Hot and humid in Houston and at the BOL. I’m sure we’ll get to 100F here today. Forecast has us on the edge of the “t-storms and rain possible” zone, but the lake has its own little microclimate. Summer in Texas.
I did computer stuff and office stuff in the morning yesterday, then loaded the truck and ran errands before heading to the BOL. W and D2 will follow today, I think. D1 will be working and staying with her best friend, and then going to their lakehouse for the holiday. Got here and mowed the grass. It was knee high in most places. I’ll have to mow again in a couple of days to get all the blades that just bent over.
Today, I’ll see what the heat is like and what I can do besides finishing the grass cutting and decorating for the holiday. It would be nice to get a couple of things off the list, but we’ll see how motivated I am and how hot it is. I should be able to find stuff to do to keep moving.
Always be working, right? And stacking. Time to pull out the canned tomato products and rotate them before the cans rupture….
nick
Thursday. Good morning!
Megaproject abides. Worked until midnight, then back at the coal face at 07:30. Joy, but it pays the mortgages and feeds hungry mouths.
If all goes well today, I will have tomorrow off for some rest. I might even do exciting things like bathing and laundry. Wohoo!
Weather outside is looking like a nice summer’s day. I will wait until the fusion reactor in the sky passes its zenith a good bit and hope to get in a sneak attack with the leaf blower against the debris on the lawn. It is looking nice and dry and crunchy now. If I get the lawn clear, I can restart the robot mower.
The local Lidl had two remaindered petrol strimmers/brush cutters. Chinesium, but for 60 eurobucks, a lot cheaper than a strimmer attachment for my Stihl multi-head. I got one for the BOL, where I need to clear an overgrown spot that is due for seeding as lawn. It used to be a vegetable garden, but we are not there enough to maintain it as such, so grass will at least keep it looking tidy-ish.
We had tried for a wildflower meadow, unfortunately without much success. The first year, we got nearly only rape (colza) plants, and this year we had mostly just weeds. The bees and butterflies loved the chaos, but W1 and the neighbours didn’t much appreciate it. I will hack it down with the strimmer, then dose it with the last few precious drops of my glyphosat stash before tilling and sowing.
Time to investigate breakfast options… Have a beautiful day!
Three weeks isn’t terrible. I reboot my “road” laptop whenever Fedora issues a kernel patch, which has been once a week lately.
FreeBSD is under less scrutiny than Linux. I’m not sure whether that is a good or bad thing.
Apple cribs from FreeBSD above the kernel level, but the BSD model doesn’t require them to share changes.
The President of the Mathlete type new hires have been given the run of the “scary” Claude model at my employer. One got a gold star for flagging an issue in my libcurl code this week, but I responded that the “issue” was convention and, if convention changed suddenly by the libcurl developers, would potentially break code which was up to 30 years old.
That doesn’t matter. Claude says it is broken so it is broken.
Y’all have to amend the Constitution, because this is pretty clear: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens…”
The wiggle room is “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”, but that only really shuts out diplomats (who have diplomatic immunity), because anyone else present in the country is supposed to obey the laws or suffer the consequences.
Well, reddit, anyway. Reddit is so far left that they are in danger of wrapping around.
That’s not what “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” means.
That used to be the case. I’m not sure that it is anymore. It’s probably more a helix than a circle, with the leftards wrapping around to the point that they superficially resemble the far right, except that the leftards have descended until they’re on a different level.
Then what does it mean? Seems like plain English, but I’m sure the lawyers have twisted it over the past 250 years…
The language originated in the 14th amendment, only ~ 160 years ago, and was a very late addition to the text.
The language being interpreted as birthright citizenship was a Supreme Court decision from about 130 years ago.
The expectation was that Congress would debate and clarify the language within a reasonable timeframe after the Supreme Court decision, but that never happened and probably never will.
I doubt Trump expected to prevail on the EO, but the opinions from the Court provide a road map to getting a ban without Congress being involved. Roberts probably left something in the text if you read it carefully, and the Boy Wonder joined the minority on the interpretation of the language decision so his dissent will probably also prove useful to get that Swing chair.
As for the Payola seat, that currently belongs to Touchdown Jesus, and the Catholic Church has a vested financial interest in birthright citizenship. Barrett won’t change her vote.
