Tues. Sept. 16, 2025 – uh oh, someone’s birthday is coming fast

By on September 16th, 2025 in culture, decline and fall, march to war

Hot later but cool enough at the start of the day. Yesterday did fit the pattern. It was a little cooler because of the overcast, but still unpleasantly hotter than the morning.

Some stuff got done. Some stuff didn’t. I did my pickups, even the far one, although I was 2 minutes late. They’d locked the door, but I called ahead and they left my stuff outside for me.

It was a lot of driving around and it took most of the afternoon. It’s very clear where my time has been going.

I did find time to change out the fuse in my dead battery charger. And true to form, it instantly blew. When gear has a blown fuse, there is usually a reason. I’ve got too much to do, so I salvaged the case and cables, but put the board in the recycle pile. I’m thinking about mounting a mobile radio in the case. Project for future me.

Today, I’ve got a few more pickups, and some grocery shopping to do. Kid2 needs stuff for band (and the Band Supporters ‘band’ together to provide it. I’m a band dad.) Normal day for me. Maybe I’ll get a chance to do something else on the list. Probably not though.

Time to set aside some time to really hit the list. Like the week at the BOL, I need to dedicate time. Kinda hard with the other stuff going on though. We’ll see what I can figure out.

Out there in the world, I’m assuming the tit for tat is starting. If you haven’t been completely grey for the last 5 years, assume someone knows your politics and doesn’t like them. Keep your eyes open and your weapons close.

AND stack. Because crazy knows no bounds and things are gonna get crazy.

nick

70 Comments and discussion on "Tues. Sept. 16, 2025 – uh oh, someone’s birthday is coming fast"

  1. Denis says:

    … the Band Supporters ‘band’ together to provide it.

    Sad trombone noises… Groan!

    There is no denying you are a Dad.

  2. Ray Thompson says:

    On the ICE to Frankfurt airport, starting our journey home. Tonight at the hotel, flight tomorrow. I have already checked in on the flight. All my ducks are in a row. Each trip gets slightly easier as I figure out the system.

    I did get reserved seats on the ICE as it is not that expensive, $19.00 for both of us. I did get to ask someone to get out of our seats. It felt so …….. German.

  3. Greg Norton says:

    And while I don’t trust the .gov, I’m not to concerned that the boat might have just been innocent holiday makers.

    Not much point in splashing them.

    A couple of kinetic strikes on cartel strongholds would be a nice escalation too.

    A waste of missiles unless the military wanted practice with new tech.

    Venezuelans have been waiting nearly 30 years for the Wisconsin to drop anchor just offshore of Simon Bolivar and give them someone else to blame for their problems. 

    Even Trump knows this, but the expat elite cooling their heels in their condos in Collins Avenue waiting for the Yanquis to hand them their revenue streams back along with a military dictatorship to “properly” run things back home have a lot of influence in Republican circles in South Florida, starting with Little Marco’s handlers.

    Venezuelans are not Cubans.

  4. Greg Norton says:

    Total population in US is about 340 million. I don’t get out much, but I think I would have noticed 90% of the US population gone. And about 62 million people died in the world last year. So that’s not it, either.

    Another example of his “Don’t bother me with the facts, here’s the truth’”. 

    Hyperbole. New York. 

    Bad Daddy.

  5. brad says:

    Another example of his “Don’t bother me with the facts, here’s the truth’”. 

    Trump has a very…loose…relationship with facts.

    Switzerland is discovering that just now, since Trump claims that the US has a massive trade deficit with us. That is only true if you ignore services. If you include services (think: Microsoft, AWS, Google, Apple, etc.), then trade is pretty much balanced.

    Our clueless President attempted to correct him. Trump is one of those guys: Rule 1: He is always right. Rule 2. If you think he is not right, see rule 1. So she only managed to piss him off and make things more difficult.

    Thankfully, a somewhat more diplomatic guy has now taken over the negotiations. First task: dig us out of the hole made by Ms President.

