Thur. May 21, 2026 – more stuff to do

Cool to start, but warming soon. If the rain holds off, maybe even hot. Yesterday afternoon the rain cleared out and the sun shown down on a very nice afternoon. Cool breeze made it even better. I could use some more of that.

Didn’t get much done in the morning. Slept in along with both kids. Wife didn’t wake me on her way out. Did the Dr appointment, then did my scrap run (another $146 in aluminum scrap), then two pickups. Hit Costco for cake and flowers. It was eerily empty and quiet. The gas pumps were free too. ($3.67/gal) I asked the cashier if it was too quiet and she said it had been slow all day, then volunteered that “People are all out of money.” I’m hearing that more often lately.

Today I’ve got a couple of pickups that I need to get done. And we’re doing dinner for the kid tonight. She wants sushi which I don’t make, so we’re going out. Trying to fit something in around the kids’ school activities and work is taxing.

Both of my pickups yesterday had stuff for the stacks, including water storage. Yup, it’s 12 years since ebola 2014 and I’m still stacking… you should too.

nick

59 Comments and discussion on "Thur. May 21, 2026 – more stuff to do"

  1. Denis says:

    Thursday. Good morning!

    Happy birthday to Nick’s daughter. Enjoy the sushi.

    The weather here has taken a turn for the better after the pathetic fallacy funereal deluge of yesterday.

    I am listening to F-16s training in a cloudless sky. The sound of freedom, baby!  I just hope they train for rain too. We get more of that than sunny days.

    The street outside the BOL is being resurfaced. I love the smell of napalm asphalt in the morning. If only I could get them to do my driveway too!

    “People are all out of money.”

    Too much month at the end of the money. I know that feeling.

    Time is flying. The alarm company today scheduled the annual maintenance appointment. I could have sworn that the last one was about only six months ago, but when I checked, it was in April 2025. Where do the days go?

    Have a good day!

  2. Denis says:

    Definitely coming down with whatever D1 has.   Yuck.

    Gute Besserung!*

    *Get well soon!

    YT showed me a 3-minute video this morning about Texas German. Fascinating.

  3. SteveF says:

    Definitely coming down with whatever D1 has.

    Lazyteenitis is contagious?

  4. Denis says:

    Lazyteenitis is contagious?

    Tenacious, too. I still suffer from bouts of it in my fifties.

  5. Greg Norton says:

    Nycolas was reportedly so nervous that he couldn’t spell his name for the Coast Guard officials.

    – his employer should be prosecuted too.

    The “family friend” fishing charter boat captain?

    Yes. That island is still a very small community and their immigration status was known

    Maybe not at this time of year, but I’ve been there in the off season. Someone living in one of the towns for several years uninterrupted will be known to the real life Sheriff Brody.

  6. Nick Flandrey says:

    Lazyteenitis is contagious? 

    – oh yes, beyond a doubt.  I’d be doing a lot more laying around in bed if it didn’t hurt my back!

    ——————-

    71F and overcast at the moment.     I’m napping as soon as the kids are out the door.   Not much sleep last night, sweating and coughing kept me up.   I don’t feel all that bad, but the coughing is teh sux.   Unfortunately, I’ve got some pickups today that really can’t wait and they involve a lot of driving.

    ——————-

    Looks like Castro will be sleeping in his safe room for a while…   dunno if it will do him any good when push comes to grab.   I think DT would like “replaced the Castro legacy and normalized relations with Cuba” on his resume’… It is kind of ‘low hanging fruit’ when you think about it.

    —————-

    Time to poke the lazy teens and make sure they get to school these last couple of days.

    n

  7. Greg Norton says:

    Looks like Castro will be sleeping in his safe room for a while…   dunno if it will do him any good when push comes to grab.   I think DT would like “replaced the Castro legacy and normalized relations with Cuba” on his resume’… It is kind of ‘low hanging fruit’ when you think about it.

    The embargo should fall without the US grabbing the surviving Castro.

    Only the batsh*t crazy inbred elite expats in Miami want to see Castro put on trial.

