of the above episodes are from 1955’s season 3, but are listed in the credits as copyright 1957.
Yeah, lyin’. Trump tho.
Here’s the thing. Trump. I’m jus’ sayin’.
@Brad
When you get a new pair of boots or shoes give them a couple applications of Scotchguard, making sure to hit the joint between the uppers and sole. I keep a cheap 1″ paintbrush in my shoe care box just to work a heavy spray more deeply into the material.
I’ve mentioned before that the original Scotchguard line was based on a chemistry (c8 aka “octyl”, for the length of the perfluoro backbone of the molecules) that is better than the current product. If you find pre-1999 cans of any Scotchguard at thrift stores, garage or estate sales for a couple dollars, buy them.
Football, but huge money and media control is at stake in the outcome of today’s games with Warren Buffett holding … 15% ? … of CBS/Paramount class ‘B’ stock and negotiations underway with Skydance to take the company private.
The best outcome for CBS and The Gecko is a 49ers vs. Taylor Swift Superbowl.
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/01/28/two-young-boys-stabbed-to-death-uk-police-urging-public-not-to-identify-suspects-n607973
oh, let me make a guess about the ethnicity an immigration status of the perps that the U.S. police are covering up…
Fixed it for you. Repeat after me, the UK is not part of the United States, yet.
H&I does sometimes run episodes of series out of order and Weigel Broadcasting (parent of H&I) isn’t always timely with the updates sent to the publisher of the national TV schedule.
Microsoft distributed the schedule when I last played with that file 15 years ago.
H&I just botched the order of the episodes at the end of the first season of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” on the current cycle within the last few weeks.
I wasn’t going to say that, but…
True. However, it is also likely that the victims were equally upstanding citizens.
I have a cache of stamps uncovered in my late brother’s
junktreasures, some full sheets, some canceled. Not being a philatelist, I have no idea of their value.Any suggestions for a fair and honest appraisel and purchase offer in the Houston area?
I Am OVER ‘Climate Activists’ Tantrums: Now They’ve Hit the Mona Lisa
[And STILL no one tackles these creatures. OMG. ~ Beege]
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/01/28/i-am-over-climate-activists-tantrums-now-theyve-hit-the-mona-lisa-n607968
I was in a retail store last week and noticed fast movement at the edge of my vision. A large young male was heading out the door with an armful, and the short middle-aged female store employee trailing behind loudly saying “Sir, sir! You need to pay for that!” made the situation obvious. I had one item in my hand and laid it down on the way out the door after her. I was only 2-3 seconds behind, but by the time I turned right to follow she was already on her way back with the articles in hand and the back of the unsuccessful thief disappearing between cars in the parking lot.
No, I did not go out the door after a thief. I went out the door in case a brave woman needed some help.
There’s a whole generation whose immediate idea of action is to whip out the cell phone and start the video. The above link shows security footage, but I’m sure there was multiple cell phone video taken and posted. The clip is short, but I doubt that the act or attacking a national treasure stirred any of the witnesses to other action.
Perhaps if the miscreants were stripped naked and their clothing was returned to them after being used to wipe up the mess the next lot would be dissuaded? I know the leftist judges believe that the sheeple should just take it, but I can clearly see where that road leads and there’s nothing their but flame.
A quick google search for ‘philatist in houston tx’ (even though spelled incorrectly) came up with several recommendations, including a club : https://www.houstonstampclub.org/ , along with some apparently retail stores.
Even the future of “Star Trek” could be at stake today.
I’ve long believed that the last season of “Discovery” will simply be shelved and serve as a writeoff.
This belief was reinforced with the “Those Old Scientists” (get it?) episode of “Strange New Worlds” which kinda-sorta fixed canon damage from the recent TV efforts.
@lpdbw
“Any suggestions for a fair and honest appraisel and purchase offer in the Houston area?”
If they are U.S. stamps from the last 100 year a quick look on eBay should give you an idea. The most likely good news is you can still use the uncancelled ones for postage.
The USPS and their commemorative stamp program was the model for the U.S. Mint’s state quarter and successor programs to exploit seigniorage to give their budgets a boost. The time is long past for stamp or coin collectors to find anything worthwhile in the wild or “invest” by buying new issues over the counter.
