Cool and damp, windy. The wind rose last night and it got chilly. Low 60s and damp with a wind equals chilled to the bone. It was nice all day, if damp, and sunny until later in the day. I’m hoping whatever blew in will blow back out.
I rose and broke my fast fairly early for me, and for a Sunday. I took my time getting started though and a bunch of stretching was involved.
I did get stuff done. I eventually got a string trimmer running with a new saw blade style cutter head, and attacked the back yard. The weeds were mid-calf and higher… but they all went down under the onslaught. It took longer than it should have. Then I poked at the mower, finally diagnosing the issue. Ordered the part I needed, and went back out to blow leaves and re-bait rat poison stations. The bait stations were gnawed but not empty. I filled them up and put a couple in the attic too.
The light was fading so I wrapped up outside.
Did some stuff in the attic, moving and putting stuff away.
D1 made Chipotle style chicken bowls for dinner with W’s help. Did a good job and I ate my fill. Kid might learn something after all. I think she is beginning to realize she’ll have to feed herself something besides homemade cookies at some point.
Ended the day sitting my my ‘water feature’ reading and having a tiny little fire. It got pretty chilly sitting there, almost like I was on the dock at the BOL.
I’ll have to get back up there. Things need to be worked on.
Until then, I’ll do more work here. I’ve been neglecting the home front for a while. If it isn’t raining today, I should be able to get some more things done. I’ve also got a pickup to do, and normal kid taxi stuff. Maybe I’ll take the time to cut my hair. Oh the excitement! Oh the drama!
One of the tasks is to re-stock the can dispenser racks in the pantry, and go through the cans I just put in storage and have ignored for a while. Several have ruptured, and I need to sort out the breakage and look at replacements.
This stuff won’t stack itself. Get to it…
nick
Slackers!
64F and overcast.
Coffee is brewed, lunch is made, family is roused…
Time to kick this b!tch in the butt and start the day.
n
Second!
A genetic female won Best Actress?!?
Dogs and cats living together … Mass hysteria!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/oscars-2025-winners-list/writing-original-screenplay/
The real tragedy of one Best Actress nomination going to a genetic male is that Pamela Anderson was overlooked for “The Last Showgirl”.
Well the overcast mostly cleared, and there was a rainbow in the sky. It was really distinct and almost the whole semi-circle. Lasted for a long time too.
Despite the mostly blue sky, there was a very light mist in the air.
South of here the sky looks stormy and the wind is blowing out of the south, so we might get some weather soon.
n
Looking at the DM there were some reasonably attractive women on tv last night, with some horrorshow dresses… and there were some with fewer clothes on that the cast of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Or even Debbie does Dallas. I guess the difference between them and Kanye’s wife is no labia?
Some very reasonable and good looking outfits. The others, yuck. Those with little clothes are merely looking to sensationalize and bolster a failing career. When your last appearance is as a guest on “Who’s Line is it Anyway” there is not much left of the sagging career.
I did not watch any of the show. I refuse to acknowledge the hollyweirdo’s patting themselves on their backs for producing movies that I will never watch, and cannot be paid to watch, let alone pay to watch. I am certain there are talented people and I give a lot of credit to the technical departments such as lighting, special effects, and audio. But the story writers, the actors, and the directors? A bunch of liberal queers with a self-center ego and self inflicted sense of importance.
The Oscars were on last night? Why did no one tell me???
Outside of the technical categories, you can watch to see what movies won’t stand the test of time…
And there is a sort of anthropological interest in seeing how hard they push the agenda and who might be the biggest whore repeating the party line.
But much better use of your time would be folding laundry, clipping toenails, or reviewing your earwax sculpture collection…
n
I ran Dan Curtis’ “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” from 1974 starting Jack Palance, Saturday night’s “Svengoolie” feature.
Dan Curtis always delivered something watchable.
In the Rogan interview, Bill Murray touches on his brother working with the live “Who’s Line Is It Anyway” tour. The nightly shows are tough improv work involving audience participation, always a wild card.
Brie Larson need not apply.
Ooh! Ooh! Chose me!
On a long enough time period, it will get colder, including glaciers. And it will get warmer than it is now. And speaking historically, we’re in a cooling period at the moment..
