Cool and wet, then warmer and wet. We’re in the T-storm zone in the national forecast, and it was raining when I went to bed. I’m guessing we’ll get more rain today.
Yesterday I messed around in the morning, doing auction stuff and office stuff. Finally settled the insurance claim from being rear-ended in the Ranger in 2021. It’s less than I would like, but I didn’t want them to total it either. The delay is on me.
Then I did pickups and broke down the lappy carts I picked up this week. The trash and scrap are in the Ranger and I’ll maybe get to that later today.
Today is my non-prepping hobby meeting, and quarterly swapmeet. I’m not bringing anything to sell this time. I don’t have anything new since the last one, really, and it’s farther away at a space we’ve never used before. I just wasn’t feeling it. I’m hoping the membership and the BOD will decide on the venue close to my house after next month so we can get settled.
Prepping this week was mostly just salvaging those batteries and inverters, but I also got some coffee for the stacks, and 5 new aquatainers. 2 will stay here and 3 will go to the BOL.
There is always something more you need, or something that aged out and needs to be replaced. So keep stacking!
nick
I posit that a bigger problem is the consolidation of content on a handful of sites, in particular “free” sites where “you are the product”.
Come to think of it, I think that I’ve identified the real problem with the internet: Denis.
Yep, just like that one guy who is accidentally responsible for cancer, Denis is the cause of everything bad on the internet. Bad Denis! Bad, bad Denis!
Should we add “lazy” to bad Denis, as he’s clearly sleeping in today?
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74F, coffee is brewing. Time for a quick shower, then I’m out of here.
n
Linkrot is bad, especially for link heavy sites, like this. Well, moderately heavy. That’s why I like the blockquote format in comments, it allows the gist of whatever is at the link to be preserved, even if the link rots. Of course, you have to use it….
n
Saturday. Afternoon already…
Sleeping-in? Haha. A chance would be a fine thing. Up at 03:45 these days to bash Bambi. Sibling has one so far, and I have two. Mustn’t get complacent, though, sibling rivalry is a real thing…
Up early and late to bed is pretty wearing when one does it for weeks at a stretch. The secret is to have an afternoon nap, which is what I should be doing instead of talking to ingrate strangers on the internet. Looking at you, Chicken Boy!
Good night, morning, afternoon. Whatever.
The small dish TV services have to play the same game as the cable companies with every subscriber required to subsidize the increasingly insane costs of the programming for the sports geeks.
An overnight low of 61F, just before dawn In the high desert. I left windows open and fans on, so the a/c will not be needed for a few hours.
The NWS hasn’t backed off on their threats of 100F – where’s an Arleigh Burke or Apache helicopter when you need them?
U.S. versus Iran? Tain’t nutin’ compared to the Chicken Boy and Bad Denis feud. Drinking straws and spitwads at 10 paces aught to be easy to settle it.
And the local stations. Who think their content is valuable. One local station, WVLT, gets in a fight with Dish Network about every year over fees. WVLT wants too much, Dish balks. The channel is taken off Dish Network. The advertisers get angry, the subscribers get angry, finally someone flinches.
In my opinion, local stations should be paying the cable companies and satellite providers to carry their feed. Without those providers the local signal is good for maybe 50 miles, if no mountains. With cable and satellite providers the reach is much further and better quality.
Looks like I do not get the carburetor and DVD I ordered from Big River tomorrow. “Tracking is unavailable.” It has never shown any tracking, not even “shipped” but it showed the normal map and progress bar. Now I the error message.
I guess they lost the package or it was destroyed in transport. Bummer.
I submitted my Passport Book/Card renewal on Wed the 6th and paid for express delivery. The Book arrives tomorrow the 10th. I don’t know why they don’t do the Book and Card together, but the Card should be here NLT about 10 days.
I did the photo on my iPhone with D5’s help.
Funny money games. Dish and Gray Media (WVLT owners) are both owned by the same large institutions, starting with Blackrock.
The real goal is to raise subscriber fees at Dish as well as the Comcast subsidiary.
I turn 80 when the Book/Card expires. One last renewal should cover me.
I find the SteveF “Chicken Boy and Bad Denis feud” to be childish, a waste of space and totaly inapproiate for this forum.