Regarding PPE, I started working with tools at an early age. Those were just simple tools borrowed from my father’s workbench. I remember being short enough to stretch to see him working on that bench. Later, I started using tools that made noise, mostly hammers on sheet metal. After getting sore ears, I started stuffing tissue in my ears. AFAIK, there were no commonly available hearing protectors available in the early 1950s. There was an attitude that only wimps used safety stuff. BTW, moist tissue can block a lot of sound, but can be hard to extract.
I started shooting late, in college. The ROTC folks had an indoor (yea, dry!) .22 cal rifle range. No hearing protection against the sound bouncing off the walls, but the rifles didn’t seem very loud. Shortly thereafter, I started shooting 1911s outdoors. Pretty loud, so I again started stuffing my ears with tissue. Got some strange looks. Shot lots of .45 ACP over the next bunch of years. Used hearing protection on formal ranges. Occasionally shot a few rounds from louder pistols, traded off with friends. Ear protection was mandatory. Learned what painful sound was like.
Started working with noisier tools, so better hearing protection. Added eye protection, and protection for everything that got hurt. Slow learner. A table saw cutting corrugated sheet steel with a cutoff blade can be unbelievably loud. Also throws red hot slivers. A wire wheel can be really dangerous.
My first chainsaw was a (1960s, bought in ~1980) Sears 16” with no safety devices. It has a 4.25 cu in (70 cc) 2 stroke engine with a spark arrester screen but no muffler. It was legal (then) to use in the local forests. I used it to mostly cut up downed trees. To say it is loud is an understatement. That sucker commanded respect. I didn’t know about chaps, but did cover almost all of me. My coverings were probably not adequate, but never had any close calls. I don’t use it anymore, instead preferring to scrounge building scraps. Between that and the forest, I had a deal with a local yard to haul off some of their scraps. The forest is a long way to drive, and logging roads can be hard on cars towing a trailer.
My only family member who had an accident was one of my father’s uncles, and his accident should serve as a lesson. He worked in a wood shop back when safety was not a consideration, but his accident was in his back yard. A small bit of mortar splashed into his eye, and the lime scarred the cornea. He never again had good vision in that eye. He used to remark that he was ultra careful in the wood shop, but never thought about those seemingly innocent other activities.
Cover up! Pay attention!! Be safe!!!
Denver is Collapsing Under the Weight of the Migrant Crisis
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/01/28/denver-is-collapsing-under-the-weight-of-the-migrant-crisis-n607953
$100 million/9 months →$133 million per year
$133 million per year/40,000 =$3325 for each alien invader
The tip of the iceberg. Sounds grossly low. Doesn’t account for federal, state, the funds being stolen from existing programs, the communist front organizations, the degradation in quality of life, the loss of access to medical facilities, parks, public buildings, etc.
Consider the cost of housing alone. Try a lowball estimate:
40,000 invaders x $100/night/4 invaders = $1,000,000 per night
$1,000,000 per night x 365 nights/year = $365,000,000 per year
So a good starting point would be to ask what it costs per head per day to shelter the invaders. I’d guess that anyone that said $25 would be laughed out of town. So what is the real cost?
This is purely and simply a plot by the U.Sn, world elites and homegrown communists to destroy the United States.
A good place to start would be to charge with treason and imprison FJB, his staff, everyone who has visited the White House in the last three years, and anyone else working for his administration. They can sit there without bail until we clean up the mess.
I wanted to see the Mona Lisa from an early age, and had a chance in 2002. There was no clear shield blocking it from vandalism, only a discreet velvet rope to keep people from touching it. I stood respectfully back, but could have probably reached it without touching the rope. Times have changed.
Something planned, announced, and very memorable should have immediately been done to those soup throwers. I still believe in deterrents.
Above should read: “a plot by the U.N.”
Horse whips. For a start. Then break a few bones to cripple them.
When you get a new pair of boots or shoes give them a couple applications of Scotchguard, making sure to hit the joint between the uppers and sole. I keep a cheap 1″ paintbrush in my shoe care box just to work a heavy spray more deeply into the material.