How cold? How hot? We can guess based on estimates based on core samples and other clues, but anyone who tells you a hard number is a liar or fraud.
“Dune Part Two” will be forgotten. The sound and effects Oscars were well deserved, but Zendaya‘s performance sinks the flick and, potentially, the series.
The Sci Fi miniseries from 25 years ago got the last half of the story correct albeit on a much lower budget.
We went to see that a couple years ago When they make a stop here. My wife and I really enjoyed it.
The Millenials always get mad when I call her Zendoosha. She can’t act. She’s a clothes-horse and that is it. Does anybody think she is a movie star?
That is the only nominee I watched. Streaming and forgotten.
There is hope for the series when Jason Momoa returns as Duncan Idaho.
If he returns.
Part One will be remembered if for no other reason than the Duncan Idaho death scene. Herbert never wrote it, and neither Sci Fi nor David Lynch had the actor capable of making the scenario work on screen.
Of the traditional “Oscar” flicks, I saw “Anora”, “The Last Showgirl”, and about half of “Emilia Perez” before I turned it off in disgust.
“Dune Part Two” will be forgotten.
– dangit, I was hoping for a good Dune movie. Two weren’t enough? There is still another to wrap up?
n
The two most recent movies tell the story in the first book, “Dune”.
The current director wants to make “Dune Messiah” and then end his involvement.
“Children of Dune” is where Herbert started to go off the rails with the series.
Find the old Sci Fi “Frank Herbert’s Dune” miniseries if you want a good version of the first book. That was another huge DVD release and one of Sci Fi’s most popular original programs ever.
Sci Fi’s “Children of Dune” is also decent. It smashes together the second and third books in a kind of hamfisted way, but the performances from Susan Sarandon and Alice Kirge (think the Borg Queen from “First Contact”) are excellent.
“First Contact” is a cool sci fi flick which ditches many of the negatives of TNG starting with Whoopi.
I don’t think anyone ever dressed down Patrick Stewart’s Picard as strongly as Alfre Woodard’s character in “First Contact”. Frakes called in a special favor from his friend to get her to appear and deliver that smackdown.
Alfre Woodard resurfaces as the same character in the penultimate “Lower Decks”.
Two?
Twenty two books so far, so a BOTE guess is sixty six movies…
https://manofmany.com/entertainment/books/dune-books-in-order
I have maybe read a dozen, they got pretty pot boilerish, but my brother had them so it was easy to continue.
The best verbal smackdown of Jean Luc Picard ever filmed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVd-U1sAwvo
“You broke your little ships.”
Why is it that every disease that is going to wipe us out (or make a come back) comes from China and Africa?
Because, to paraphrase the late, great Richard Crenna as Colonel Troutman in “First Blood”, “the people in those places will eat things that will make a billy goat puke.”
This is often done in pursuit of sexual potency.
With my wife’s Chinese relations, one Aiee (Auntie) is batsh*t crazy but she is “Big Aiee” (boss lady) so any whacked out folk remedy she spouts is followed as Gospel by the family.
@Lynn
“I suspect that nobody has a clue what the future climate of the Earth is going to be.”
It has been known for decades that the length of the interglacial periods is just about that of the present one. The ice record shows that the cooling starts very quickly, with major changes in hundreds, not thousands of years or even longer.
It has also been speculated, for decades, that we might have released enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere to delay the onset of the next glacial period.
Most people would agree that keeping the planet warmer is better than having ice cover half the United States and most of Europe. And most people would agree that growing enough food to feed the eight billion people on earth is better than widespread starvation, even if they don’t understand that more CO2 in the atmosphere promotes plant growth.
Also on WUWT today:
The Greatest Scientific Fraud of All Time — Part XXXIII
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/03/03/the-greatest-scientific-fraud-of-all-time-part-xxxiii/
Somewhere on Trump’s list should be the auditing of the adjustments to the temperature datasets, following swiftly by dismissal of everyone involved in unwarranted alterations (downward in the past, always downward to eliminate negative trends and make positive trends look much larger), fraud prosecution, and a science-based program to make only those adjustments that have real validity.
