Forecast says “possible thunderstorms” for the whole SE of Texas, and we had overcast yesterday. Cool weather too. I expect today to be similar, and maybe tomorrow too. I’m hoping that it is dry though, since my intent is outdoor tasks.
Since I got nothing done yesterday. I woke with really severe lower back pain and stiffness. It was bad enough to make me nauseous. But it improved throughout the day to the point where I almost felt back to normal but was still moving cautiously.
Today, if I’m feeling ok, I’ll mess it all up again by moving more stuff out of my storage unit. That is my main goal. Where and how we spend this week and the holiday is still a bit fluid and up for grabs, but W and the kids will be home today and tomorrow for D1 to work her new job. IDK if I’ll head up tomorrow during the day, or wait for later. It will depend on if I can load the truck without getting wet.
I had plans for this week at the BOL, mostly involving electrical and networking in the attic, but now with less time there, and possible pain, we’ll have to just play it by ear. I really need to get stuff done up there, and it’s stuff that takes more than a day at a time.
Owning any property puts extra stress on you and your resources. Owning a remote property increases both. Owning multiple properties, and being older and beat up makes it even more difficult and painful. Something to keep in mind when looking for BOL property, or even a retirement property.
On the other hand, it’s kinda hard to complain about owning multiple properties. It’s a fortunate position to be in, and one we actively pursued. It does have challenges though, and that is simple truth.
Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. And stack.
n
Yep, that’s about it. Add in virtue signalling and cowardice in the C-suite and you have close to a complete picture.
Good morning! (Just… almost noon here).
I think I might have remarked before, that the penalty for time off is even more work on one’s return. That was certainly the case today. I am only now emerging from the deluge, which allowed SteveF to get in first this morning. Hi, SteveF!
I am so busy I gave up on having time for breakfast, so now my “breakfast” is a very hasty spaghetti carbonara. I reckon I will need the energy…
Wishing you all energy too, and the best Monday possible!
70+% institution owned. Vanguard/Blackrock/State Street hold 20% of outstanding shares. VTSMX has a 3% stake.
That’s most of Corporate America in a nutshell. Your pension and/or 401(k) plan has a vested interest in this working and generating the 12-15% necessary to keep the plates spinning.
The Art History majors from Brown running HR know when to keep their mouths shut.
If we don’t have 10 hours per year at review time, it reflects negatively on the manager.
I did the cleanup on the river volunteer effort two years ago, but a Number One Son from the “Environmental Concerns” employee group watched me gather trash all afternoon.
If I want to get the stink eye from that personality type, I’d un-ban the Chinese inlaws from my house.
I don’t need to go to a work event to get the “Hillbilly” treatment.
That reminds me – Number One Nephew is trying to invite himself to dinner at my house on Thursday.
He didn’t get a plane ticket back home because he’s saving his money to take his Physician Assistant girlfriend to Taiwan in the Spring after he’s discharged from the Army.
On the one hand, we should do the decent thing. On the other hand, I suspect the Physician Assistant girlfriend is in town and, possibly, his father, my ex-brother-in-law Big Papi, as well.
The Physician Assistant annoys my wife, but no worse than any Bachelor’s degree holder trying to practice medicine..
I don’t like being around Big Papi, because he acts the Univision telenovella character stereotype despite being the whitest person I know.
Or maybe he’s the subject of the “Lie Detector” running sketch on the late, great “Gigantic Saturday”.
Univision either way.
@Greg Norton
Don’t spoil Thanksgiving with “guests” that will promote indigestion.
I’ve learned a lot about I n d i a n s (dot, not feath er) from Greg No rton’s posts. Today John Wilder’s post is both interesting and educational. I had never heard of Izzat:
https://wilderwealthywise.com/izzat-how-an-indian-concept-is-destroying-the-west/
Please use the term Colonist or, at a minimum, Subcontinent if you are going to invoke my name in a sentence regarding that demographic.
Don’t make it easy for the Monkey Trick to portray me as something I am not if HR where I work goes on a hunting expedition.
Dinesh D’Souza is married to a Venezuelan elite expat, not an Indian woman.
The wife used to be a frequent Cutie Pie guest, but I haven’t heard her on since the first Orange Man administration which had a more reasonable approach to Venezuela.
