Hot and humid. Natch’. More summer in Houston weather headed our way. Surprisingly little rain and not many storms so far… Slightly cooler Sunday and a little bit of rain, so maybe that’s not really accurate? Mostly so though. It does seem to be slowly getting cooler at night.
Didn’t do much of anything productive Sunday. Slept late, read, ate, and watched videos while doing auction stuff. The list gets longer, and somedays I just don’t care.
Well, that’s not entirely true, but I don’t care enough to break through the malaise to make progress.
Today I have to be a bit more productive. It’s just hard to do that and stay on strike. Someone restocked the TP. Someone did at least a bit of shopping, and W made something new for dinner. D2’s automatic and effusive praise caught in her throat though when she saw what was on offer… it must have looked good in the FBook feed, but it looked very odd on the table. Almost ‘Better Off Dead’ odd. Tasted good.
I’ve got to re-bait the rat poison boxes. One stood on the window sill and mocked youngest last night. She was not amused. I’ll put that in the “I will do this thing because I live here” column and do the task, but I will probably poke them about it too.
Stack. And work on yourselves.
nick
Your strike is winning. I think poisoning rats is probably not scab work.
Pi jokes take the cake!
Monday. Good morning. No work this week for me. Hooray.
Hot. It is hot. 28C (83F) in the shady bedroom at 10am. Forecast is for up to 36C (97F) in the shade. Eggs frying in the sunshine.
Peppers. Tricky. I sort of like the taste of the red ones, but find peppers generally inedible; specifically indigestible. I am with Greg and Japan on the green ones. They just taste unripe to me.
I can usually work around, using paprika powder and/or chili, to get the pepper taste that some dishes need, like Gulyás or Pörkölt.
Liver. I am in the once-a-year camp. There is a Florentine restaurant near work that does veal liver with onions, which is pretty good.
I will occasionally fry up a fresh roe deer liver with onions and apple, as W1 and her mother like it, and it doesn’t get any fresher than still warm from the beast.
Am definitely going to try Paul’s chili technique. It sounds like something fun to do over a small camp fire. I might attempt it in my seffrican potjie.
Have a good day!
Shot Girl’s whole career is based on people wanting to have sex with her, whether serving in Congress or pouring Pappy Reserve for the type of tech doofus to whom she is allegedly engaged.
She’s freezing her eggs not to preserve fertility but to maintain her political viability for a Presidential run in 2028.
Trading the doofus for someone with more power and/or money in the next year wouldn’t be a surprise.
White men like the individual in the article have been unwanted in Corporate America for most of my career, which started during the Defense Department bust in the early 90s, just as the Clintons rose to power and started the montly EEOC audits.
Recently, what HR departments increasingly call “White adjacent” males (East Asians) have been added to the list where they were previously accepted to fill race quotas.
When looking at the dropping labor participation rate, don’t ignore the dating and marriage market in the US. The main driving factor for men’s work beyond the minimum has always been to attract a woman and then to provide for a family. Between the ridiculous choosiness of American women in the dating pool and the bias of family court, a notable fraction of working-age men are opting out of dating and families. Without the need for attracting or supporting another, many men find that they can work fewer hours or in less demanding jobs and support themselves. Without the need for a place of their own to take girlfriends to, some men are more willing to continue to live in the family home or to share an apartment with two other single men. Add in the contempt and blame directed at men, especially White men, for every real and imagined ill in the world and the willingness to work goes down even more.
I wouldn’t sweat it. Could also be that they just stayed up late talking. And even if they are drinking, better they do it at home than in bars and clubs.
If this starts to be a weekly thing, then maybe ask some questions.
We allowed our kids to drink from a pretty early age. Alcohol shouldn’t have the attraction of a forbidden fruit.
Younger son took some whisky samples to do a whisky tasting with his friends. Most of the samples came back. Neither of them drinks alcohol very often, unlike their parents…
Um, right. That is a really weird excuse. Wonder what’s really going on?
My wife makes chili, using left-over brisket (chopped finely) as the meat. Yum!
I brew for 99% of our beer consumption, plus supplying the Friday night meet-up of a few neighbors. So I’m brewing probably 25 times a year. I have a batch going right now.
I’ve only ever had one batch of beer that was so awful that I dumped it. Some recipes aren’t worth repeating, but are still drinkable (once). Other problems occasionally crop up, usually too much or too little carbonation. Probably because I have no temperature control during fermentation.
That’s got to be a problem, because she just isn’t that attractive…
I also have to wonder if the actual point of the Daily Mail article was to drop the factoid about The Witch and another Congresswoman from Florida, Kat Cammack, having given birth recently.