It’s worthwhile to note that Gavin Schmidt, the current director of NASA GISS (source of much of the “hottest year evah!!!” propaganda) started the Realclimate.com website when he was working for Jim Hanson, the previous director and propagandist for global warming. At one point some curious folks noted based on time stamps that Gavin was apparently spending a good part of the taxpayer-funded work day posting on RC. The response was to do away with the time stamps.
““Dune Part Two” will be forgotten. The sound and effects Oscars were well deserved, but Zendaya‘s performance sinks the flick and, potentially, the series.”
IIRC, Newsweek had a cover story in 1984 when the original movie came out, promulgating the argument that The Franchise had billion-dollar potential and would be bigger than Star Wars or Star Trek.
OTOH, a professor of my acquaintance that taught a science fiction seminar described the story as an economy based on people washing each other’s cards.
OTOH, a professor of my acquaintance that taught a science fiction seminar described the story as an economy based on people washing each other’s cards.
I don’t get the “washing each other’s cards”.
cars
I shuffled some stuff in the closet. It needs more work but for now it’s good. I went through my jeans. Seven pair of 501s are going to Goodwill. They are on the ragged side. The stack is much shorter. I still have five pair in good condition if you don’t mind wallet marks on the back pocket and phone marks on a front pocket,
I added a dozen Polo style shirts to the stack. I still have fifteen.
I looked in the front bedroom closet. More bed pillows? Yep, two more. I’ve already stuffed six into the trash. I have a lot of bedding to sort through. We don’t have a SeaRay cabin cruiser anymore. The motor home is parked. The travel trailer is gone. I need at most two spare queen size sheets sets and one spare king size set. Maybe possibly a few odd sheets just in case someone wants to stay in the motor home or I need a sheet to cover potted plants or some kid is going to sleep on the sofa. The rest can go.
Bath towels? Six towels per bath seems enough. The excess two dozen can leave. I still have a dozen or so “car towels” for drying cars and dogs.
Beach towels? Yikes. About 20. I’ll keep four, a couple are souvenirs.
Just guessing, half of the closet is going away. There’s plenty of room in the van.
Hey, that beer thing? Where I had my usual fill on Veteran’s Day and the last four the next day? I haven’t wanted a beer more than a couple of times since. I did the math. It’s almost embarrassing. Almost $300 a month. No cans to crush. No trips to the grocery store for beer. Plus my jeans fit enough that I can tuck in my shirt. I was at 160 pushing 165 hard and felt pudgy. Now? A week shy of four months it’s 150, 153 for the last week and 148 this morning after my shower before I got dressed. My case of Dickie Do Disease is going away.
“Cars” does make more sense. But we’re talking about Dune here…..
“Cars” does make more sense. But we’re talking about Dune here…..
Still does not make sense to me. But then again, I do not understand economics because the trickle down thing makes perfect sense to me.
“Friday’s little diplomatic bust-up has revealed a lot”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/03/fridays-little-diplomatic-bust-up-has.html
“When President Zelensky tried (and failed) to maneuver President Trump into providing security guarantees for Ukraine, he not only damaged his country’s relationship with ours, he also acted as the spark to a fuse that’s since revealed all sorts of interesting behind-the-scenes information.”
This is very bad for Zelensky. First, he does not understand politics of a free nation, typical for a dictator. Second, he is a grifter looking for handouts and the USA is broke. Third, he pissed off his neighbor and does not understand why his neighbor wants to kill him, again typical for a dictator.
I finished Deep Space Nine a few days ago. Some of it was “I’ve seen or read this story before”. When watching two or three episodes an evening you notice things. Like it’s So&So’s turn to Be The Star of an episode.
Ferengi are an annoying cross of Fraggle Rock and the Banana Splits. I like them fine but episodes of nothing but, no, too much.
Gul Dukat, well, he was starting to be a nice guy but went Super Evil. I liked him.
Major Kira, yeah, yeah, but she hits that annoying nerve like Beverly Crusher.
Bashir finally got laid in season seven.
Odo was a cool character.
Jadzia Dax was another cool character.
Kai Winn didn’t die horribly enough.
Sisko tied it all together.