  6. Nick Flandrey says:

    72F and the sun also rises.

    Time to get some kids out the door.

    n

  7. Ray Thompson says:

    Trump is one of those guys: Rule 1: He is always right. Rule 2. If you think he is not right, see rule 1.

    Let’s rethink that with my version.

    Trump is one of those guys: Rule 1: He is never wrong. Rule 2. If you think he is wrong, see rule 1.

    The guy is a flaming egotist in my opinion. I would have voted for someone else if given something other than anything the democrats ran for office. Democrats totally Shafted themselves with the disaster of a presidential campaign. That is going to haunt them forever.

    Of the millions of people in the U.S. qualified for the presidential office, to have to choose (effectively) between those two clowns in the election, is, well, just terrible.

  8. brad says:

    @Ray: As you say. If I were in the US, I would have voted for him. If nothing else, he is shaking things up. And he certainly is a better choice than Kamala, who would have just been another puppet, with strings pulled by god-knows-who.

    I just hope that Vance doesn’t get shot. He is the obvious choice for successor, a lot more stable than Trump, and 1-1/2 generations younger.

  9. Nick Flandrey says:

    Trump being the first choice in a long long time that wasn’t part of the system and wholly beholden to unseen masters.

    Which is why we now have the  term “deep state” in common usage.  His candidacy revealed that the politicians only concern is themselves, and they are apart from everyone else.   

    Two sides, but one coin.

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  10. paul says:

    I taped Dune from HBO about 50 million years ago.    No one else was interested so I watched in the bedroom.  “snore”  It took a week to watch.  It was as interesting as Waiting for Godot which was impressive for being tedious.  This would have been before 1990.

    I looked up Dune with “Sting”.  1984.  Next version, different cast, is 2021 I think.  I’ll pass on it to skip the DEI stuff.

     But the Blu-ray I just bought says released 2011 and it has Sting in it.

    I guess I’ll find out when I watch it.  It can’t be as bad as I remember.  They made a Blu-ray of it after all.

    Cool packaging anyway.  Blu-ray cases are blue.  The printing on the disc is blue which matches his blue eyes on the cover art.  Looks nice.  But I have never seen a translucent  optical disc.

  11. Nick Flandrey says:

    Oh, it can be as bad as you remember.

    IIRC, that version takes the first 170 pages of the book, makes 2 hours of movie, then ends with some shite that was completely made up and makes no sense.

    It’s “visually stunning” though.

    and the cast is pretty strong.

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  12. Greg Norton says:

    I looked up Dune with “Sting”.  1984.  Next version, different cast, is 2021 I think.  I’ll pass on it to skip the DEI stuff.

     But the Blu-ray I just bought says released 2011 and it has Sting in it.
     

    The 1984 “Dune” has multiple cuts. David Lynch even took his name off of the flick for a while.

    An Alan Smithee Film.

    The film isn’t great, but 1984 “Dune” established Patrick Stewart’s sci fi cred.

    1984 also had cool production design.

    The new film version has a decent “Part One” and limits the DEI. “Aquaman” steals the show as Duncan Idaho, and no other version  dared attempt to depict his character‘s death on screen, even the book.

    17 Sardukar? I lost count of the bodies. The actor nails it.

    Amazing scene. Don’t skip the flick if you’re worried about politics.

    ”Part Two” is where the studio notes start taking priority, but the action scenes are still phenomenal.

  13. paul says:

    I read the book around 1974 or so.  Science Fiction Book Club.edition.  It was long but not bad.  Good enough to read again.  Although I liked almost anything by Asimov and others better.

    I’ll keep the new version on the list. 

  14. EdH says:

    Hot, flirting with 100F today and tomorrow, then thunderstorms for a couple of days.

    i’ll be chauffeuring my brother to the eye doctor for some minor eye surgery later this morning, then this afternoon my soon-grandparents-to-be friends will drop off the Chihuahuas before a flight to go see the daughter for a week.

