Cold. Cold and damp. The front moved in, and now I’m waiting for it to move out. Working outdoors when your hands hurt is less than appealing. 30-40F is cold.
Slept in yesterday. Then did my ‘leaving the BOL’ stuff, and did the ‘taking down the Christmas stuff’. Also spent about a half hour talking to my neighbor and his wife, and about an hour to the father of another more distant neighbor. I’m a people person. Kid asked me why I talk to so many other people, and I told her “How can you learn anything if you don’t ask?”
Today we’ll play it by ear, but the list is long and my motivation is short… but I know I need to start hacking the list down. So we’ll see what the weather is like and go from there.
I can always do indoor things. I can sit at my computer and do auction stuff, or year end business/household stuff, or even networking stuff. But I should do some big, easy physical things so there is visible progress.
Fake it til you make it? Or a lifehack…
Stacking is easy.
nick
Tuesday. Good morning! Continental breakfast consumed. Filling in the cracks with some (the last?) Christmas cookies. I might even make myself a second cup of coffee…
It is grey outside and snowing a wee bit. Not really tempting me to be out and about. Maybe I will mess around on the internet instead.
I have been tidying up the bookmarks on my smartphone little by little – nearly 900 of them. The browser sorts them alphabetically according to whatever the site has on the top banner, so the number of bookmarks entitled “Home… something” is ridiculous and not at all useful.
Wishing you all a beautiful day!
Paul, thanks for the nice story about Penny’s alliterative name game. It is good to share happy memories, as to share them is to relive them a little too.
News this morning reports that rain is forecast for the Rose Parade for the first time in 20 years. I wonder if they are doing anything to protect or modify installation of the millions of seeds that are glued on in addition to the flowers.
“Ink” is a big midlife crisis thing for women in my neighborhood.
I see at least one with a few bad decisions on display at HEB whenever we are there.
The men buy vehicles they can’t afford with drivetrains which won’t last the payment terms without a major repair.
If Somalia has no government and that supposedly prevents us from deporting criminal aliens back there, then how TAF is Somalia taking the rotating chair of the UN Security Council?
Giving some thought to returning to Germany for Christmas of 2026. I need to stop hoarding money and spend some on pleasure items rather than physical items. Traveling is always good. We had a great time when we spent Christmas in Germany many years ago, then New Years in Oslo Norway. It would be a short trip, less than 10 days at the maximum. All we do here for Christmas is visit the son a few days before, then Christmas morning is just the two of us. Spending that time in another country would be more enjoyable based on my last experience.
Also tell her, “Always continue to test your assumptions.”
I think it was Ann Coulter that said, “Having a tattoo is like branding yourself a permanent member of the servant class.”
Tattoo removal is a booming business as Millennials pay to get their “tramp stamps” and other ink removed. I think I read that something like 25% of people with tattoos regret at least one of their tattoos.
True removal is not possible, but processes to significantly fade the pigments are available.
The most common misconception my wife encounters is that removal involves a prescription topical treatment which must be monitored by a doctor, similar to Retin A, but relatively straightforward and easy.
I feel so dirty. I’m going to buy a 3 day sling tv orange pass so I can have ESPN for 3 days for the bowl games. I could get away with a one day pass for January 1 if it wasn’t for the TN/Illinois game tonight.
I don’t know how to resolve the Somali crimmigrant fraud. MN has been sucked dry, and it looks like WA has the same problem. I believe there is a large group in WI as well. Even if goobermint heads roll, the problem is not solved. The money has dried up, so crime is the only thing left for crimmigrant grifters. Several MOAB’s could help.
“I feel so dirty. I’m going to buy a 3 day sling tv orange pass so I can have ESPN for 3 days for the bowl games. I could get away with a one day pass for January 1 if it wasn’t for the TN/Illinois game tonight.”
First-world problem.
Ink is an <25 problem for women. They hit 25 and suddenly all the stupid things look stoopid. The rest of their beauty will be fading and the tats detract even more.
Tats for men are a slightly different thing, gotten for different reasons, and dealt with differently because of a different relationship to body.
The quote was a reaction vid to 20 somethings moaning that they regret their tats. Some of those women were really good looking too, minus neck, face, and hand tats.
25% overall might regret some or all, but I bet it’s 90% of women, and I suspect it’s closer to 60% for men by the time they’re 35. I also bet it’s and inverse bathtub curve with regret on Y and age on X. Harder to figure how the number of tats interacts with that, or the age of the individual tat.