Will I watch the series again? Sure, in a couple or three years. I still have Voyager and Enterprise and Picard to watch. Then Babalon 5.
As I recall the Ukarine situation, no one seems to remember that we promised the Ukraine that if they would give up the nuclear weapons abandoned by the USSR when it collasped, then we would protect them from Russia.
Look up Budapest Memorandum 1994.
@Lynn
“Still does not make sense to me. But then again, I do not understand economics because the trickle down thing makes perfect sense to me.”
Trickle down is a plumbing metaphor.
Economics is easy:
1. You got your supply, and you got your demand. Only thing about it you have to remember about it is that everything you have is cheap oversupply and everything you want is expensive and scarce. If you ever saw the old Jonserud flow chart, it’s the box that read “You are so screwed”
2. Demand can be elastic or inelastic. Elastic demand expands and contracts with price changes. Inelastic demand stays pretty much the same when the price goes up–see the Joneserud flow chart.
3. Laffer was right. Dems won’t acknowledge it because they hate the idea of the earning class paying less taxes.
If that’s too complicated, remember that you only need to know three things to be a plumber:
1. Shiite flows downhill. (sometimes trickle, sometimes “whoosh”)
2. Payday is Friday.
3. The boss is an ashhole.
@bob, as TV pointed out, perhaps a bit more harshly than needed, the US is not to be trusted in matters of foreign policy.
State has always tried to run their own show, and the ascendancy of different grifters in the Deep State means even that can’t be counted on for constancy.
See also kurds, Persia, Vietnam and numerous other examples.
n
>>The response was to do away with the time stamps.
Gotta allocate a few points for the “innovative” solution.
Ugg, I think the rain is finally starting. It’s been teasing all day, with occasional wet mist, and once in a while a drop or two on the window. Wind picked up though, and it’s dark out.
n
The sleazy auction house that we caught shill bidding by using the “bid history ” function didn’t include “bid history” when they built out their own auction platform. That certainly didn’t raise our trust level…
n
>>Look up Budapest Memorandum 1994.
So ‘last century’…
I’m going to buy a “Lower Decks” box set on release to settle kharma for the torrents I pulled of the series. I’ll watch through the entire series and let you know if I think it is worth keeping an eye out for in the bargain bins.
The crossover “Lower Decks”/”Strange New Worlds” episode “Those Old Scientists” is arguably the only live action “Star Trek” produced in the last decade which is considered “canon” in the wake of the “Lower Decks” series finale.
Oh, SOME of us remember, and some of us remember who ignored that promise when Russia seized Crimea in 2014, and who FURTHER ignored that promise when Russia invaded Ukraine “for reals” in 2021.
>>Seven pair of 501s are going to Goodwill. They are on the ragged side.
@paul, I’d do a quick check (eBay, Poshmark?) for any worthwhile resale value.
>>If that’s too complicated, remember that you only need to know three things to be a plumber:
Don’t they still cover ‘allowable azz crack?’
Almost missed this in the news the other day, coverage seemed ho-hum.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-firm-fireflys-blue-ghost-074257088.html
Yes, and “Poppy” Bush promised Russia that NATO would not extend further east than Germany.
Firefly Aeorospace is up in Cedar Park, not far from our house.
BREAKING: Trump Decides on Ukraine Aid Following Zelensky Implosion
https://redstate.com/joesquire/2025/03/03/breaking-trump-decides-on-ukraine-aid-following-zelensky-implosion-n2186235
Goes on the shelf with the minerals agreement.
In the meantime we are finding our more about the Logan Act violation of a mixed bag of Democrats and Republicans in a meeting just prior to Zelensky’s blowup at the White House. Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley? WTAF? I’d say invite them in for separate interviews with the FBI–happy to have their attorney’s present–and get them on tape.
Johnson wants a “clean” (e.g. no DOGE cuts incorporated) budget bill to keep the federal government running past March 4? Could we have a list of Democrats who have committed to vote for it? And would you like to buy a bridge?
Okay, so if we don’t get a budget bill, who thinks that “shutting down” the government will work out the way the Dems want when it’s Trump doing the shutting? Think any tourists will get trapped in rest rooms at National Parks, or is it more likely that the electicity will get shut off to the senate and Congressional office buildings?
