Hot and wet. Not the good kind. The Houston kind. Got to 100F yesterday, and the air was saturated. Then it rained. And then it got hot again. And then it rained. We did get some blue sky so that was nice. More of the same today is my guess.
Did some things in the morning. Then did some things in the afternoon. Not enough things. Not super productive things. Just things.
Now today I have structure. I have a couple of pickups to do so I have to meet another person’s schedule. I’m not winning. And I really should be making a list of stuff to take up with me for my projects at the BOL… so I can buy that stuff and raid the stacks for the other stuff…
But I am not motivated.
Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming…
And stack, if you feel like it.
n
Wednesday! Good morning.
It is a beautiful summer day here, so naturally I am stuck indoors working on megaproject. Deadlines are approaching and colleagues, particularly one on the distaff side, are starting to become hysterical. I am polishing my cluebat, just in case.
Have a lovely day.
There is a whole saga going back years. Burke and his family are serial litigants, and somehow seem to make a living out of that. I suppose there is some kind of sympathy grifting going on, which is why the stunts keep on coming, to keep the sympathy levels up. I haven’t looked to see if there is a GoFundMe or equivalent, ubut I wouldn’t be surprised.
If you want the excruciating details, visit RTE.ie and search for “Enoch Burke”. You can spend a day or two reading. Maybe start here: https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2026/0701/1581265-enoch-burke/
Burke worked in a private school, the policy of which is to accommodate transgenderism. He objected to that policy. Rather than change employers after he failed to have the policy changed, he preferred to disrupt activities at the school.
He was suspended, then lost his job (the dismissal has been confirmed at the various levels of appeal), and was barred, then trespassed, from the school premises. He continued to trespass, and would not undertake to stop trespassing, which is basically why the courts locked him up.
They let him out now because school is out for summer. If he trespasses again when term resumes, he will surely go back to jail.
When seeking information on yet another Andrew Gillum arrest for drugs in Florida, go with the Geico Gecko’s TV station and assume the reality is much more bizarre.
https://www.local10.com/news/florida/2026/07/07/ex-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-andrew-gillum-arrested-in-alabama/
Here’s an oldie but a goodie Gillum update. Up until this arrest, the media in Florida treated Gillum as a kind of “Governor in waiting” heading into a 2022 rematch, seeking commentary from the meth head on anything DeSantis did/said during his first year in office.
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2020/04/22/police-release-photos-of-hotel-room-where-andrew-gillum-found-in-apparent-incoherent-state/
There’s only one ‘p’ in “male prostitute”.
BTW, nitpickers who are unfamiliar with the geography, Daphne, Alabama is Florida in all but name and jurisdiction.
Ever been to that side of Mobile Bay?
I have.
The west side of Mobile Bay is definitely Alabama.
Can you please provide a source for this magical device? I would like to order one. OK, make it a hundred.
Iran cannot be trusted, ever. Take the entire country back to the stone age.
Hi, friends. I’m having problems with my primary PC, a Dell XPS 8910, running Windoze 10. It’s somewhere around 10 years old now. It boots up properly, but freezes after 4-5 minutes. Mouse pointer doesn’t move, clock freezes, display freezes, everything just stops. Rebooting gives me another 4-5 minutes.
The first “diagnostic technique” was to remove EVERYTHING attached to the machine. I literally moved my PC into another room and set it on a new table, and connected ONLY a mouse, keyboard and monitor to it. No difference. Then I removed the power supply and installed a new one; no change. I’ll keep the old power supply as a backup.
I used “canned air” to blow all the dust out of the fans, and tried to do the same thing for the heat sink, although it didn’t LOOK all that dusty. I had been worried enough about CPU temperatures to run the Piriform Speccy program which can read those. The CPU temps were bouncing around the high 30s to low 60s, and the GROK search engine indicates that those are OK. But it froze up anyway, just as before.
I already tried restoring from a backup, but that didn’t help.
I’m currently using my wife’s laptop. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Will gladly add you to the waiting list for future deliveries. Fees are reasonable, but we accept only cash up front for the full amount, to secure your order.
Check is in the mail!