Almost everyone I’ve ever asked said they regretted some or most of their tats.
I’ve got one and I don’t love or regret it. I don’t even think about it for years at a time. Like some scars, I forget it’s there.
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44F when I went to bed. 44F this morning. Bright and sunny with a clear blue sky, so it’s a pretty day.
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Coffee should be ready.
n
Federal Way. Yeah, that doesn’t surprise me. That part of Seattle is creepy and hides lots of things.
SEIU has a huge clinic for their rank and file stashed not far from one of the Chinese relations houses. We would pass the clinic every time we went to the house, but it wasn’t on one of the main roads.
… guys with big wooden sticks trying to beat on each other…
Yup, the US Marine Corps loves those. My son was champion for the 1/7 Weapons Company in pujil sticks. Then he fought the Battalion champion. When he woke up later, he had a concussion. The first of many.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugil_stick
“Florida Man Captured A 153-Pound Invasive Burmese Python And It Looks Like He Slayed A Dragon”
https://brobible.com/culture/article/florida-news-153-pound-burmese-python-captured/
“A Florida man dressed in a Santa Claus hat captured a 153-pound invasive Burmese python on Christmas Eve. He shared a photo of the snake slung over his shoulder like a knight carrying a dragon back from battle and it truly puts into perspective the size of these invasive pythons here in Florida.”
Sweet Jebus ! Note to self, always carry a fully loaded 12 gauge shotgun in Florida.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
I am part of the tat control group (Hi, Mr. Greg).
That reminds me, I need to buy some Remington 12 managed recoil buckshot for my 12 gauge pistol.
https://www.remington.com/shotshell/29-20282.html
I have a Remington 870 12 gauge pistol that I have yet to shoot.
https://www.remarms.com/other-products/model-870-tac-14
The boneless chicken thighs I grilled like what seems six weeks ago is all finally gone. Finally. The spicy seasoning doesn’t keep.
Precious Perfect Pretty Penny Poo Puppy and Barney the Beagle had the last of the chicken tonight.
It was still good. Not going “off” at all. Sure seem to take a long time to eat, though.
As for Penny, we had it up to 17 P words. Sitting on the porch and drinking beer. Laugh and laugh. Did we write anything? Nah/ Beer.. And that became one of the jokes between us.
I’ll bet that Precious Perfect Pretty Penny Poo Puppy likes her extended name too.
D1 has “music” playing while she does whatever she’s doing in her room. It F’ing DRONES on. No changes in pitch, rhythm, tone, just mid range droning. Then every so often something from her other playlists sneaks in. Something from the 60s or 70s and suddenly there is variation, pauses, change.
Too much current pop music is nothing more than droning noise, particularly if it’s rap or rap adjacent.
n
I have a Remington 870 12 gauge pistol that I have yet to shoot.
https://www.remarms.com/other-products/model-870-tac-14
Where does one find a holster for this monstrosity ? It may only weigh 6 lb but it feels like 10 lbs.
Tuesday. Good morning! Continental breakfast consumed. Filling in the cracks with some (the last?) Christmas cookies. I might even make myself a second cup of coffee…
I had a Christmas cookie Saturday night. The other two left in the box were long gone by Sunday afternoon.
My wife did not finesse the icing this year. She just poured it on. I got a sugar high just by smelling the cookie first.
There are preliminary studies underway about tattoos and autoimmune disorders.
I would guess that there might be some effect from putting foreign substances under your skin, and letting them leach into you for the next 60 years, particularly if you have enough for a sleeve, or a full back.
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as a data point, I paid $2.18 /gallon for 87 octane gas last night, at a Kroger gas station.
It wasn’t the cheapest, but it was convenient.
n
“I doubt V6 engines will ever return in vehciles for the American market, however. Americans are weenies about gas prices regardless of what CAFE dictates.”
As I have preached for 20 years, the cure for high gasoline prices is compressed natural gas–CNG. Not electric. Not hybrid. Not rickshaws powered by the Soylent-green destined underclass.
Fracking has given us a virtually unlimited supply of natural gas, which has the outstanding characteristic of not having to go through a refinery. Yes, it still needs processing to some extent, but every BTU of transportation fuel that does not pass through a our limited refinery capacity is a win.
I love CNG. It is 130 octane so you can run 14:1 compression in your motor. Diesel blocks work well in these motors.
However, the tank is the weak part. I have seen people running 13,000 psia in their one ft3 carbon fiber tank. Scary.