The Venezuelan woman is actually D’Douza’s second non-Indian wife.
There is a well done vid on youtube about why the Patels own all the motels in the US…
Well, technically, not all the Patels are the same Patels, and it’s not actually ALL the motels.
It is the anchor baby strategy writ large. If you let in the nose, pretty soon the whole camel will be in your tent.
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76F and currently mostly sunny. Rain is in the local forecast so if I want to move stuff I should do it this am… which is unfortunate because I still hurt. Hopefully that will get better with a hot shower, stretching, and movement.
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Coffee is about half in me, as is egg and sausage biscuit…
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W has made a shopping list for me. I will have to find some time today to get it done. The turkey really needs to get in the brine and start defrosting.
n
EDITORIAL NOTE
I made a couple of minor edits to Craig and Greg’s posts upthread, just breaking up words in an attempt to slow down any search engines.
No blame attaches.
n
– a monster of the reggae/world music scene, RIP
n
Not even to Anthropogenic Global Warming? But it can do anything! It can make winters either warmer or colder or both and it can make sea levels rise and fall at the same time. Surely global warming can attach someone’s name to truthful but unpopular statements.
The chinese concept of face is similar. It’s why they value appearance over reality. And why they don’t accept negative feedback or criticism.
n
Please don’t leave out the hurricanes. It’s responsible for those big hurricanes that made landfall in past years, and also this year’s season where zero made landfall.
No, that last bit comes from the new name of the Gulf of America.
Do you hear that, everyone? Can you pass it along to your liberal relatives and coworkers? Donald Trump stopped hurricanes from hitting the United States. Donald Trump is more powerful than global warming!
And to think I thought someone had a stuttering problem. Silly me.
re izzat and face: Note the difference between “shame” cultures and “guilt” cultures.
Very roughly speaking, guilt cultures are where Christianity, especially Protestantism, dominated.
Shame cultures are almost all of Asia and parts of Africa where Mohammedanism overlays pre-Abrahamic beliefs.
Some maps show Pride culture, which generally covers Italy, Spain, and most of South America. Other maps show these as Shame cultures. Pride is close to the inverse of Shame, so it may not matter much.
Again roughly speaking, guilt cultures tend to focus on individual failings and the need for improvement. Shame cultures tend to focus on how individual failings shame the group. Self-improvement to overcome the shame doesn’t seem to be considered. Instead, the group needs to hide itself away for a while, or extirpate the shame by killing or ejecting the offender, or killing anyone who witnessed the shame.
Guilt cultures and shame cultures do not understand each other.
Guilt cultures and shame cultures are fundamentally incompatible and should not be mixed.
It keeps threatening to storm here, and now there is even thunder. No rain yet, but I’m not moving my storage unit today. I know as soon as I get the truck loaded it will downpour.
Perhaps grocery shopping will move to the top of the list.
n
tRump should have named it the Golf of America. That would really make the proglibturd’s heads explode.
Some prog Klinton judge has let Comey and James off the hook due to some procedural shite. The DOJ should appeal just to keep dragging PLT names through the mud.
Beautiful weather, back to our diurnal 40F-65F swing for a few days, through Turkey Genocidetm at least.
Doing minor prep, my back is about 50% lately, so I can do stuff but slowly, carefully, and intermittently.
Other than my brothers GF everyone has lnown me for 40 years or more, the odd dust bunny here & there will not be an issue.
If I understand correctly, the special prosecutor was not properly appointed and therefore the charges were not legit. The judge dismissed the case but extended the statute of limitations by six months, so a different prosecutor can refile the same case. The judge may well be a prog POS, but it sounds like everything is correct here.
Dadgumit, I forgot to plug in the offsite backup 12TB hard drive to my PC last Friday night and run the backup. It takes about 36 to 48 hours to write all the new files on the 5 TB office LAN and verify the old files. I never delete old files from the backups, that way lies insanity.
I am getting old. I did the website backup on Friday though, 16 GB now.
Doing my taxes. yeh, I like to get a headstart so I can make decisions before the end of the year to possibly reduce my taxes. There ain’t much poor folk can do in that regard. That myth about tax deferred accounts so in the later years of life the tax burden may not be as much, is just that, a myth.