Up at 0400 to carry the wife and son to the airport. Back to the house for a little bit, then off to Costco for new tires on my son’s car. Now at the Ford dealer getting an alignment and a key fob programmed.
Costco actually let me in the bay while the wheels were off so I could check brake pad wear. Going to order pads and rotors and do all 4. That, along with a flush of all fluids should get him set for a while.
That’s a fine plan. It can backfire. DirecTv hit me with a rate increase. No extra channels. But I was already paying almost $140 a month and there was nothing on. The cooking channels don’t cook any more. Chopped and similar are fun but that’s all.
I’ll never cook something like ox tails braised with pickled pigs feet in wine with a mushroom and mint vinaigrette served on a bed of polenta of fresh pasta made 10 minutes ago.
Well, they wanted an extra $12 a month. But they got to say goodbye to the $140/month they were getting.
Funny thing. The DVR tuner that we never DVRed a thing on went away. It was noisy, a constant high pitch hard drive whine. But the funny as in odd part is that the electric bill dropped $10 a month.
We went to Sling. Blue and Orange plus whatever it was for another $15 to get college football and Nascar. Total bill was about $72 a month. With more channels.
I turned Sling off when he died. I don’t watch TV anymore. DVDs, sure.
Hang around here long enough and nothing seems to be inappropriate.
Trolling doesn’t bother me, but only well-done trolling. Pathetic trolling is contemptible.
The dog managed to encounter a rabbit in the yard about a month ago. Chased the rabbit and came close to catching the rabbit but the rabbit could make quicker and sharper turns. The rabbit got through the fence and we thought the rabbit had left the yard.
Nope. Yesterday the dog had a baby rabbit with its eyes still closed in the dog’s mouth. We found the nest, with the help of the dog, and put the rabbit back. This morning the baby had been moved so the mother is somewhere still in the yard. About 10:30 this morning we found something in the hallway the dog had brought in. It was a small baby rabbit, eyes still closed. It was still alive. The dog had done it no harm.
I went back to where the nest was located and after some searching found two more babies. The wife and I took all three of the babies to a small zoo and rehab facility. It was the best solution as we did not want to raise three rabbits. The dog would keep bothering the nest and maybe cause the mother to abandon the babies. We figured a rehab facility was the best option. For all we know the facility may feed the babies to one of the half dozen wolves they are kept in the zoo. But, hey, not our problem or our doing.
We just had the dog spayed on Tuesday and were informed the dog was in heat. I wonder if some small part of the mothering instinct prevented the dog from harming the baby rabbit. Maybe the dog would have eventually left the nest alone. But two times bringing out babies is two times too many. I did not want to risk the baby rabbit’s lives.
The box probably pre-cached popular shows that got DVR-ed and non-live pay-per-view material, rotating the programs in and out constantly.
I think Uverse went to the DirectTV DVR model for the fiber version of the service.
The bonded DSL version of Uverse never actually stored any “recordings” on the box in the home. Everything was on servers at data warehouses somewhere nearby, and a scheduled DVR event actually meant that you could watch that program streaming from servers at the start time, with the content downloaded to a box at the curb and piped to your settop box via the bonded DSL.
I would never want to be a member of a place that would have me as a member.
W.C. Fields or Groucho Marx, I forget.
The box probably pre-cached popular shows that got DVR-ed and non-live pay-per-view material, rotating the programs in and out constantly.
Yes. That way they could keep the extra pay movies on it by using a group download method instead of an individual download method. Bandwidth is everything.
Sleeping-in? Haha. A chance would be a fine thing. Up at 03:45 these days to bash Bambi. Sibling has one so far, and I have two. Mustn’t get complacent, though, sibling rivalry is a real thing…
Does the UK not have deer seasons ?
“Trump Links Hakeem Jeffries to WHCA Assassination Attempt, Demands Criminal Charges”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/trump-links-hakeem-jeffries-whca-assassination-attempt-demands/
I agree. The assassination of Trump rhetoric must stop. This is civil war stuff.