Dolly Parton’s husband has died. When Dolly dies there will be a day of mourning here in East TN. Maybe even flags at half staff. Dollywood, if during the March to December open season, will most likely close for the day.
EU Democracy Update: Looking to Strip Hungary of Its Veto In Order to ‘Defend European Values’
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/03/03/eu-democracy-update-looking-to-strip-hungary-of-its-veto-in-order-to-defend-european-values-n3800380
Most Europeans don’t feel Ukraine is getting enough Western support:
Top 7 countries polled aver: 52-66%.
Same 7 countries asked if they should increase support to Ukraine:
“Ayes” range from 11 to 29%
Missing: Poll asking if they should keep spending more on Russian oil and gas than they spend to support Ukraine.
As I recall the Ukarine situation, no one seems to remember that we promised the Ukraine that if they would give up the nuclear weapons abandoned by the USSR when it collasped, then we would protect them from Russia.
Look up Budapest Memorandum 1994.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
Yup, not ratified by the USA Senate. That agreement was not worth the paper that it was written on.
And Ukraine did not have the nuclear breeder reactor capability to maintain the nuclear weapons anyway, nor the funds to afford such.
Mr. ATOZ is on METV tonight.
>>Firefly Aeorospace is up in Cedar Park, not far from our house.
Outside their ‘blast radius’ we hope…
>>I’d say invite them in for separate interviews with the FBI–happy to have their attorney’s present–and get them on tape.
What attorneys, we’ll get Martha Stewart to advise them… “Tell them everything!”
Actually, on H&I. My bad.
Ontario Premiere Doug Ford isn’t happy with the Trump tariffs:
“We are the largest purchaser of alcohol in the world.“
“BREAKING: Head of NY FBI field office resigns after DOJ says office hid Epstein documents”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-head-of-ny-fbi-field-office-resigns-after-doj-says-office-hid-epstein-documents
“Late Friday, I was informed that I needed to put my retirement papers in today, which I just did.”
If your boss tells you to do something, do it.
Speaking of blast radius…
in 2020 there was a massive explosion not too far from my house. When I checked my cams, the dust all jumped up when the shockwave passed thru, but we didn’t notice (at ~430am).
The final report has been issued
https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/6/watson_final_report_2023-06-29.pdf
The report is interesting. They were using propylene as a fuel in a coating system that basically used high pressure fire to shoot metal coatings onto other metal objects.
They were not subject to a couple of major oversight requirements, one because they had less than 10000 pounds on site, and the other because it doesn’t cover use of propylene as FUEL.
Their management process failed – the supervisor didn’t close a supply valve at the end of the day.
Their safety process failed – the workers weren’t trained to evacuate when they smelled the gas, and the mechanical system put in place to monitor and remove any gas release wasn’t working.
Their maintenance process failed when they replaced a copper supply line with a piece of welding hose, and didn’t crimp it properly. This crimp failed, leading the facility to fill with flammable gas, which ignited when an employee turned on the lights, killing several people and damaging a huge number of structures….
There is no zoning in the City of Houston. There were residences adjacent to the facility.
There are a LOT of businesses like this hidden in Houston.
Walk around your neighborhood. Drive thru the industrial parks. Look up the companies there and get an idea what they do if you notice any of the diamond shaped hazard warning placards. You should have a general idea anyway, just from being in the area. At least do it for properties adjacent to your home…
n
“Friday’s little diplomatic bust-up has revealed a lot”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/03/fridays-little-diplomatic-bust-up-has.html
“When President Zelensky tried (and failed) to maneuver President Trump into providing security guarantees for Ukraine, he not only damaged his country’s relationship with ours, he also acted as the spark to a fuse that’s since revealed all sorts of interesting behind-the-scenes information.”
This is very bad for Zelensky. First, he does not understand politics of a free nation, typical for a dictator. Second, he is a grifter looking for handouts and the USA is broke. Third, he pissed off his neighbor and does not understand why his neighbor wants to kill him, again typical for a dictator.
Cool, Aesop said that I am causing WW III by not supporting Ukraine.
