Wed. April 30, 2025 – we’re like, old or something…

By on April 30th, 2025 in culture, decline and fall

Damp, overcast, cool to start, then maybe rain later according to the weather liars on the radio. We went all day yesterday without rain, but it looked like it was minutes away all day. Maybe today will be the same. Maybe. At least it’s not crazy hot.

Slept most of the morning. I fell asleep in the chair. Work up to do a pickup and then start all the kid things. I realized, I have been trying to live on 4 hours of sleep a night, for years, and it doesn’t work anymore. My body is telling me to sleep more. I will work on getting to bed earlier over the course of the next couple of weeks. Somehow my bedtime moved to almost 2am most nights, and later some. With a 6am wakeup alarm to get the kids out the door, I’m wiped out for the rest of the day.

Today I’ve got a big pickup in Sugar Land. My opening bid of $5 won me two pallets of spray sanitizer. It’s 75% ethanol. I use a lot of alcohol based cleaners, and I wanted it as a backup fuel for cooking. IDK if it will substitute for isopropanol when cleaning and curing resin prints on the 3D printer, but I’m going to try it, now that I’ve got alcohol to burn. Literally. I know it will burn in my boat stove and in a penny or hobo stove too. I didn’t really expect to win it, let alone both pallets. They had other pallets too, but they were a brand with glycerin in the sanitizer. I don’t want the gel. The stuff I got should be water thin to go through the sprayer.

After that pickup, I’ve got others. And all my home stuff on the list too. At least with this pickup, I’m adding to the stacks a bit.

Something I always like to do- stacking…

nick

54 Comments and discussion on "Wed. April 30, 2025 – we’re like, old or something…"

  1. Greg Norton says:

    “UPS to cut 20k jobs, close 70 facilities as it reduces Amazon shipping volume”

    We’ve passed Peak Brown Truck Store.

    The line for the cash register at Barnes & Noble near our house on Saturday was non-stop.

  2. Nick Flandrey says:

    73F and overcast this A.M.

    Coffee is tasty though.

    n

  3. Nick Flandrey says:

    Vox points out the decrease in shipping thru Seattle…

    https://voxday.net/2025/04/29/the-ports-shut-down/ 

    and points out the gap in the flow of goods that is now inevitable.

    Get prepped, before the masses realize….

    n

    added — H/T https://bustednuckles.com/

  4. Greg Norton says:

    “Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI — during a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday.”

    “Written by software” could also mean traditional code completion tools like those found in Xcode and used for writing iOS and Mac OS software, particularly the tedious parts of the GUI.

    Microsoft does a lot of development for Apple platforms. My friend in management at Apple concedes that Redmond may have some of the best Mac developers in existence on the payroll.

    Still, I’ve seen abuse of the AI where I work because usage is closely monitored and gold stars in the form of promotions rewarded to those who use the AI a lot.

    The Hot Skillz group with whom we currently cooperate seems to be using the AI to write a lot of their tedious routines for things like marshalling/unmarshalling Json in Go, but I don’t believe that they’ve resolved the fundamental performance problems with their choice of IPC or use of the default HTTP library. My position on being directly involved is that I want at least as much money as the 38 year old whose code I would be tasked with fixing and make perform decently.

    I use the AI minimally to avoid being on the naughty list.

  5. Nick Flandrey says:

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14660141/flu-vaccine-effect-womens-health.html

    Can cause delays in onset.   But I’m sure, because  they  say so, that there is no ill effect, while at the same time saying it needs more study…

    n

  6. dcp says:

    decrease in shipping

    A look in more detail:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgcIuQ4X5k

  7. Greg Norton says:

    Can cause delays in onset.   But I’m sure, because  they  say so, that there is no ill effect, while at the same time saying it needs more study…
     

    Even my daughter’s high school classes declared JAMA off limits for citations on medical issues.