If you are comfortable getting inside the box, I would blow off anything obviously dusty, then re-seat any components that can easily be re-seated, and any cable connectors that can be pushed firmly into the sockets. Check that the fans are actually spinning and moving air.
A ten year old machine might develop mechanical-connection problems due to the lack of lead in the solder on the components, but I would be more inclined to suspect a software problem. I would try booting the machine into Windows safe mode or equivalent with the bare minimum of hardware attached, and seeing if it can run for more than the 4-5 minutes you are getting when you boot normally. If it can do that, then software is your issue. Personally, I would back-up everything essential and reinstall an operating system. I don’t know if that is within your skills.
If you can get hold of or make a bootable Linux distribution CD or USB key, try booting the machine from one of those. If it runs OK from Linux, then your problem is something in the Windows environment, rather than your hardware.
The real geeks will surely be along presently.
@Ken: As Jerry Pournelle used to say, check the cables. Denis made the suggestion already – wiggle every connector you can find. Take out any “optional” hardware, like add-on cards (a graphics card, for example). All of the other suggestions above are also good: checking the fans, trying “safe mode”, etc..
If it still freezes, then IMHO it is likely to be a hardware problem. That could be anything: CPU, memory, even a bad capacitor. For a 10-year-old machine, it’s not going to be worth the trouble to diagnose it. The biggest trick will be getting any data off the machine, if you don’t already have backups…
Denis, those are excellent suggestions, and are not QUITE beyond my capabilities. And my little brother has suggested running the System File Checker tool, so it looks like I have a few things to try. Thanks!
@Denis; I do have a bootable CD; the Macrium Restore program. The PC DOES run continuously from that, and doesn’t freeze up. So it’s probably a Windoze software issue.
@Brad; Thanks. I do nightly backups using Macrium Reflect, so everything is still available.
Download the bootable ISO image from memtest.org and install on a flash drive or burn to a CD/DVD.
Reboot the system from the flash drive and let the tests run to completion.
If that doesnt find a memory error, you can try the “torture test” in the prime number search client from Mersenne.org running on the same machine booted to a Linux ISO.
I use Linux Mint MATE, but YMMV.
@ken, I have complained about a similar issue here several times with my main PC, an old dell. For me, the problem was twofold. Windows update was pre-loading updates and useless “store” programs, while every other piece of software checked for updates at the same time, and firefox did some kind of ‘indexing’ thing.
This was coupled with not having much disc space left on my primary drive. I don’t recall if the swap file kept swapping, or if indexing was trying to index a folder that had the index in it (so caught in a constantly changing loop).
The diagnosis was to run Resource Monitor and see that the Disk activity was maxed, and watch the disc file names to see what the problem was, ie what was using the disk.
The immediate treatment was to kill the MS update or store prefetch, the real fix was make room on the disk so there was less swapping.
n
86F and rising. There is some sun poking thru the clouds. And it is very damp.
I have coffee in my mug, and an egg sandwich on my plate. The day begins.
n
Had the blood drawn, then picked up about 1,000# of xeriscape stuff, checked in on a friends house and cat, made a quick trip by the supermarket for a few things, and finally home again.
10am, 93F, 18%RH, gonna be warm.
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First sip of coffee…
Ken, have you tried blaming Trump?
The machine is ten years old. Not Trumps fault! Blame Obama.
Disconnect the Ethernet. That stops Windows from trying to update anything. Empty the Recycle Bin. Empty c:\windows\temp. Empty the temp files in user profiles. c:\\users\your name\temp. And empty any tmp folders too.
Empty Recycle again. To clear up disk space.
Then run SFC.
It sounds like Windows has a puked file. SFC is suppose to fix that problem.
If the machine is running fine when booted from your back-up media I don’t think you have a hardware problem.
There is a whole saga going back years. Burke and his family are serial litigants, and somehow seem to make a living out of that. I suppose there is some kind of sympathy grifting going on, which is why the stunts keep on coming, to keep the sympathy levels up. I haven’t looked to see if there is a GoFundMe or equivalent, ubut I wouldn’t be surprised.