Both women represent purple-ish districts in Florida and face tight races in a midterm year.
“left-over brisket”
The concept is foreign to me.
Brad, is there a home-brew solution for Pils?
Sex with AOC is about getting their strange on within limits.
Peel away all of the PR, and she grew up wealthy in Westchester, daughter of an architect.
The mother, a housekeeper driven by poverty to a slum in Florida according to PR, actually lives in a modest but decent house in Eustis, a relatively prosperous Old Florida town outside Orlando.
Move on. Four years? He’s not giving you a ring.
Reads like a recipe for transforming young White males into something resembling the current crop of feral Black men. 🙁
Speaking of heat…
https://bustednuckles.net/im-lucky-i-still-have-one-ball-chiller-that-is/
re: AOC: Yuck.
re: Luby’s: I go to Luby’s every week with a group of amateur radio operators. About twice a year I actually eat their food. Yuck. The rest of the time, I get a soft drink so I’m not freeloading. What surprises me is how the others praise the food. de gustibus non est disputandem, or chacun à son goût.
re:; homebrewed beer. I brewed often from 1978 to about 1991. In those days, there was the silly belief you could time your bottling with a hygrometer and get your carbonation in the bottles.
I ended up with a lot of broken bottles and flat beer. The last few years, I fermented flat, and put in bottling sugar, and got consistent results. Never had an undrinkable batch. I liked porters.
In 1978 my brother and I bought a case of “Milwaukee’s Best” beer, the cheapest in the store. When we put the case on the curb for trash pickup, there were only 2 opened bottles, and neither of us finished the bottles we tried. Yuck.
Don’t drink much beer these low-carb days.
Even for a bit of strange, I don’t see the attraction. How freaky can she be? Pron today has normalized stuff that you couldn’t find in poorly shot liquor store pron 40 years ago. Not only are people doing it, they are posting video of them doing it.
She has skilled puppet masters clearly, since there is no way she’s doing it on her own. She shouldn’t have lasted one cycle.
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85F and overcast. Maybe we will get some cooling rain today.
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Coffee is brewing.
And I’m moving, albeit slowly.
n
I tried brewing with the kit setup you can buy. Once with a purchased wort and once with one from a recipe. One result was drinkable but not good. The other one, well, even free no one drank it. I didn’t have temperature control during fermentation, and in one case, left it a week too long as I was working.
Cheaper to buy premium beer and know it was going to be good.
n
From my first tastes in high school through my college years, I thought I hated the taste of beer.
Turns out, it was American beer I hated.
I discovered Canadian, Mexican, Dutch, and German beers after I got my first real job.
But I couldn’t afford to drink them much. That’s when I started homebrewing. I could afford that, and my beers had body and clout and aroma and balance. Sometimes better than others.
The economy of brewing shifted when I had less free time, more money, imports became more affordable and available, and micro brews gave me domestic options.
Nowadays I buy mostly German beers, and that’s mostly for cooking. Bratwurst steamed in homemade sauerkraut and homemade German mustard and German beer, then grilled just long enough to get grill marks.
I drank cheap beer many times in the 70s because I didn’t have extra money. Milwakees Best, Strohs even Lucky (at least the cap puzzles were fun).
Started when I was 13 with Coors. I was always a beer drinker and overdid it at times but not often. Nowadays I sometimes go without for a week or two then only 1 or 2 at a time. Old age.
Firestone DBA or 805 and Guiness are about it. 805 both regular and cerveza are everywhere around here. Brewed right nextdoor in Paso Robles in SLO county.
I was brewing beer at home at 14 (as well as weekend drinking in a local hotel – popular with the young crowd). My ‘home brew’ beer was disgusting, but alcoholic. My peak drinking was the early part of my first year at University at the age of 17 (still illegal in the UK – but I was on two bar committees at University!). I reduced my consumption as I couldn’t afford to drink what I could consume.
My parents preference was to know what I was doing, rather than try and prevent it – my mother having an alcoholic brother.
Through the 70’s I became less keen on beer and developed an understanding and liking for red wine. This preference continued until about 2015 when the craft beer scene took off in Manchester, from when I moved my drinking preference to the new hoppy/hazy style beers. Three UK (20oz) pints would be about my limit these days, but that is drinking 5 to 6% ABV.
When she was about 20, she was cute enough and had big boobs and from the couple videos and couple testimonies, it seemed that she gave off “nail her after getting a couple drinks in her” vibe.
Those days are long in the past.
Can you say the same about Cankles and The Camel?
