Cool and clear again, warming later. Basically perfect Spring days. This would be second in a row as yesterday was gorgeous.
Did several pickups yesterday. Jumped the gun on one but fortunately it is very close to one I had to attend anyway, so no driving or time really lost. Also did my kid thing, and did some cleaning up and putting away in the house.
Today I’m at my client’s house to troubleshoot some issues, and to install a couple of additional cams. While there, I’ll check that one of the alternative bedrooms is fully working, as they’ll be moving to that bedroom while doing some remodeling in the Master. I’m happy to have the extra work as there are lots of things I want to buy.
We used to have a saying in the business, “Done is good. Gone is better. Paid is best.” Paying work rocks.
Money is a great prep. Try to stack some!
nick
X-ers are stuck on mop duty, cleaning up the messes made by our Boomer/War Baby parents and Millenial offspring.
Per Strauss-Howe generations theory, we’re the Nomad generation, stuck in the role of being the pragmatists who have to deal with the crisis of the cycle, a crisis brought on by the preceding generation.
I don’t fully buy in to Generations Theory but there is something to it and it has some analytic value if not necessarily much predictive value.
FWIW, I lean more toward generational hormonal cycles as an explanation. S-H Generations Theory can ride atop this rather than atop cultural patterns.
52F and clear this am. Coffee, egg, bacon. Time to do some stuff.
n
Preceding and succeeding generations. Plural.
The Biden public health crisis gains steam:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/04/chicago-measles-cases-rise-as-illegal-aliens-show-up-with-tuberculosis/
I’m revising my chance of a tRump re-election to below 50/50.
plugsy McSpongeBrain has the entire DNC/PLT/MSM machine running in lockstep. Look at the fear porn with bird flu, measles, etc., and the sheer hate emanating from his cabal for tRump. They are masters of confusion, projection, strawman, and cheating. They also promise a
chickenTesla in every pot.tRump has, well, tRump. The RNC is fractured and useless. Too many RINOs and not enough outspoken conservatives to get the word out.
It’s clear tRump filling stadiums and plugs living in his basement won’t win the election.
I hope independents and conservatives can rally enough votes for a victory. I doubt it, but the cycle is just starting.
plugsy McSpongeBrain has the entire DNC/PLT/MSM/FAGS/QUEERS/Welfare Leaches/Illegal Aliens/Ballot Printers/Organized Crime machines running in lockstep
Fixed it for you.
Trump has those sick of the wrecked economy and the invasion and the endless war and most of the social conservatives.
The gropey pedo has the Dem establishment, the Republican establishment, the grifters with their trotters in the public trough, the public sector unions, the media, the non-citizen voters, and those who put something other than “American” first in their self-identity. Most importantly, the gropey pedo has the Dominion machines and the printing presses which run off batches of pre-filled ballots.
Trump doesn’t stand a chance.
EDIT: Ray beat me by seconds, saying essentially the same thing. Great minds think alike.
Er, Ray, I’m a knucklehead. The similarity of our comments should perhaps be of some concern to you.
Brilliant:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/04/04/cant-touch-this-anti-net-zero-vigilantes-converting-vandalised-low-emission-zone-cameras-into-protected-species-habitats/
It is. I am going to vote democrat to get my mind right.
You still believe that Biden will be the nominee out of the convention.
I don’t.
“America’s Industrious Spirit Is Gone: It Could Take Longer to Rebuild the Baltimore Bridge Than It Took to Build the Entire Transcontinental Railroad”
https://thelibertydaily.com/americas-industrious-spirit-is-gone-it-could-take/
“(DCNF)—The effort to rebuild the recently collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge near Baltimore, Maryland, could quickly turn into a years-long quagmire as a result of environmental red tape under the Biden administration, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.”
““If the bridge gets special regulatory treatment, then five years is a reasonable timeline,” Ryan Young, senior economist at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told the DCNF. “There is some hope for this, based on last year’s collapse of a stretch of I-95 near Philadelphia. It reopened in 12 days, mostly thanks to red tape being waived. It would have taken months otherwise. Of course, that was a much smaller project.””