    I emphasized that the dogs need to have charged Barker breakers: I imagine my neighbor is looking for payback.

    I have an outdoor Eufy security cam to keep an eye on things, but not a big microSD card.

    They spec a 128MB class 10, but reading online the important thing for video is to get a V60 or v90.  

    Online reviews are often nonsense, but in videographer forums the same four brands keep showing up, Sony Tough, Lexar, SanDisknPro, and Prograde.  (Lexar quality may have slipped since Covid and a buy out).

  15. nick flandrey says:

    Yah, avoid the chinese ‘not a real brand’ brands.   Especially for large capacity cards.   They are all lies and counterfeiting.

    SSD drives too.   Most of the time they end up being old cards in an enclosure.

    n

  16. paul says:

    I bought this last week:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YM5S28F?tag=ttgnet-20  EVEREADY LED Flashlights (4-Pack)

    Yup.  Four, count ’em four!  AA FLASHLIGHTS!   $6.94  ($1.74 / each).  Batteries included.

    They have a lanyard and it’s large enough to be useful.  I can get my hand through it.  Two blue and two yellow. I’d like to have the red and green colors from Parker Brothers board games, but I didn’t see the option.

    The light is good.  No hot spots or shadows like non-LED lights.  The beam has a bright spot in the middle and the flood area is nice.  Bright spot for seeing “what’s out there?” and the flood is great for seeing where you are stepping on a gravel driveway… and see what Buddy the Beagle is doing in the grass without blinding him.

    There is a dark green and black colored set.  An extra buck per unit but I didn’t want eight FLASHLIGHTS. 

    Just simple lights.  I have a couple that look almost the same.  I bought them at HEB on Halloween.  $1 each. Then I had to buy a D cell for each for more than the lights.  They still work 15 years later, perhaps not as bright but they were sold for trick or treaters’ use and they work for dog walking.  Kinda of bulky in the coat pocket, though.  

    68f this morning.  Now 77f.  Time to close the windows and keep the cool in.  

  17. Ray Thompson says:

    hope that Vance doesn’t get shot. He is the obvious choice for successor

    I will agree with that assertion. I like Vance from what I have seen. Whether I am correct? Who knows at this time. I wonder who the Democrats will elevate for their next candidate. Cankles is done, maybe the Mooch? Nope, she would be disaster. Someone is waiting in the wings, maybe. Or perhaps that clueless dolt, I forget her name, would be the front runner. That would be horrible.

    candidacy revealed that the politicians only concern is themselves

    I think that has always been a given. Yes Trump was/is not part of the establishment where politicians are in the office to enrich themselves, receive special treatment, “good for me, but not for thee”.

    ony Tough, Lexar, SanDisknPro, and Prograde

    Go with Lexar. I have several of their cards, and have use many CF card in the past. I only had a problem with one card and Lexar replaced it quickly. It is worth the price. My last SDXC card was about $100 as it was a high speed card. I have been using it for a year with no issues.

    outdoor Eufy security cam to keep an eye on things

    I have four of the Eufy outdoor cameras. I put a small memory card in each, just because I had the cards. The storage is actually done on a SSD on the base station. All-in-all I have six units. The four outdoor cameras, solar powered so no batteries to mess with, an indoor camera plugged in, and the base station. All the cameras connect to the base station with WiFi. It all seems to work and work well.

    I had Arlo and the company really made me angry. I had three Pro 2 cameras with local storage. They worked well. Then I acquired a couple of the newer cameras. To do local storage of video it was necessary to pay $5.00 a month, per camera. Nope, nope, not happening. I threw all the Arlo stuff away.

    I tried Wyze cameras. I could never get the settings correct to get the cameras to detect motion and record. I don’t want the cameras active 24 hours a day, just from midnight to 6:00 AM. I was missing something and Wyze support was not helpful. Probably ex-Linux propeller heads.