When I lived in Michigan, we used a silicone oil liquid compound to waterproof shoes and leather snow boots. A quick search didn’t find it, but it was called Shoe Saver. I would apply it to new items until more would not absorb. This was good enough for shoes. For snow boots, I would also apply a heavy coating of Kiwi wax polish and use a heat lamp to melt it into the leather, concentrating on the sole to upper seams. This would last a long time, usually a whole season. I preferred one piece rubber soles and heels for water resistance, traction, and durability. For really bad conditions, we used all rubber boots with two pair of heavy socks for insulation. It rarely got much below freezing, but salty slush was hard on leather.
Here in the desert, shoes rarely get wet, but I have to worry about the fine clay in our soil drying out leather. It is so bad that the leather can crack in just a couple years of intermittent use. I have tried various preparations, but have found neastfoot oil to be cheap and good enough. I use a small brush to soak the leather, until more will not absorb. This lasts a long time, and it is obvious when more is needed. I have also tried other preparations with varying success.
As for good quality work footwear, I have found the cheap stuff sold at Walmart to be as long lasting as the name brands, realizing that my work wear spends more time sitting than being worked. YMMV. One exception is that a contractor friend wears nothing but Wolverine brand boots. I have never had these, but grew up with their pigskin shoes, then manufactured in Michigan. These were cheap, but wore very well for a growing kid. The suede was hard to keep looking good, but the sponge-ey soles and heels wore well and were comfortable. I walked a lot then, and could wear out other, pricier, brands more quickly. These have mostly disappeared. It might be significant that I like lightweight, thinner workwear because it is comfortable. I would only wear thicker stiffer shoes if I were to hike over rocky ground, which is rare.
On boots vs shoes, an old-time manufacturer of shoes for lumberjacks insists that, regardless of height, if it laces up all the way, it is a shoe; boots do not have laces. This is regardless of how high the shoe is. My Gooogle-fu must be lacking today, because I can’t find that company and the explanation. For heavy work, which I rarely did in my life, I prefer lace-ups for their support. I never liked boots because they necessarily have a sloppy fit. They are only useful for walking in deep water. My $0.02.
I was working on a federally funded project on a military base when I first encountered the “TSA or Task Safety Analysis” also known as JSA, job safety, HSA, Hazard Safety – and a varieties of similar names. It’s usually a three column form listing each task, any possible hazards, and what you are doing to mitigate the hazard. The tasks listed were very detailed and low level.
A TSA was required to be completed BY THE CREW DOING THE WORK before every task. It had to be signed by everyone involved, and present for inspection if someone came around looking. TSAs could also be recursive, so if your task involved ladders, you would also have a TSA form for ladder work, etc.
You can imagine how much time and energy doing the TSAs took up.
As part of the TSA you had to have MSDS sheets for any chemicals in use, posted and available.
One of the other contractors told me that the most common work stoppage was for missing MSDS sheets for CONCRETE. Concrete is a whole lot more than grey colored wet sand….
n
I had the same problem my aunt’s safety deposit box. A couple hundred sheets of stamps. The advice I was given by a collectibles shop, use them for postage. We mailed more than a few packages covered in stamps to Germany.
In Oak Ridge at the nuclear plant, Y12, safety is top priority according to the contract. In reality money by the contractor is top priority. An acquaintance of mine worked in nuclear handling and machining. His 8 hour work day was only 2 hours of actual getting work done. The first 2 hours were safety briefings, then 1 hour of procedure review, lunch, then 1 hour donning safety gear and cross checks, 2 hours of actual work, 1 hour of decontamination and removal of safety gear, and 1 hour of safety debriefing. Even with all that mistakes were sometimes made.
Since I worked for a DOE contractor from 1988 until 1993, I was required to read safety briefs. Many of the mistakes were not made public. Some of the mistakes were from stupidity. Some mistakes were from failure to follow procedures (lazy). Some of the mistakes were from “not my job” union labor. As in the high precision, very expensive, muti-million dollar lathe, that destroyed itself because the emergency stop did not work (not connected) , and the operation of the power disconnect could only be done by a union electrician.
Costco run today, the fist since before Christmas.
The big push today was mens dress shirts. on a table right inside the entrance.
The “This Time We Really Mean It” agenda for getting employees back to the office may be serious.
Super Bowl Drama!
Will Taylor Swift be able to go to the Super Bowl with Travis Kelce
or will her conference schedule prevent it?
I think I have everything I need to do the taxes but one w-2. If it’s the usual routine, it will show up in about two weeks.