There is no female currently in congress, or senate, that I would consider attractive. Those that are close are heavily made up for the camera and public appearances.
Kamala got where she is on her knees. Willie Brown found her attractive enough.
Pictures I’ve seen of young Kamala affecting as “black” at events in San Francisco in the 80s scream “Cosby Show”.
That was also back in her Shot GirlTM days. Watching her behind the bar probably brought wood to many a young man. She probably wore a bikini top with sparkles splashed on her chest.
Now she’s pushing forty and bitches about everything America. She also has a soy-boy for a fiancée. Mitch McConnell probably drools over her, but that’s all he can do.
She’ll never be President. Just like Kankles and The Kamel.
Shot Girl and the rest of the commie women should have the freezers with their forzen eggs powered by the reliable sun and wind green energy. Don’t want no petro babies, now do we?
Pearls Before Swine: Drove My Chevy To The Levee
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2026/08/09
Don McLean is going to be looking for Pastis too.
Pi jokes, oh my.
YES! It was a Pi joke, I love it!
That was also back in her Shot GirlTM days. Watching her behind the bar probably brought wood to many a young man. She probably wore a bikini top with sparkles splashed on her chest.
Now she’s pushing forty and bitches about everything America. She also has a soy-boy for a fiancée. Mitch McConnell probably drools over her, but that’s all he can do.
She’ll never be President. Just like Kankles and The Kamel.
Uh, I would not stand on that statement. A lot of weird things are going to happen between now and November of 2028.
Predictions are very hard, especially about the future.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/821936.Niels_Bohr
Peppers. Tricky. I sort of like the taste of the red ones, but find peppers generally inedible; specifically indigestible. I am with Greg and Japan on the green ones. They just taste unripe to me
My mother used to make meat loaf in green bell peppers, about a dozen at time. My brothers and I, dad, and the live in grad student ate them with relish. There was never any left overs.
The thunder and lightning storm at noon was AWESOME! It beat most of the fireworks shows that I have seen. The house was shaking for almost 30 minutes and the lights went on and off several times.
So we have gotten around 4 to 6 inches of rain since last Thursday. Very unusual when there is not a hurricane or tropical storm in the Gulf of America. However, the cool front that we got Thursday did go out to the Gulf, load up with water, and now it is revisiting us.
Speaking of heat…
https://bustednuckles.net/im-lucky-i-still-have-one-ball-chiller-that-is/
That ball chiller was awesome in the summer in the 1978 ??? Chevy Impala that my brothers and I passed around before the youngest totaled it. He totaled every vehicle passed down to him.
Every woman who got the jab and miscarried should be arming up right about now. There is a demographic that you do not want to get riled up, and they fall firmly into it.
n
There’s a lot less evidence for Roundup or talc and look where those led.
“Millionaires in America: How common is it to have a 7-figure net worth?”
https://finance.yahoo.com/personal-finance/banking/article/how-many-millionaires-in-america-205846046.html
“More than 1,000 people become millionaires in the U.S. each day.”
“If you’ve dreamed of becoming a millionaire, you’re not alone. To many, hitting this financial milestone signals you’ve “made it.” With assets valued at seven figures, you can wave goodbye to many of the financial stressors that nagged at you when you had less.”
“However, with inflation eroding the value of the dollar with each passing year, being a millionaire doesn’t mean what it used to. As a result, there are more millionaires today than there used to be, and becoming one might be more within your reach.”
Very common now because the USA Dollar is worth crap.
“Game Over? GameStop CEO May Pull $56 Billion eBay Bid”
https://thelibertydaily.com/game-gamestop-ceo-may-pull-56-billion-ebay/
Yeah, I thought that was stupid to start with.
W1 loves stuffed peppers. I have to make them occasionally for her.
If I can find them, I use Hungarian TV peppers (“TV” stands for “for stuffing” in Hungarian) to make Paprika Töltött. If I can’t find TVs, I will stuff aubergine (eggplant) in preference to bell peppers, which makes the dish İmam bayıldı or Karnıyarık.
Every homeowner will become a millionaire or close to it when the Dems get their $20k first time homebuyer credit.
Dadgumit, somebody posted something here about volume and weight (mass) being a constant ratio here in the last couple of days. I went looking for it but I cannot find it now. Hopefully, I am remembering that was and not somewhere else. Anyway, I just wanted to refute that volume and weight (mass) are a constant ratio.
That volume to mass ratio, some people call it density, is incredibly variable from hydrogen to lead or gold. And variable based on the given temperature and pressure. And when you put many different types of atoms together, that is what my software has 30+ methods of predicting what the density of the various phases could be.