  8. Ray Thompson says:

    Damn city. Years in the past they would adjust the sewer portion of the water bill when filling a pool. Last year they stopped the practice saying it was state law. Not so it turns out. This year they are allowing adjusting again. But, only if the city is notified beforehand and someone can inspect the empty pool. This was never communicated to the residents except at the monthly water board meeting. There is only room for about 30 people so not every can attend. The information is on the website. No, it’s not, except in the minutes of the water board meetings. Finding the correct meeting where the rule was passed would involve reading 12 meeting reports. And some of them are not accurate.

    Last year I got stuck with paying $1,100 extra in sewage charges as the pool had to be filled twice. Once because we thought we found the leak, the second time because we had a couple of cracks repaired. Which really did not solve the problem.

    This year we had another company come out to find the leak. It was in one of the water lines, 1.5-inch pipes. They said they could find the leak within 3 to 4 inches. They did. Busted up the concrete, patched the pipe, and replaced the concrete. We had to refill the pool again with another $550 added sewage charge. $450 of that could have been avoided had I known about the change in the water board rules.

    Changes in the city rules are intentionally obscured from the public for good reason. The changes are not hidden, just buried where the changes are difficult to find. If one can spend the time digging through obscure and poorly maintained documents they might find the information.

    In 24.5 years, I have spent $1,500 on garbage pickup, $11,000 on sewer, and $6,700 on water. In 2010-2015 there was also the added fuel service charge of $4.50 per month.

    Currently my cable bill with Xfinity (crooks) is the largest bill, followed by electrical, then water a close third, then natural gas a distant fourth. Whomever said shit was not valuable never paid a sewer bill in my town.

  9. Greg Norton says:

    Currently my cable bill with Xfinity (crooks) is the largest bill, followed by electrical, then water a close third, then natural gas a distant fourth. Whomever said shit was not valuable never paid a sewer bill in my town.
     

    What is the line item on your cable bill for “sports programming”?

    Realize that goes straight to Disney.

    Starve the beast. Cut the cable TV.

    This is the year to finish The Mouse.

  10. dcp says:

    Changes in the city rules are intentionally obscured from the public for good reason. The changes are not hidden, just buried where the changes are difficult to find.

    Reminds me of this bit from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

    “But the plans were on display…”
    “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
    “That’s the display department.”
    “With a flashlight.”
    “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
    “So had the stairs.”
    “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
    “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

    https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/40705-but-the-plans-were-on-display-on-display-i-eventually

  11. EdH says:

    A look in more detail:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GgcIuQ4X5k

    Yes, “What’s Up with Shipping” is a regular watch for me.

  12. Ray Thompson says:

    What is the line item on your cable bill for “sports programming”?

    The Xfinity website is a classic example of really poor website design. Beyond that the system is incredibly slow, which Xfinity attributes to my internet speed, not their poorly performing service.

    Regional Sports is $2.55.
    Broadcast TV Fee is $32.00.

    That broadcast fee is really annoying. The local TV stations are a bunch greedy jerks. About every six months there is a notice on their channel that people will be losing the channel unless the stations can come to terms with cable providers.

    I would ditch the TV portion of the cable and just go with streaming. But Xfinity gets us there with the caps. Which to eliminate requires paying an additional $32.00 a month. See the correlation?

  13. lynn says:

    “Texas Leads the Charge: First Official Resolution Declares Hamas-linked CAIR Unwelcome at the Capitol”

        https://rairfoundation.com/texas-leads-charge-first-official-resolution-declares-hamas/

    “In a powerful and long-overdue move, Texas State Representative Jared Patterson has filed House Resolution 971, declaring the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) unwelcome at the Texas Capitol. This marks the first official step by any state toward confronting the dangerous infiltration of Hamas-linked CAIR into U.S. political institutions.”

    A good first step that I doubt will actually happen as the Texas legislature is a bunch of pansies.