    And, yes, I was deliberate with my choice of words. Not everyone in that community swims in the deep end of the gene pool.

    Giving the expats what they wanted by handing Fidel Junior/Wee Pierre his walking papers in November 2024 was easy. Dealing with the consequences of grabbing the surviving Castro will not be, especially for South Florida.

  8. dkreck says:

    Went to Costco last Thursday. Left hearing aid went dead. Plenty busy with tough parking but lucked out as I came near the front and someone pulled out. Gas looked busy but I rarely buy there mostly because of that. Was a little early so cruised the ‘lunch buffet’. Couple of tasty items. 

    Went to hearing aid center and they tried to reset my left one with no luck. Sorry they are over 5 yo and the manufacture will not repair. So that’s over $500 per year. Would you like to make an appointment for a new set? That will be about $1800 with a ‘Free’ hearing test – required. Getting by on one, I will  think about it.

    Staying home for MD as W1 is still recovering from 2nd knee replacement and PT three days each week. Not as smooth as the 1st one back in December. D1 and her crew are heading to LA and we get the dogs to sit. Calm weekend on what is usually the first big pool gathering of summer. 

    OK time to try more positive thinking. Watching early morning train cams over the Tehachapi’s. Cheers everyone!

  9. Nick Flandrey says:

    Make a deal, let him live in Switzerland or Belarus or Swaziland or wherever, as long as it’s not Cuba.   Even let him keep some of the stolen money.  Take the deal or wake up in cuffs…

    Regime change is the goal, putting him on trial is just gravy and probably counterproductive as it gets him attention.   I think 99.9% of the world’s population forgot he existed.

    n

  10. Ray Thompson says:

    Sorry they are over 5 yo and the manufacture will not repair. So that’s over $500 per year. Would you like to make an appointment for a new set? That will be about $1800 with a ‘Free’ hearing test – required

    I consider myself very fortunate that the VA covers my hearing aids at no cost to me. Including supplies. I can get new devices every 3-5 years. The last set I had had one device just quit working. The VA tech could not revive. Since I had been in for repairs four other times for the same set, the VA ordered me a new set of hearing aids. The ones that failed were Resound, these newer ones are Phonak.

    I have had to have one of the batteries replaced in the Phonak because a charge would only last 8 hours. The VA sends the devices off, somewhere, to the vendor I think, to be fixed. I was without both devices for a week as the was replacing the batteries in both devices.

    I have ear molds on these devices rather than domes. When I got the devices back the ear molds were swapped. That meant I had to have the devices sent off again. Each time it took a week to get the process of repair completed.

    The last ones were disposable battery, which worked OK. The batteries lasted three or four days. When a battery died, just a quick replacement. I always carried two batteries with me. Although I would generally just replace the batteries every three days. The new devices are rechargeable and has good points and bad points. There is no longer any need to stock batteries. But if a battery runs down (they usually last 15-18 hours), getting up and running again takes a couple of hours. And I have to carry a bulky recharger with me if I know I am going to be away from the home charger. I have a charger that is itself rechargeable and is good for three recharges of the devices.

    The VA is biggest supplier of hearing aids in the U.S. with Costco being the second biggest. I am certain the VA contract with the vendors produces a significantly cheaper cost than what people see on retail and probably less than Costco.

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  11. EdH says:

    Make a deal, let him live in Switzerland or Belarus or Swaziland or wherever, as long as it’s not Cuba.   Even let him keep some of the stolen money.  Take the deal or wake up in cuffs…

    Regime change is the goal, putting him on trial is just gravy and probably counterproductive as it gets him attention.   I think 99.9% of the world’s population forgot he existed.
     

    That you, Sun Tzu?

    Always give your enemies a golden path…  It might help down the road with the Iranian & other regimes, but probably not.  Still, if one can avoid ‘boots on the ground’ it might be worth demonstrating.

  12. EdH says:

    A quiet Costco?

    My guess is people are saving up for the upcoming early Memorial Day weekend.