If you want the excruciating details, visit RTE.ie and search for “Enoch Burke”. You can spend a day or two reading. Maybe start here: https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2026/0701/1581265-enoch-burke/
Burke worked in a private school, the policy of which is to accommodate transgenderism. He objected to that policy. Rather than change employers after he failed to have the policy changed, he preferred to disrupt activities at the school.
He was suspended, then lost his job (the dismissal has been confirmed at the various levels of appeal), and was barred, then trespassed, from the school premises. He continued to trespass, and would not undertake to stop trespassing, which is basically why the courts locked him up.
They let him out now because school is out for summer. If he trespasses again when term resumes, he will surely go back to jail.
If true, then this man is an idiot.
Garfield: My Warrior Name
https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2026/07/07
Oh yeah, that sounds fearful.
I wonder how Garfield is doing with writing his book about the donut apocalypse?
Iran cannot be trusted, ever. Take the entire country back to the stone age.
Yup, 93+ million really smart crazy people.
The five Iranians that I know will never go back, they know that the IRGC will execute them immediately.
Hi, friends. I’m having problems with my primary PC, a Dell XPS 8910, running Windoze 10. It’s somewhere around 10 years old now. It boots up properly, but freezes after 4-5 minutes. Mouse pointer doesn’t move, clock freezes, display freezes, everything just stops. Rebooting gives me another 4-5 minutes.
Pull your cpu fan, clean off the caked and dried thermal paste, and apply new thermal paste. Put your cpu fan back on, and reboot the little monster.
https://www.amazon.com/ARCTIC-MX-4-Compound-Micro-particles-Durability/dp/B0795DP124?tag=ttgnet-20
“Election Integrity Win as Judge Tells DHS to Reopen Citizenship Database to Four GOP States.”
https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/07/08/election-integrity-win-as-judge-tells-dhs-to-reopen-citizenship-database-to-four-gop-states/
“WHAT HAPPENED: A federal judge in Florida has told the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to restore access to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system’s federal citizenship data for Florida and three other Republican-led states screening their voter rolls, contradicting a previous ruling by a Washington judge that suspended such access nationwide.”
Sigh, this is crazy. These crazy judges that are obviously communist sycophants need to go away. They are causing the real judges to work overtime.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear Demands Glitch McConnell Publicly Disclose Health Status Amid Disappearance”
https://thelibertydaily.com/kentucky-governor-andy-beshear-demands-glitch-mcconnell-publicly/
I am hearing speculation that Mitch McConnell is brain dead.
His Chinese wife immediately took off for China and is visiting her CCP masters.
Over The Hedge: Dead Tree Books
https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2026/07/08
Shoot, I am Verne.
“Working on It”
https://areaocho.com/working-on-it-2/
“A Mexican national in the US illegally was being taken into custody by ICE and tried to run over the officers with his car. ICE agents shot and killed him. The man’s son released this:”
“My father, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a hardworking Mexican man, was the man killed this morning by ICE in the East End. My father has been in this country for nearly 35 years, working in construction to provide for myself, my two brothers, and my mother. He was in the process of obtaining his work permit through the legal process. He was on his way to work, picking up his workers. My father did not deserve this. Please respect my family’s privacy during this time. There are a lot of videos and pictures out there of my father’s final moments that I do not wish to see. For more information, I will be speaking at a press conference, with the support of LULAC Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 8 at 10AM at The Greater Coalition for Justice – 150 West Parker Rd Houston, TX, 5th floor.”
“There is only one way to do that. If you create a pathway for illegals to become legal, you will simply get more unlawful crossings. The only way to do that is for Congress to throw open the borders and make everyone who comes in legal. You cannot have open borders and a welfare state. It is impossible for the two to coexist.”
“The illegal immigration ship has sailed. Too many people want the borders open. Our nation is about to fall. Keep prepping. It’s going to get ugly.”
So, this is a supposedly peaceful illegal immigrant. Who, tried to run over an ICE officer while being arrested. Not very peaceful.
And yes, I figure at minimum that my and my wife’s Social Security will be taken away in the not so distant future using means testing. I am wondering about our Medicare.