Things get better. I started the annual yard maintenance today, beginning with moving 4 lawn mowers (only one running), a trimmer, and 2 stacks of wheels & tires from the attached garage to the seacan. Then mowed the first of five panels of the lawn before starting to get ready for work. I’m hoping to keep this up all summer, with a 2 hour house or garden work break every morning until I catch up or get depressed. We’ll see…
Frontier Flight Fatally Hits Trespassing Pedestrian on Denver Runway, 12 Hurt
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/05/09/trespasser-killed-after-being-struck-by-frontier-airlines-jet-on-denver-runway-n2675813
Not identified after being sucked into engine.
I pray this was not an idiot child on a dare.
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/05/09/literally-selling-it-glenn-beck-spots-something-telling-for-sale-at-the-obama-centers-merch-store-n2428026
Did Barry and Big Mike just sign off on this design, or did they somehow have a hand in it? Was the final elevation accidentally dropped in the toilet and something else actually fished out and submitted? Is there really a reason that the majority of people can’t tell the difference between photos of this building and a water buffalo turd?
All the dead Bauhaus architects are having a party in hell and laughing.
Big Bust: Nearly 90 Firearms, Some of Them Stolen, Stopped at US-Canada Border
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/05/09/big-new-border-bust-89-firearms-including-17-stolen-stopped-at-us-canada-line-n2202171
What, a secret compartment?
Note the amazing result that the search authorized by the narcotics dog resulted in no narcotics being found.
I’m shocked! You might even say that narco-dogs alert on their handler’s commands, if you were cynical enough.
It isn’t as hideous as what the Bears did to Soldier Field just a few train stops to the north.
Or the blight that is the nearby Northerly Island “Natural” Area, what is left of Meigs Field of “Flight Simulator” fame.
“Amazing”. You keep using that word. I do not think that it means what you think it means.
Drug dogs, “I smell alcohol”, and “he made a suspicious move” are signs of corruption which few prosecutors and judges are willing to address.
A few years old. Still, entertaining if nothing else.
I wonder if “Clever Hans” was mentioned in the Supreme Court case permitting this?
The same bunch who were wokesplaining the mathematics of epidemics the previous month and the economics of international shipping the month before that.
Nothing a pair of 20′ diameter “googley eyes” couldn’t improve. For extra credit maybe a pair of “jug ears”.
About 95F out. It is perfect weather to run a diesel truck heater at 100%.
House air feed plenum disconnected from the house of course, while trying to turn off all the carbon in the combustor before putting it away for the summer.
I will give the leftover five or 6 gallons to the neighbor for his tractor. We’re not super close but he’s been there a couple times when I needed help.
At California prices, that’s gotta be over $100!
Diesel price range in CA is currently roughly $7.33 – $7.81 per gallon across California today (AAA statewide avg $7.47).
So – 6 gallons of diesel totals under $50.00.
Yeah. The $100 amount includes the fuel cans.
Anyway. I think diesel fuel keeps for a long long time. Unlike gasoline. But as an owner of two tractors, I would certain;y appreciate 5 or 6 gallons of fuel. That’s a couple three tanks full for each.
Shoo! Begone with your facts!
I’ve been working all day, but the work involves a few minutes of thinking and then a little typing followed by 1-45 minutes of waiting for the computer to get back to me. Mildly annoying that the remote system is running so slowly, but I’m getting paid regardless so it’s not all bad.
Chickens are annoyed at me. It’s been raining, so they haven’t been let out of the run and they’re “crowded” into “painfully small” 200 sq ft. And several of the things that they stand on are not under the tarp. When I went out to check on them, bring treats, and collect eggs, more than half awwwwwwwwked at me. “Treatbringer! Fix this!”
“Chickens are annoyed at me.”
Put that on a teeshirt.
That’s pretty funny. “Treatbringer! Fix it!” on the back.
Hyperbole on the part of a conservative: Look! He lied! Stupid Nazi!.
Outright lie on the part of a PLT: Well, he was fake but accurate. He meant well. You misinterpreted his words. Yeah, but look at that Nazi over there! That justifies any lie.
I’m so tired of double standards. “Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius“
Evidently, based on the downvotes on a stated fact.