I expect a decade.
I do a lot of web sites, as you might recall. Many are WordPress-based (like this one). And I just discovered an issue.
On phone devices, the browser used is usually Chrome. By default, the Chrome browser on a phone uses a ‘dark’ theme. (All the ‘cool kids’ like a ‘dark theme’ – where the default is black background and white text – or even gray text.)
So a site, if viewed on a phone device, may not have the text colors in the body area that the designer intended. The text area may be black (good) on a black background (not so good).
The issue is that the Chrome browser on phones may be set to dark mode by default. On my phone, dark mode is enabled if the phone is on ‘battery saver’ mode. The user has to go into the Chrome settings to change to a ‘light’ mode to be able to see the text.
You can see this effect on my author web site (https://www.RichardHellewell.com ) on your phone’s Chrome browser, if the browser is set to dark mode. (You can see the mode via Chrome’s Settings, Theme area. ) If set to ‘dark’, the text on my site will be black on black. Not good.
Note that you can’t see the effect if you go into the browsers Developer mode and into the device emulator (where you can see the site as it might look on portable devices). At least in Firefox developer mode.
I’m still just starting to investigate this. It looks like this site doesn’t have that issue on phones using Chrome if dark mode is the default. And some information on the StackExchange forums – and on the MSDN developer site – indicates that you can’t force the browser into light mode with CSS. At least, that’s my initial research.
And this site, on my phone’s Chrome browser when the theme is set to Dark mode, seems not to have the issue. Which is puzzling.
I’ve got to research this some more; I’m still in ‘early days’ on looking into this. But it is an issue on some sites.
I’m revising my chance of a tRump re-election to below 50/50.
plugsy McSpongeBrain has the entire DNC/PLT/MSM machine running in lockstep. Look at the fear porn with bird flu, measles, etc., and the sheer hate emanating from his cabal for tRump. They are masters of confusion, projection, strawman, and cheating. They also promise a
chickenTesla in every pot.tRump has, well, tRump. The RNC is fractured and useless. Too many RINOs and not enough outspoken conservatives to get the word out.
It’s clear tRump filling stadiums and plugs living in his basement won’t win the election.
I hope independents and conservatives can rally enough votes for a victory. I doubt it, but the cycle is just starting.
Robert Heinlein said that it is time to find a new planet when the population hits a billion. We are WAY past that mark.
Congress authorized I-14 across Louisiana and Texas in 2005 as a bypass for I-10. So, 19 years later, we have about 60 miles of I-14 built and/or designated. If I-14 had been started 40 years ago, I-14 would have been a thousand miles long now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_14
We are moribund in bureaucrats and regulations now. I am amazed that anything can be built.
The Sunshine Skyway bridge rebuild in Tampa could have been done in less than five years, but the mucky mucks debated a tunnel like in Mobile.
I assume a similar debate will take place in Baltimore. Lots of soup bowls get tied to tunnels even after construction is complete.
“California, Home of the $17 Double Whopper”
https://www.independentsentinel.com/california-home-of-the-17-double-whopper/
“The New York Post reported that California got its $ 20-an-hour fast food minimum wage, and prices went up, in some places, by as much as 25%. How long before people are laid off? Next week, perhaps? Workers will probably work a lot harder for their $20 an hour.”
“The biggest increase was at Burger King, where a Texas Double Whopper meal cost $15.09 on March 29 but surged to $16.89 on April. A double whopper is almost $17!”
I am surprised that California did not put price controls on all of the restaurants.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Mod Pizza shut 27 stores.”
Wow.
Lots of hard feelings remain in that part of Texas about the Trans-Texas Corridor boondoggle and what all of that eminent domain did to the communities paralleling I-35 east of Temple.