    We are currently at the hotel close to the Frankfurt airport. The long trip is almost over. A 10:10 hour flight tomorrow.

  18. MrAtoz says:

    I have four of the Eufy outdoor cameras. I put a small memory card in each, just because I had the cards. The storage is actually done on a SSD on the base station.

    I put the Eufy PTZ on the front corner of the garage. It’s the one that comes with the detached solar panel. The AI can track cars, pets, and people. I usually leave just the people track on. I have charged it twice in three years when not enough Sun hits the panel. It is great at tracking deliveries.

    I also added the Eufy door bell cam. I like it can say canned phrases at the push of a button.

  19. MrAtoz says:

    As bad as the foul mouthed laut which is tRump, he’s the best President we have had in a long time. Nobody here loves him or even likes him. Tax cuts, deportations, blowing up drug smugglers, yeah, sign me up. Then 8 years of Vance followed by 8 years of DeSantis.

  20. SteveF says:

    And by then Barron will be old enough to run.

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  21. nick flandrey says:

    Jebus H…

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/george-zinn-first-suspect-detained-charlie-kirk-shooting/ 

    George Zinn, First Suspect Detained in Charlie Kirk Shooting, Hit with Child Porn Charges

    by Cristina Laila Sep. 16, 2025 11:45 am

    George Zinn, the first suspect detained after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, was hit with four counts related to child porn charges.

    Zinn was immediately cuffed and taken into custody after TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at the “American Comeback Tour” event at Utah Valley University last Wednesday.

    According to reports, George Zinn falsely told police he shot Charlie Kirk. He was charged with obstruction of justice.

    Zinn was taken to a local hospital after complaining about chest pains, and that is when law enforcement went through his phone.

    Authorities discovered the child porn on Zinn’s phone. Zinn told law enforcement that he gets “sexually aroused” by child sex abuse images.

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  22. Lynn says:

    Hmm…..Trump was asked about the latest boat strike on alleged drug smugglers, and whether that action was illegal. He said: 

    What’s illegal is the drugs that were on the boat and the drugs that are being sent in to our country, and the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs,” Trump said. “That’s what’s illegal.”

    Total population in US is about 340 million. I don’t get out much, but I think I would have noticed 90% of the US population gone. And about 62 million people died in the world last year. So that’s not it, either.

    Another example of his “Don’t bother me with the facts, here’s the truth’”. 

    So what.  I’ll give an 80 year guy an occasional screwup.  The dude gets hit with numbers all day long, I am amazed that he does not screw every number up.

    Shoot, at 65, I get numbers wrong all the time now.  I have about a thousand numbers memorized but I have to check them now. Pi, Avogadro’s Constant, conversion of pounds to kilograms, etc, etc, etc.  I have to check every number that I write every day because when I shoot from the hip, I get things wrong.

    In short, Trump is getting a hundred things right for every thing he gets wrong.

    BTW, one of Trump’s good friends was murdered last week.  Give Trump a break as he is probably grieving inside and cannot show it as our enemies are looking for his weaknesses.

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  23. MrAtoz says:

    And by then Barron will be old enough to run.

    Well, we now know who the prolific down-voter is.

  24. MrAtoz says:

    Ha, ha. Rubio says we will deport visa’s who celebrate the death of US Citizens. Good.

  25. Lynn says:

    “Careful Times” by Sarah Hoyt

        https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/09/16/careful-times/

    “And since one of their things was car bombs, and our car was parked in the (gated off, but the gate and walls were four feet tall) garden, (mom used the garage as a workshop) every morning, when dad gave me a lift to college (which cut about an hour and a half of public transportation out of my day) dad asked me to look under the car.”

    “Yes, I broadly knew what to look for. IF they were all thumbs, at least. If they were subtle, no one was going to see it.”

    “So, morning routine was: shower, get dressed, have coffee, grab books, go out to garden with flashlight and look under car to make sure dad and I weren’t going to go out with a bang.”

    Be careful out there.