When all else fails, listen to Thomas or read his opinions. I have a high opinion of my understanding of the US Constitution and the history and intended meaning of every clause, because I don’t bring my desired outcome to the interpretation. This puts me above most federal judges and commenters, from what I can see. In particular I value my opinion over that of the childless schoolmarm, the dumbass Latina, and the gender-confused DEI hire. Also above that of the needle-threading politician in the Chief Justice seat. However, if I interpret the Constitution or a law one way and Thomas wrote something different, he’s right and I’m wrong.
Mowed. About 85F when I started, over 90 when I finished. It was overdue but I’ve been very busy and the whether wasn’t cooperating. Wasn’t great this morning, either, because of overnight rain, but it was the best of the available options for most of the coming week.
Yes, I realize that Texans will not have much sympathy regarding those temperatures, nor for the expected high near 100F today and tomorrow. Fair enough. I don’t have much sympathy when Texans complain about temperatures getting cold enough that above-ground water pipes are in danger of freezing.
The Elder Child and his wife closed on their house near San Antonio. By coincidence, The Child is visiting, so she’s been drafted into cleaning the new place (it wasn’t trashed badly enough to be a cause of action but it was considerably dirtier and had more litter than when it was inspected) and moving boxes. It remains to be seen whether she will die, literally die, from doing physical activity.
The needle threading works both ways. I believe Roberts saved the economy of the US with the carefully worded decision on Biden’s jab mandate after Trump lost his nerve and the election.
I still think the Control numbers on the mRNA tech are too low and the unvaxxed rate is closer to 20%.
Very sunny 87F at the moment. Finished my Eggos and bacon, still working on the coffee. I’m not in a hurry to go to work, even though I should be.
Always interesting to start the day with some Constitutional scholarship. My cursory reading of the amendment seemed pretty clear that it applied to the ex-slaves, immigrants who were already there, and anyone else who intended to stay. Dunno if it included the Indians or if the BIA had already F’d them over… but they could have solved the whole thing by saying “as of January First of this year” or something similar. Pity that they didn’t.
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The kereug duo leaves a bit to be desired if you want more than a K kup worth, but less than the smallest pot it will brew. It’s a pain to clean the Moka pot though, so I endure. Still, thinking about a change since good coffee is much more enjoyable.
I suppose I should start to get ready to work.
n
I believe Indians at the time were considered to be conquered foreign nations wholly contained within the U.S. territory, and constrained by treaty. As such, they were not, and could not be, citizens. I think it was a mistake to change that status . I have lived near reservations; it’s a hotbed of entitlement and poverty mindset.
I have also seen quotes on X, attributed to lawmakers at the time the amendment was passed that, if genuine, clearly state that it did not apply to people here visiting or illegally present.
Dredd Scott declared that persons of African descent were not citizens and the political system is still dealing with the guilt from that. The 14th Amendment attempted to provide language to prevent that interpretation of law from happening again so that’s probably why no timeframes were specified.
The US Government was also dealing with citizenship issues from the Mexican-American war at the time the 14th Amendment went to the states for ratification. After gold was discovered, California went straight from conquered land to statehood without being an organized territory first, and the Utah territory was not created until after California statehood.
I imagine that there were also genealogical researchers in Salt Lake City who would wanted to avoid questions about who in the LDS hierarchy was not a “natural born citizen” and ineligible to run for President. This came up as recently as 1968 when George Romney ran for the Republican nomination.
The Elders have desired the White House for a long time, but I still believe the Windsors will hold it first. Not that it matters to me — I will probably be dead when the 100 year plan reaches the conclusion in 34 years.
The Windsors won’t blow it with a feckless candidate like Mittens.
Poorly drafted, but then again birth(right) tourism and coddling of invaders wasn’t a thing back then.
They created a solution to the problems they had (slaves & immigrants & indians), then lost interest.
Something’s wrong when temperature here is 10 or 12F warmer than down there. Sure, you wrote that half an hour ago and you’re an hour behind, so far as sunrise goes, but something’s wrong here.
I would mist my chickens with cool-ish water, but every time I did that before, they panicked. “eek! new thing!” Well, suck it up, fluffheads. I can see about letting them into the forest, which is much cooler than the yard, but that will depend on what work I have.
Exactly. The Republicans will do nothing about it. Just like the Dumbocrats did nothing about abortion when they had the chance, now they just whine about it.