Two new things I have discovered.
With the increase in SS amounts, 2.8%, the cost of Medicare premiums and Part D prescription coverage went up, the net amount each month is actually less next year than it was this year.
“’This is a major ruling’: Appeals court delivers stunning decision about government confiscation of property”
https://www.wnd.com/2025/11/this-is-major-ruling-appeals-court-delivers-stunning/
“An appeals court has used a Florida COVID closure order case to deliver a stunning decision about the government’s confiscation of property, setting a huge new precedent for closure orders that became common during the pandemic created by the China virus.”
“In fact, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that government orders shutting down private beaches during that time period violated the Fifth Amendment’s ban on government taking property without compensation.”
“It is constitutional expert Jonathan Turley who pointed out, “This is a major ruling on takings, including the treatment of the limits as a physical rather than regulatory takings. It could find itself before the Supreme Court on that issue.””
“The case addressed by the 11th Circuit came from COVID-19 closures in April 2020, when authorities ordered private beaches in Walton County, Florida, closed.”
“The owners sued under the Constitution’s Takings Clause.”
“That explains “private property” shall not “be taken for public use, without just compensation.””
At long last, a fresh breath of sanity from a federal appeals court. This has the ability to bankrupt state and local governments all over the place, SCOTUS will probably shut it down on some pretense.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Don’t forget IRMA.
Pearls Before Swine: Morning Routine
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/11/24
Decaf coffee, really ? Sacrilege.
And where are the prunes ?
Everyone is different. I think I’m going to get an extra $40 a month. Well. “Think” for various versions of that.
Did a quick google (DDG actually) query to see who was on Monday Night Football tonight, got three different answers:
I guess almost every answer is now automated AI slop.
Clankers don’t care.
“I am getting old.”
At the exact rate that you were aging when you were sixteen and thought it was so darn slow,
I should have stated that it was for my wife’s SS. Her income is limited because it was half of mine (she stayed home to take care of the kid), minus 25% of the half, because we took hers at 62. I was getting close to retirement and without her SS things were going to be thin. Plus she has more health problems than I so the rational was to take it early as she may not get SS.
As for me I will gain about $60.00 a month as I don’t have part D as my prescriptions are covered by the VA. Between the two of us, the net amount is only about $23.00. Hardly enough to get excited about.
As to taking SS early, waiting until 66.5, or until 70, there are multiple experts with “advice” and none of them really agree on the best approach. Hindsight is always perfect but the decision has to be made on what is known now, with some guessing of the future.
Meme: “Seeking a used, low mileage SUV to get the family through the troubled years ahead”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6YPkRqXUI5bnVf6PfcRhXK88rCqMUVKuINFf5d-x-tFjyW7L7aVOHpmcLdWe-3KcAJoJ14Hi5b90FfiDr9FAFwQFMCjBlPxKTNDRQoCukrVURU1HDfy2HCSyFjmRDqbzhNP4iOU_f00QtF1P1cV8i6VEDI5Z9ZQ47SBv8cc6waVUak7KTqVt40y1xePM/s550/Meme%20-%20seeking%20low%20mileage%20SUV.png
Hat tip to:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/11/memes-that-made-me-laugh-287.html
“I am getting old.”
At the exact rate that you were aging when you were sixteen and thought it was so darn slow,
It is going so darn fast now. We are almost to the end of 2025 and I am not through with 2024 yet.
There is a reason for the apparent illusion of the rapid descent into decrepit. When you are 10 years old, 1 year is 10% of your life. When you are 60 years old 1 year is 1.6% of your life. The time span seems shorter.
Oyster Dressing Recipe from my son
15 serrano peppers
(2) one pan cornbread
(4) 2 pints green onion diced
(4) 2 pints celery diced
sweat veggies in butter until wilted ~15 min microwave
(8) 4 eggs whipped
oysters to taste, oyster water to moisten
oven @ 400F for 25 min, wait until brown
These are the notes I found. I’m still looking for the printed out version granddad gave me since I can’t find any emails about it. The ()’s add the non-oyster ingredients. Ask Mimi the cornbread box to use. There’s a specific one that’s in a white box, but I can’t remember the brand’s name.
Exactly.