Although, if gas cans included, $100 is close. Amazon has a 2-pack of 5 gallon plastic gas cans for $49.00, which would raise the total price to around $100.00, if you had to buy new gas cans. I assumed that the diesel was already in cans, and those would be included in the price estimate. Unless you dumped the gas from your cans into the recipient’s cans or storage tank.
Bah. Further evidence, if any were needed, that downvotes are a popularity contest, not an evaluation of content.
(Comment re-entered. Most likely I missed clicking the Submit button but could have been a server hiccup or something. If you see two similar comments, IT’S NOT MY FAULT!!!)
I’d agree with that. Unfortunately.
Saturday (meanwhile Sunday) bedtime. Goodnight!
I am not in the UK, but they certainly do have deer seasons there.
Where we are, there is a short open season for Roe bucks in May, then again in July-August, then “deer season” is October to around mid-November.
Disaster struck. Sibling not only equalised on two Bambi’s each, but pulled ahead by one wild boar. Something must be done, or sibling will be insufferable.
My evening out was effectively torpedoed by two walkers who decided to leave the signposted and authorised trails and go cross-country. They ended up traipsing right through my patch and spooking all the game. Grrr, but I got to practice an exercise in patience. Humility is a virtue, as is not shooting trespassers.
Wishing you all a lovely Sunday.
I miss having chickens. I don’t miss cleaning the coop. I really do not miss setting the live trap, unbaited outside the coop and catching a racoon almost every night.
Caught a couple of possums and armadillos. I let them go. Possums look like giant rats but they are cool. Armadillos? Fuzzy bellied turtles…..
Freaking coons though. Hiss and growl like a mix of cat and dog. So…. I had a routine.
Use a pair of channel locks to drag the trap away from the building. Then go get the .22 pistol. Put the pistol away and fetch the wheelbarrow. Dump the trap.
Let the chickens out of the coop, roll the wheelbarrow out to the dumping place. Then hose the blood out of the wheelbarrow.
Tell ya what, it’s crazy, but I had buzzards waiting for their breakfast. One summer I shot around 47 raccoons. I’m too lazy to go count the shells….. but 47 is close.
We have Up and Down vote options. We need something neutral. Like, yeah, I read that, it was interesting. Perhaps we can have, oh, I don’t know, a middle finger option? A black power raised fist but in Homer Simpson yellow ’cause we all rasssict and sheeet.
It just occurred to me that I had not taken the opportunity to downvote my own comment. Omission rectified!
I bought the diesel in late winter, so an estimate of $6/gal x 6 = $36 is reasonable. I do have some diesel Stabil but he’s been a good neighbor, helpful & responsive to some minor issues.
Stacking some goodwill as it were.
Part of the cheap transfer HF pump fell off and is in the bottom of one of the cans, I warned him, and he’ll return the cans.
They are generic Amazon “5 gallon” units that actually hold about 4.5 gallons Btw.
Practical conservative: Look. Dead Nazi!.
I browned off a pound or so of hamburger a few days ago. Made tacos. Canned diced tomatoes, but the store bought fresh tomatoes just suck.
I’ve snacked on the meat for a few days. Just scoop up a tablespoon or two while wandering through the kitchen.
Today I dumped the meat into a smaller skillet. Almost half of what I had cooked for tacos. Dumped in the ¾ can of tomatoes. Plus a can of tomato sauce and that can full of water to rinse both cans. Then about four tablespoons of rice. Low heat on the back burner. Just let it cook, ain’t in a rush. Might need a bit more salt.
Buddy the Beagle thinks this is like the BEST thing I have ever cooked. I go to stir, fetch a fresh beer, unload the dishwasher, he’s right on my heels. He paid no attention when I cooked the meat a few days ago. So, Boy really likes the scent of hamburger and tomatoes. More laughing by me.
Well. I thought this was going to be like tomato soup. Before they added half a cup of sugar to each can. The flavor was perfect. Just waiting for the rice to cook enough to not be crunchy.
The rice suddenly cooked. Not soup anymore. It tastes great. Needs a bit of salt and pepper. It tastes sad…. because it tastes just like my Mom’s porcupine meatballs when she got lazy and used the crockpot. So the meatballs fall apart. And now I’m suddenly missing my mommy.