The structural concrete members to build the transition from EB I-14 to SB I-35 and NB I-35 to WB I-14 are still stacked in front of the Bingo room in Belton. They’ve been there since before we moved to Texas in 2010.
There seems to be a basic flaw in the politicians understanding of economics. If the most of producing a widget rises, the cost of that widget will also rise. If the cost of making fast food rises, the prices of the products will also rise. The taxes on those products will also rise.
The people making $20.00 an hour from the their $16.00 an hour job, are now seeing the prices rise. The purchasing power has remained the same, or diminished. An hour’s wages to buy lunch, is still now an hour’s wages to buy lunch.
But since the people are making more, they will pay more in taxes to the state. The rise in prices, along with the money paid to the state, will mean some workers actually have less buying power.
The only entity that benefited is the taxing authorities, local, state and federal. Way to go California. Now, hopefully, more people will be leaving. I cannot imagine anyone wanting to move to California unless there was absolutely no other choice.
If price controls were mandated, most fast food places and restaurants would be closing their doors. Or eliminating much of the staff.
It might also extend to a lot of other business. If the cost to produce the product exceeds what is paid for the product, the product dies. The union mindset. Eliminate the workers that have tried the longest to do their job and punish those that actually produce.
There seems to be a basic flaw in the politicians understanding of economics. If the most of producing a widget rises, the cost of that widget will also rise. If the cost of making fast food rises, the prices of the products will also rise. The taxes on those products will also rise.
The politicians do not care about economics. All they care about is getting more and more money to redistribute. In fact, a crisis is good for them as they will “lead” us out of the crisis by raising tax rates.
But since the people are making more, they will pay more in taxes to the state. The rise in prices, along with the money paid to the state, will mean some workers actually have less buying power.
And there you go.
Fast food restaurants being allowed to accept EBT cards will happen first.
Uber Eats accepts EBT for grocery deliveries. I doubt it will be too long before that gets expanded to prepared food.
Fast food restaurants being allowed to accept EBT cards will happen first.
Uber Eats accepts EBT for grocery deliveries. I doubt it will be too long before that gets expanded to prepared food.
You know my opinion on EBT cards. EBT cards should dropped and if you want a free meal, go to the Post Office and they will issue you a MRE. One MRE. If you want another free meal, then you should go back to the Post Office and they will issue you another MRE. Do not make it so easy to get a free meal.
The day that the EBT cards fail to work is coming. It will happen before this decade is over. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
How big is $30 million in cash? How much would it weigh? I assume that only large bills were taken.
My favorite AI says that if the bills were all $100 bills, then $30 million in cash, if in $100 bills, would weigh approximately 661.386 pounds. Or, about 64 cubic feet. Or 1/5 of a standard wooden pallet.
>> I’m revising my chance of a tRump re-election to below 50/50.
plugsy McSpongeBrain has the entire DNC/PLT/MSM machine running in lockstep. Look at the fear porn with bird flu, measles, etc., and the sheer hate emanating from his cabal for tRump. They are masters of confusion, projection, strawman, and cheating. They also promise a
chickenTesla in every pot.Watch this clip and tell me that the “fix” isn’t being put in place as we speak…heard the same sentiment yesterday on Fox (from Jessie Watters I think). TPTB just need to remind Dr. Biden to keep it on the QT.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jill-biden-snaps-mention-poll-president-trailing-trump-six-swing-states-no-hes-not
>> You still believe that Biden will be the nominee out of the convention.
I don’t.
Let’s see who’s first to publish a Trump vs. Big Mike poll.
I’ve seen it in passing at a few fringe outlets with Trump winning, but I don’t believe that for a second.
I think a critical mass of wronged prominent black women will be necessary to sell a Big Mike candidacy.
The two women prosecutors in Atlanta and NY. Lizzo. The list is starting to grow.
The EBT system is what used to be known as Chase Paymentech, part of a “too big to fail bank”. We will have a lot of problems on that day.