It’s a relatively simple calculation but you have to base it on imperfect data. Even more complicated when you factor in a spouse. Speaking of which, do a little searching on the “Widow’s tax trap”, which applies to widowers as well. Facing RMD’s while your filing status goes from Married to Single is a double hit.
I arbitrarily decided I’ll live until I’m 90*. So waiting until 70 to maximize my payout was the right answer. I figured I’d just work until at least 70, maybe longer if I felt like it. I’d save on my Medicare premiums until I quit working and I’d have a few more years of saving to boot.
Just when I finalized that plan, I got fired suddenly at 67. No income, a high maintenance farm to take care of remotely, my brother in decline in a home with me as his primary care. I had to file for SS and Medicare earlier than planned.
My checks would be 8% bigger for each year I waited. 24% for the three years I planned. And annual COLA compounding on that 24%.
Of course, this presupposes that you’re ok with a working lifestyle that long. What’s the value of your free time in retirement? Only you can say if it’s worth trading potential future money for freedom from work right now.
* If I live longer, the calculation is the same because it maxes out at 70. If I die earlier, I doubt my biggest regret would be “Oh darn! I didn’t get as much from SS as I could have!” It’s more likely to be “Darn! I should have quit sooner and actually enjoyed my retirement!”
Lamb’s? It’s a Texas brand. GF just bought a new box for this year’s dressing.
I use to like Hamburger Helper. Easy with good directions. Just add meat and water.
Then all flavors started to taste the same. And sort of plasticy, too. Well, a “skillet casserole” is not exactly rocket science.
You just need to learn how to make it. Which is some of what I wanted to learn in 8th grade home EC. Something beyond how to fry an egg. Making cookies or a cake from a mix is stupid simple. But that’s all the class did, besides sewing. And I knew how to use a Singer before 4th grade.
I was a thorn in the side of that very vain teacher. 🙂
Anyway.
In a skillet, brown off a pound of hamburger. Maybe use the 4 quart size pot, it’s deeper so less spatter on the stove. You can be sloppier with stirring. Salt and pepper to taste. Don’t break it down to taco meat, leave it chunky. Drain the excess grease if desired. Me? I paid for the calories. The pasta will soak up the grease. Then dump in a 28 oz can of diced tomatoes. And a can of tomato sauce. With enough water to rinse both cans and a tomato sauce can of water. Add good sprinkles of onion and garlic powders. Add a couple of teaspoons, eating spoons, of chili and and one of cumin powders.
Let it all get hot and happy. It’s a thick soup, sort of. Taste, add salt or whatever. Then add a half can or so of the 28 oz can, of water. And finally three hands of macaroni. Maybe a cup? Mix, cover the pan, turn the heat to Low. Stir once in a while. Supper will be ready in about 40 minutes.
The house smells great.
You can do this with a chub of Italian sausage. Just use Italian seasoning and maybe add more oregano. Use spaghetti. Break into thirds.
And hey, Pioneer makes some some good gravy mixes. Makes 2 cups per package. So, chicken or turkey gravy mix with a couple of cans of tuna and some egg noodles. Add a cup of water for the noodles.
Use brown gravy mix and egg noodles and call it Stroganoff after adding some sour cream.
Do any of the above with any pasta.
Also, you’ve probably seen and experienced most things before.
When I commuted to the same workplace every day for 25 years it got to the point where I literally could not remember the drive. Thousands of repetitions, blurred together.
The same is going on with your life in your 60s and 70s.
“Pentagon says court-martial possible for Sen. Mark Kelly after Trump calls him a ‘traitor’ for ‘seditious’ video”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/pentagon-mark-kelly-court-martial
“The Department of War issued a statement Monday announcing an investigation into Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona after he made comments advising military members against carrying out allegedly unlawful orders from the president.”
“Several Democrats participated in a video calling on U.S. military members to refuse to follow unlawful orders, and the president slammed them Saturday in a post on social media. Kelly is a retired Navy captain.”
Good. Being retired as a military officer does not give you carte blanche to make seditious remarks directed at the military.
Just when I finalized that plan, I got fired suddenly at 67. No income, a high maintenance farm to take care of remotely, my brother in decline in a home with me as his primary care. I had to file for SS and Medicare earlier than planned.