So have I. Lots of corruption also. I think the fundamental problem is one of IQ. Like certain other groups, the average person on a reservation lacks the mental capacity for complex jobs, for long-term planning, etc.. They average around 85, the same as American blacks, and a full standard deviation below average.
Fetal alcohol syndrome to various degrees, malnourishment, limited gene pool, and maybe the post war euro problem of losing generations of their best and brightest to war.
The rez sux the balls. Even with gambling money, they are typically horrible.
n
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Bumped up from 87F to 93F in the last half hour. That might be sun hitting the sensor though.
n
Wait until after the Midterms before ruling Kamala out completely.
Talarico goes on the short list of VPs for someone if he wins the US Senate race.
There is absolutely no way this drunken mush-mouth is elected President. I believe she is dead for holding any office. The commie takeover of the Dumbocrat Party precludes her from being nominated for anything.
I have reviewed the call, and the judge’s decision stands.
“Kill all the commies” isn’t hate speech, it’s common sense.
n
Yup, Civil War 2.0 is coming. Us normals versus the commies.
We have hammered six times in the last 48 hours.
And Chuck and Paul are using the same VPN. Coincidence, I think not.
Green Hypocrisy. The Case of Baltimore’s Bresco Waste-to-Energy Incinerator
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/07/01/green-hypocrisy-the-case-of-baltimores-bresco-waste-to-energy-incinerator/
More “black” (as in death) than green.
Edited by Lynn for the correct URL.
Had a sucky quarterly glaucoma checkup with my eye surgeon yesterday. My right eye is good and the Latanoprost eye drops have stopped the optic nerve destruction at 5% for five years now. The left eye, crap. It was at 10% optic nerve destruction five years ago, 15% two or three years ago, and is now at 20%. This is known as “mild” glaucoma. A friend of mine went to 60% in each eye in five years a decade ago. Our eye surgeon tried everything on her, nothing worked to slow it down.
We talked about his “new” laser to cut six holes in each eye white section in five seconds. He has used it a thousand times now. He is seeing the industry norms, 2 or 4% of people, no response. 25% failure rate at five years due to eye material growing back, some quickly, some slowly. He thinks the laser would not help in my case since I do take the eye drops every night without fail. The laser is really for people who do not take the drops or have severe glaucoma like my friend.
The best option is to not get glaucoma. Choose your parents wisely.
Every year, the incinerator emits more sulfur dioxide into Baltimore’s air than all the cars and trucks on the road eight times over.
Huh, they are burning wallboard. Wallboard has Calcium Sulfate, CaSO4, in it which gets converted in the combustion process to SO2 and other goodies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_sulfate
Outdoor temperature has been hovering for several hours at crossing the 3-digit line but hasn’t quite made it.
(That’s 3-digits Fahrenheit. We’re solidly in three digits on the Rankine and Kelvin scales and I would be very surprised if we hit three digits Celsius.)
French press? You can make any amount. Cleaning it is a mild nuisance but not much worse than cleaning the drip machine after use
“Tim Walz Helps Pardon Laotian Man Convicted of Raping 10-Year-Old”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/07/01/minnesota-board-pardons-laotian-man-convicted-of-raping-10-year-old-n2678714
Walz is just another commie who wants to start the killing fields going for white people. Just imagine, he could have been our VP now.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
Crude Oil for August in the USA is down to $68 per US Barrel. Lovely, just lovely. Customers are emailing wanting to renegotiate their contracts.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/CL%3DF/
Trolls think they are smart by using other users’ preferred handles and VPNs.
The needle threading works both ways. I believe Roberts saved the economy of the US with the carefully worded decision on Biden’s jab mandate after Trump lost his nerve and the election.
I still think the Control numbers on the mRNA tech are too low and the unvaxxed rate is closer to 20%.
At least 20%. I know too many unvaxxed people. Maybe it is just the fundamentalist Christian thing about putting unknown stuff in your body. Me, I believed the hype and got the first two jabs but none of the boosters.
When Walz leaves office, I hope we never hear from that commie turd-bucket again. Pardoning a child molester to try and keep the scum here is a firing squad offense. There has to be something DHS can do to deport said scum.
Ditto for work and a cruise. It is too bad companies and goobermints went hook, line, and sinker. Then when truths started coming out and reversed their policies. “Look how progressive we are!” FU.
wanting to renegotiate their contracts.