  13. Greg Norton says:

    A quiet Costco?

    My guess is people are saving up for the upcoming early Memorial Day weekend.

    Californians are out here shopping for houses this weekend.

    As for Tennessee, Ray doesn’t live in the bacchanalia known as Nashville, where they go if they can’t manage to get into Austin.

    Colonists don’t want to live in Tennessee.

  14. dkreck says:

    He’s a vegan in Texas!

    Switching from talking about the primary to the main Senate election, Trump continued, “And I think he’ll go on to defeat a very defective [Democrat] candidate, a candidate that believes in six genders, and he takes hits at Jesus Christ, and he’s wearing a mask six months ago. Anybody wearing a mask six months ago doesn’t get it. And he’s a vegan. He’s a vegan in Texas. And you can’t get elected as a vegan in Texas.”

    https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/05/21/the-morning-briefing-texas-soy-boy-talarico-is-giving-dems-premature-electoral-elation-n4953082

  15. Greg Norton says:

    He’s a vegan in Texas!

    Regardless of who wins the runoff on Tuesday, the Republicans have a problem in Texas.

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  16. Nick Flandrey says:

    74F and still overcast.   Time for coffee and food.

    n

  17. Nick Flandrey says:

    Ah, and a bit of rain.    

    78F now so I think the rain has stopped for a while.  Time to get some stuff.

    n

  18. Denis says:

    Thursday bedtime. Goodnight.

    We were talking about the power of music to touch the soul. I don’t recall if I linked to this before, but it is worth watching twice (or more).

    Ennio Morricone conducting the music from The Mission. Yeon-Hee Kwak’s playing of Gabriel’s Oboe is exquisite beyond words. Overall, a performance for the ages. Unbelievable that such beauty can spring from the mind of one man. If anyone needs reassurance of the existence of deity, this is it.

    https://youtu.be/s7w-IeNR9ko

  19. paul says:

    I’m annoyed.  DreamHost raised their annual rate.  Ok.  The price of everything has gone up.  I just renewed all of 10 days ago.

    Today they sent an e-mail saying Discussion Lists will go away on July 21.   But the AI BS says I can perform a  backup and import that into Mailman.  Elsewhere. 

    So I guess I’ll eat what I just paid and move my domain.  But where? 

  20. Lynn says:

    He’s a vegan in Texas!

    Regardless of who wins the runoff on Tuesday, the Republicans have a problem in Texas.

    I think that Texas has actually gotten more conservative in the last several years.  Many of the refugees from other states are very conservative.

  21. Ray Thompson says:

    So I guess I’ll eat what I just paid and move my domain.  But where?

    I use IONOS for about $7.00 a month plus yearly domain registration billed once a year for a small amount I don’t remember. I have their cheapest plan which serves my minimal needs.

  22. paul says:

    Starlink stuff… the price of the “free” Mini is going up to $10 a month from $5.  I don’t actually need if,  I figure I can trot my happy self to Home Depot for a new system if a near lighting strikes zaps it.

    Last I looked, a new system was about $350.  Have a spare Mini at $10 a month and well, I’m going to bet I don’t get a near lighting strike in the next few years.   Besides, I can tether my phone for data.

    Starlink sent a nasty gram yesterday saying they have not received my returned Mini.  Well, no, of course not, I haven’t received a shipping label.  And I have until June 19th or they will charge me $249.

    More nonsense with AI.  Grok, this time.  Who (or It ?) finally gave me a link to submit a trouble ticket.  I now have a shipping label.  From here to Bastrop.

    One thing solved. 

      

  23. paul says:

    At first glance, IONOS looks good.  I want more than one email account.  Or rather, I’m good with one email account but I want to have a lot of addresses feeding that one account.

    Like, paul at remsset dot com.  But I want more addresses like emuranch and pt and rodney and several more.  

    And I want discussion lists ala Mailman.

    I’ll look more tomorrow.  

    Buddy and Penny are both acting antsy.  They’ve just been out but I hear low rumbling   thunder off to the West.