And if it gets really ugly, our home, bank accounts, and other properties will be taken away also to support the welfare state.
Beshear is yet another Dem with Daddy issues.
KY took away Beshear’s power to appoint a new Senator when he started his first term, an effort driven in part by Cocaine Mitch. Beshear would like to see that law overturned by a court, but the most likely scenario is a special election to fill the seat being held at the same time as the general election for the seat in the new Congress starting in January.
“Google Co-Founder Worth $280 Billion Flees NYC Real Estate at 94% Loss Ahead of Mamdani’s Rent Freeze”
https://finance.yahoo.com/real-estate/articles/google-co-founder-worth-280-194825827.html
“The world’s third-richest person just accepted a 94% loss to walk away from New York City real estate. Google co-founder Sergey Brin, worth roughly $280 billion, sold his stake in a Manhattan multifamily fund for six cents on the dollar, according to Bloomberg. The direction of that trade matters more than the dollar figure to institutional real estate investors.”
Yeah, looks like the real estate market is crashing in NYC. And that may spread to the rest of the nation. I am seeing properties being taken off the market here rather than drop the price more.
“Why Trump Official Believes Battle Against Gender Ideology Isn’t Yet Won”
https://thelibertydaily.com/why-trump-official-believes-battle-against-gender-ideology/
“States and the Trump administration have succeeded lately in taking action against gender ideology. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld laws in West Virginia and Idaho preventing males who identify as females from competing against women in sports. The Trump administration has also stripped Medicaid funding from hospitals that offer transgender procedures to minors, and the Department of Health and Human Services issued a report last May on the dangers of experimental transgender medical interventions referred to as “gender-affirming care.””
“Still, Assistant Secretary for Health Adm. Brian Christine says the threat of gender ideology has not been extinguished. “We haven’t won,” he told the Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. “All it takes is an election that goes the wrong way in an administration that is hostile to our children to begin backsliding.””
Yup. The USA President is a strong president and can do many things behind the scenes. Or in the case of Biden, his unsupervised peons can do many things behind the scenes.
“Abbott Orders Investigation Into South Texas Hospital Over Birth Tourism Allegations”
https://texasscorecard.com/state/abbott-orders-investigation-into-south-texas-hospital-over-birth-tourism-allegations/
“The governor directed state regulators to investigate Mission Regional Medical Center after reports that it advertised “birth packages” to foreign nationals.”
Are you kidding me? That is blatant.
REITs are hidden in a lot of broad market funds held in 401(k) plans and in annuities. Read your prospectus carefully.
The #1 holding in a balanced fund I use to accumulate dividends, interest, and capital gains for eventual payment of taxes is a REIT.
@Lynn
Michael Z. Williamson’s Freehold series would make the list, but his two novels featuring Keith Chinran are outstanding and could place on the single book list.
“My memory is shot. Which two books are those?”
The Weapon and Rogue. Highly recommended and the two stand on their own–it’s not necessary to read Freehold for the full background.
Michael Z. is a bladesmith and a really nice guy.
“I am hearing speculation that Mitch McConnell is brain dead.”
Scott Jennings has reported otherwise. He and McConnell go back a ways.
@Lynn
Michael Z. Williamson’s Freehold series would make the list, but his two novels featuring Keith Chinran are outstanding and could place on the single book list.
“My memory is shot. Which two books are those?”
The Weapon and Rogue. Highly recommended and the two stand on their own–it’s not necessary to read Freehold for the full background.
Michael Z. is a bladesmith and a really nice guy.
Thanks ! I own and have read those books along with the other Freehold books. I was wondering if you meant those two books but I did not remember the Keith Chinran name.
posted on AoSHQ from an “X” account this morning
They need to check Tackah!, Me Again, and Clown’dAss for brain virus using the same techniques used for hydrophobia.
How is that different than crashing out?
Latest Platner accuser–perfectly believable because she’s a dedicated commie PLT dipsomaniac, not a conservative woman–reveals that she was okay with the violent Nazi r*pist part, but not so much when it was her getting stuck.
https://x.com/ShamashAran/status/2074278278450258249
The only sensible policy in 2026: Disbelieve All Women. If a police report was filed shortly after the alleged event then it may have happened. If it’s years later and there’s no evidence, she’s lying.