My checks would be 8% bigger for each year I waited. 24% for the three years I planned. And annual COLA compounding on that 24%.
I suspect that Social Security will be means tested in the not too distant future. Medicare already has IRMAA where your payments to Medicare can go up 5X.
The SS thing. I started a few months after I was eligible. Totally a “get it while I can” attitude. I pushed the math around and take it now or wait until 70 or so was a wash with the break even being 80.
Taking it now pays the bills. I mean, I could drop dead tomorrow. And collect nothing.
My dad lived almost to 85. My mom was a month shy of 90. Grandmama was 96 and still sharp.
I think I did the right thing. I don’t get the max but I get enough to get by.
“means tested” is what exactly?
What? I’m rich because Zillow says my my house is worth 650 grand? I’d sell for that… plus about 20 grand an acre. Package deal. House on one acre plus 25+ acres. I pay nothing of the real estate crap.
I should be able to find a nice spot with a million bucks plus in my pocket. Except… I like it here. I like my house.
I was going to work until I was 70. Max out the SS. Then my best friend died suddenly at the age of 65. He never got to retire. He never got SS. That rapidly changed my decision. I retired in August 2016, waited until I was 66 February of 2017, and started SS. I was not going to work all my life and not enjoy retirement.
Was it the correct decision? Who knows? But I have no regrets.
The biggest mistake I made was the (un)affordable healthcare crapola for the wife. Everything I read said my premiums would be based on income. Fine. For those six months I would have no income, I should pay nothing. Whoa, hold the ponies. Somewhere in fine print, the second to last page of a 8,319 page document, in 4-point type, in 50% translucent letters, the rates are based on the yearly income, not current income. I got slammed for $8K in (un)affordable healthcare premiums for the wife. I should have waited until December 31, 2016 to retire.
I’ve posted before, when you retire from the military you are considered “regular” Army, Air Force, Navy, etc. military. You can be called back to active duty at the “pleasure of the President”. Any President. SecWar should get POTUS to call Kelly back and give him a letter of reprimand for his file. When released from AD, Kelly will probably do some more lib-splainin’, so call him back again for another public dousing. When Vance is POTUS, keep doing it to all military retired doosh-nozzles.
Went ahead and mopped the floors.
This was actually a planned task for tomorrow but it’s sunny, warm, and completely windless, so I can leave the doors and windows open and let things dry.
Winds for tomorrow are projected to be 20mph.
There is Howard Shore on Pandora, cats scittering around, curious but cautious, not an unpleasant chore, I like clean.
The electric Bissell is much easier than a sponge or rag mop, though not quite as deep a clean and corners are an issue.
Walton County has a lot of privately owned beachfront property. Closing the limited public beach access would have been pointless without similar restrictions on private property.
We’re talking about Destin, FL, not Ma and Pa Kettle’s beachfront fishing shack. Lots of Air BnBs, resort hotels, and a big Hilton Garden Inn on Fort Walton Beach with a contract to serve military families.
DeSantis lifted the restrictions after a month and rolled the dice about the case numbers. At the time, most of the country, including many Republicans in Florida, thought he was bonkers.
Today turned into another big pile of not doing anything. The rain didn’t last, but everything got wet.
Then it was sunny so I did some work in the driveway moving stuff, restacking, and trashing rotten cardboard. That wasn’t super satisfying though.
Didn’t make it to the grocery store.
Thunder and lightning again, in the not too far distance.
Need to think about dinner.
n
“means tested” is what exactly?
“means tested” means that the benefit that you are receiving will be subject to some arbitrary measure of your personal wealth.
Me, I think that the arbitrary measure will be if you own your own house worth at least $100K or if you have $100K in assets such as cash, stocks, cars, etc.
Don’t worry, Ray Thompson’s free loading neighbors will be on Social Security and Social Disability and Medicare and SNAP and …
What? I’m rich because Zillow says my my house is worth 650 grand? I’d sell for that… plus about 20 grand an acre. Package deal. House on one acre plus 25+ acres. I pay nothing of the real estate crap.
I should be able to find a nice spot with a million bucks plus in my pocket. Except… I like it here. I like my house.
You gotta live somewhere. And those somewheres have gotten a lot more expensive in Texas in the last 5 or so years.