Every homeowner will become a millionaire or close to it when the Dems get their $20k first time homebuyer credit.
Don’t know. We are in the beginning of a housing price crash right now. 10% down here in Texas, 20% to 30% down in the blue states where people are fleeing their lords and masters.
I Just Saw the Best Movie of the Year
By Brandon Morse
skip plot synopsis
https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2026/08/10/i-just-saw-the-best-movie-of-the-year-n2205418
On Amazon Prime
I love stuffed peppers. The recipe I used to use included rice, and precooking the ground beef. GF doesn’t like the texture of peppers, so I made hers in small bowls or ramekins.
Often, the peppers are underdone that way. SOTI I found the advice to parboil the peppers before stuffing and cooking, so they’re tender.
“Every woman who got the jab and miscarried should be arming up right about now. There is a demographic that you do not want to get riled up, and they fall firmly into it.”
Get them all into a courthouse in the midwest for a trial and then tell the police that they have been exposed to the “blue flu” and need to go to the bars immediately for shot and beer innoculations.
What they can’t scrape up after with putty knives will need a bit of oil dri, and then we’ll be DFD with this.
@lynn
“Dadgumit, somebody posted something here about volume and weight (mass) being a constant ratio here in the last couple of days. I went looking for it but I cannot find it now. Hopefully, I am remembering that was and not somewhere else. Anyway, I just wanted to refute that volume and weight (mass) are a constant ratio. ”
Not here unless I missed it.
“I love stuffed peppers. The recipe I used to use included rice, and precooking the ground beef. GF doesn’t like the texture of peppers, so I made hers in small bowls or ramekins.
Often, the peppers are underdone that way. SOTI I found the advice to parboil the peppers before stuffing and cooking, so they’re tender.”
Try chiles rellenos with poblano peppers. Mild Hatch peppers work really well and even better if you can buy them roasted.
“We are in the beginning of a housing price crash right now. 10% down here in Texas, 20% to 30% down in the blue states where people are fleeing their lords and masters.”
Getting 2 million illegals out has put deflationary pressure on rents and housing prices, and shown just what vile liars the Dems are with their “affordability” crap.
Monday bedtime.
It’s hot. 30C at 11pm.
I spent some of the late afternoon, after the scorching midday heat, mooching around the lakeshore, looking at boats.
Spotted a Melges 32 – fast little modern day racer – a lovely Knarr keelboat, and some beautiful examples of wooden boat craftsmanship with dedicated ownership. Lovely to look at and a joy to sail, but the maintenance would break one’s heart… When I win the Euromillions, for sure.
I looked up something about the Dalai Lama, and got lost down the Wikipedia Buddhism rabbit hole. It is so nice to be on holidays and have time for that.
Pizza (rucola, prosciutto) for dinner. Albanians pretending to be Italians, but the food was excellent.
It’s so hot, I am not even going to have a bedtime beer…
Goodnight!
“Ten Years”
https://areaocho.com/ten-years-2/
“It used to be a war of ideas. That was back in the day when I was a single issue voter. I felt Second Amendment rights were the litmus test for a freedom and liberty loving government. After all, a government that doesn’t trust its citizens with arms can’t be trusted with power. My vote was always cast with that underlying principle in mind.”
“Ever since 2016, those of us who have opinions like mine, rooted in freedom and liberty and their Constitutional protections, have been under siege.”
… a huge list of real hurts and false accusations against conservatives …
“We’ve been getting attacked for more than a decade. I haven’t held a grudge, I’ve grown tired of being attacked and turning the other cheek. I’ve spent the last two days exposing the left’s position on trannies to be the ridiculous lie that it is, and I’ve enjoyed watching the mental gymnastics of the left as they try to justify their position: everything from saying these men aren’t “real” trans women, but refusing to define the term, to claiming the definition of a woman is hormone levels. Anything but the admission they are and have been lying.”
Civil War 2.0 is coming. I have no idea what it will look like. And how long it will last.
“We are in the beginning of a housing price crash right now. 10% down here in Texas, 20% to 30% down in the blue states where people are fleeing their lords and masters.”
Getting 2 million illegals out has put deflationary pressure on rents and housing prices, and shown just what vile liars the Dems are with their “affordability” crap.
Entire neighborhoods in Houston have been decimated. I hope that ICE keeps up the good works.