    Hat tip to:

       https://thelibertydaily.com/

  14. lynn says:

    Why am I awake ?  I got woken up at 830 am by the generator people calling me to tell me that the generator cellphone is no longer responding.  I turned off the light last night at 3 am.  The service guy will be here at 1pm to see what is wrong. Now I cannot get back to sleep.

    I brought my cellphone to bed since I am expecting Social Security to call me at 1105 am and tell me who is using my SS number.  I have been waiting for this call since March 5.  

    Actually I have no idea what they are going to tell me other than they will probably want me to go to a SS office.  I will have to fight my way through hundreds of muslims and other non citizens trying to get free benefits using fake SS numbers.

    We need to station ICE agents at all government offices to spot the non citizen free loaders and deport them.

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  15. Greg Norton says:

    The Xfinity website is a classic example of really poor website design. Beyond that the system is incredibly slow, which Xfinity attributes to my internet speed, not their poorly performing service.

    Regional Sports is $2.55.
    Broadcast TV Fee is $32.00.
     

    They must be hiding the ESPN charge under a different name.

    What is available OTA with an antenna in the attic?

    The broadcast TV fee is all about SEC football. Anyone living in one of those markets pays for the local alumni to either get the games “free” or at a price which doesn’t begin to cover the costs, especially in the age of the transfer portal.

  16. lynn says:

    The Xfinity website is a classic example of really poor website design. Beyond that the system is incredibly slow, which Xfinity attributes to my internet speed, not their poorly performing service.

    Man is the xfinity website ever slow.  And the double verification login code to my phone sucks.

    And I do not get cable from xfinity. Just internet. Their cable sucks and is not compatible with my Roku boxen.

  17. lynn says:

    “Power Restored In Spain, Portugal But The Situation Reveals A Very Serious Underlying Problem…”

        https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/power-restored-spain-portugal-net-zero-becomes-headache-brussels

    They are running with no spinning reserve.  They have shutdown their coal and nuclear power plants which provide spinning reserve.  So any mistake or 5 second hesitation, their grid is going down.  This can only be fixed by restarting the steam units or by installing huge expensive battery systems.  Their grid will be up and down continuusly now.

  18. brad says:

    Years in the past they would adjust the sewer portion of the water bill when filling a pool.

    @Ray: Regarding sewage charges. Here, at least, we have the option of installing a separate water meter for water that does not flow into the sewage. For us, that would be water for the garden. Is that maybe an option where you live?

    – – – – –

    Tired today. In retrospect, I think the “cold” I had a couple of weeks ago must have been Covid. Even though I am long since over the symptoms, my endurance is nowhere back to normal, and my sense of taste is wacky. Four hours of light garden work this afternoon, and I am just pooped.

    This evening is the first week we can play tennis outdoors. We’ll see how that goes – I may be moving kinda slow…

    Starve the beast. Cut the cable TV.

    We get a basic TV package as part of our Internet connection. It includes all the usual Swiss channels as well as a fair number of BBC, German and Austrian channels. More than enough for what we want.

    No streaming packages at all, because – honestly – there’s nothing I want to watch. Once in a while I’ll hear of something that sounds interesting. Pirate the first episode to see. Nah…

    Power Restored In Spain, Portugal But The Situation Reveals A Very Serious Underlying Problem…

    The data is very contradictory. Lots of people saying “see, renewable energy makes the grid unreliable”. On the other hand, Spain’s solar plants came back online *first*, and the spinning metal plants came back online later.

    On the gripping hand, maybe synchronized their solar to power coming over the border from France’s nuclear plants.

    Question, for anyone in the know: Solar plants normally follow the grid frequency, rather than forcing it. urely it would be perfectly possible to create up an inverter that is willing to drive the frequency? Maybe industrial inverters already do this?

  19. Ray Thompson says:

    What is available OTA with an antenna in the attic?

    Not much. A couple of worthless channels. I live in a valley where the main transmitters are on the other side of a couple of mountains.

    Their cable sucks and is not compatible with my Roku boxen.