Puts me in mind of a quote from A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain:
I first read that when I was twelve years old, and it has stuck with me.
I don’t suppose it is very popular any more.
Got some issues resolved. Headed into the attic to pull some cables. It’s hot up there.
N
And that describes the cretin in the oval office.
“Phillips 66 converts Rodeo refinery to diet of 100% renewable feedstocks”
https://www.ogj.com/energy-transition/article/55001638/phillips-66-converts-rodeo-refinery-to-diet-of-100-renewable-feedstocks
“Phillips 66 Co. has eliminated crude oil processing at the San Francisco refining complex in Rodeo, Calif., and is nearing completion of its Rodeo Renewed project to convert the former conventional refinery into a manufacturing hub exclusively dedicated to production of renewable fuels (OGJ Online, June 6, 2023). As of Apr. 1, the Rodeo Renewed energy complex was processing only renewable feedstocks and producing about 30,000 b/d of renewable diesel, Phillips 66 said.”
Wow. One wonders if California will have any refineries left soon.
I think there is a good chance of a plugs medical emergency, maybe even a “room temperature” event.
The DNC would then have a perfect “Jesus Candidate” opportunity. Lizzo “I’ll fix all the problems plugs caused,” and, of course, deliver even more Commie policies.
Baaa, Baaa, wake up sheeple!
“CIA ‘warns Iran will attack Israel within 48 hours’ as revenge for consulate strike”
https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/133437/cia-warning-iran-attack-israel-consulate
“Tehran is said to be planning a combined attack with a “rain” of drones and missiles fired from its bases at strategic locations inside Israel, according to Al Mayadeen.”
To the bunkers !
Hat tip to:
https://www.drudgereport.com/
“Tel Aviv GPS Scrambled as Israel Awaits Iran Revenge Attack”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ar-BB1l3KRG
Things are getting serious over there. Sounds like Israel cannot stop the attack but they can confuse the GPS guided drones and missiles.
The Nuke, Nuke, Nuke, the Nuke of Oil!
plugs demands an Israel cease fire with Hamas. Now, or else.
Iran: yawn.
Ukraine: yawn.
China: yawn.
Israel can’t fight Hamas and Iran without FUSA aid.
WWBD “What Will Bibi Do”
Israel can’t fight Hamas and Iran without FUSA aid.
One word. Jericho.
Several 20 megaton nukes can really ruin the day in Tehran.
Crude oil may be $300 / US barrel on Friday morning.
Electric cars for all !
@RickH
64 ft3 is about 58 inches high on a standard 40×48 pallet, so the 1/5 is off.
I think the 64 ft3 is off, too–I get 119 ft3 for new bills*, and used could be twice that depending on how they are packed.
300,000 x 1 gram each is 300kg, or 660 lbs.
*2.61″ x 6.14″ x 0.0043″
@dcp
Samuel Clemens didn’t just write the best book in American literature, he wrote several of the best short stories and a number of other books , including Connecticut Yankee, that are standards.
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Skeletons in Nevada Caves Where They Found a 15-Inch Sandal That Had Been Worn Down as Well as Massive Handprints Across the Walls
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/04/04/stunned-archaeologists-probe-claims-of-giant-skeletons-in-nevada-caves-where-they-found-a-15-inch-sandal-that-had-been-worn-down-as-well-as-massive-handprints-across-the-walls-n3785906
The Amerinds can’t claim this group is ancestors and keep their bones hidden away.
The full story of the genocide needs to be known.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if these were the true native North Americans, and forensics showed they were gentle vegans? Poof to all the indigenous land claims on the continent and swift revocation of casino gambling.
Got out of the attic alive… it’s already pretty warm up there.
Got some of the issues solved, someone else will have to address electrical issues at the gate.
Home and full of pizza.
n
“Judge Gives NRA Hall Pass on ATF’s Idiotic Rule”
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/04/03/judge-gives-nra-hall-pass-on-atfs-idiotic-rule-n1224416
Well, I am a member of the NRA. But I do not own a pistol brace. So, I am covered in either case should I obtain one.