“Liar’s pants.png”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI6S_RAR7S2o4hcSLy-dvDuwU7Taps9kDzq7yXPNtzdc8BtQ95V-zJHT3GYe94F8dirnrDK-9ZAK8Z-CtMTboFfhrY78O6vYgE_v6_CyO3PX88x0F4vjCswIJ_Sv09wHIxGkp203j7eX90NqnvaIB8bzG7BDQwm711n9Bv-mbLPzpXOTjOY2PN-xNR6FE/s550/Meme%20-%20liars'%20pants.png
From:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/08/memes-that-made-me-laugh-323.html
OK, that would be funny.
“BETRAYAL IN THE SWAMP: Turncoat John Thune Sends Senate Home for 37 Days — But Schedules 11 Pro Forma Sessions to BLOCK Trump from Making Recess Appointments”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/betrayal-swamp-useless-john-thune-sends-senate-home
“They never learn. And they never stop hating you.”
“In a move that proves once again that the D.C. Establishment is completely terrified of the America First agenda, RINO Senator John Thune, Mitch McConnell’s hand-picked Swamp successor, has just pulled one of the most underhanded, backstabbing maneuvers in Senate history.”
“Instead of doing the work of the American people, “Useless” John Thune is sending the United States Senate home for a massive, unearned 37-DAY VACATION.”
“But it gets worse. Much worse. Thune isn’t just going on vacation. He is purposely scheduling 11 fake, “pro forma” sessions during the break.”
Dadgum RINOs are going to be the death of us all.
“North Sea Shutdown to Cost Treasury Billions”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/08/09/north-sea-shutdown-to-cost-treasury-billions/
“The Treasury faces a £13 billion hit from Labour’s ‘green’ North Sea shutdown, BP’s former finance chief has warned. The Telegraph has the story.”
The various governmental tax rates on the North Sea production of crude oil and natural gas are almost 100%. Why would the producers produce anything to make zero or less profit?
RIP
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/10/entertainment/ben-jones-dukes-hazzard-dead-scli
Did my pickup. Dunno if it was worth it as it was a long drive and only one lot.
Bought nothing at Goodwill on my way home.
W is looking at D1’s texts and correlating them with airtag movements…. and she doesn’t sound happy.
Wonder if anyone will cook dinner today?
n
“9-Year-Old Girl Writes President Trump About a Boy in Her Bathroom”
https://rumble.com/v7dylea-9-year-old-girl-writes-president-trump-about-a-boy-in-her-bathroom.html?mref=o877&mrefc=2
Shameful.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“President Trump Reacts to Bombshell Fauci Texts That Reveal Miscarriage Risk Linked to Covid Vaccine (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/08/president-trump-reacts-bombshell-fauci-texts-that-reveal/
“Fauci covered up the data that revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women vaccinated during the first trimester.”
“The Gateway Pundit reported in 2022 that VAERS showed a 4070% increase in miscarriages and stillbirths since the mRNA rollout.”
“The first batch of texts was between Dr. Fauci, former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, and Biden’s Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy.”
“Fauci said a second dose of the mRNA Covid vaccine “theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester.””
“A reporter asked President Trump about the newly released text messages.”
““It appears that as early as January 2021, they knew that there could possibly be complications with pregnant women and miscarriages tied to the Covid vaccine yet the Biden Administration and health officials didn’t change their rhetoric. Your reaction?” the reporter asked Trump.”
“Trump ripped the Biden Administration.”
““The Biden administration was a disaster in every way. That would be just one way, but they’ve been a disaster in every single one. It’s unimaginable what they did,” Trump said.”
If I was Fauci, I would move to China. Now.
Sooner or later, somebody is going to get revenge on Fauci.
Friends are 10% below their original asking price trying to sell their house in the Tampa suburbs.
The big problem with the house is that the development is at the edge of the urban service boundary for the metro area, and any employment center is going to be an hour or more away.
W is looking at D1’s texts and correlating them with airtag movements…. and she doesn’t sound happy.
Wonder if anyone will cook dinner today?
Ah, teenagers. I really miss having teenagers in the house, such drama, such disparity in the truth.
You might want to drive through a fast food restaurant on the way home for yourself.
Friends are 10% below their original asking price trying to sell their house in the Tampa suburbs.
The big problem with the house is that the development is at the edge of the urban service boundary for the metro area, and any employment center is going to be an hour or more away.
Note that I said that we are at the beginning of a housing price crash. My son is trying to persuade me that the average house price across the nation is going to take a 50% haircut over the next two years.
I nuked a Banquet TV dinner this afternoon. Chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, and a brownie cake thing. It was ok. A year past “best by” date. The mac and cheese was less cheese like than Kraft mix. The brownie was somewhere between cookie and cake. Tasted fine. The nuggets need something. Flavor would be a good start.