– ask them if you can adjust upward when the price goes up.
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105F now that the sensor is in the sun. It’s considerably less in the shade.
Finished all the mowing including the park. Even went over my yards twice to even out yesterday’s bushwhacking nonsense.
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Using someone else’s name when you comment is a dick move. Period.
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I was getting ready to get the trimmer out and realized I forgot the new spool of string at home. W and D2 plus X1 are already on the way, so unless I find some tucked away, I might not get any trimming done this visit. My back will be happy but my list will be un-done…
The A/C units in the garage have cooled it down to the mid 80sF which is tolerable. I need to work my mojo on getting a mini-split for a better and more permanent solution though.
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The Dotz Buffalo flavored pretzels are very tasty. Quite tangy and the burn builds slowly. Original is still my favorite, but these are nice and would be good with ranch dip or blue cheese.
I’m having my lunch while I cool off and decide on my next job.
n
Geesh
Hyper-woke border town proudly flies the SOMALI flag for its Independence Day a day after canceling July 4 fireworks for America 250
It is either “game over, man, game over” or CWII. This isn’t the only city or State doing this shit.
Rewarding a child raper for his crime tells you everything you need to know about Timmy and the democrat party. He was their choice for VP, there is no way he’s an outlier.
There will be a cleansing fire.
n
and many scores will be settled, public and private.
and many scores will be settled, public and private.
Yes, people have lists and are adding to them.
Yup, my former USMC son saw that in Iraq big time. Lots of homes with safe rooms burned to the ground. The safe room burned too.
Three weeks isn’t terrible. I reboot my “road” laptop whenever Fedora issues a kernel patch, which has been once a week lately.
FreeBSD is under less scrutiny than Linux. I’m not sure whether that is a good or bad thing.
Apple cribs from FreeBSD above the kernel level, but the BSD model doesn’t require them to share changes.
Yeah, my web host maintains their own version of FreeBSD. It is even tighter than the off the shelf version. With over 200,000 domains, they have been around the bend several times.
I used to fear this. In some ways I still do. But more and more, I see Jefferson’s point about the Tree of Liberty and its natural food.
I’m not vaxed for the chink flu. Some one asked why don’t you get the vax? Uh, for the same reason I’ve never taken the flu shot. I’ve never had the flu.
The HEB Pharmacy pushed the flu shot. Free for employees. Ok, do you get brownie points or a bonus for giving shots? If you do, let’s do the paperwork so you get your brownie points, I look like a Good Employee and then squirt my shot into the trash can.
Ok!
Went through this process for about eight years.
If I was going to get the flu, it really seems I would from dealing with customers at the Business Center and certainly from re-setting tills and counting enough money that I had to wash my hands before I went pee,
Three weeks isn’t terrible. I reboot my “road” laptop whenever Fedora issues a kernel patch, which has been once a week lately.
FreeBSD is under less scrutiny than Linux. I’m not sure whether that is a good or bad thing.
Apple cribs from FreeBSD above the kernel level, but the BSD model doesn’t require them to share changes.
Yeah, my web host maintains their own version of FreeBSD. It is even tighter than the off the shelf version. With over 200,000 domains, they have been around the bend several times.
I forgot to mention their favorite way of punishing the wayward idiots who are probing their network. They ban their IP addresses at the outer ring router for a month or so. When they told me that during one of the Iran attacks, I loved it. That is a Huns at the gates mentality, drop the gates for them alone.
There is absolutely no way this drunken mush-mouth is elected President. I believe she is dead for holding any office. The commie takeover of the Dumbocrat Party precludes her from being nominated for anything.
It will be a deathmatch between AOC and Kamala for the dumbrocrat 2028 nomination. There will be knives, pistols, machine guns, and chainsaws. If we are lucky, neither will leave the Thunderdome.
BREAKING: The Somali flag flying over Buffalo City Hall has been reportedly STOLEN just hours after it was raised.
“Driver charged with manslaughter in Tesla crash that killed grandmother inside Katy-area home, says sheriff”
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/driver-charged-with-manslaughter-in-tesla-crash-that-killed-grandmother-inside-katy-area-home-says-sheriff/285-1c2b6416-6f43-4bb0-a490-ba8dc1d9c143
“According to investigators, Butler told authorities the vehicle’s self-driving system was engaged at the time of the crash. Tesla has said vehicle data showed Butler pressed the accelerator pedal to 100% and reached a speed of 73 mph before the crash.”