  24. Lynn says:

    “Minnesota Fraud Suspect Mohammad Omar Leaps from Fourth-Floor Balcony to Evade Arrest, Manhunt Underway”

        https://jdrucker.com/minnesota-fraud-suspect-mohammad-omar-leaps-from-fourth-floor-balcony-to-evade-arrest-manhunt-underway/

    Jumped from a fourth floor balcony and survived?  Unreal.

  25. Lynn says:

    Alley Oop: Ro-Dentia Space Drive

       https://www.gocomics.com/alley-oop/2026/05/21

    ROTFLMAO.

  26. Ray Thompson says:

    I just looked up my yearly domain registration through IONOS, $20.00.

  27. Lynn says:

    “Passkeys Are the New Passwords. You Should Start Using Them Now.”

       https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/what-are-passkeys/

    “For 15 years, experts have told me that passwords are the biggest problem with online security and that’s just the way it is. The passwords that people make up are easily guessed by machines, and the ones that can’t be guessed are too hard to remember.”

    “Over time, as more and more passwords became necessary, many people simply recycled theirs across different accounts — creating a precarious situation where one phished password or data breach gave an attacker access to the victims’ email, bank accounts, and anything else that shared that password.”

    “Then came password managers, services and software in which a person could safely store all of their complex passwords and thus need to remember only a single password: the password for their password manager. This technology addressed, but didn’t solve, some of the problems. If people put in the effort, they could eventually have unique and complex passwords everywhere. But the majority of people did not opt to take on this herculean task that brought no immediate reward except that (maybe) in the future something bad might not happen to them (possibly). And a smart attacker could just phish even the best passwords anyway.”

    “Two-factor authentication was the next bandage on the gaping wound of passwords. With 2FA protecting you, an attacker could have your password but wouldn’t be able to use it without a second confirmation, such as a code generated by an app or sent by text message. But another hoop to jump through for logging in remains a hard sell. And a smart attacker could just (you guessed it) phish most forms of 2FA anyway.”

    “But passkeys are different. Instead of trying to fix unfixable passwords, passkeys are an entirely new technology that securely logs you in without your needing to remember your password or to perform a 2FA ritual. Passkeys are not perfect, and we’re still a ways off from their being commonplace, but learning what a passkey is and how to use it moves you a little closer to a more secure future.”

    Looks like a password to me.

  28. Lynn says:

    “Minnesota ‘Feeding Our Future’ Somali Fraud Mastermind Aimee Bock Sentenced to Over 41 Years in Prison”

        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/breaking-minnesota-feeding-our-future-somali-fraud-mastermind/

    “Aimee Bock, the convicted mastermind behind the $250 million Feeding Our Future scandal, has been sentenced to 41.5 years in federal prison.”

    Thief.

    Hat tip to:

       https://thelibertydaily.com/

  29. Lynn says:

    “Commiefornia Chevron Has a Message About State Politicians”

       https://rumble.com/v7a6eoo-commiefornia-chevron-has-a-message-about-state-politicians.html?mref=1wxk5&mrefc=4

    “Sacramento politicians are the reason why gasoline is so expensive in California”.

    source:

    https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/2057315314904318320

  30. MrAtoz says:

    Looks like a password to me.

    In a sense, passkeys are based on public/private keys. The site gets the public key, and even if the site is hacked, there is no password to be published on the Dark Web. Your private key is used to sign some random data request from the server so your private key is never exposed. You really need a a password keeper to maintain passkeys (1password does). If you write passwords down on stickies, passkeys aren’t for you.

  31. Lynn says:

    My corporate bank just put my almost $5,000 fraud check back into my corporate checking account.

    Meanwhile, Amex charged me $172 interest on the account since the replacement check was late.  Lovely, just lovely.

  32. Lynn says:

    “American missionary doctor infected with Ebola evacuated from Congo, family under observation”

       https://humanevents.com/2026/05/21/american-missionary-doctor-infected-with-ebola-evacuated-from-congo-family-under-observation

    Here we go again.