She would have us help make porcupines. She mixed the meat with onion powder, salt and pepper, a bit of garlic powder and rice. Mix it up like a meat loaf. Then we got to roll spoonfuls up into balls.
I guess is was a way to entertain and teach the kids. Don’t know. I was almost 10 and I still remember this. Anyway, she would fry the meatballs and the uncooked rice poked out. Hence, porky pines. And yeah, she cooked extra so we each got 5 or 6 cooked meatballs to snack on before supper. Better than a cookie any day.
From Correia’s tax rant linked above:
That’s not the reason. Originally, all interest was deductible because at the time the income tax was imposed about the only people that were paying interest were business owners and rich people and there was not the firewall between business and personal income that there is now. When the Reagan tax reform bill was written, it originally would have eliminated all interest deductions but the housing lobby pointed out that it would wreak havoc with a lot of lives and drive down housing prices, so it was the one thing kept.
The US tax code seems to be 95% business, 5% personal. A huge amount of dead weight would be eliminated if we abolished all business income tax and just taxed all personal income at the same rate.
Had a text message early week from a friend at a university lab:
Do you have a spare burette stand? Inventory says we have one but I can’t find it.
Me: Single or double?
Single.
Me: Sure. Swing by and pick it up anytime.
There must be Karma:
Next day thrifting in the hardware aisle,
“whut iz dat?”
Heavy, probably chrome-plated steel (later confirmed). Part of something. Heavy plastic bag, open. No label. Excellent fit and finish. $3. Into the cart. Closely scanned the shelves–nothing else like it.
Got home, dropped it on a workbench. Picked it up today. No markings. Checked tapped hole–metric. Took photo and tried Google Lens, got one result that matched. Attachment for lab mixer, Euro price 500. Did not find a U.S. dealer, no Amazon, no eBay. But it got here somehow.
I’ll list it online and it will probably sell someday. The last similar lab widget that I sold–which did have an Amazon listing–sat for seven years.
Next life I collect gemstones.
@ech
Larry has the short version, you have the long version.
@paul
Try the diced fire-roasted canned tomatoes.
DOJ Seeks to Denaturalize 12 Accused of Serious Crimes
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/05/09/doj-seeks-to-denaturalize-12-over-serious-crimes-n2675809
Omar’s family qualifies.
Oil Prices Fall Below $100 as Trump Says Iran War May Be Coming to an End
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/05/09/oil-prices-fall-below-100-as-trump-says-iran-war-may-be-coming-to-an-end-n3814731
I’ve seen half-a-dozen articles from industry experts preparing the ground for a slow decrease in gasoline prices after the skyrocket up.
I would invite them and their oil industry masters to get stuffed. If gasoline doesn’t fall right smartly the Dems are going to make political hay before the election, and the Republicans should be smart enough to see it coming. Gas prices stay up–bring your own chair cushion for the hearings in DC.
And when gas prices are down, get the SPR filled up.
One more Mom story.
We had ham once in a while. It was a big treat.. This giant chunk of meat waiting to be eaten. Pretty much like having a roasted turkey.
Mom would slice off a lot. Thin slices. Uh, number1 at at deli? Thin. Like thin as a dime.
Then she would make Eggs Benedict. Hollandaise (sp) sauce from scratch. Poached eggs.
It was a feast.
So Mom was living here and I made Eggs Benedict. From scratch. She was like “how did you learn this?”. Mom, I watched you make this, you taught me.
So yeah. Poached eggs in boiling water. Served on a toasted English muffin. Muffin, ham, egg, hot hollandaise sauce.
Mom chowed down and said “this is great”. Cool. She ate four. (aka two muffins covered with toppings.)
Oh yeah, the spiral cut hams don’t work. The slices are too thick. You need to slice thin, like the Budding sandwich meat…. thin as paper.
Interesting. It seems I CAN grow something here in San Antonio.
I’ve had no success at all trying to grow tomatoes, but I have a surprising crop of volunteer … pumpkins. Each Halloween, I post on the NextDoor app that I’m picking up untreated pumpkins that I will chop up and feed to my herd of whitetail deer, and each year I get several takers. I pick up the pumpkins and used jack-o-lanterns, bring them here, chop them up in the back yard and offer them to the deer. Apparently, pumpkin is quite a treat.