  26. Greg Norton says:

    In short, Trump is getting a hundred things right for every thing he gets wrong.
     

    As long as The Grand Nagus remembers one number, Rule of Acquisition 125, everything else is fixable.

    The TNG episode introducing the Ferengi to “Star Trek” aired last night on H&I.

  27. MrAtoz says:

    As long as The Grand Nagus remembers one number, Rule of Acquisition 125, everything else is fixable.

    Exactly why plugs The LastTM failed. DOA at The White House. Weekend At Bernies.

  28. Lynn says:

    Trump being the first choice in a long long time that wasn’t part of the system and wholly beholden to unseen masters.

    Which is why we now have the  term “deep state” in common usage.  His candidacy revealed that the politicians only concern is themselves, and they are apart from everyone else.   

    Two sides, but one coin.

    Yes !  My friend OFD here used to say the two sides of the War Party.

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  29. MrAtoz says:

    Oh nooooooooooooo:

    Tesla SCRAPS its cheapest Cybertruck after just five months – as the $69,990 vehicle hurtles towards becoming one of the all-time biggest flops

    The FOMO CyberRustBucket was never anything but a collector’s item.  The new Edsel.

  30. SteveF says:

    Well, we now know who the prolific down-voter is.

    Hey! Are you accusing me of being the downvoter? I’ll sue! I’ll get a restraining order! I’ll challenge you to a duel at dawn! I’ll … I’ll … I’ll call you a Sweet Summer Child!!!!!

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  31. EdH says:

    I chauffeured my brother to the eye doctor this morning. 

    Since I had a hour or so to kill during his appointment I made the rounds of Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and some other nearby department store that I forget the name of.

    The only place that carried a non-base-level micro SD card was Target with a  Sandisk Pro, and after repeatedly pressing the “I need help button’ (hey, don’t laugh at the elderly!) and waiting for five or 10 minutes I finally gave up and left.

    There were no “associates” at any of the store’s home electronics sections. Everything over $20 was locked up…

    —–

    The good news is my brother’s second opinion doctor gave him some drops to try instead, before they try the surgery. Apparently the surgery just takes minutes but the recovery time is months.  He was almost ill with worry, this should help mentally.

  32. Lynn says:

    As bad as the foul mouthed laut which is tRump, he’s the best President we have had in a long time. Nobody here loves him or even likes him. Tax cuts, deportations, blowing up drug smugglers, yeah, sign me up. Then 8 years of Vance followed by 8 years of DeSantis.

    Wait, wait, wait.  I like Trump !  In his first term, he promised that he would nominate and get a conservative put on SCOTUS.  He got three conservative justices on SCOTUS in his first term !  The man keeps his promises and even tries to over deliver.

  33. Greg Norton says:

    The FOMO CyberRustBucket was never anything but a collector’s item.  The new Edsel.
     

    The difference is that Ford ate the losses on the R&D for the Edsel.

    Chrysler paid the costs of the R&D on the Jesus Truck.

    RAM cancelled their own EV truck this week.

    The Real Life Tony Stark is a better grifter than Iacocca ever was.

  34. Greg Norton says:

    Switzerland is discovering that just now, since Trump claims that the US has a massive trade deficit with us. That is only true if you ignore services. If you include services (think: Microsoft, AWS, Google, Apple, etc.), then trade is pretty much balanced.

    US tax law favors not repatriating the profits, and some countries have strict laws about capex and manufacturing taking place within their borders in order to gain access to the market.

  35. dcp says:

    “The Inheritance (Breach Wars)” by Ilona Andrews

    Enjoyed that.  It ended much better than I anticipated.

    Thanks for the recommendation.

  36. Lynn says:

    “The Inheritance (Breach Wars)” by Ilona Andrews

    Enjoyed that.  It ended much better than I anticipated.

    Thanks for the recommendation.

    You are welcome.  I have read around 30 of their books now, not a single bad one.