    That is odd. I have a Roku box on one my TV’s. Not all the channels are available on the Roku that are available on the cable. My cable connection for internet is quite reliable.

    Here, at least, we have the option of installing a separate water meter for water that does not flow into the sewage

    That is another option here, but expensive. $25.00 a month just for the meter charge plus another $250.00 to hook up the meter. Then I would have to pay to have pipe laid in the ground to the back of the house.

  20. Lynn says:

    Question, for anyone in the know: Solar plants normally follow the grid frequency, rather than forcing it. urely it would be perfectly possible to create up an inverter that is willing to drive the frequency? Maybe industrial inverters already do this?

    Most, if not all, inverters and generators have the option of controlling the frequency already.  For instance, my home generator will automatically run the generator to create 60 hz ac electricity at 230 / 120 volts.  In your case, a home generator would produce 50 hz ac electricity at 220 volts.

    But solar and windmills have no reserve, they are producing 100% of the energy available into electricity.  In order to create a stable frequency, you must have reserves that you can dip into immediately.  If a cloud obscures your solar plant or the wind drops on your windmill, you are screwed and the frequency will drop.  And when the frequency drops, the grid will isolate to keep damage from occurring.

  21. Lynn says:

    I got my social security call and she fixed me all up.  Something was messed up in the computer system and she had to reset my account.  I can now login to it.  She approved my Medicare application and said that she will file the paperwork in three days (they have a three day waiting period for the paperwork).  The system will then send me my new Medicare card.

    She asked me to pray for them.  She said that over half of the SS / Medicare employees have taken the buyout or early retirement.  They are in total turmoil and the automation systems are not working, typical government software.  But the White House wants them to go totally automated even though the automation has problems.  Yup, catch 22.

    She also started the process to get our disabled daughter on SSI and Medicaid. They are going to call my wife on Friday to get the paperwork going and copies of her disabled status from the doctors going back at least ten years.

  22. Lynn says:

    “JUST IN: Obama Judge Orders IMMEDIATE Release of Pro-Hamas Student Who Was Detained at His Naturalization Interview – Student Sends a Mocking Message to Trump (VIDEO)”

        https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/just-obama-judge-orders-immediate-release-pro-hamas/

    Deport him now.  I hear that El Salvador has a bed open in CECET.

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  23. Lynn says:

    “Federal Prosecutors Charge Two Ukrainian Nationals With Illegally Voting In US Presidential Election”

        https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/30/ukrainians-voted-illegally-us-presidential-election/

    “Federal prosecutors have charged two Ukrainian nationals with unlawfully voting in an American presidential election, the latest case of non-citizens allegedly participating in federal elections.”

    “The Ukrainian women — 53-year-old Svitlana Demydenko and her 22-year-old daughter, Yelyzaveta Demydenko — are accused of voting in the 2024 presidential election in Palm Beach, Florida, on Oct. 31, according to the Justice Department. The pair made their initial appearance in West Palm Beach federal court Tuesday.”

    We have 40 million illegals running around this country.  No telling how many of them are voting in our elections.  We need serious election voting security, both in voter id and in systems that can be reliably recounted from paper ballots.

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  24. Greg Norton says:

    “The Ukrainian women — 53-year-old Svitlana Demydenko and her 22-year-old daughter, Yelyzaveta Demydenko — are accused of voting in the 2024 presidential election in Palm Beach, Florida, on Oct. 31, according to the Justice Department. The pair made their initial appearance in West Palm Beach federal court Tuesday.”

    Of course it would be Palm Beach County.

  25. Lynn says:

    Why am I awake ?  I got woken up at 830 am by the generator people calling me to tell me that the generator cellphone is no longer responding.  I turned off the light last night at 3 am.  The service guy will be here at 1pm to see what is wrong. Now I cannot get back to sleep.

    Generator dude showed up to fix the generator cellphone.  His visit notes state, cannot fix the cellphone as he does not have the right cable for the liquid cooled generator.  