THIS year, I have several broadleaf vines which look like pumpkin plants, growing right about where I threw down the pumpkin chunks 6 months ago. Our soil here is terrible; about 3-4 inches of dirt on top of a layer of, apparently, limestone.
Now, to discover if the deer will eat the pumpkin plants, or if the pumpkins will survive the summer.
How about an ‘apocalypse early warning system’?
Stories here and here.
Although cashing out your bet in the case of apocalypse might get you some worthless money. Along with the problem of how do you contact Polymarket when the ‘big bang’ takes out everything?
re the rats fleeing the nation in a crisis, we need to make sure not to let them back in once we get through the crisis.
Tomatoes are fickle. I’ve had years where the cherry tomatoes have huge crops. I’ve had years where other tomatoes grow like weeds. We made tomato preserves (think jam) and canned a lot of big tomatoes.
And then the next few years? Nothing. Nothing more than enough for a couple of salads.
Beats me.
@Ken, the year after I tried to grow pumpkins but they got eaten by rats, I found volunteers all over the yard. Must be pretty vigorous…
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In my opinion, local stations should be paying the cable companies and satellite providers to carry their feed. Without those providers the local signal is good for maybe 50 miles, if no mountains. With cable and satellite providers the reach is much further and better quality.
– back at the beginning of cable the local OTA stations went to the FCC and demanded that cable companies be forced to carry their broadcasts . Later, when everyone got turned into “content” to be consumed, they got the rule changed and went back and demanded that cable companies PAY them to carry their “content”.
Somewhere in the middle, Superstations like WGN in Chicago went national on cable and satellite.
Lots of history baked into the cake at this point. My feeling, quit regulating this mess and let the market sort it out. They’re all fighting for the lowest, most gullible, demographics in the country and I couldn’t care less. If you let the TV tell you want to wear, to buy, to eat, to do, then you deserve what you get.
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Did my meeting, then came home and fell asleep reading on the couch. Didn’t get my scrap run in. Oh well.
D1 is at the “not going to be rioting youths here” mall job. D2 is at a birthday party, W is taxi service, and I’m thinking about eating and reading some more.
n
Thou shalt remember the Tenth Amendment and keep it Holy.
I don’t see anything authorizing the federal government to regulate the electromagnetic spectrum.
I don’t see anything authorizing the federal government to regulate the electromagnetic spectrum.
– or steal it from the people and sell it to the highest bidder.
I’m sure they stretched the ‘General Welfare’ clause to cover the money grab..
n
‘Interstate commerce’, IIRC.
“A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/09/a-generation-of-kids-thinks-they-have-no-future-science-just-admitted-why/
“For nearly two decades, a single climate model scenario haunted virtually every apocalyptic headline you read about our planet’s future. Vanishing coastlines, catastrophic droughts, mass extinctions, cities underwater — almost all of it was built on a scenario called RCP 8.5. And now, in a development that climate scientist Roger Pielke Jr. is calling the “most significant development in climate research in decades,” the international committee responsible for producing the official scenarios that feed into IPCC climate assessments has formally eliminated RCP 8.5 — and its successor SSP5-8.5 — from the new framework, classifying them as implausible.”
“Let that sink in for a moment. Implausible. That’s a weasel word for Impossible. That’s the word the scientists themselves are now using to describe the scenario that dominated two full IPCC assessment cycles, generated tens of thousands of research papers, and provided the raw material for an estimated hundreds of thousands of media stories that told the public — and their children — that the world as we know it was coming to an end.”
“It’s a good day for science. It’s a terrible indictment of what was done in science’s name.”
No wonder today’s kids are so down on their futures. I think that their futures are very bright.
I think you can make a legit interstate commerce case for spectrum.
It’s covered by international treaties.
In a world filled with sane, cooperative people, coordination of the different bands and services would be done in a voluntary, collaborative nature.
And I’d fertilize my garden with Unicorn poop.
Without some regulation, it would be universal interference and 50,000 watt transmitters on every city block, and no one could communicate.