    I want book #2 now ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

  37. Lynn says:

    “A very heartfelt “Thank you!!!” to my readers and friends”

        https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-very-heartfelt-thank-you-to-my.html

    “Last week on Monday my wife and I launched a fundraiser for my medical expenses.  I explained at the time that they’re expected to total well over $100,000, possibly twice that.  We’ve been saving as best we can, and have taken out a second mortgage on our home, but we were still facing a big shortfall.  We set a fundraising target of $50,000.”

    “To our surprise and great relief, you’ve responded very generously indeed.  As I write these words, the fundraiser stands at $49,236.  I expect we’ll reach our target today or tomorrow, if this keeps up.  After the IRS takes its share and other expenses are met, we should get about $35,000 out of this campaign.  This is a huge relief to us, and gives us greater confidence that we can cope with the bills to come.”

    Wait, the gifts are taxable ?  Are you kidding me ?

  38. Greg Norton says:

    I looked up Dune with “Sting”.  1984.  Next version, different cast, is 2021 I think.  I’ll pass on it to skip the DEI stuff.

    The Sci Fi Channel’s late 90s miniseries is the most faithful to the book but the budget was pathetic.

    Most of the cast was fairly unknown in this country with the exception of William Hurt as Duke Leto.

    The end result is still watchable, and I think it rescued “Dune” from being remembered for the 1984 mess, which was distributed on cable and home video as an Alan Smithee film at the time.

  39. Lynn says:

    “The Best Gun Debate I’ve Had in Years” with Charlie Kirk

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-X0YD0tYTw

    Somewhat prescient.  Having common gun ownership, as is our right under the USA Constitution, will result in more gun deaths.

  40. nick flandrey says:

    Well, the ranger started making some bad noise while I was out.   I recognized it and shut down the A/C immediately.   Freaking compressor is seizing.   I don’t want the serpentine belt to get chewed up and fail so I dropped the truck at my mechanico.     One of the idler pulleys is visibly wobbling so there might be some additional cost once the tension is off the belt and he can take a look.

    He thinks he can be done EOD tomorrow.   

    Thursday at the latest.   

    Good thing I have another truck.

    .

    n

  41. Lynn says:

    “No Discussion”

        https://areaocho.com/no-discussion/

    “We select our representatives through a Democratic process. This means sometimes your choice wins, and sometimes it doesn’t. We are now seeing what happens when a generation that never learned how to lose or be disappointed runs into that reality.”

    … a very nasty piece of nastyism by a teacher …

    “I just dont see how you can reason with someone who thinks like this. I doubt she has ever even listened to Charlie Kirk make one of his arguments. At most, she has seen a highly edited sound bite. Did I mention that she is a teacher?

    “I think we are one or two more shootings away from it going into a 2 way free fire range.”

    I am wondering about this myself.  This is definitely on the agenda of several people.

    “What I saw at the coup.” by Matt Bracken comes to mind.

        https://richard1j.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/what-i-saw-at-the-coup-3/

  42. SteveF says:

    Good thing I have another truck.

    Based on my experience with people commenting on crises averted, you meant to say “I’m lucky I have another truck.” Yes, luck. It has nothing to do with choosing to put the money into buying and insuring another truck. It’s luck.

    Why, yes, I feel a wee bit of irritation when someone tells me that I’m lucky that I had the tools, fluids, and know-how to repair a roadside breakdown, or that I had emergency medical supplies when someone got hurt, or that I had emergency cash hidden in my backpack. Yes, luck, that’s what it was. I was lucky, just as the commenter was unlucky to be stuck by the side of the road for four hours because he didn’t have a gallon of engine coolant in the back of his car.