  33. Lynn says:

    “Texas Veteran Delivers the Message About Sharia That ALL Americans Need to Hear”

       https://x.com/AmyMek/status/2056975799325200892

    “”I FOUGHT ISLAM & JIHAD MY ENTIRE ADULT LIFE” – HERO LT. COL. LARRY BROCK (RET.) at Frisco City Council Mosque Vote”

    “The Frisco City Council just got a gut-punch from a true American hero.”

    “Retired Lieutenant Colonel Larry Brock – 29-year combat veteran, A-10 Warthog pilot, reconnaissance pilot, and a man who lived under brutal Sharia in Saudi Arabia for seven years while feeding intelligence to the U.S. government  – stood before the Council last night and unloaded:”

    ““I have fought Islam and the jihad my entire adult life… Islam believes the world is theirs to rule…”
    “We would not have allowed the SS to build a recruiting center… nor should we allow Islam to build the same here in the United States.”

    “He warned the Council they could be violating federal law (18 USC 2339A & 2339B) by giving material support to a terrorist-linked operation and demanded they answer whether any CAIR or Muslim Brotherhood money touched this project.”

    “Then the emotional hammer drop:”

    “Are you willing to stand up to this hostile ideology… Will Frisco be remembered as the city that stood up and turned the tide on the Muslim invasion, or will you choose the path of appeasement?”

    “This is the same coordinated Sharia machine I exposed in March – strict Sharia constitution, Mufti Imam issuing fatwas, $2.4 million raised from global Muslim crowdfunding in under five months, and tight alignment with the radical EPIC Mosque!”
    “Frisco residents packed the room and refused to back down. They are done watching their city get reshaped.”

    “This vote will define Frisco.”

    “This is the moment patriots said ENOUGH.”

    “God bless Lt. Col. Larry Brock – a real American hero who just reminded every elected official what courage looks like.”
    “Amy Mek”

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  34. SteveF says:

    It’s Ebola season already? I haven’t even taken my Hantavirus decorations down yet.

  35. paul says:

    Oh, there were decorations after Monkeypox?  Silly me, I’m not keeping up with the retard trends.

  36. SteveF says:

    Islam believes the world is theirs to rule

    Note: So do the Chinese. Their name for their country, Zhong Guo, literally Middle Kingdom, doesn’t mean that their country is in the center of their maps. “Middle” means the entire Earth, between the heavenly and demonic realms. All of the world belongs to the Chinese, according to the Chinese.

  37. paul says:

    Looks like a password to me.

    The New York Times says…. yeah.  No.  I’m doing the opposite. 

  38. Lynn says:

    Looks like a password to me.

    In a sense, passkeys are based on public/private keys. The site gets the public key, and even if the site is hacked, there is no password to be published on the Dark Web. Your private key is used to sign some random data request from the server so your private key is never exposed. You really need a a password keeper to maintain passkeys (1password does). If you write passwords down on stickies, passkeys aren’t for you.

    Yeah, I kinda understand private keys and public keys, after all I put them in my software.  The main thing is that your private key stays only on your local device.

    Yes, my new home Windows 11 Pro PC is using pins to login with passkeys.  I dislike them.

  39. PaultheManc says:

    @Paul

    I have used eukhost.com for hosting a number of domains I own or look after and overall they have provided a reasonably reliable service and are reasonably responsive to any issues.  UK based, so don’t know it that meets your needs.

  40. Greg Norton says:

    “Texas Veteran Delivers the Message About Sharia That ALL Americans Need to Hear”

    Frisco. Colonist Muslims.

  41. OldGuy says:

    I don’t think @pauls issue is with domain registration costs, but hosting costs, which can be expensive once you get past the introductory pricing. 

    You could change to a new hosting site, but that can be a bit of work, especially if you have databases and email accounts associated with your site(s). Some hosting places will move your site with databases and email accounts, but the cost I have seen quoted for that service can be $100+.