We amateur radio operators live in constant fear that big interests will eventually swoop in and gobble up our meager bandwidth allocations.
Not to say that congress or the FCC is doing anything at all right. I said a case could be made, not that it was being done well. Graft and grift abound.
Oh, that’s easy. Instead of “licenses”, have “title” and treat EM spectrum like land. Sue the pants off anyone who interferes with your ownership. Need some spectrum for some new use? Buy the titles of the present owners and have at it.
Then abolish the FCC.
Which do not supercede the federal Constitution.
… No matter how the internationalists claim that they do.
I don’t think I’ve seen any rats on my trail cameras, but I’m certain that there are some. Of course, my brother’s MiL calls the whitetail deer “rats with hooves” because they eat her roses. We have PLENTY of trash pandas – and even a den of foxes. And a half-dozen or so feral cats, which may be why I haven’t seen any rats.
“Without some regulation, it would be universal interference and 50,000 watt transmitters on every city block, and no one could communicate”
and everyone would be sterilized by the stray radiation.
“The United Nations demands billions from American taxpayers”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4561086/united-nations-demands-billions-from-american-taxpayers/
“The United Nations is continuing to demand that President Donald Trump hand over American taxpayer dollars, even as the organization is infested with terrorists and terrorist supporters. Trump should treat the U.N. with the contempt it deserves.”
Trump is doing the job I hired him for. Please continue to tell the dictators at the UN to pound sand.
squirrels: tree rats
deer: stinkin’ antlered forest rats
some of my neighbors: stinkin’ scumbag colonist rats
“Without some regulation, it would be universal interference and 50,000 watt transmitters on every city block, and no one could communicate”
and everyone would be sterilized by the stray radiation.
We would know by their second head.
“If race, gender, and other characteristics are used to give federal grants, then to use race, gender, and other characteristics to terminate those grants, is logical.”
https://twitchy.com/brettt/2026/05/09/judge-rules-doge-blatantly-used-race-and-sex-in-mass-termination-of-federal-grants-to-the-neh-n2428029
https://www.neh.gov/
Close it up and let the states and local governments provide the funds.
At an average of about $9,000 per project I don’t need the rest of the numbers–the overhead to run that through a national organization is too high. And why do I suspect that grants to universities suffer from the same exorbitant overhead charges as science research grants? And many of the other organizations probably feed off the same kind of teat.
Set up a funding mechanism where people can contribute to fund projects directly. Make the overhead low–limited staff to run it, limited salaries, very small skim to run the setup–and I’ll have my personal AI let me know when an opportunity comes up to to fund something that aligns with my values.
“We would know by their second head.”
I will not touch that line with your…
“You would think that something like “Don’t climb a fence onto the active tarmac of an airport” should be common sense and does not need to be said aloud. Unfortunately, that was not the case on Saturday in the Centennial state.”
Oh boy. I expect the family of the deceased will file a lawsuit claiming that there should have been signs/more signs/clearer signs/multilingual signs lighted by specially bred fireflies…
Meanwhile, a cadaver researcher has discovered that fireflies bred on the decomposing corpses of attorneys provide exceptionally good light for airport signs.
“A Generation of Kids Thinks They Have No Future. Science Just Admitted Why.”
The IPCC conspired for decades to politicize science so the global warming zealots could pursue global control, bleed the U.S. economy, and provide frauds like Michael Mann and Gavin Schmidt with funding and tickets to international debauchery parties.
Two generations of kids told they had no future should gin up the biggest class action suit in history and beggar every individual, organization, and government involved. They could end up owning crapholes like Tuvalu, bury all the attorneys that represented them, and then pave them over for parking lots.
Still in the mid 70sF tonight, with a mild breeze. We had a brief bit of rain spatter in the early evening, but the concrete is dry.
I had a tiny little fire while I was reading. No wildlife spotting tonight, but a lot more celebratory gunfire than last weekend.
Two of the residents of the house next door came home after midnight, so that 9pm curfew doesn’t seem to apply. Maybe there are job exceptions? One walking, one dropped off by a vehicle.
Time for a snack, shower, and bed. I think I’ll sleep in.
Mothers Day tomorrow.
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