    Really ?  They sold me the liquid cooled generator and installed it.  They should know.

    He did reboot the cellphone on the generator but I have no idea if that fixed it.

    Note to self, turn off the power to the house and see what happens.  The generator should auto start and bring the house up to 60 hz.

  26. Lynn says:

    Peanuts: Snoopy Is Getting Provoked

       https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2025/04/30

    “Animals are usually friendly unless needlessly provoked.”

    Yup, that kid deserved it.

  27. Lynn says:

    The Born Loser: Chocolate Allergy

       https://www.gocomics.com/the-born-loser/2025/04/29

    Hey, I have that allergy too.  Usually when I go hog wild on my HEB Chocolate Chip Ice Cream.

  28. Lynn says:

    “Is a college degree worth the money? “

        https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/04/is-college-degree-worth-money.html

    “For most of us, unless it’s in a subject requiring high academic qualifications such as medicine or some of the STEM fields, Mike Rowe says it’s not.  This video clip will be well worth the twelve minutes it’ll take to watch it.  (I like his comparison to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”.)”

    Outside of a STEM degree, probably not.  To practice for the public on engineering projects in Texas and many other states, a Professional Engineering License is required with a stamp on all drawings.  I got my engineering license in Texas back in 1989.

  29. Lynn says:

    “The hilarious reason why David Hogg might lose his position at the DNC”

        https://www.theblaze.com/news/the-hilarious-reason-why-david-hogg-might-lose-his-position-at-the-dnc

    “Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg is now facing a serious challenge for his position as many within the party are looking for ways to get rid of the gun control activist.”

    “Semafor reports a candidate who failed to win a DNC leadership role earlier this year is now saying the DNC violated its own bylaws by not electing enough people with diverse backgrounds to be in top positions. The complaint was filed by Kalyn Free, a Native American attorney. The DNC’s credentials committee will meet virtually on May 12 to consider the challenge.”

    “”By aggregating votes across ballots and failing to distinguish between gender categories in a meaningful way, the DNC’s process violated its own Charter and Bylaws, undermining both fairness and gender diversity,” said Free.”

    “Hogg’s lawyers said the election “was conducted in compliance with the rules in place at the time,” and it is “inappropriate to try to revise those rules or decisions after the fact through a credentials challenge.””

    “That’s right: The DNC’s near-suicidal commitment to DEI might end up costing Hogg his job at the DNC.”

    Sweet.

  30. Lynn says:

    “New Florida brand differential study shows the Pfizer vaccine KILLED over 470,000 Americans”

        https://kirschsubstack.com/p/new-florida-brand-differential-study

    “This stunning brand comparison study shows the Pfizer shots increased your risk of death by at least 36%. Vaccines are NEVER supposed to INCREASE your risk of death.”

    “Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo is a hero.”

    “He is the only health authority in America who looks critically at his own health data.”

    “What did he find when he did that?”

    “By looking at his own health data with a critical eye, he found that people who got the Pfizer vaccine had a stunning 36% increase in their all cause mortality lasting at least a year after they got vaccinated.”

    “This is a train wreck. Vaccines should NEVER increase all-cause mortality.”

  31. lpdbw says:

    “This is a train wreck. Vaccines should NEVER increase all-cause mortality.”

    Now do statins.

    Spoiler:  statins don’t increase all-cause mortality.  However, the minor reduction in heart events does not lead to reduced mortality, so it’s an even trade-off.  The heart events don’t get you, but the increases in other stuff makes up for it.

    Except, of course, for the chronic muscle weakness and dementia side-effects.  You get those for free.

  32. Lynn says:

    “‘It’s The Key’: Chips Giant Breaks Ground On Third US Plant”

       https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/30/lutnick-tsmc-semiconductor-chips-china-ai-commerce-secretary-plant-arizona/

    “The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) broke ground Tuesday on its third factory in Arizona, widening the Trump administration’s push to yank critical chip production out of China’s shadow, according to the Department of Commerce.”