Makes me wonder where the real Aesop went to.
An actual real example of why backdoors to comms are a bad idea.
n
“BREAKING: Senate fails to pass Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act after every Democrat backs men in women’s sports”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-senate-fails-to-pass-protecting-women-and-girls-in-sports-act-after-every-democrat-backs-men-in-womens-sports
“The legislation, which required 60 votes to advance, failed in a 51-45 party-line vote.”
A bunch of assholes. I see that Fetterman joined that bunch too. Neigh !
Same company.
Ian Wolfe and Mariette Hartley.
Incitatus knows. Two words: glue factory.
“Replies to Musk’s 5-Things Email to Federal Employees Turn Angry, Snarky, and Crude”
https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/replies-to-musks-5-things-email-to-federal-employees-turn-angry-snarky-and-crude/91153628
I guess that I am old school. When your bosses bosses bosses bosses bosses’s assistant asked for something via email, you do what they ask. Sending a crude message of “go f*** yourself” would never enter my mind.
I think that a lot of people will soon be looking for jobs.
@Lynn
With Title IX restored to the legal definition of male and female, I’m not sure how this legislation would matter. What will matter is when one of the universities that is under investigation is found to be in violation and refuses to comply to the law (and you know that one will) and gets their federal funding pulled.
I am amazed on two counts that this b.s. has gone so far.
First is that with some of the reports in the press that some people haven’t been simply beaten to a pulp by “unknown” assailants.
Second is that a group of women hasn’t exploded when pushed too far and done a bit of field surgery:
“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains…”
–Rudyard Kipling
I’ve worked for people like the First Grifter my entire career. It is a new experience for many in the Federal Government.
When my wife complained about her weekly letter, I gave her my best Bruce Willis in “Die Hard”.
Welcome to the party, pal.
My wife cuts and pastes the previous week’s activites letter, and that seems sufficient. My theory is that DOGE wants a live response and doesn’t really care about content.
“I think that a lot of people will soon be looking for jobs”
Weeding out the ones that don’t have enough sense to not commit a firing offense was one of the unspoken purposes.
As a taxpayer I applaud immediate termination. If these entitled idiots have no problem spewing hate at their management, what filters would they have when interacting with the public that pays them?
XE is a specialized platform combining Cisco’s router daemon with a Linux kernel which allows containers to run offering specialized services on the switch. Hack one of those, and much mischief is possible.
Frankly, without some really rare extenuating circumstance, if you can’t easily name 5 things you did for your job in one week, you are not only superfluous to the business, but too dumb to be employed by anyone.
And to have the level of entitlement to say “How dare you question me?” is quite extraordinary too.
n
Saw patients.
Wrote reports.
Did followup visits.
Attended staff meetings.
Did online continuing education.
How hard can it be?
n
I’ve worked for people like the First Grifter my entire career. It is a new experience for many in the Federal Government.
When my wife complained about her weekly letter, I gave her my best Bruce Willis in “Die Hard”.
Welcome to the party, pal.
My wife cuts and pastes the previous week’s activites letter, and that seems sufficient. My theory is that DOGE wants a live response and doesn’t really care about content.
Musk’s assistant to the assistant is feeding all of the email replies to a custom built AI box, probably located at the Austin Gigafactory. I would be careful on my replies to be original.
Is the First Grifter Musk ? If so, I disagree that he is a grifter. He builds solid products that the government wants so much that they pay him both directly and indirectly for. And the general public pays him for his products also (I have a Starlink at the office, works well until ants get in the antenna).
A mandatory weekly email is micromanagement.
A mandatory weekly email is
micromanagement.accountability.– micro management is telling you HOW to do your job, not asking if you did it.
n
May the Atavachron be with you.
Memphis. I think that’s well known at this point.
One task per day isn’t much. I lie about how much I got done every day 😉
n
Most tech places have the Atlassian suite these days so the weekly report is redundant.
A mandatory weekly email is micromanagement.
Musk is looking for dead people and idiots too stupid to fill out an email.
The micromanagement will come later when the federal workforce is halved.
So, the World against Russia (throw in the Norks). China will not participate. The minute the Rooskies use a nuke, they lose. They can’t just invade a country and think the people will raise a hammer and sickle.