    The only time that I’ll accept that luck played a role was when my brother and I borrowed our dad’s van and trailer to haul a big load of stuff a few hundred miles. A line from the transmission to the cooler split on the way, late at night. We made it to a turnpike rest stop and determined the problem. I bought all of the tranny fluid the little gas station had while my brother rummaged through my toolbox to see what we had to work with. This is where the luck comes in. I’m unwilling to travel more than a few miles from home without at least a toolbox. Dad offered his, neatly organized and cleaned, but I decided to take mine. I’d been meaning to clear the clutter from my toolbox but hadn’t gotten around to it. It had a broken hacksaw blade, several short pieces of radiator hose, and a few hose clamps (and other miscellaneous stuff, not needed that night). And of course I had about three flashlights. My brother put the hacksaw blade in a pair of vise grips and managed to cut the split line so that a hose could be put on it (without cutting anything else, which was the difficult part), we put in about six quarts of fluid, and made it home. I’m sure there’s a lesson in there somewhere, something about laziness having saved the day, but I’m not quite sure what it is.

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  43. nick flandrey says:

    Two is one and one is none.

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  44. Lynn says:

    “Building Musculoskeletal Androids | Interview with Clone’s Co-founder & CEO Dhanush Radhakrishnan”

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SYA8ELZmEs

    Here come the Cylons.

  45. Greg Norton says:

    This is where the luck comes in. I’m unwilling to travel more than a few miles from home without at least a toolbox. Dad offered his, neatly organized and cleaned, but I decided to take mine. I’d been meaning to clear the clutter from my toolbox but hadn’t gotten around to it. It had a broken hacksaw blade, several short pieces of radiator hose, and a few hose clamps (and other miscellaneous stuff, not needed that night).

    That is not luck. The opportunity to accumulate the tools and bits of clutter like you describe is White Privilege.

  46. Greg Norton says:

    Here come the Cylons.

    Sex robots. Male, female, and variations.

    Go play Joe Rogan’s interview with The Real Life Tony Stark from shortly before the election last year.

  47. nick flandrey says:

    Already got sex robots.   And the creepiest silicone torsos…

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  48. SteveF says:

    White Privilege

    Are you sure? I thought it was toxic masculinity.

    As contrasted with women collecting bits of crap and never throwing any of that crap away. That’s making the house a home and emotional labor.

  49. Greg Norton says:

    “I just dont see how you can reason with someone who thinks like this. I doubt she has ever even listened to Charlie Kirk make one of his arguments. At most, she has seen a highly edited sound bite. Did I mention that she is a teacher?

    Trust fund baby. She can’t deal with the fact that, at some point, either her grandfather or father were alpha males who did what is known in Dave Ramsey-speak as “killing it and dragging it back to the cave” so some fin-tech bro with a $7000 watch can hopefully manage the carcas into a 4% draw for snowflake annually, taking 2% for himself.

    Teaching is a job but not her living.

    Life is good until the balanced funds stop running 12% gains annually and revert back to the traditional 7-8%

  50. SteveF says:

    Already got sex robots.   And the creepiest silicone torsos…

    From what I’ve heard from a guy, the latest models are almost flesh-like. They’re warmed to human temperature and the skin isn’t “grabby”, or whatever the term is for many soft plastics.

  51. Greg Norton says:

    Teaching is a job but not her living.

    DoD-provided soup bowl.

    Smell the hypocrisy.

  52. EdH says:

    Chihuahua’s have arrived.

    Three of them.

    Marco has gone to that great dog run in the sky.

    RIP, little guy.

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  53. Greg Norton says:

    From what I’ve heard from a guy, the latest models are almost flesh-like. They’re warmed to human temperature and the skin isn’t “grabby”, or whatever the term is for many soft plastics.

    Elon gives a time frame in the Rogan interview.

  54. Gavin says:

    He thinks he can be done EOD tomorrow.   

    I took that for an entirely different acronym at first.

  55. Gavin says:

    Based on my experience with people commenting on crises averted, you meant to say “I’m lucky I have another truck.”

    I would translate that as, “I’m fortunate I have another truck” as I subscribe to David Drake’s analysis of the difference between luck and fortune. I can’t remember which volume of his ‘Belisarius Saga’ it’s in, so I guess I’ll have to make the sacrifice and re-read it.