    “The new fab — backed by some $6.6 billion in CHIPS Act grants and part of a broader $100 billion expansion pledge TSMC made in March — is slated to provide thousands of local jobs and anchor a domestic supply chain for everything from smartphones to fighter jet avionics, according to a TSMC press release. (RELATED: Another Chips Giant Commits To Manufacturing In US)”

    ““It’s the key,” Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said of domestic chip manufacturing’s national security implications in an interview with CNBC. “If we don’t produce semiconductors, we can’t make drones to protect ourselves. We can’t make fighter jets to protect ourselves. We can’t do anything unless we’ve got sufficient chips … It’s time for America to take care of itself, and that’s what we’re here to do.””

    Getting ready for WW III.

    I thought that chip plants need lots of fresh water ?

  33. Lynn says:

    “The Remaining: Fractured (The Remaining)” by D. J. Molles
       https://www.amazon.com/Remaining-Fractured-D-J-Molles/dp/035650350X?tag=ttgnet-20/

    Book number four of a six book apocalyptic science fiction series. There is another series in the same universe with the main character. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Orbit in 2014 that I purchased new in 2025 from Amazon. I have the fifth through the sixth books in the series.

    Captain Lee Harden of the US Army is a member of the US Special Forces. His duty is to live in his remote US Army built home with a steel and lead concrete bunker underneath it. Any time the US government gets nervous, he goes down into his bunker with his dog and locks the vault door. He then talks with his supervisor daily over the internet until released by his supervisor to leave the bunker. His duty is to stay in the bunker during any event and come out thirty days after he has zero contact with his supervisor. Then it is his duty to find groups of people to restore order in his portion of the USA.

    Then one day, Captain Harden has been sitting in his bunker for a couple of weeks and his supervisor does not call. A plague has been sweeping the planet and things are getting more dire by the day. Apparently the infected do not die but their brains are mostly wiped out. Zombies. A month later, Captain Harden and his dog emerge from their bunker to find a total disaster with infected roaming the countryside.

    Captain Harden’s home and bunker were burned out after everything to eat or shoot was stolen by a gang of bad guys. But he has a secret, he has ten bunkers built by the U.S. Army strategically located around the state. And only he can open the bunkers. But the bad guys are chasing Captain Harden to get the rest of the food and ammo from him. And nobody trusts anybody.

    Captain Harden and his many allies have set out to blow the bridges between North Carolina and South Carolina to keep the infected hordes from the north from advancing into South Carolina. But a traitor tried to assassinate Captain Harden and did steal his GPS code key to the arms and food caches. And his allies are running into The Followers who are taking out survivors in South Carolina. And Camp Rider Hub has been taken over the people who do not agree with Captain Harden about taking out the infected.

    The author has a website at:
       https://djmolles.com/blog/the-remaining-universe-reading-order

    My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (3,385 reviews)

    Lynn

  34. Greg Norton says:

    We get a basic TV package as part of our Internet connection. It includes all the usual Swiss channels as well as a fair number of BBC, German and Austrian channels. More than enough for what we want.

    The cable TV providers in the US don’t offer a truly basic package or a-la-carte services due to the costs of sports coverage being unaffordable if paid just by the portion of their subscribers who were interested.

  35. Lynn says:

    “Fourth Time’s the Charm? Beto O’Rourke Is Considering Running for Office Again”

        https://thelibertydaily.com/fourth-times-charm-beto-orourke-is-considering-running/

    Bozo the Clown is back.

  36. Greg Norton says:

    “For most of us, unless it’s in a subject requiring high academic qualifications such as medicine or some of the STEM fields, Mike Rowe says it’s not.  This video clip will be well worth the twelve minutes it’ll take to watch it.  (I like his comparison to Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven”.)”

    Outside of a STEM degree, probably not.  To practice for the public on engineering projects in Texas and many other states, a Professional Engineering License is required with a stamp on all drawings.  I got my engineering license in Texas back in 1989.