How does one really know the difference?
Crusty old people with VCRs that still flash 12:00 and insist on an 8-track player in their limo should not be in congress.
I don’t think much gets built in McAllen/Brownsville without multiple levels of tax incentives, including the hospitals. Someone in Austin knew.
GTE had a call center in McAllen during my time there, probably the end result of another tax incentive package.
Pancho’s in Nuevo Progresso was legendary among our SMEs (old school phone company customer service) for being the place to consume mass quantities before walking across the street and through the border checkpoint back into the US, where cabs back to McAllen were usually waiting.
At some point, Pancho’s is on my list to visit and take a few pics for fellow GTE survivors who only know about the bar from stories overheard from the next cubicle over.
Didn’t Cocaine Mitch’s sister-in-law drown in a Tesla when no one was willing to break a window to get her out after the vehicle self drove itself into a lake?
God forbid. The windows might have salvage value.
BTW, real 8 track LearJet Stereo demo tapes are highly sought after items as are the tape players themselves.
At some point, Pancho’s is on my list to visit and take a few pics for fellow GTE survivors who only know about the bar from stories overheard from the next cubicle over.
I thought all of the Pancho’s were gone! The first place that I ate out was McDonalds in Norman, OK. We went on opening day in 1967?, even the Ronald clown showed up. The next place was Pancho’s in Houston when we moved here in 1972. That place was heaven, enchiladas until you were dying. And Dad even sprung for sopaipillas to top it off. Dad never had much spare money until 1975, we very rarely went out to eat as a family.
Ah, there is a Pancho’s over in Humble:
https://www.panchosmexicanbuffethumble.com/
J.K. Rowling’s Rebuttal Here Makes a Key Point
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/08/jk-rowlings-rebuttal-here-makes-a-key-point-n3816708
J.K. Rowling’s list omits prosecution, imprisonment, and loss of employment, all of which have been principle weapons against non-believers.
Writer David Strom opens with this:
Here is my question: Will J.K. Rowling take the opportunity to examine the social, political, and legal behavior of the leftists that she largely runs with, subject them to the same scrutiny, and entertain the idea that these tactics were not immaculately conceived for this particular issue, but are part and parcel of an ideology that routinely destroys people who disagree with it?
After weeks of giving us every excuse as to why the price of gasoline would take decades to settle back to pre-war levels, the light-speed price jacker put the price of gas up a dime overnight.
I wonder how much the oil markets would calm down if there was a requirement that traders take delivery of a percentage of their “purchases”?
Ah, there is a Pancho’s over in Humble:
https://www.panchosmexicanbuffethumble.com/
I clicked on that. Cruel.
The third showing of my mother’s house is going on right now.
The first showing is interested. My realtor told them to make an offer.
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
Reports that an obscure DC newspaper is considering changing it’s name to cash in on the new trendy behavior of a certain senate candidate by changing it’s name to RayPo are probably incorrect.
As is the claim from E. Jean Carroll that “He plattered me in the oil change bay at Kmart in 1990!”
You’re not alone.
After weeks of giving us every excuse as to why the price of gasoline would take decades to settle back to pre-war levels, the light-speed price jacker put the price of gas up a dime overnight.
I wonder how much the oil markets would calm down if there was a requirement that traders take delivery of a percentage of their “purchases”?
That is not the way that the futures market works. All of the commodities get played by the guys on Wall St. Of course, there is the documentary “Trading Places” with Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroid, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Ameche, and Ralph Bellamy.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086465/
You’re not alone.
I am approaching 5,000+ SF/F books. My wife is not pleased. I even stash some in my office building now.
And that is after I lost 2,000+ books in the Great Flood of 1989.
Something is going on down there. I went to La Joya and it was a 2A high school. The “town” was really just a wide spot in the road with a gas station. 125 folks in the class of ’76. Yeah! Bicentennial Seniors!!! 650 kids in the entire high school
Last time I was down in the Valley is was all built up like say, from Rundberg to Pflugerville on i35 in Austin. And La Joya? FIVE 5A high schools.