  42. drwilliams says:

    Soros-funded immigration attorneys seek grants to untwist panties

    The Trump administration fired at least 115 immigration judges over the past year, many of them Biden-era appointees, while a similar number took buyouts, resigned, or retired. The corps dipped below 600 before this class brought it back. The Justice Department has now hired 153 permanent immigration judges in fiscal year 2026 alone, the most ever in a single year. Most come from criminal prosecution, immigration enforcement, or the military. Not exactly judges inclined to rubber-stamp asylum claims.

    https://redstate.com/ben-smith/2026/05/21/trump-just-put-the-open-borders-lobby-on-notice-with-record-judge-expansion-n2202580\

    Start offering bounties on businesses that employ illegals.

  43. drwilliams says:

    Sandy Fire Becomes Flashpoint in California Leadership and Fire Policy Debate

    The fire has burned about 1,000 more acres and is only 15% contained.

    On Monday evening, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that his office had secured a fire management assistance grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to bolster the response to the Sandy fire. Local, state and tribal agencies will be able to apply for 75% reimbursement of their eligible fire suppression costs.

    The blaze is one of several that recently broke out in Southern California, which is on the precipice of its high fire season. Flames had scorched 16,942 acres of Santa Rosa Island as of Tuesday night, raising fears about its unique wildlife and sensitive ecosystem.

    [Gubernatorial candidate Steve] Hilton offered a multi-point Wildfire Prevention Plan. One of my favorite elements:

    End the Regulatory Barriers That Make Fires Worse. Roll back and reform extreme environmental and air quality regulations that have been weaponized to block basic fire prevention and firefighting.

    This includes fixing harmful air quality bureaucracy that has been used to stop controlled burns, reforming endangered species rules that prevent effective vegetation management and emergency response, and restoring common-sense authority for fire agencies to act.

    Any of that unique wildlife taste just like chicken?

    Palisades burned because the eco-freaks wanted to protect the weeds.

    Too many years of nonsense regulations, letting the fuel load increase despite existing regulations, and blaming utilities for p*ss-poor decisions.

    Gas is over $6 a gallon in Cali. Is diesel over $8? Yanno, the diesel that runs fire trucks and pumps in the field. why not a new law requiring green energy to fight fires? How many solar panels would it take? Windmills?

    Are Google and Apple still using old photos of Palisades to Potemkin the public?

  44. drwilliams says:

    Speaker Mike Johnson justifies congressional stock trading because the $174k salary isn’t enough

    House Speaker Mike Johnson defended congressional stock trading by pointing to lawmakers’ frozen salaries. “The salary of Congress has been frozen since 2009,” he said. “At least let them engage in some stock trading so that they can continue to take care of their family.” The median U.S. congressional salary is $174,000. 70% of Americans can’t cover a $1,000 emergency.

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/05/speaker_mike_johnson_justifies_congressional_stock_trading_because_the_174k_salary_isn_t_enough.html

    It’s simple, you stupid ass.

    Build nice dormitories for the poor representatives and senators, ad put them on a cafeteria plan. We won’t even ask them to qualify for free meals. That should help with expenses.

    There’s a thing called insider trading that has been illegal in this country for some time, thanks to laws passed by congress. The law has no exception for you perfumed elected princes. Enforce the law.

  45. paul says:

    No OldGuy.  Not domain registration.  Not hosting cost.  Both just renewed for $178 a year.  

    My problem is DreamHost is dropping discussion lists I have a couple of lists that have existed for a long time.  One since 1999.   Er, ok, it started on Onelist.  

    I have A  database.  Just one.  It’s on php8 now.  I think.  I don’t care.  The database is for the viewing software.  That goes with photos.remsset.  That sub domain can go away.  Yeah, and storing all of my pictures there  goes away.

    But who looks at old pictures anyway? 

    The rest of my site is just html files.  Most made with notepad.  

    E-mail?  Yeah, Dreamhost allows unlimited accounts.  And then unlimited addresses.  I gave a few folks an e-mail address.  Looking at the space they are using, I think they are not used.  Just full of spam.  