LNG is better but then when the vehicle does not get driven for a couple of weeks, the tank starts vaporizing and you really need to be parked somewhere with strong winds. Not inside a garage. Not even a parking garage.
Garfield: Healthy Eating Habits
https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2025/12/29
Yes, this is my kind of dieting !
Shoot, when did the rasspi get so expensive?
n
I paid $2.02 at Costco in Knoxville yesterday.
I don’t know how to resolve the Somali crimmigrant fraud. MN has been sucked dry, and it looks like WA has the same problem. I believe there is a large group in WI as well. Even if goobermint heads roll, the problem is not solved. The money has dried up, so crime is the only thing left for crimmigrant grifters. Several MOAB’s could help.
Just imagine the amount of fraud that the Somalis will commit with Medicare For All ™.
Tattoo removal is a booming business as Millennials pay to get their “tramp stamps” and other ink removed. I think I read that something like 25% of people with tattoos regret at least one of their tattoos.
What freaks me out is sleeve tattoos on either men or women and tramp stamps on guys. Yes, I have seen a tramp stamp on a guy.
I think there’s definitely a relationship between women with several tattoos or body piercings and poor mental health. I’m guess their prescription history would be somewhat predictable. That’s not to say every female with a tattoo is a nut job (it’s sad that these obvious disclaimers need to be made), but when they’ve got a half dozen visible tats or their lips, nose, and eye brows are all pierced multiple times, then I’d bet you they can recommend a good psychiatrist or therapist.
I think this is especially true of idiots that get their significant other’s name tattooed on themselves or get some emo tattoo for whatever mental health crisis they’re going through at the time. Their mental health improves and suddenly their dramatic tattoo depicting their mental state 10 years ago feels silly and adolescent.
Same. I got one when I was 19. It was a military thing. A bunch of airmen and myself all went at the same time. It’s on my upper arm and easily hidden by even a short sleeve shirt. Honestly, I forget it’s there for months at a time and then suddenly I notice it and it’s a nice nostalgia trip. I don’t regret it.
Shoot, when did the rasspi get so expensive?
DDR5 ram is up in cost by a factor of at least five over the last six or so months. 16 GB DDR5 is $300.
I think this is especially true of idiots that get their significant other’s name tattooed on themselves or get some emo tattoo for whatever mental health crisis they’re going through at the time. Their mental health improves and suddenly their dramatic tattoo depicting their mental state 10 years ago feels silly and adolescent.
Never, never, never ask a woman about the name tattooed on her arm or shoulder.
I asked, like an idiot. Dead kid.
there’s definitely a relationship between women with several tattoos or body piercings and poor mental health
– when I lived in SoCal, Dr Drew and Adam Corolla had their radio show. They made a good argument based on Dr Drew’s practice and thousands of calls, that tats and body mods, particularly on females, were a sign of abuse and mental illness.
Dr Drew’s thing was that it gives them a sense of control over their bodies that the abuse and mental illness took away.
I haven’t seen anything to dispute his position in any significant way.
n
added – this was almost 30 years ago though, and tats on women have become a fashion thing, and a trend follower thing, so they don’t automatically have the same genesis as they used to when it was more personal and counter-cultural.
n
To quote Jimmy Buffett, tattoos are a “permanent reminder of a temporary feeling”.
Blame the Monkey Trick.
Micron announced that they will no longer market to consumers. Crucial.com will be shut down in the New Year.
I hate the constant drone. I have noticed that people younger than me have got so used to it that it is now routinely included by the radio stations here as background noise when they are making important road traffic announcements.
Tattoos. I can maybe see the point for military people, sailors and Olympians, and for people who are legitimately members of a tribe with a tattooing tradition, but the point of the current tat-as-fashion and tat-as-diary trends really escapes me.
I have a close friend whose stunningly beautiful daughter has got all tatted up. It is a tragedy, and my friend is heartbroken about it, but dare not say so.
If I were to approach any young person and offer them a magic shirt, one that would always be smart, neat and clean, and never need replacing, but they would have to wear that exact same shirt all day, every day for the rest of their life, they would tell me to get lost. A tat is just like the magic shirt, but without all the positive attributes.
Is it too soon to have my finger over the “buy” button for the new Steam Machine, Steam Deck 2, controllers, and Frame? I have multiple credit cards.