I’m going to try something. Freezing pasta is sketchy. I’ve read that you undercook it so re-heating finishes the cooking.
I want to make Spaghetti_alla_Vesuviana. The recipe is in my remsset.com/files folder. It reheats the next day great. Drives folks in the break room at work nuts because it smells so good. Don’t know how well it will freeze, just the sauce. Probably not well. I think freezing will make the olives and capers into mush.
I suppose the best thing is to make a batch, divide into ziploc tubs and into the fridge. Just call it supper for the next four days.
the average house price across the nation is going to take a 50% haircut over the next two years
– the hedge funds will step in and start buying again at some point, which will provide some support. And someone will make the Fed lower rates.
n
What is this “money down” you speak of?
What is this “money down” you speak of?
That is house value down by percentage, not money down percentage. Many people will be under water again. You know, like the 1980s and 1990s.
Commie prince of NYC gets slapped with TRO:
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2026/08/10/judge-grants-tro-on-mamdanis-pied-a-terre-tax-n3817850
A lot of fixed income paper is already dedicated to funding the AI circle jerk.
At a certain point, the only way the Fed can affect mortgage rates is to start buying the paper again.
$240k within an hour of an employment center will be a really tough price floor to crack.
That has been in place since the $8k first time home buyer credit.
Hedge funds buying more of the housing stock thrills me–not.
What’s the functional difference between a hedge fund buying up houses and the prince of NYC making them city property?
With the hedgies, if you have the scratch, you can rent a house. With the commies, you wait and wait and wait while the comrades get your house.
n
No Fourth Amendment in American airports?
“Obstruction means I’m obstructing some type of investigation, and without any type of warrant or even reasonable suspicion of criminal activity, what investigation am I obstructing?”–Mr. Tunick’s attorney, in a WaPo op-ed.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/no-fourth-amendment-in-american-airports/
I don’t have anything on my phone that would cause a problem…
“Give me the man and I will give you the case against him” –sometime attributed to Beria, sometimes others
…but you ain’t getting it on general principle.
The hedge fund has the fiduciary responsibility to protect the investors money and make sure the properties are maintained.
Home prices and the attendant insurance and property taxes have gone up for years, but somehow “affordability” is measured by mortgage rates.
If home prices recede like the water levels in a Chicago lake, we’re going to find the rusted cars and the bodies, in the form of home insurance that doesn’t go down much if at all and property taxes that not only don’t go down, but keep going up.
At some point things start to break. One of the things that will break is the concept that one generation can make deals that encumber future generations to pay for their day-to-day expenses, i.e. unfunded pension payments. Note that we won’t have to worry if the commies are in charge, because they will either kill the pensioners and solve the problem, or kill everyone else and give everything to the pensioners, then take it away for the greater good of the party.
House prices? I dunno. If the prices crash will my annual rent, aka property taxes go down? I doubt it. Pretty sure the homeowner’s insurance will stay the same.
Pretty sure if the value of my house drops by half the tax and insurance cost to me will not follow.
Because someone would not get their annual 5% “merit” raise.
And ya know? USAA says the house is worth $X. The County says the house is worth $X. USAA has never ever seen this house. The county seems to value things by what they see from an airplane.
It’s all sketchy. And really, how does Zillow figure the value of my house? And be real close to USAA and the County?
Anyway. I’m real close to dropping the house insurance. This year’s bill is $2285.32. I’ve got them to lower the value as much “as the computer will allow” and I raised my deductible to $10,000. Funny, that amount…. My SS is $2288 a month.
I might be crazy. But giving them a 1/12 of my basic income is just nuts. If for some reason my house is destroyed, I’ve lost everything. Everything from underwear and up. The insurance can not possibly replace everything. No way.
So. Flip a coin. Worse come to worse, I’ll hire a bulldozer to scrape the remnants into a pile. That we then burn. The water well will still be here. The septic system, also. Get a mobile home installed. I’m gonna be 70 late in ’27.
I have a metal roof. We spent extra for the “good stuff”. Thirty year warranty on the paint. Then once the paint goes I still have a galvanized metal roof. And, yeah, I have a minimum 100 year roof.
repost on correct day:
Another fire, downwind fortunately. Upwind of the fire base at KWJF, they’re on it.
Power has been out for 90 minutes, not sure if it’s damaged utilities or if they have preventatively shut it down because it’s threatening some of the solar fields.
I pulled out the little generator, found a full tank of propane, and made sure it was ready to go by running it for 20 minutes or so.
freezers have risen by 5F in that time, 82 in the house from 75, 92 ambient.