  56. nick flandrey says:

    I’m also “lucky” the I heard it and knew what to do to minimize damage.   Like I’m “lucky” that I knew which part of the toilet to replace at my shop, when water started falling out the back.  Or how I’m “lucky” enough to fix the things I’ve fixed…

    Now IRL I’m plenty lucky.   My sibling got the kind of luck that pays hundreds of dollars on Vegas slot machines.  I got the kind of luck that kept me alive and healed me after my many and various accidents and injuries.   I got the kind of luck that “ manifests” things I need in my auctions, thrift stores, and sometimes even just laying on the curb.  My “luck” doesn’t run to getting money, it runs to getting stuff, and saying or doing the right thing at the right time, to the right person.   

    But then there is the follow up, which takes hard work, knowledge, or skills.

    Fortune favors the prepared.  True then, true now.

    n

  57. drwilliams says:

    So What?

    https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/09/16/trumps-enforcement-of-immigration-law-now-leading-to-worker-shortages-so-what-n2194024

    Discovery of illegal aliens in significant numbers at any company should trigger an audit and result in:

    –civil fines representing some multiple of the mount of wages a company has saved, including a calculation of the underpayment of wages to legal employees due to suppression of market forces

    –federal criminal charges and prison time for any executives with knowledge.

  58. drwilliams says:

    Sounds like Senate Democrats would have been better off trying to manually brake a chainsaw than mess with Kash Patel.

    I prayed for pipe hitters and got ’em.

  59. nick flandrey says:

    The dems accusing Patel of “politicizing the FBI” is jaw dropping.   I guess if not for double standards they’d have none at all.

    n

  60. paul says:

    Big River sent a “we found stuff you would like” e-mail.

    Sure, offer me a kindle HD 8 JUST LIKE the one I just bought for $97 plus tax after giving me 20% off for my trade in.

    Aren’t they sweet?  They dropped the price almost $50 and now I can buy another for $80. 

    It’s irritating.

    This new kindle has a decent keyboard. The guessing of words works well.

  61. drwilliams says:

    “The dems accusing Patel of “politicizing the FBI” is jaw dropping.   I guess if not for double standards they’d have none at all.”

    They are posturing ahead of getting indicted.

  62. paul says:

    getting indicted.

    I’ll believe it when it happens.

  63. Greg Norton says:

    getting indicted.

    I’ll believe it when it happens.

    Schiff’s autopen-signed pardon doesn’t cover mortgage fraud.

    Pops only signed Hunter’s pardon for real. Even the rest of the crime family got the autopen signature on theirs.

  64. nick flandrey says:

    D2 is in the shower, loudly and enthusiastically singing along to “American Pie”…  I did something right.

    n

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  65. Lynn says:

    “Southern Poverty Law Center added Charlie Kirk’s organization to ‘hate map’ this year”

        https://worldtribune.com/southern-poverty-law-center-added-charlie-kirks-organization-to-hate-map-this-year/

    They misprinted.  They meant the “Southern Poverty Hate Center”.

    Which BTW, needs to be deep audited by the IRS and have its tax free status removed.

    Hat tip to:
    https://thelibertydaily.com/

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  66. Nick Flandrey says:

    SPLC – spreading poverty and lawlessness for a couple of decades at least.

    ———

    I did pick up a card for W1, but I still have to figure out a gift.   Time waits for no man, and I am —- well shoot, I am a man.  *   Still have a couple of days but the deadline is approaching.

    and now to bed.

    n

    *crossed the streams there, really kinda jumbled them all up.

  67. Denis says:

    *crossed the streams there, really kinda jumbled them all up.

    I see what you did there. Happy Wednesday, everyone!

  68. Lynn says:

    MDACC is getting ready for my February appointment to check on my lung nodule.  I just got an 8 am CT scan scheduled in the Hayes Clinic.  I will have to leave my house about 6 am.  Lovely.

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