“Echoes of Silence: A Frontlines Novella” by Marko Kloos and Robin Kloos
https://www.amazon.com/Echoes-Silence-Frontlines-Marko-Kloos/dp/B0FHJNLC5J?tag=ttgnet-20/
A singular novella (219 pages) of military science fiction set in the Frontlines Universe of ten books. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback self published by the author in 2025 that I bought from Amazon in 2025. There are eight plus two books in the main Frontlines series of military science fiction, I will read any of the new books in the series.
“Author’s Note: Echoes of Silence is told in epistolary format. This is a collection of Halley’s diary entries that cover the timespan of the Frontlines novels Orders of Battle and Centers of Gravity. To understand the references in this novella and to avoid spoilers, it’s recommended to have read Orders of Battle (Frontlines #7) and Centers of Gravity (Frontlines #8) first.”
“As of 10/25/25, the paperback’s print size and chapter headings have been corrected, and paperback copies ordered after that date will be in the new format. This should resolve the common complaint about the excessive margins and text that was too small for some readers in the old version.” The text is somewhat small but still very readable using my +2.00 nighttime reading glasses.
https://www.markokloos.com/?p=3941
The book starts in year 2121 and ends in 2124. The author has previously noted that the Earth is home to 100 billion humans in 2120, most eating flavored soy to stay alive. All burials are now cremations with the results either scattered or temporarily buried in a 10 cm (4 inch) by 20 cm (8 inch) plot.
Humans are in a desperate battle against the Lankies, 120+ ton advanced space going dinosaurs. When the Lankies found our distant colonies, they took them one by one, terraforming them to their hot CO2 atmospheres. When the Lankies invaded and took Mars, the Russians joined the North American Commonwealth to expel them from Mars. Meanwhile, the Lankies started invading Earth to the receipt of crew served weapons on top of the PRCs (Public Residential Complexes) where most of the NAC residents live. This is the story of the battle to retake the colonies back from the Lankies.
The book is the contents of a journal by Lieutenant Colonel Halley Grayson whose husband Major Andrew Grayson space ship, the “Washington”, has disappeared in the Capella Star System. There are no fragments of a possibly destroyed ship nor lifeboats on the planets. There are some very strange readings by observation platforms in the system. The scientists are very perplexed and do not understand why the Lankies space ships FTL star drive is so much faster than our FTL star drive.
The author has a website at:
https://www.markokloos.com/
My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (467 reviews)
Lynn
Back from the ice hockey game, my first time attending one. The local team won 6 to 3. As far as I could tell, it was a good game. It was certainly entertaining to watch, and there were plenty of breaks to buy beer and dispose of it again. I wasn’t quite well enough prepared for the cold, but I could make do with a woolly hat and a blanket for my knees.
The game was more flowing and less combative and physical than I had expected it to be. I think there were only two occasions on which someone was sent to the sin bin.
The atmosphere in the stadium reminded me a lot of Greyhound racing in Ireland. An outing for the whole family, small kids to seniors, lots of social interaction going on, and the sports activity slightly ancillary to the spectator fun. All very good humoured. I enjoyed it, but wouldn’t necessarily have to go again.
You should run a few rounds of Brenneke Black Magic Magnum through. You’re born with a spare wrist after all.
@Lynn – Find a way to watch the first season of “Landman”.
If the only choice is renting from Amazon, go get a box set from WalMart.
I received box sets of “Tulsa King” and “Landman” for Christmas.
That last one was me.
Multitasking today.
If you can edit the name, I’d like to make it harder for the Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy.
That’s one of my favorite “Deep Space Nine” episodes and it just ran recently on the H&I rotation.
No holster–modified katakana stand on the mantle*.
*dust once a week
“Software taketh away faster than hardware giveth: Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI” by Herb Sutter
https://herbsutter.com/2025/12/30/software-taketh-away-faster-than-hardware-giveth-why-c-programmers-keep-growing-fast-despite-competition-safety-and-ai/
“Before we dive into the data below, let’s put the most important question up front: Why have C++ and Rust been the fastest-growing major programming languages from 2022 to 2025?”
“Primarily, it’s because throughout the history of computing “software taketh away faster than hardware giveth.” Our demand for solving ever-larger computing problems consistently outstrips our ability to build greater computing capacity, with no end in sight. Every few years, people wonder whether our hardware is just too fast to be useful, until the future’s next big software demand breaks across the industry in a huge wake-up moment of the kind that iOS delivered in 2007 and ChatGPT delivered in November 2022. AI is only the latest source of demand to squeeze the most performance out of available hardware.”