This person should not be driving if they cannot tell the difference between the brake pedal and the accelerator pedal.
Troons to the left of me, troons to the right, .. stuck in Las Vegas again…
Heavily Armed Would-Be Trans Terrorist Arrested for Planning Mass Shooting; Check out This Hardware
The “spouse,” Julie, claims to be a licensed firearms dealer. The money quote:
This is what happens when you let a man skate because he claims to be a troon. Cops go to their house four times, and the bond is only $500,000. Troons, by definition, have a mental issue.
They can contact the above troon for all the weapons they need.
Well, I’m off tomorrow to NYFC for Travis & Tay-Tay’s wedding.
Just kidding. I think this marriage is heading for a quick divorce. Too much ego is involved.
Finally, I got my parents home up for sale:
https://www.har.com/homedetail/1700-s-virginia-port-lavaca-tx-77979/17631416
or
https://www.har.com/homedetail/1700-s-virginia-st-port-lavaca-tx-77979/8997990
I am not sure which is the correct HAR listing as the realtor got listings in all of the local MLS’s in south Texas. HAR just picks all of those up automatically.
Well, I’m off tomorrow to NYFC for Travis & Tay-Tay’s wedding.
Just kidding. I think this marriage is heading for a quick divorce. Too much ego is involved.
I don’t know. I wish them the best and several kids.
Collins is so popular in Maine that she’s up three points on a pathetic Nazi pervert:
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/07/02/new-poll-platner-collins-n2203938
Ontario votes to secede. Ottawa tries to veto, but Ontario asks to join the U.S. and we accept.
The Civil War established that states can’t leave, but did not establish that states can’t be expelled for being full of dumbasses. We get rid of the New England states by paying Canada to take them, after we relocate some of the population to NYC’s new pier.
We build a pier from New York Harbor to a point in the Atlantic Ocean 12.5 miles away. We march the majority of the commies and illegals 12.51 miles–they can carry the 10% that we shoot out of hand.
It works so well that we do a variation in California: LA and SF don’t get piers, but large railguns. 100 ton gondola cars have more than enough steel. Newsome and the entire state government get a ride on a real bullet train.
Turns out putting most of the population of Chicago on the trains to the Left coast is fantastically efficient.
A new day dawns. Global warming is solved. Unicorns repopulate the Midwest Plains.
Ok, broad strokes, but a good plan–flesh out the details later.
The Windsors have ALREADY blown it with the feckless King Chuck, who praises the wisdom and peace of Islam and thinks we should all learn from them. Frankly, the only things I needed to know about Islam were rape, murder, and “sudden jihad syndrome”. Chuck will turn Britain into the caliphate of Londonistan with some loyal Bedouin as Caliph in Buckingham Palace, and Wills will be beheaded at the Tower of London shortly thereafter.
A majority of the Supreme Court disagrees with you. Based on Nick’s recent comment about interpretation of the Constitution (recent comment about the Second Amendment), that is all that needs to be said to establish your error.
First we had a Chuck. Then we had a Paul. Now we have a Chester.
Ah, a nymshifter.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nymshifter
“LOL! “I’m Dr. Trump” – Trump Posts AI Video of Himself Treating TDS with Testimonials From Rosie O’Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg, and Robert De Niro, Other Trump Hating Actors (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/lol-im-dr-trump-trump-posts-ai-video/
ROTFLMAO.
The new Highlander Chariot has “left the port” according to the dealer. I thought all Highlanders were built in Indiana. Maybe Toyota considers that a “port”. The vehicle will be in Atlanta, at the dealer in about 14 days. 14 days to move just halfway across the country! Must be a circuitous route due to shipping logistics. Probably by rail and rail is not known for speed. Probably has to detour through Chicago so the vandals, thugs, and other low life cretins can try to sabotage or damage the vehicles.
The dealer has to install a couple of options which will take a day. The towing hitch is expensive. But it integrates into the bumper and requires the foot sensor for the liftgate to be relocated and a new bumper. Unlike the U-Haul hitch that hangs below the bumper and looks after market.
Because of the scarcity of the model I am getting, the dealer will not budge off MSRP. Bummer.