The old way of throwing money and equipment at Ukraine won’t work. They need boots on the ground since they don’t have enough.. No blood from our troops will be spent. The UK and EU needs to “Put a helmet on that soldier”.
The UK promised an unending loan. But the small print said success requires the US. No, thank you.
Where is the UN? NATO won’t let Ukraine in so they are whistling past the graveyard.
Aesop is wrong. Russia can’t sustain a WW.
We are not the Worlds’s police. We have enough problems like the coming Tranny Wars thanks to the Dumbocrats. There will be bloodshed. Mostly tranny blood.
My wife got her first direct deposit from Social Security today. It covers back to last November as they let her start it back then when she turned 66 and 8 months, her Full Retirement Age. It was quite a bit of money.
This is a weird feeling. Like we are joining a club for really old people.
With age comes pain. She broke her left foot two weeks ago. Now she is walking with me again with her boot on. She has to wear the boot for seven weeks and then get it xrayed again to make sure that it healed correctly. Otherwise, they get out the hammer.
Go rent a 2025 Camry for an afternoon and then compare/contrast with your cousin’s Model 3.
Be honest.
TSLA was built on the grift of carbon credits and government mandates which turned the Camry into a $30,000 vehicle, did away with the “secretary” pony cars, and put VW execs into prison for “cheating” when DEF-free diesel cars sold for $22k with 600+ mile range nearly killed the EV agenda in its infancy.
Points to the Mexicans engineering the 2016 Jetta we own — I still manage 500+ mile range driving that vehicle long distances.
We are not the Worlds’s police. We have enough problems like the coming Tranny Wars thanks to the Dumbocrats. There will be bloodshed. Mostly tranny blood.
There are more muslims than trannys in the USA IMHO (in my humble opinion). And the muslims are rapidly increasing using their forced birth policies that they have used for centuries. Just saying.
Read Kratman’s book “Caliphate”. Things do not go well for the USA in the 21st century. Oh wait, it is already the 21st century.
https://www.amazon.com/Caliphate-Tom-Kratman/dp/1439133425?tag=ttgnet-20
Go rent a 2025 Camry for an afternoon and then compare/contrast with your cousin’s Model 3.
Can I use my son’s 2020 Camry that he bought for $20K cash new ? That is a fine vehicle that I cannot get into since it is so low to the ground (bad knees).
My cousin just traded his 2019 Tesla model 3 with over 100K miles on it for a 2025 Tesla Model Y dual motor 310 mile battery. Freaking amazing vehicle. His Model 3 never gave him any trouble and Ludicrous mode scared the crap out of me with the dual motors, 310 mile battery, and zero to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds. Serious muscle car territory there. His Model Y is a little slower since more weight but still Ludicrous. He drives is high regen mode which is weird but great vehicle regardless.
BTW, I found out something driving 1,000 miles last week to Oklahoma and back. I now have to stop and pee every hour on the road. Now that is a pain in the rump, especially when my truck can go over 700 miles on a tank of gas (23 mpg up to OK, 22 mpg back).
This is the Dumbocrats next abortion hill.* They will fall on the same sword when tRump defunds States and they lose again. Men in Women’s sports is just wrong. Taking drugs, cutting off your penis, wearing makeup, and wearing Women;s clothes doesn’t make you a Woman.
Who would have thunk in 2025 the only one making sense is tRump? I was hoping POTUS would slow the PLT roll, but he may unravel enough DeepState to change our country;s history of Dumbocrat jackassery.
*I find it hilarious when the Dumbocrats blame tRump for “banning” abortion when he wasn’t even President! Now that’s some power.
PS I await the President’s final plan to expunge trannyism from our military.
I just re watched Spaceballs. I am a little slow, but I now know specifically where Ludicrous mode comes from.
While I agree that Tesla seems to make its profit trading carbon credits, Elon didn’t set up that market, nor did he publicly advocate for it. In fact they go out of their way to hide it. Certain other high profile people did those things. He just exploits it, WHILE building a product that people gave him a free loan just for the opportunity to maybe buy the product.
There are a shtiton of Teslas around here, and I see more every day.