“The world’s two biggest computing constraints in 2025”
“Quick quiz: What are the two biggest constraints on computing growth in 2025? What’s in shortest supply?”
“Take a moment to answer that yourself it before reading on…”
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“If you answered exactly “power and chips,” you’re right — and in the right order.”
This is why I want to convert my calculation engine from Fortran to C++. C++ has won the war for programmers.
I’ve long believed that C++ is the secret to Apple’s own app performance on iOS.
Apple was very early with C++11 support. iOS 5 was a huge break from the past, offering C++11, Grand Central Dispatch, and Automatic Reference Counting. Writing iOS apps got a lot easier as long as the programmer followed certain rules.
“Immigration from the Third World”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/12/immigration-from-third-world.html
“Lawdog has written a blunt, in-your-face summary of Third World reality.”
“When you import the 3rd World, you get 3rd World values“
“He’s only the latest to point out that reality – and although he’s writing about Somalia, you can extend his conclusions to cover the whole of tribal Africa. I’ve written about that at length myself: see my article “What to do about Africa?” for an in-depth discussion. (For an overseas perspective, The Spectator’s Australian edition published earlier this year an article titled “Importing the third world: The cost of accepting immigrants who don’t share our values is too high“. It’s also worth reading.)”
Is it too late already ? We have 60 million immigrants in the USA, legal and illegal. That is 20% of the USA population.
Allow me to play devil’s advocate:
I understand the wish–if it could be granted instantaneously without cost.
If you started the conversion today, how long would it take and what would be the benefit?
Is starting today akin to launching a space mission to Proxima Centauri, in that delaying with the expectation that technology will deliver a shorter journey may be a better bet?
I’d add ‘water’ to the list – since it is needed to cool off all of that heat generated by the computers.
“Is it too late already ? We have 60 million immigrants in the USA, legal and illegal. That is 20% of the USA population.”
It is not too late. Cut off the support and many will leave. Start forcibly exporting the rest.
There is a political demographic (Democrats) that benefits in the short term from importing immigrants by any means legal and illegal with the expectation that they will vote Democrat and keep the Democrats in power. They insist that benefits must be provided from the pockets of the general population, i.e., all Democrats and all non-Democrats. This is absurd. Until recently the expectation was that immigrants would be privately sponsored. We can return to that system easily, by exclusively taxing those who want immigrants to provide the support–put your money where your mouth is, or sit down and shut up*.
The Trump administration has just conclusively exposed the lie that illegals cannot receive welfare. We need to peel back more lies and expose the full extent of the support, both legal and illegal.
Leftover tamales for dinner. Some minor plumbing work. I can’t find the stuff I pre-staged for that work though, and I spent more than a ½ hour looking for it. I’d have been done with the project in half hour, now I’m not done, and I spent a full hour. Grrr. No one will admit to moving the stuff.
I like to stage the tools and supplies where they will be needed and then grab the work when I have a bit of time. Not this time though.
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n
I almost pulled the trigger on a Black Friday deal for a new drill/driver, impact, two 20V batteries and charger. I opted instead for deeper stacks.
Part of the decision was lack of immediate need–no big projects, hence my existing is “good enough”.
Part was disgust when I contemplated over 40 years of personal tool evolution, starting with using a variable speed drill to drive screws*. I should spend an afternoon and pull all the solutions along the way–I have most of them somewhere–but then I’d have to document with a YT video or something else to justify.
*Ok, yes, I have used a brace with screwdriver bits, the first cordless improvement over a screwdriver.
Part was the “man who have one size battery pack to choose knows what to get, man with ten AH choices is clueless” combined with “there’s always a lemon in every kit”. If it’s four tools and one is a flashlight, chances are the saw sucks, too.
And how many perfectly good drills do you have to have that are useless due to battery systems abandoned by the manufacturer? They’re all guilty, but B&D is the poster child.
I still have a pair of Makita drills–one 7.2v with built-in battery and one 9.6v with a battery pack–that did yeoman service for years. With new battery packs they would serve a new homeowner for years. I have the 9.6v right-angle drill that matches and it is still a great tool. 9.6v batteries are cheap on Amazon. Considering you can pick up the drills for a song, and that I did so when I ran across one with a keyless chuck, I should get a couple.
The companion to the Makitas was my first hex-drive, which was a Craftsman with a built-in battery. Not sure if that one is still around.
Never mind.