    General practice medicine will be a Masters, MBBS, in the US within 10 years. The Doctorate holders will either work concierge or all be specialists.

    The AMA has been working on this project for a long time. Most of the practitioners will originate overseas until the schools get established, but Americans will be priced out of the schools.

  37. Greg Norton says:

    “Fourth Time’s the Charm? Beto O’Rourke Is Considering Running for Office Again”

        https://thelibertydaily.com/fourth-times-charm-beto-orourke-is-considering-running/

    Bozo the Clown is back.

    At a certain point, the Dems have to wonder if Robert Francis is a Manchurian Candidate developed over several decades by his bigtime Republican donor father-in-law.

    However, less conspiratorial and probably closer to reality is that Robert Francis runs on money from Gavin Newsom’s fundraising organization, and they probably want more data to cruch from a statewide run which they were denied in 2024 by Biden throwing his support to Kamala after signing his resignation as the Dem candidate.

    Interestingly, that may have been the only paper Biden actually signed last year.

    Colin Zachary ran on Dallas money, but he won Williamson County here which was a big change that merits further study.

    I still see B*TO! stickers on cars around here.

    I even see the occasional “Stand With Wendy” sticker on typical hippiemobiles like Subarus and Tiguans which makes me wonder if someone isn’t cranking those out new. We’re coming up on 12 years since Davis started running for Governor.

  38. Greg Norton says:

    We’re coming up on 12 years since Davis started running for Governor.

    Maybe Abortion Barbie could give the race for the Governor’s Mansion another shot.

    How much worse could she do than Robert Francis or Lupe Valdez.

    Remember her?

  39. Lynn says:

    “BREAKING: President Trump Opens the Door to Suspending Habeas Corpus, an Aggressive Move Used by Three Previous Presidents, to Conduct Mass Deportations of Illegals (VIDEO)”

         https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/president-trump-opens-door-suspending-habeas-corpus-agressive/

    “The reporter cited the rampant abuse of injunctions by radical-left judges to sabotage Trump’s immigration policies and inquired whether the president has considered alternative paths to outwitting these judges.”

    ““Have you spoken to your chief about ways to mitigate this and continue to deliver for the American people?” the reporter asked.”

    “Trump responded by floating an idea that’s been previously used by presidents Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt: suspending the writ of habeas corpus.”

    “”There are some very strong ways to mitigate it (the injunctions),” Trump replied. “One way that’s been used by three very highly respected Presidents, but we hope we don’t have to go that route.””

    Bold.  I wonder if these same activist judges will try to put Trump in contempt at that point.

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  40. Greg Norton says:

    “Trump responded by floating an idea that’s been previously used by presidents Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt: suspending the writ of habeas corpus.”

    “”There are some very strong ways to mitigate it (the injunctions),” Trump replied. “One way that’s been used by three very highly respected Presidents, but we hope we don’t have to go that route.””

    After the last of the War Baby generation die off, I think there will be a significant change in the general consensus about Roosevelt not being the hero so many Depression survivors viewed him as being and raised their children to believe.

    Amity Shales was about thirty years too early with “The Forgotten Man”.

  41. MrAtoz says:

    We need to station ICE agents at all government offices to spot the non citizen free loaders and deport them.

    And park the paddy wagon out front with flashing lights on.

  42. MrAtoz says:

    Deport him now.  I hear that El Salvador has a bed open in CECET.

    I hope tRump does what one commenter suggested: reject his naturalization and deport him. Make his life Hell.

  43. Lynn says:

    “Despite Trump’s promised cuts, U.S. spent more than $200 billion more in first 100 days than last year”

        https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-promised-cuts-spent-200-billion-more/

    “The answer partly lies in the fundamentals of the government’s budget when it comes to big-ticket expenditures that the White House can’t fully control or massive changes to the way the U.S. pays for aging Americans’ retirements and medical care.”