SpaceX is doing something not even the superpowers could do. He personally controls about 80% of mankind’s access to space, and he’s created about half of that market, simply by being able to provide the service. He’s on record that most of spacex’s revenue comes from commercial service, not .gov. And if .gov wants to use his stuff, they have to pay for it, and they are lined up for years to do so BECAUSE THEY CAN’T DO IT THEMSELVES. Even his nominal competitors end up using his services when their own plans fall thru. All of my defense trade magazines have RFPs and announcements that .gov and .mil want COTS services and gear, and they want more of it than ever. Right now, Musk is the only one meeting that desire. Anyone else is free to try, and the VCs and hedgies fail spectacularly when they try. The space is littered with failed or soon to fail companies who thought it must be easy if that weirdo can do it….
I don’t think you can call him a grifter. He produces real products that people are lined up to get. Compare and contrast to hunter bidden, who mainly produced homemade porn, contaminated baggies, and opportunities to bribe officials… he certainly didn’t build companies, or employ thousands of people.
I’m pretty sure that if DOJ had left him alone, he’d of stayed out of politics. He was like microsoft pre-prosecution. They didn’t even have lobbyists. They do now. The left and the deep state came after musk and his defense was to seize a moment in history and bet big on Trump. FAA, EPA, DOJ, FCC, and dozens of other three letters were used against him, and he could see where that would lead…. so he acted and he went big… It’s only been a few months. Who knows if it will work out for him?
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– so tariffs are bad for US citizens because they will raise prices on consumer goods, but they’re ok for Canadians because Canadians love higher prices? Canada will lose ‘biggly’ in this fight.
Bet money that the canadian dollar crashes against the USD.
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MrsAtoz (LtcAtoz) formed her company in 1996 after retiring from the Army. It is a lot of hard work, but I wouldn’t change a thing. Working for yourself is freeing. I would hate working for some corporation as a beltway-bandit after I retired.
The next best thing MrsAtoz did was “let go” every employee except family. Many became successful independent contractors on their own. No more massive payroll, health insurance, pension plans, etc. Go do it yourself and see how hard it is to make a big payroll. We hire contractors as needed.
Is Ltc short for Lieutenant Colonel ? Cool, good for her.
Dropping employee health insurance for my main company was a real pain for me personally last year. Obamacare is nothing but a big pain in the arse HMO. I hate HMOs. I can hardly wait for Medicare in a couple of months. Oh shoot, I need to call Medicare tomorrow and start the paperwork.
I sure do hate making a $22K payroll twice a month. It gets scary at times so I will do just about anything to keep from running out of cash. I am putting my office complex on the market and going to move the company to smaller digs to cut the rent. I hate moving. The good thing is that the office complex is worth about 4X what I paid for it in 2011. At least that is what the two commercial real estate guys I met with today told me.
As far as pension plans, I sponsor a Simple IRA with Fidelity. I do a 3% match with immediate vesting. No crazy vesting games here. The employee immediately gets th funds in their Fidelity account, twice a month. I have managed to save seven figures in my IRA, I hope that my employees have done well also.
The Drudge Report is calling Trump “The Trumpski”.
Oh gosh, I have finished the blinking red tasks (first working day of the month), now I need to help customers. What, debug an ethylene plant tonight ? No freaking way ! This will wait until tomorrow. There is no way this is causing Windows 11 to crash (customer report), that is freaking impossible.
“Let’s not pussyfoot around this point: Everything Harris and Biden said about border enforcement was a bald-faced lie.”
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2025/03/03/trump-exposes-dem-lies-on-border-security-in-spectacular-first-month-n3800363
Trump could have opened the speech tonight with that line, and continued:
“And every last one of the Democrats in this room supported those lies for four years while millions of illegal aliens, including murderers, drug dealers, pedophiles and other groups beloved by Democrats were assisted by billions of dollars in tax monies paid by hard-working citizens. This is a direct violation of U.S. laws, a treasonous betrayal of oaths of office, and the time has come to pay the piper. Every one of you lying m*****f*****s is under arrest and the U.S. Marshalls are waiting at the doors to collect you and take you to jail. ”