Skeletons in Nevada Caves Where They Found a 15-Inch Sandal That Had Been Worn Down as Well as Massive Handprints Across the Walls
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/04/04/stunned-archaeologists-probe-claims-of-giant-skeletons-in-nevada-caves-where-they-found-a-15-inch-sandal-that-had-been-worn-down-as-well-as-massive-handprints-across-the-walls-n3785906
The Amerinds can’t claim this group is ancestors and keep their bones hidden away.
The full story of the genocide needs to be known.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if these were the true native North Americans, and forensics showed they were gentle vegans? Poof to all the indigenous land claims on the continent and swift revocation of casino gambling.
When they were building the northeast corner of the Grand Parkway around Houston around 15 or 20 years ago, they found a bunch of bones dating back 8,000 or 12,000 years. Caucasian bones. After a couple of days and some experts coming down to inspect the site, they poured concrete over everything, rerouted the Grand Parkway a hundred feet, and declared that to be a Native American burial ground.
Kansas Newspaper Sues Over Police Raids
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/04/04/kansas-newspaper-sues-over-police-raids-n3785919
Maybe more than you expect.
Uganda’s Constitutional Court Upholds Anti-Gay Law That Includes the Death Penalty
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/04/04/ugandas-constitutional-court-upholds-anti-gay-law-that-includes-death-penalties-n2172321
Tomorrows Headline: Pete Bootyjuice and wife lead large delegation of LAlphabet protesters to Uganda, none of which is heard from again. FJB and Jill then decide to visit. Joe gets monkey gland transplant, gives speech praising Idi Amin as “a great guy”, while Jill blushes. Xi announces he’s going to visit, too.
“Organization That Claims It Wants to Cut Carbon Emissions Sues to Have Zero-Emission Nuclear Power Plant Closed Down”
https://thelibertydaily.com/organization-that-claims-it-wants-cut-carbon-emissions/
“The Department of Energy (DOE) announced in January that it had approved a $1.1 billion credit payment to the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, a nuclear facility on the central California coast, to provide the plant with a path to avoid its planned shutdown in 2025. Though nuclear power plants produce negligible carbon emissions, Friends of the Earth (FOE), a group seeking to reduce carbon emissions, filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block the DOE’s funding, arguing that climate change could make the plant unsafe to operate due to flood risks and that earthquakes in the area could cause accidents.”
“The Diablo Canyon Power Plant produces 9% of California’s electricity, according to DOE.”
Sheer insanity.
With a bit of poetic license…
Steal the election once, shame on me, steal it twice, how bloody will the battles be?
I think that whether DJT loses, or is cheated out of a win, the balloon goes up. Even if Biden or (insert Jesus candidate here) wins honestly, by any margin, Trump supporters will not believe it was a fair election.
Trump supporters will not believe it was a fair election.
– not without changes to the system to make cheating harder, not easier, and open, visible processes to ensure an accurate count of legitimate votes.
Don’t forget the Dem hysterics and wailing about ‘hanging chads’ and stolen elections only a few years ago…
n
That’s tough, because there isn’t just one system. There are dozens.
The best thing both sides could do, would be to send monitors to every single voting precinct. Train the volunteers, so that they know exactly what should happen. Monitor the voting, follow the ballots during transport, witness the counting process. Also record the entire process on video – that’s dirt cheap, nowadays. The same applies, with obvious adaptations, to mail-in ballots.
You’re looking for a few 10s of thousands of volunteers in a country of 300 million. Ought to be possible.
Some poor guy had a growth-hormone problem. He had clothing, including sandals. He was so remarkable to his peers that they traced his huge hand onto a cave wall. Legends grew over time. Exaggeration happened.
Yeah, amateur archaeologists also exaggerate for effect.
Oh… I like some of the reporting the Daily Mail does, but I do wish they were less inclined to clickbait…