“Vindman Brothers, Who Helped Impeach Trump in 2020, Are Now Under Investigation”
https://headlineusa.com/vindman-brothers-who-helped-impeach-trump-in-2020-are-now-under-investigation/
“’Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States, for which he will pay the appropriate penalty…’”
Never do the King a small harm.
I got an offer today for $195K for my rent house. I’ve gotten $250K in the past. I laughed at the guy.
The $150K I had left after taxes could never generate the same income as my rent.
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Lightning just struck a pine tree in my front yard. Took the computers out… but they came back. There is a white line in the bark of the tree from the top to the bottom now. Heavy rain, so no fire and nothing seems to have fallen down. I’m not going out in the storm to look any further.
I am sitting in my office and saw the flash thru my window, with the hit sounding like an explosion. My ears hurt.
Glad it didn’t take out the house or fall on anything.
n
“Islam Is Slowly Taking Over the United States”
https://rumble.com/v726oh2-islam-is-slowly-taking-over-the-united-states.html?mref=1wxk5&mrefc=3
He is right, Sharia Law will be horrible for women in the USA.
College educations. TN is another state where the bulk of lottery proceeds subsidize the cost of public university tuition in the form of “scholarships”.
Middle class welfare, but welfare none the less.
Money is fungible. One could just as honestly claim that the lottery proceeds pay for the governor and his staff.
NYT lionizes illegal who stole innocent farmer’s identity and left him to pay the illegal’s taxes
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/11/nyt_lionizes_illegal_who_stole_innocent_farmer_s_identity_and_left_him_to_pay_the_illegal_s_taxes.html
No one in government had an obligation to investigate, even though the location of the illegal alien who had stolen an innocent man’s identity was part of the record they used to claim he owed taxes.
I also don’t understand the inaction on the part of the victim.
My first thought was I’d drive to Missouri, find the guy, toss hm in the trunk, drive him back to whatever court had screwed me over, and drag the guy in.
Maybe screw a gun into his ear and ask the judge “If I pull the trigger, is it murder or suicide, since you sons a beaches think this is me.”
Second thought was more temperate. Starts like the first, except I call ICE from the Show Me State and tell them I’ve got eyeballs on the guy who stole my identity and screwed up my life. They can either come and make the arrest or I call TV 7 and have them send the mobile out and film me knocking down the door to make a very pizzed off citizen’s arrest.
How many times have I said “Put a bounty on them and they will leave in a puff of smoke.”
“It’s a relatively simple calculation but you have to base it on imperfect data.”
It’s only simple if you make enough simplifying assumptions, the biggest of which is how long you are going to live.
(Pinero never lived in this timeline, and he died and took the secret with him anyway.)
“Diesel under attack: EPA targets engines that power America”
https://web.archive.org/web/20251125014328/https://www.theblaze.com/align/diesel-under-attack-epa-targets-engines-that-power-america
“America runs on diesel. From freight haulers and farm equipment to fire trucks and snowplows, diesel engines are the torque behind our economy.”
“Yet the same engines that built the nation’s backbone are now in Washington’s crosshairs — strangled by layers of federal regulation that threaten the people who keep America moving.”
“Since 2010, every diesel engine sold in the U.S. has come fitted with diesel particulate filters and selective catalytic reduction systems — components meant to capture soot and neutralize nitrogen oxides. In theory, they’re good for the environment. In practice, they’re crippling the very trucks that keep shelves stocked and first responders rolling.”
“DPFs clog, SCR units freeze, and when that happens, engines “derate” into limp mode — losing power until the system is fixed. A single failure can leave a truck stranded for days and cost upwards of $5,000 to repair. For independent owner-operators, who haul 70% of the nation’s freight, that can mean the difference between survival and bankruptcy.”
“Even worse, under the Clean Air Act, simply repairing or modifying those failing systems can make a mechanic a federal felon.”
My neighbor just spent several thousand dollars replacing his DEF and SOOT systems on his five year old Dodge diesel truck with less than 100K miles on it. He uses his truck to tow heavy road building equipment for his contract jobs. He is very unhappy but all of the medium duty trucks have the same problems with their so-called emission systems so it is worthless to change brands.
Maybe 6% in a bond fund.