    So…. I need a solid  e-mail address.  But I also need to have other e-mail addresses that filter into the main address.  

    I need  a site that runs Mailman.  For the Discussion Lists.    Domain registration was just paid for.  Might have to pay again.  Whatever.  The e-mail addresses into my account, well, whatever….  that can all be recreated.

    I’ve been on DreamHost since 2002.  

  46. OldGuy says:

    @paul: I saw ‘Dreamhost’ and assumed you were using them for hosting, with the possibility that they are also your domain registrar. So I figured that the price increase was related to hosting costs, not domain registration costs.

    Understand the issue with mailing lists. There are several add-on and/or open-source mailing list software you can add to a site hosted somewhere. One is phpList which has been around for quite a while. Wikipedia article here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpList . Most hosting places have an automated installation process for phpList; there may be other choices that DreamHost supports.

    It is not clear from your comment what features you are using/need for your discussion list. phpLIst might meet your needs. The article in the link above should get you started on what phpList does. It does appear to be an outbound-based mailing systems for newsletters, etc. Doesn’t allow for discussions, which may be more what you need. 

    For discussion lists, GNU Mailman might be what you need. Open source. Basic overview here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Mailman , the GNU Mailman site is here: https://www.list.org/ . It’s written in Python; that might be an issue depending on your expertise.

  47. paul says:

    I’m not Expert.   But the  congressional salary is $174,000 a year doesn’t include stuff.  Call it all Office Supplies and Bus Fare.  Round that stuff up and say, maybe another $100,000 a year.  Because First Class tickets  and nubile blond secretaries, even if not peeling grapes on the yacht,  are not cheap.

    But on that $174 salary.  Say the IRS takes a third.  Some dickhead state gov takes a chunk.  OH WOAH  IS ME!!!!  I have only $100,000 a year left…. for shit like house payments and whores.

    Nah.  $174 grand a year is too much.  Make it $100 grand a year.  

  48. drwilliams says:

    The nonprofit broadcaster told staff this week that roughly 300 employees, mostly on newsgathering desks, are eligible for voluntary buyouts as executives scramble to close an $8 million budget gap.

    NPR management expects only about 30 employees to accept the buyouts voluntarily, meaning layoffs in the 425-strong newsroom could follow if too few workers opt in.

    https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/21/why-npr-whatever-happened-to-we-dont-need-no-stinkin-federal-funds-n3815174

    NPR circling the toilet drain as golden swirly soon to become crimson swirly.

    Katherine Maher, odious censor previously of wikimedia and now conning the helm of NPR, is the intellectual and moral descendant of Joseph Goebbels. Perhaps if she gets ousted she’ll find a new job in Canada helping Herr Carney sell more assisted suicides to the white population?

  49. drwilliams says:

    “Make it $100 grand a year.  ”

    We could help them stretch their salaries by giving them bicycles and making it illegal to give them rides in ICE vehicles.

  50. paul says:

    Rained like crazy a while ago.  The dogs were not happy.  Thunder and all. 

    So we went for walk.  It was not raining.  Buddy the Beagle does not like water dripping from trees landing on him.  I not a fan myself. 

    Penny went pee.  Buddy had to inspect and pee near.  Unlike Fred the Brittany, Buddy can’t aim.  So then we wandered up the driveway.  Penny scooted off to go poop.  That’s what she does.  

    Buddy?  Naw, we going for a walk to the gate!!!  And then he had to go.  Did that and suddenly he’s leading the way back to the house.  We were maybe a quarter of the way to the gate..   Wait, what, why don’t you do this when it’s 35f outside?

    Right now, Penny is up on the bed.  Snoring her way.  Buddy is on the dog bed and snoring like a chainsaw. 

    I just don’t know.   They seem to like me a lot.  I like them a lot.  I’m sure I do stuff that baffles them.  So, we are even, right? 

  51. Nick Flandrey says:

    The law has no exception for you perfumed elected princes. Enforce the law.  

    – actually I thought they did exempt themselves from the law, like they have with a bunch of other laws.   