A majority of the supreme court over the last 75 years disagrees with me. I’m a strict Constitutionalist and do not believe in emanations and punumbras nor creating law from the bench.
I don’t believe in using the General Welfare clause to justify Federal involvement in peoples’ lives.
I don’t believe in regulators creating laws.
Income tax should have ended with the war, and the standing army too. Lincoln is one of the biggest traitors to the Constitution and the Republic, along with the socialists of WWI and WWII.
The 10A should be enforced with lawfare and failing that, violence. Defund, then defenestrate.
16A and 17A should be repealed. 16A funds the oppressive beast, 17A stole power from the states and fundamentally changed the balance of power.
26A should probably go too, if all the other things that change at 18 can also move to 21.
If the President is term limited, then why aren’t the subordinate representatives of the people?
there’s more, much more, but it’s essentially returning the fedgov to about 1800AD.
n
Could have waited for the recalls and looked for low-mileage used.
We ordered a new refrigerator, LG, from Home Depot. Our current Samsung has a problem with the ice maker where it freezes up with ice packed everywhere. Chipping out the ice and defrosting is a chore. No repair places I have contacted will work on Samsung refrigerators, especially the ice maker. Because the refrigerator is in the corner it is impossible to open the left door where the ice maker is located all the way to remove the ice bin. The refrigerator has to be pulled away from the opening.
The new refrigerator is1/2″ taller than our current refrigerator. We have to remove the cabinet above the refrigerator, disassemble the cabinet, cut down the sides and the back, the trim the doors. All the decent refrigerators were the same height. According to the Home Depot guy many people have the same issue.
We did get a good price. $1,500 off retail, plus another $250.00 off because of July 4 and free delivery. Home Depot was adamant I need a new braided water line. I told him the current line is copper so probably better than braided. The ice maker is hooked into the water filter system, line goes down from the sink, across the basement ceiling (tiled), and then up to the refrigerator.
Thats a cool looking house!
Based on my purchase of the current 2013 Highlander, it is just as difficult to find used Highlanders. I waited three months for what I have with a couple of dealers searching. I don’t want the low level trim options and that significantly narrows the available vehicles.
I found this vehicle, a 2013, in 2016, in the back lot of a Ford Dealership when I was having the truck serviced. The vehicle had not even been prepped to move to the used vehicle lot. I checked online and the dealer wanted $30k. The going retail was $33K. It has served us well with one major problem when the alternator shorted.
I am not generally a fan of used vehicle although I have had good luck with the three Toyotas that I have owned. Two Camrys and the current Highlander. But I also maintain my vehicles well.
The ‘91 Camry I bought in ’94 I really liked. It had 30K miles. I put another 100K miles on the vehicle. When I wanted to get another vehicle my best friend wanted to buy the vehicle. I was not keen on the idea as it might affect our friendship. I told him if he wants to buy it, it would be as strangers. If he gets 10 miles down the road and the drive train ruptures, well so be it. He was OK with it as he said I maintained my vehicles well. He bought it for $1,200, put another 80K miles on in it in four years, and sold it for $500.00. He said it was the best $700.00 he had ever spent. It was still running well, even the A/C.
I have an independent appliance repair guy I trust implicitly.
He diagnosed the compressor failure in our LG fridge for free. He won’t work on them.
It was, just barely, under warranty. Having the LG warranty service do the repair cost me 10 days without a fridge in the kitchen.
Fortunately, we had a garage fridge to get us through.
My guy says that failure is common with LG. You may want to consider an extended warranty. I hate buying those, but here we are.
@NIck,
Even in your utopian world, you can’t even hope to repeal the 19A?
Bummer.
Oh, and “Interstate Commerce” is abused as much as “General Welfare”, if not more.
Thats a cool looking house!
Yes. It’s frame is eight inch Ibeams and solid concrete bricks. We had a great time in it for 40 years. Now it needs about $700,000 of tender loving care.
Mom, I, and the realtor believe that if we start fixing things, that the house will still sell for $675,000. Port Lavaca is the armpit of Texas. In Galveston, that house would sell for $2,000,000. In Rockport, the house would sell for $1,500,000.