Hell, rabbits don’t reproduce as fast.
Saw a sign for gas, $2.99 cash price. Swift brand chain store.
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Hit the HEB to pick up a prescription and antihisamines, figured I’d get some food too. Ended up not buying much. We’ve got vegetables in the house, and main courses too. Kids don’t need any snacks. Oldest told me “you don’t do anything for the family. What do you bring to the table?” so I’m on strike, not doing anything. Toilet paper should run out in their bathroom tomorrow…
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Found out which prescription the doc in a box wrote when I was coughing up lungs got denied and why. She wrote me for an abuterol inhaler, but the new sexy one that has a new delivery system. Pharmacist says it’s crazy expensive but is the same drug in the same dose as the classic inhaler. I decided that I’m fine without it. I’ve got an old one in the stacks if I decide I need it, since my lungs are back to mostly normal anyway.
The patent farmers need to be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
n
Do tell us about the screeching when Mr. “you don’t do anything for the family. What do you bring to the table?” and there ain’t no poo paper.
Hey. Should be interesting.
“That is not the way that the futures market works.”
That’s the point.
The oil futures market is based on physical impossibilities to benefit traders who have no skin in the game. The U.S. is pumping more oil than it can use, and theoretically could sell more (and produce more) to make up for any shortfall in the rest of the world, but the lag time is weeks, whereas the “futures” market is jacking up the price of gas that was in an underground gas station tank in Poughkeepsie yesterday.
And even if the U.S. did sell some oil into world markets underserved by disruptions in the Middle East, there is insufficient capacity to transport that oil in any meaningful amounts, making the short-term effect negligible.
Yet we bend over and spread for months whereas a service station owner in hurricane country that has no power and has to buy/rent a generator to pump out of a tank that will not be refilled is prosecuted for gouging if he puts the price up a buck, irrespective that his mortgage and taxes will have to get paid despite the reduction in his income.
How about we set the price of tap water in the U.S. based on the price of water in Qatar? Water is water, right? Fungible? Unless it’s the pure quill from Fuji?
“I am approaching 5,000+ SF/F books.”
We could all start sending you books so you can catch up.
@SteveF: You may have some catching-up to do:
“The Vances’ henhouse is elevated about two feet off the ground and situated inside a shed that is protected from the elements….”
“The
patenttax farmers need to be first against the wall when the revolution comes.”FIFY.
When the revolution comes all patents will get reset to worthless, along with copyrights.
I have an Antoine Lavoisier biography on my sidetable. He was what France termed a “tax farmer” in the 18th century.
But what I mean is the useless parasites who produce nothing and whose income is derived from other peoples taxes, either marginally legally welfare grifting or wholesale Somali-style theft.
I cleaned the chicken coop today, in the course of moving the coop and run. Loaded the bays up with wood chips for the birds to lay on and loaded up the tray of the main coop area with a nice, thick layer of straw.
And my birds, who are buttheads, or at least one of the birds, currently unidentified but this hypothetical solo bird is an extreme butthead, kicked a lot of the straw out.
Tonight’s movie was Shadowlands. Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger. Copyright 1998 so kind of old.
It’s about C. S. Lewis. I don’t recall who recommended it but I bought a “used” DVD from Big River.
Anthony Hopkins is Anthony Hopkins. Like Tom Cruise. And Arnold. A bit distracting.
Anyway. It’s a very nice movie. The boy, Gregory, when he sees the wardrobe in the attic and there’s no Narnia there, ouch. I felt that.
Good movie.
Reports that an obscure DC newspaper is considering changing it’s name to cash in on the new trendy behavior of a certain senate candidate by changing it’s name to RayPo are probably incorrect.
As is the claim from E. Jean Carroll that “He plattered me in the oil change bay at Kmart in 1990!”