What? They have the numbers /right there/ on January 1st. Start printing on the 3rd. Are all of these companies / etc. afraid of overloading USPS?
I just want to get it done. Partly to get it done and mostly to see if I get nailed for selling the house in the RGV.
Chiefs won. She’ll be there.
More money in Warren Buffett’s pocket.
The Gecko may score a trifecta before the annual meeting if the Kroger-Safeway merger closes.
Why would the companies print earlier? The IRS will not start accepting returns until the 29th of this month, tomorrow. The companys have no incentive.
I too wonder why the delay. Especially the stuff from Ameriprise, 1099, which will not arrive until the 15th of next month. There is little excuse for the delay other than because they can. I am ready to file tomorrow except for that document. Some of the information on the 1099 I cannot get from my account on the website.
I really got ticked one year when I filed shortly after getting the 1099 from Ameriprise. Two weeks after I filed, I got a corrected 1099 where I wound up owing more taxes. Seems some zit faced college graduate with a degree in basket weaving and green hair failed to run some script to update information.
Not a lot gets done between Christmas and the MLK Federal holiday anymore.
This year, the unproductive period will start on Thanksgiving Day since the holiday season is short.
I used to alternate 2 pairs of Walmart boots, one pair had holes after a year, the other was fine. I’m currently rotating 3 pairs (I get a discount) and I’ll let you know how that works out.
“After 76 Long Years, In-N-Out Burger Just Made a Heartbreaking Announcement for the Very First Time”
https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/after-76-years-in-n-out-burger-just-made-a-heartbreaking-announcement.html
“It’s the first time In-N-Out Burger has ever closed a restaurant. The reason makes it even harder to take.”
Wow, I did not realize that this was the first store that they had ever closed.
Welcome to moving from a high trust society to a low trust society. It will get worse, way worse.
The added economic hit is that In-n-Out generally pays much better than other fast food outles in a given area, and the restaurants are not highly automated.
Home again home again jiggity jig…
Good morning JS
n
WM used to sell the “Brahma” which was a decent inexpensive workboot. Eventually they retired it and replaced it with the more junky “Brahma II” which fell apart
I wear wide “Keens” now.
Don’t know who David Marcus is, but if he thinks we’re “sleepwalking” toward another Bidden term, he’s insane.
83 million reasons why Trump’s legal woes mean election victory is NOT certain: DAVID MARCUS says the E. Jean Carroll verdict is an urgent wake up call for an America sleepwalking towards a second Biden term
The article is a mishmash of nonsense. Love that he declares one thing “a show trial” and dismisses another, but apparently has NO ISSUES with the cases being brought. Like it’s NORMAL to have 91 cases against an ex-President, and to admit they are “over reach” and “show trials”.
FFS, nothing left of the Republic.
n
@EdH, I like the Keen last. Huge toe box is very comfortable, but every pair I’ve owned has been slicker than snot on wet pavement. No grip at all. It was bad enough I quit wearing Keens entirely.
I’ve currently got two different styles of Under Armor tactical boot. I wear one at home, and one at the BOL. They are quite different. One is all mesh and synthetics, with an aggressive tread, the other is leather upper with a subtle square grid patterned tread. They are lightweight and comfortable for wearing around outdoors in civilization. They are not sturdy or durable. The mesh ones have seams starting to open. The leather ones have cuts in the uppers that got there just from scratches while wearing them. I don’t think they’d be good daily wear “duty” boots unless you were willing to replace them often. They are better than wearing sneakers.
I’ve worn Merrill mid height hikers as work boots for years. I used to have a “good” pair, a “wearing out” pair, and a “worn out” pair I used for painting. I’d buy a new pair and move the others down a step… I’d say the Merrills are good value for the money and fairly protective and comfortable. But they are disposable. And the work was carpentry and metal work in a shop environment.
When I wore steel toes in an office environment I loved Terra shoes from Canadia… They wore well, were comfortable, and were pretty good looking for steel toes. But the soles were plastic and crumbled over time- far sooner than the useful life of the shoe. Since they were ESD safe, that might have been the only choice, but it was very disappointing considering the cost of the shoe.
Even the genuine milspec desert boots I got had a failure of the glue holding the sole on. I’ve seen that on a lot of shoes and boots. I’m guessing the formula changed to be more ecofriendly, and now doesn’t work as well. I see hundreds of pairs of barely worn hiking and work boots at the goodwill with soles peeling loose so I think it’s an industry wide issue.