These idle thoughts were prompted by the current circle-jerks over portable tool storage systems. There’s been an explosion and these two videos, one a year old and the other this week’s follow-up, give a pretty good overview:
THE BEST MODULAR TOOLBOX DRAWERS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ7Z_aeYItw&list=PLybYnzLxF39wrFjRfE313juIJ0AH_WL2T
THE BEST MODULAR TOOLBOX SYSTEMS OF 2025!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_K_sjBKX0
The former has 7 products whereas the recent one has 26, 27, or 28, depending.
Both are feature comparisons, not tests. Testing, of course, will only be relevant if the tests look like your use profile, but the first one I can think of is tumbling the mobile stack down half a flight of stairs, with winners still rolling.
He makes what to me, and Adam “First order Accessibility” Savage think is obvious: better to have drawers. I thought the “pop off some of the stack, disengage the roller, then undo the latches on the bottom box and tip the rest back with one hand while you fish the tool you need out with the other”.
Most of the fanboiz on YT lose my likes when they build a set of shelves to show off the Garage Queen Sustainers that they got comped by Festool in the background.
Ok, tying the two parts of this post together: 1) Lack of interchangeability. Neither battery systems nor modular tool boxes interchange between brands. 2) Every manufacturer will screw you. 12v begat 18 volt begat 20v (liars: it’s 18 lithium), and notice that it is Sustainer 3.
But, hey, did I mention I picked up one of the original B&D workmates for $14 last month? I douldn’t fnd the original commercial with Bob Lilly, but here is the 1978 introduction of the slimmed down and cheaper version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsNZi965n-Q
Note: the original is shown to the left in the closing shot. It is heavier and has dual-height adjustment. Bob stood on it in the original commercial.
If you started the conversion today, how long would it take and what would be the benefit?
I started the conversion about five years ago. I am about 15% complete. But my customers are demanding help and new features. I spent zero time in 2025 on the project.
The problem is that the two prevalent Fortran compilers are hobbyist tools, not professional tools. I know the maintainer for GNU Fortran, he is smart as a whip and actually understands what he is doing. But the standard features added to Fortran since the 1990 update are from fanboiz, not professionals. And it is a lot of “look, I can write C functionality in Fortran”. Yeah, buggy Fortran.
And I need 64 bit today for 64 bit Excel embedding.
@lynn, what’s your exit plan??’
n
Just recovered a camera I picked up for free. Had some damage as I think it was dropped, but it will work for me. Still listed as selling for $1k which seems crazy high but it’s full on pro gear, not semi-pro like I normally use.
IDK if I’ll use it here or at the BOL, but I’ll put it somewhere.
n
Trump’s Deportation Plan Just Scored a Major Win: Court Rules Admin Can Use Medicaid Data on Illegals
https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/12/30/federal-court-rules-ice-can-use-medicaid-data-to-target-illegals-for-deportation-n2197597
If the citizenship field is “no” and the immigration status field is “illegal” or the equivalent, then ICE should have access to the entire file for the purpose of enforcing federal law. Literally anything in that file might be of use in doing so, particularly since it is entirely likely that the delay due to litigation has allowed the blue states time to attempt to obfuscate things.
I would suggest pulling data from July when the policy was announced and compare it to any “updates” that changed any of the six fields. If significant changes are found that can be shown to be falsified, the feds need to go back to the judge and 1) get the rest of the tainted files opened, and 2) seek contempt charges against the states in question.
Say, I wonder if I can get an SBA loan to take busloads of people past Tampon Timmies house to shout “Retard”? Taking them by the busload would reduce local road congestion and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, so it would have more justification than Somali Scams™.
@lynn, what’s your exit plan??’
n
Death.
Death
– that’s what I figured, but you might want some time without the daily grind before hand…
n
– that’s what I figured, but you might want some time without the daily grind before hand…
You have been talking to my wife. Who, does not want me to retire but wants me to slow down even more.
Of course, that is personal death or corporation death. My main corporation is not doing well, probably worse than me. I will find out in five weeks how I am doing when we test my lungs again.
I took two months off last summer and fall helping my parents. I quit working weekends a decade or two ago ago. I have really cut back.
And I do not work very hard anymore. I spend WAY too much time surfing the intertubes.
And I do not work very hard anymore. I spend WAY too much time surfing the intertubes.
I should have mentioned that my 42 year old son has told me that I am just a few steps above worthless. He was not that direct, just an observation of his that I translated.
I did rebuild my mother’s glasses the other day so I am worth something. I used my master eyeglass kit to replace her broken nose pad and the other nose pad. I was PREPARED.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095SDNYNZ