I have had terrible experiences with the two warranties I purchased years ago and tried to use. In the two cases I tried to use them the companies found an excuse to not honor the warranty. ”Power surge, not our problem.” Prove it. “You prove it wasn’t.” “Pre-existing condition, call the manufacturer”. Manufacturer said not our problem, warranty expired. “Oh, we don’t cover that part, see the fine print.” Located on page 43 of 6 point type.
Universally purchased extended warranties are a waste of money. Don’t believe these people who claimed their extended warranty from Endurance covered a $5,000 repair bill. What is not stated is the customer paid $6,000 over three years paying for the warranty. My mechanic hates them. Inferior parts required, many times used parts, disputes on the labor cost, very slow to pay as in months.
I’m going to take the contrarian viewpoint. He knows there’s something wrong with his thinking meat and was asking for help.
Look at Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower Shooter, 60 years ago. He knew he had problems, he asked for help, he told people that he was afraid that he’d do something terrible if not stopped, and then he brought rifles up the UTexas clock tower and shot people until he was killed. Autopsy showed that he had a brain tumor which could/would have affected his thinking.
That said, I agree with MrAtoz’s statement that transsexuals have a mental issue.
But that said, I do not agree with those who say that no transsexuals should be allowed to have firearms. Several reasons for that position, only one of which is slippery slope. If you violate trannies’ 2A rights because of the increased statistical likelihood of gun violence, what’s to stop you from violating all blacks’ 2A rights? All men’s 2A rights?
If you want to see what the Hubble saw on your birthdate (not birthday, but month/day) or any other date (month/day), check out this site: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday/ .
Tonight’s movie was F1. The movie. Brad Pitt. It’s an hour too long. Needs editing.
And yeah, F1 racing is like Nascar but by Eurofags instead of Redneck White Trash.
Decent movie. The visuals are great. Just too long.
I’ve built custom RHEL ISOs but never messed around with FreeBSD.
I imagine the process is similar.
BSD license allows them to make proprietary changes without any requirement to share.
Apple invented a bunch of special camera tech for that film. It wasn’t shot with iPhones.
Ironically, Kosinski won the Oscar for Sound Design, like he did with “Top Gun Maverick” before that.
The Irish girl’s accent could have been a mess but the big room at Skywalker Sound worked its usual magic and made it incredibly hot.
If you see Kosinski’s “Tron Legacy” – NOT “Tron Ares” – in the bargain bin at WalMart, that film has aged incredibly well and is worth the time.
A Larry Flynt devotee?
Chuckles is a distraction. His generation is the end of the inbreeding, and Elizabeth kept him off the throne as long as possible so he would ascend with something terminal already running its course.
“Justice” is far worse as a justification.
I’ve been thinking about going over to Britain and taking over. Declare myself Lord Protector. Execute the traitor Charles. And then, as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, I would expel, execute, or enslave all those not of northwest-European heritage. Outright parasites, such as Somalis, Pakistanis, and “Travelers” would not be given the option of voluntary departure.
The reasons to do this in the UK rather than the US are that it’s much smaller and the UK is in much worse shape and the people would be more welcoming of A Man on a White Horse. The US isn’t impoverished and lawless enough. Yet.
Oddly enough, I’ve seen worse plans.
I have to wonder if your home situation is feeding into this, though.
You omit the Welsh. Wise move! 🙂
“Idaho becomes first state to institute firing squad as primary execution method”
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/idaho-becomes-first-state-to-institute-firing-squad-as-primary-execution-method/
“According to the Death Penalty Information Center, state lawmakers in support of the measure argued that the firing squad was a humane and instant method, though dissenters claimed the opposite, with one legislator calling it “barbaric.””
Just throw them in a room full of CO2 or N2. That will do the trick.
If Elizabeth II had really wanted to preserve Britain, she would have kept Chuck off the throne completely, and passed it straight to William, after grooming HIM for the job. But now Chuck is no longer the “Defender of the Faith of the Church of England”, at which he was a traitor; he has now proclaimed himself the Defender of ALL Faiths, including Islam.
Nah, it’s simple altruism. The British people are in a tough situation, partly through treason and partly through their own fecklessness. They need a good dope-smack to get them back on track. And like I always say, nothing like a couple million well-justified deaths to provide a good dope-smack.
Cromwell’s Lord Protector position didn’t include Wales in the title. Wales was politically part of England at the time. If I understand correctly, it still is, while remaining a separate nation. I haven’t cared enough about the apparent contradiction to look into it. I suppose that if I become Lord Protector, I’ll have to address it. What a bother.