    —–

    Got back from my pickups in time to hastily wrap presents and head to the sushi place, and now we’re back from all you can eat sushi.  It was good and they didn’t play any games to slow down the eating.   The amount of fish was about half per piece from what you would expect ordering a la carte, but there wasn’t any delay bringing more if you asked.    I ate too much. 

    ——-

    Feeling achy and snotty and have a very slight headache to go with my cough, so I’m headed to bed early tonight.  Just as soon as I feel like I can lay down without getting acid reflux…

    n

  52. Nick Flandrey says:

    @paul, do they howl and do the beagle vocalization thing?    My neighbor in San Diego got a beagle and then never spent any time with it.  It would lonely howl for hours.   I would get home from the bar and play with him for 15 minutes or more at 4am and that was all the attention he’d ever get.   Eventually they found a new home for him.  It was sad because he was so sweet, but good if he got the attention he needed.

    They do seem pretty needy.

    n

  53. Lynn says:

    My problem is DreamHost is dropping discussion lists.  I have a couple of lists that have existed for a long time.  One since 1999.   Er, ok, it started on Onelist.  

    It is a fad.  https://www.pair.com dropped discussion lists a year ago.

  54. ITGuy1998 says:

    They do seem pretty needy.
     

    My Golden Retriever just said “hold my beer.” She is the clingiest dog I’ve ever had. She is truly my shadow. Everywhere I go, she goes.

     I wouldn’t have it any other way. 

  55. Lynn says:

    “MOORE: U.C. Berkeley Study says Fracking Saved U.S. Consumers $3 to $4 Trillion”

        https://texasinsider.org/articles/fracking-has-saved-u-s-consumers-3-to-4-trillion

    “The U.S. went from being a net importer of natural gas, to being the world’s largest exporter”

    WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — The University of California at Berkeley’s Haas Energy Institute, hardly a a right-wing source, has released blockbuster findings on the Shale Gas Revolution. The paper calculates how much shale gas has saved U.S. natural gas consumers.”

    This is incredibly true.  In 2005 or so, several of my customers were looking at installing Coal to Natural Gas Syngas plants connected to the natural gas pipelines.  And then directional drilling and fracking coalesced in 2008 in the shale oil reservoirs, dropping the natural gas price from $14/mmbtu to $3/mmbtu in just a year or two.  That crushed my business as all the independents went bankrupt and merged into the oil giants.

  56. Lynn says:

    So we went for walk.  It was not raining.  Buddy the Beagle does not like water dripping from trees landing on him.  I not a fan myself. 

    I don’t like rain or dripping water hitting my bald head whatsoever.  I swear that I can feel every drop.  My wife says that I am a drama king.

  57. Lynn says:

    “The UN’s Climate Doomsday Scenario Just Fell Apart”

        https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/05/21/un-walks-back-extreme-climate-change-model-n2676467

    “The United Nations-backed climate panel over the weekend walked back one of its “worst-case scenario” greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, as a new report found that those projections “have become implausible.” The scenario predicted that humanity would double down on fossil fuels and take no action to mitigate climate change, and used it to make predictions about what the future may hold.”

    “Those scenarios included massive sea-level rise, global crop failures, and the rapid melting of polar ice. Democrats used the fearmongering to push Americans to pay billions of dollars to pursue mitigation efforts, while Europe practically castrated its own economy to do the same. And yet the scenario has been walked back, although climate scientists argue that it is due to current mitigation efforts already in place.”

    All of the climate change scam is a fake.

    And if the climate does become unbearably hotter, then we can pay SpaceX to put a bunch of mirrors in orbit and heat up Mars instead.

  58. Lynn says:

    “Permanent Daylight Saving Bill Advances to House Floor”

       https://thelibertydaily.com/permanent-daylight-saving-bill-advances-house-floor/

    “(The Epoch Times)—The House Energy and Commerce Committee on May 21 advanced a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent year-round and put the current practice of changing clocks twice a year to an end.”

    Gonna be dark when the kids go to school in the winter.

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