It could be part of why vintage boots from quality makers are selling so well on ebay, they just don’t make them like they used to .
n
“Putin Ally Ominously Suggests Texas Could Launch ‘Civil War’ in US”
https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ally-ominously-suggests-texas-could-launch-civil-war-us-1864567
“Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and ally of current Russian President Vladimir Putin, made an ominous comment on Friday about Texas potentially starting a new civil war in the United States.”
“Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been in multiple legal battles with the Department of Justice (DOJ) over his migrant deterrent tactics. As the U.S. faces a surge in illegal border crossings, Abbott has tried to fend migrants off, using razor wire along parts of the southern border and a circular saw floating barrier in the Rio Grande river. The Biden administration has called these tactics “dangerous” and “cruel.””
What the illegal immigrants are doing to our country is dangerous and cruel.
The DA’s office in Fulton County is in meltdown mode this weekend. It isn’t a question of “if” the DA resigns but when.
The Republic may yet endure because, at the end of the day, people just want to get laid.
>> Chiefs won. She’ll be there.
As will the Niners. Detroit had a lead at half-time but SF took control in the second half.
There are hopeful Dems that think that Fani can quit and leave the case in the hands of her staff. Her boy toy special prosecutor–or maybe “extra special”–isn’t staff, and is irretrievably involved in the allegations that will push Willis out. It’s unlikely that the other prosecutors can be considered untainted–they will be asked some tough questions about what they knew and how they knew it.
It’s worthwhile to note that it is also claimed that Willis did not get proper authorization to hire a special prosecutor, making the hiring and the salary decisions herself.
The second independent problem is the evidence of the Fulton DA’s special prosecutor coordinating with Biden’s Garland DOJ–a federal crime. That potentially taints the whole office and it may taint the entire case. The DOJ will not cooperate with any investigation because confirmation leads directly to Garland’s impeachment and perhaps further. It also opens the possibility that boy toy could be offered a deal for testifying, which would further muddy the waters.
If the case leaves the Fulton County DA’s office it has to be taken up by another Georgia DA or it dies. It’s doubtful that any other DA is going to offer to die on…
Fani’s Hill.
Detroit required two phone calls today.
Georgia is the last state with the option of a jury assigning both blame and deciding the property division in a divorce. The ex-wife is the wild card.
A woman scorned …
Texas still gives the option of a jury assigning blame, but a judge decides property division.
The judge can solicit the jury’s input, however.
The evidence of coordination comes directly from boy toy’s expense accounts, where he charged two meetings with DOJ. One of these was at the White House with 8 hours at $250 per hour charged. A reasonable question will be exactly who did he meet with on these occasions.
An investigation will examine whether he shows up in the WH visitor logs. If he does not it opens another can of worms, including “conspiracy to obstruct justice” by the Biden White House.
If he is in the logs then the follow-up is who else is there and who did they meet with. If the White House end can be identified, the investigation looks at whether they also met with representatives of other states employing lawfare against Trump. Of particular interest would be anyone from New York.
“A woman scorned …”
A woman who may not have known about her husband “interviewing for new positions” before the papers were filed on the divorce, who was not only kept in the dark about the lucrative salary of the new job, but who alleges that he was simultaneously draining her bank accounts so she couldn’t pay her bills.
Not sure where that comes in on a 1-10 scale of scorning, but pretty high for sure. Something tells me that a monument to her broken marriage based on the flaming remains of her ex-husband’s and ex-husband’s lover’s careers might be rather attractive.
Early to bed and early to rise… well one out of two seems doable.
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>> The evidence of coordination comes directly from boy toy’s expense accounts, where he charged two meetings with DOJ. One of these was at the White House with 8 hours at $250 per hour charged. A reasonable question will be exactly who did he meet with on these occasions.
Certainly not with Plugs…eight hours is well beyond his daily “work” capacity…
“Biden says US ‘shall respond’ after drone strike by Iran-backed group kills 3 US troops in Jordan”
https://apnews.com/article/biden-american-service-members-killed-jordan-iran-5cb774fd835a558d840ae91263037489
I did not know that we had a base in Jordan.
Is it time to bomb Iran ?