That sounds like a Ray Stevens song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM
‘We Were Sold a Character Arc’: MSNOW Pundit Molly Jong-Fast Admits Media Bought the Reformed Nazi Story
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/07/08/molly-jong-fast-platner-sold-a-false-character-arc-n2430059
Not really. You all lined up and regurgitated what you were told to spew in furtherance of the PLT line. You still have the perverted belief that when the time comes your service will make you immune to the purge. You are wrong. Feckless scriveners have no inherent worth and will be culled immediately when the commies try to take over. Tattoo your name and next of kin on a part that will not be removed first to feed the true believers.
Hit the HEB to pick up a prescription and antihisamines, figured I’d get some food too. Ended up not buying much. We’ve got vegetables in the house, and main courses too. Kids don’t need any snacks. Oldest told me “you don’t do anything for the family. What do you bring to the table?” so I’m on strike, not doing anything. Toilet paper should run out in their bathroom tomorrow…
Don’t you just love teenagers?
“And my birds, who are buttheads, or at least one of the birds, currently unidentified but this hypothetical solo bird is an extreme butthead, kicked a lot of the straw out.”
And the rest of them just sh*t on your efforts?
@SteveF: You may have some catching-up to do:
“The Vances’ henhouse is elevated about two feet off the ground and situated inside a shed that is protected from the elements….”
Comment#8
“Poultry is slavery.”
101f today. Afternoon potty walk was kind of toasty. Summer, right?
Buddy the Beagle isn’t one for the heat so he did his stuff and almost dragged me back to the house. Which is cool. Both the house and him wanting to be back in the house.
Lavoisier, btw, was more important to the American Revolution than Lafayette, and arguably second or third behind Washington himself. Without his sharing the knowledge of gunpowder manufacturing with E.I. DuPont, the American industry, which had to be bootstrapped into place from virtual nonexistence* would not have been able to supply the army.
*As the British liked and enforced, the Colonies could not legally manufacture gunpowder or iron.
Let them tell you what they fear most by telling you what you can’t have or do.
n
“Grey rock” is the appropriate response, I think. You never do anything? Let’s put that to the test, shall we? Don’t forget to stop spending your money on things like unlimited data phone plans that you aren’t using.
I occasionally need to do that with my wife and previously with coworkers. Wow, an awful lot of things aren’t getting done lately. What’s changed? The realization of how much unmentioned maintenance and cleanup work I do usually lasts about a week.
I lucked out and never had to deal with that kind of unappreciation (?) from any of the kids. Part of that is probably because my wife and I each had a kid from our former marriages, so the sons were just glad to have a stable home. Part is because I look very good compared to my train wreck ex-wife and my wife’s indifferent ex-husband. Part is probably because I’m an unholy terror if someone actually manages to irritate me (beyond the commonplace “retard driver doesn’t know how to turn down his high beams” level of irritation).
The gunpowder ban may have been (and likely was) fear of uprising, but the iron working was pure rice bowl protection. Royal monopolies on many industries, so long as the grantee gave sweetheart deals to the crown or to the government.
This Pancho’s.
https://eldiscosupercenter.com/panchos-bar-grill-nuevo-progreso-tamaulipas/
I think I’ll have a snack and retire to my bed to read for a bit. And to try for an early bedtime.
I’m tired because I stayed up late.
I should try to get back on a normal schedule.
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John Landis. See You Next Wednesday.
Yeah, the futures trading explanation is great.
Aykroyd has another great monologue which is a little too accurate in “Tommy Boy”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16RuiTTQsus
It got so hot in Vegas today that the EyeSight system in my Subie went out. Again. About 10 caution lights are on. No cruise control, but it drives fine. The last time this happened the Subie recovered when the temp dropped. It is due for a service so I’ll let the dealer check it.
Thursday. Good morning. Up at an unmentionable hour working on megaproject. So early that the bakery wouldn’t sell me a croissant. Boo.
Here’s a laugh. German newspaper is reporting that Erdogan gave the NATO leaders each a personalised engraved revolver and a box of ammunition at the summit in Turkey. Terrible reporting: no mention of make, model or calibre. Keir Starmer left his in Turkey, Friedrich Merz’s went home to the Vaterland, probably to be reverse-engineered, perfected and gold-plated by HK before being contracted to the German Army at ten times the Turkish unit price.
Ungrateful child. No TP for you!