I do need to shop for liability to cover dumb asses coming to my house and “oh, what a pretty snake to pet, it has a rattle!”
“The hedge fund has the fiduciary responsibility to protect the investors money and make sure the properties are maintained.”
They’re both left-wing whores that have no responsibility to the community.
Let the hedge funds into single-family housing and they will spend millions tearing down zoning laws town by town, grass will be measured by the square foot, and park admission will be free for a set number of hours each month, with excess charged by the minute.
Money Talks: The Dirty Little Secret Behind the Rise of IVF
https://townhall.com/news/julia-cassidy/2026/08/10/money-talks-the-dirty-little-secret-behind-the-rise-of-ivf-n2680733
It’s only an investment because the return is assured by laws requiring insurance to cover the procedure.
Why might it be interesting to charge IVF serve costs against costs in general and other medical costs in particular?
Let the hedge funds into single-family housing
– theyve been there for years. Long enough for them to start getting out.
n
As far as I can see, feral black men turn on their own. Feral white men, on others. Not sure if it’s true, but it seems like that’s what happens. And it seems to apply to indigenous men too.
@paul
“Anyway. I’m real close to dropping the house insurance. This year’s bill is $2285.32. I’ve got them to lower the value as much “as the computer will allow” and I raised my deductible to $10,000. Funny, that amount…. My SS is $2288 a month.
I might be crazy. But giving them a 1/12 of my basic income is just nuts. If for some reason my house is destroyed, I’ve lost everything. Everything from underwear and up. The insurance can not possibly replace everything. No way. “
Take a look at your policy coverage before dropping it.
In addition to loss of dwelling, you typically have loss of use, contents, and other things, all with specified dollar limits.
It might be worthwhile to get an estimate for rebuilding and compare to the policy. You’ve described a number of upgrades with added value that may not be properly documented.
If you elect to continue coverage, ask your insurance agent how to document contents and their value. Part of the answer will probably be that it’s a very good idea to have the documentation copied offsite.
Indiana RINO Loses to Trump-Backed Candidate After Primary Recount
https://townhall.com/news/josephchalfant/2026/08/10/indiana-rino-loses-to-trump-backed-candidate-after-primary-recount-n2681011
She started the recount down 3 votes.
RINO smoke in the air along with wildfires.
I have ants on my kitchen counter. Black ants. Three sizes. Tiny sugar ants. Then twice that size. Then some twice that size. Most of the ants are the medium size.
They don’t bite. I actually don’t know what they are doing. They just wander around. The counter is clean. I left a wet spot… no, they are not looking for water. Then I left a few drops of hummingbird sugar water. No interest. A piece of dog food? No interest.
They are just on the counter between the range and the sink. Not in the silverware drawer. Not under the sink. Not anywhere else I see, just wandering around on the counter.
I pick them up and toss them into the sink and wash them down the drain.
Best I can figure is that I need to pull the range and see if there is anything behind it.
@paul, I get them too. They seem to come from behind my faucet, but I can never be sure. I just put some ant baits around the window and under the cabinets, and I spray them with rubbing alcohol when I see them.
n
So, power is back, 2.5 hours, fire is apparently out
Good things:
The generator worked fine. the backup batteries, 0.25 & 1.0 kwhr, were ready as well. the big one was at 75% actually. Had a full 20# propane bottle.
The solar panels & gear were in garage, but there was no time to set them up before nightfall.
The temperature sensors in the freezers made for great peace of mind.
Neutral things:
The house warmed too quickly because I didn’t close the Leeward windows, so the 25 mile an hour wind at 100° was coming in through the cracks and gaps on the Windward side and the a/c ducting.
Bad things:
some dry bark in front still. Also loose dry brush blown in from slovenly neighbors against fence.
Important documents and pet crates were NOT immediately at hand.
no real water fire fighting gear available other than garden hoses, tho mains pressure stayed up.
20-45m for serious response from firebase just 5 miles away.
Thoughts:
Had the fire started one mile west it could have been a firestorm running through town straight towards me.
Just wait until the surface streets are sold off and tolled like NYC.
Had the fire started one mile west it could have been a firestorm running through town straight towards me.
– good thing it didn’t this time.
Can you get a spray or foam to hit your yard with to lower chances of ignition? Do you do any wetting or other prep besides keeping the brush back?
Have you done the recommended changes to the structures, like the different vents?