Of course, Texas real estate is dependent on the Legislature keeping the plates spinning by voting to use the surplus to pay down property tax bills which feed the bond ghouls.
Lamb’s? It’s a Texas brand. GF just bought a new box for this year’s dressing.
You are correct according to my son. And it is carried by HEB.
My neighbor just spent several thousand dollars replacing his DEF and SOOT systems on his five year old Dodge diesel truck with less than 100K miles on it. He uses his truck to tow heavy road building equipment for his contract jobs. He is very unhappy but all of the medium duty trucks have the same problems with their so-called emission systems so it is worthless to change brands.
https://web.archive.org/web/20251125014328/https://www.theblaze.com/align/diesel-under-attack-epa-targets-engines-that-power-america
BTW, the diesel DEF and SOOT systems are considered to be wear items by the EPA so the extended exhaust warranty does not apply to them. You love that, right ?
The BACT (Best Available Control Technology) law states that the exhaust technology should last for a very long time, usually the life of the vehicle: 150,000 miles for cars and light trucks, 600,000 miles for Class 8 and Class 9 trucks. But the EPA just ignored the law as usual for the last 20 years and mandated these new exhaust systems knowing that they would require extreme maintenance, beyond the required effect of the law.
Any direct experience with fanny packs/cross-body bags as holsters?
I’m looking at this and this but it really looks uncomfortable at the neck.
I really should bite the bullet and switch to AIWB carry. But my pocket .380 is so comfortable. It’s just so limited in stopping power, capacity, sight radius.
I’ve got a friend who’s carrying a murse nowadays, which seems popular among hispanics, and I’m old enough not to much care how it looks. Moving my glasses and phone to a bag could be actually helpful. And I could carry an IFAK, or at least a CAT Tourniquet. I just finished my stop-the-bleed training and I’m homologated. I even have a certificate!
The alternative could be a normal IWB holster and a shoot-me-first vest, I suppose. If the weather is cool enough.
I just carry in my right pocket in a Sticky Holster. The gub butt pokes out of my pocket in shallow pockets so I buy for deep pockets. And the whole setup prints on my jeans. For my Ruger GP100 seven shot .357 I use “Sticky Holsters Concealment Holsters for Men and Women – LG-4 Large – Fits Large Revolvers, Kimber K6 3, and Similar up to 3″ Barrel – Suitable for Left and Right-Hand Draw; IWB or Pocket Carry”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D7NZPQ6?tag=ttgnet-20
For my S&W Airlite 360PD five shot .357 I use “Sticky Holsters Concealment Holster for Men and Women – MD-5 – Fits J-Frame, Kimber K6, Ruger LCR, and Similar Revolvers with up to 2.25″ Barrel – for Left and Right-Hand Draw; IWB and Pocket Carry”
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007MQC6MU?tag=ttgnet-20
So am I the only person here using Sticky Holsters ? I really dislike the clip on holsters.
Tuesday. Still dark out. Cold and raining. This would be a good moment to turn over and go back to sleep. Alas, work awaits. No rest for the witless.
I’m going to bed. See you all tomorrow.
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So am I the only person here using Sticky Holsters ? I really dislike the clip on holsters.
– I like the clip. It stays were I put it. I do have a sticky for my little 380 pocket gub but I rarely use or carry it.
n
“ExxonMobil halts 1-Bft3d blue hydrogen project in Texas”
https://gasprocessingnews.com/news/2025/11/exxonmobil-halts-1-bft3d-blue-hydrogen-project-in-texas/
The crazy blue hydrogen, black hydrogen, green hydrogen, purple hydrogen, etc … is going away. It was a market aberration put upon us by the crazy climate warmers.
Don’t get me wrong, we need hydrogen for crude oil cracking, crude oil cleanup (swapping the sulfur atoms for hydrogen atoms, etc), power plant generator cooling, etc. But we do not need hydrogen for replacing natural gas in our businesses and homes and in our power plants.
So am I the only person here using Sticky Holsters ? I really dislike the clip on holsters.
– I like the clip. It stays were I put it. I do have a sticky for my little 380 pocket gub but I rarely use or carry it.
n
I am fairly sure that you carry a lot more than I do and are more experienced with this. I may try a clip holster again some day. It just seems to me that AIWB and IWB holsters print a lot more for fat men like me.