    “The rest of the answer is politics. The conservative base that elected Mr. Trump and the Republican majorities in Congress may not support cutting the other biggest share of federal spending, the operations of the U.S. military and caring for veterans.”

    I think that we are in trouble with runaway spending.

  44. Lynn says:

    Deport him now.  I hear that El Salvador has a bed open in CECET.

    I hope tRump does what one commenter suggested: reject his naturalization and deport him. Make his life Hell.

    Back to West Bank via Tel Aviv.  Mossad will get out the old hand crank telephone box with the leads on his testicles to find out what he knows about Hamas.

  45. Greg Norton says:

    “The rest of the answer is politics. The conservative base that elected Mr. Trump and the Republican majorities in Congress may not support cutting the other biggest share of federal spending, the operations of the U.S. military and caring for veterans.”

    As an Army Captain, my wife’s nephew’s off-base housing allowance allows him to cover a zero down 15 year mortgage for $350k at the prevailing market rate in late 2023, an amount of money my wife would have trouble qualifying to borrow on her salary alone without paying at least another percentage point in interest.

    I certainly wouldn’t qualify.

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  46. Greg Norton says:

    I hope tRump does what one commenter suggested: reject his naturalization and deport him. Make his life Hell.

    Back to West Bank via Tel Aviv.  Mossad will get out the old hand crank telephone box with the leads on his testicles to find out what he knows about Hamas.

    Send him to Gitmo for a snake torture session with the female half of my former Colonel Bat Guano neighbors.

    No, the United States military does not torture prisoners at Gitmo. She was a contractor.

  47. Lynn says:

    Google finished converting gmail to OAUTH 2.0 today.  So now my command line app in Windows can no longer send me and my staff emails about changes to our software and source code.  

    I was using a command line app called CMail ( https://www.inveigle.net/cmail ).  The app talks about adding support for OAUTH 2.0 on beta basis but the install is tricky, very tricky.  And it looks like each PC has to have a token database.

    Sigh.   Just when I get stuff to work, somebody comes in and pulls the rug out from under me.

  48. Greg Norton says:

    Send him to Gitmo for a snake torture session with the female half of my former Colonel Bat Guano neighbors.

    Mrs. Colonel Bat guano was the half assigned “female” at birth, but the individual with Y chromosomes in that couple was the real woman of the house.

    Canon Brigade at the White House if the t-shirt is to be believed. It is always the “spit-n-polish” types.

  49. EdH says:

    Watching the day’s free MLB game on Prime.   

    I don’t really care about the Brewers or the White Sox, but it scratches a mild itch to see a game.

    There is not a lot of gambling being pushed during commercials, but lots of sports memorabilia sales and auctions. Big business I guess?

  50. Greg Norton says:

    I was using a command line app called CMail ( https://www.inveigle.net/cmail ).  The app talks about adding support for OAUTH 2.0 on beta basis but the install is tricky, very tricky.  And it looks like each PC has to have a token database.

    Sigh.   Just when I get stuff to work, somebody comes in and pulls the rug out from under me.

    A lot of Unix shops depend on Mutt for something similar, and Oauth 2.0 has been a problem for them.

    Several solutions have emerged, but I don’t know which would be applicable to Windows.

    Get this year’s intern cracking on the Linux port.

  51. MrAtoz says:

    Ho, hum. Another day, another round of District Judges ruling, for the US, that Border Patrol/ICE can’t detain/arrest suspected crimmigrants without a warrant. While US Code says they can with probably cause.

    Also another day SCOTUS does nothing to rein in activist judges. Judicial review my azz.

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  52. Lynn says:

    Get this year’s intern cracking on the Linux port.

    That is a 50 man year port.

  53. Nick Flandrey says:

    Full employment for gurus…

    n

  54. brad says:

    Get this year’s intern cracking on the Linux port.

    That is a 50 man year port.

    Nah, you just open a browser window, go to ChatGPT, paste in your code, and…voila!

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