Family bible in a foil blanket/box if that’s important to you… (this was the thing my buddy’s wife regretted forgetting most when one of the SoCal fires threatened them a decade ago…)
Glad the power preps worked out. I need to go thru my gennies…
and I really need to get some movement on the solar.
n
“HANSON: Is the Word ‘Communist’ – Let Alone ‘Socialist’ – No Longer a Slur?”
https://texasinsider.org/articles/is-communist-no-longer-a-slur
“To make a new ‘Socialist’ America, you must first destroy everything that made America – and all that we hold dear”
“It is not difficult, these days, to see the neo-communist flipside of “Democratic Socialists” — once they find power. Indeed, the more the ossified Democratic Party claims that its growing cadre of socialist renegades are not really socialists, the more they act like — and even appear comfortable being called — communists.”
Apparently so.
“With the hedgies, if you have the scratch, you can rent a house. “
Until they start checking your social media, and you purchase history, and you Flock camera records, and, and, and …
@EdH; The “Camp” fire that burned the town of Paradise, CA in 2018; there were buildings that survived. One resident who had proper brush clearance, AND a swimming pool AND firefighting pumps preserved his home by dropping a pump into his pool, climbed onto the roof, and fought the fire right there. If I lived in a fire-prone area – and let’s face it, these days everywhere in Cacafornia is fire-prone – I would do the same.
RE: Flock cameras; Does anybody know how accurate paintball guns can be? Would it be possible to blind such a camera with paintballs?
RE: Flock cameras; Does anybody know how accurate paintball guns can be? Would it be possible to blind such a camera with paintballs?
My neighbors are using chainsaws.
“Iranian Woman Warns America About Letting Islam Take Over”
https://rumble.com/v7dyjzu-iranian-woman-warns-america-about-letting-islam-take-over.html?mref=1wxk5&mc=ehuil
“We warn you, do not let America be next!”
Paint ball guns can be pretty accurate, and they can fire a lot of balls very quickly. Not being recorded on the approach or departure would be the hard part. Lasers can probably blind them too. I wonder if they are already hoovering up blutooth names. Wouldn’t be too hard to get cell id numbers too, but I think that was made illegal after someone used it to track people moving around in a mall. The feds have Stingray devices, but IDK if quasi private companies do too. Again, I don’t think it’s hard, there was an exploit where you could put certain phones in a maintenance mode that heard and logged everything around them, iirc…
The “smart cities initiative” and the “smart poles” strategy puts all sorts of sensors in the everyday environment.
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Had my tiny little fire as it was only 77F. Very moist out. We had rain in various parts of town today. One airplane, two black cats, and a lot of street racing in the distance. And one very surprised possum walked under my legs and then positively scampered off when he realized I was there.
Lots to do tomorrow, so I’m headed to bed.
n
I wonder if the flock cams have a tilt sensor in them? It’d be cheap and easy to implement, and then they’d know if one got cut down and could focus on the area. If they don’t now, I bet they do soon.
n
I wonder if the flock cams have a tilt sensor in them? It’d be cheap and easy to implement, and then they’d know if one got cut down and could focus on the area. If they don’t now, I bet they do soon.
n
Nah, all they need is a heartbeat. The Flock camera that got chainsawed about 4 or 5 miles away from my house was cut down, wires and all. They just left it laying on the ground next to the pole stub sticking out of the ground.
Wow, just got my notice for my M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) checkup in Feb 2027. Very mixed feelings about that.
“Global Food Prices Will Soar and Acute Hunger Will Spike Thanks to a Shocking Confluence of Disastrous Events”
https://economiccollapse.report/global-food-prices-will-soar-and-acute-hunger-will-spike-thanks-to-a-shocking-confluence-of-disastrous-events/
“(The Economic Collapse Blog)—Experts are warning that a historic global food crisis has begun. Food prices have already been rising for years, and now they are about to go significantly higher. The number of impoverished people in the world suffering from acute hunger was already at an all-time record high coming into this year, and it is being projected that 49 million more impoverished people will be added to that total in 2026.”
“We are facing a Super El Niño, a painful global fertilizer shortage and a very alarming cyclosporiasis outbreak all at the same time. We really are in unprecedented territory, and the months ahead are certainly going to be quite chaotic.”
“If you doubt this, just consider the chaos that we just witnessed in Ceuta.”
“Approximately 60,000 migrants from Morocco suddenly came storming in, and most people have no idea why it happened.”
“The primary reason why those migrants are so desperate is because they are hungry.”
“A nightmarish drought that never seems to end in Morocco “nearly halved its cereal harvests and erased 720,000 agricultural jobs”…”
How deep is your pantry? There will be a window to add canned food.
Good night all, up too late reading from various sources…