And the French instituted the most humane method of execution, the guillotine, and then went totally overboard in using it.
Anyone care to guess the political affiliation of that lamebrain?
Note that I am opposed to the death penalty, and will be until extremely harsh penalties apply to every police officer, prosecutor, judge, and bureaucrat whose actions, inactions, words, or silence contribute to an unjust Guilty verdict against any citizen. That said, firing squad is probably the fastest, least painful, and least failure-prone method of putting someone to death, unless we want to set up guillotines.
EDIT: Hey! Ken is a dirty cheater and beat me to mentioning the guillotine. I call foul!
Not only a traitor but forsworn. See the oath he swore on coronation.
Cromwell’s Lord Protector position didn’t include Wales in the title. Wales was politically part of England at the time. If I understand correctly, it still is, while remaining a separate nation. I haven’t cared enough about the apparent contradiction to look into it. I suppose that if I become Lord Protector, I’ll have to address it. What a bother.
I have driven through Wales twice. Nice place, very farmy. A few nice castles with no moats IIRC.
The Brits loved Cromwell so much that they buried him at his death, dug him up later, hung him, cut his head off, and displayed his head on a pike. Shows that they have daddy issues.
Not only a traitor but forsworn. See the oath he swore on coronation.
Foresworn, Foreshorn. Charles probably thought he was promising to get a haircut regularly.
Ha! You snooze, you LOSE, chicken boy! But it’s highly likely that you had already started composing your comment when I was just about to submit mine. There’s only a 5 minute difference between our submission times.
The YouTube appliance repair dude I’ve watched claims Samsung fridges are nightmares to service and prone to need one. He also mentions a huge kerfuffle with LG’s “variable speed” compressor models, class action suit, lawyers grinning, $$$ settlements.
His other long life main recommendation is to avoid water/ice dispensers in the fridge side door and any type of screen or window. He suggests water/ice on the freezer side is a luxury that will be simpler to repair, but avoiding that feature is best of all.
The farmy and remote parts of Wales are generally nice, the former and dilapidated industrial parts much less so, as is a lot of it close to and adjoining England. The more anglicised it gets, the less nice it tends to be, in my experience.
Glorious Saint Patrick was a Welshman, so they have that going for them.
No wonder poor SteveF forgot Wales. Has a lot on his plate, what with being a demigod, Lord Protector and Bringer of Treats. He must be starting to feel like Marco Rubio. Maybe he is Marco Rubio. Has anyone ever seen them both at the same time? Hmm.
I have the day off work today, to recover from Megaproject. So of course, I was awake at 4am. Grr.
Had a rousing round of LOTR Monopoly after dinner. It’s like regular Monopoly but with simplified money and an early ending mechanism involving the ring –*– I mean the precious… The set has very nice miniature metal figures and the ring looks very much like the one from the movies.
I went bankrupt early, D2 who usually wins ended up bankrupt after owning half the board. She went down to a couple of
dirty cheatsperfectly legal game plays involving stealing assets, by her friend X1 who professes to hate Monopoly. W spent a crazy amount of time in Jail, while X1 went around and around the board paying rent to W until she was nearly bankrupt. The game ending mechanic involving the ring was the actual end, but we’ve never had one go long enough to build the equivalent of the hotels…It’s only 80F but it’s a bit late for me to have my tiny little fire, and I’ve already showered.
I think I’ll go to bed.
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I always thought much the same. The problem with Chuckles is simple: he just isn’t very bright. He is then easily led by the politicians around him, who are probably a couple of standard deviations higher on the bell curve.
Death penalty? I am all for it, as long as it is a case where there is zero doubt about guilt. Criminals caught “in the act” doing something heinous? You will never again be able to trust them not to commit more such crimes? It’s not even about punishment, although the deterrent effect shouldn’t be discounted. It’s just protecting society.
Not only in such cases, but in general: justice needs to move much more rapidly. Cases being tried years after the crime – that makes no sense. The first trail appearance should be within a few weeks after the initial arrest. If appeals happen, then a few months. I don’t know enough about the system to understand why it is so slow – not only in the US, but everywhere – but much of any deterrent effect is lost by the snail-like pace of proceedings.
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Off to help the neighbor again this morning. Then elder son is coming to visit at noon, staying for the weekend.