Should be a little cooler, after the rain yesterday. But I’m betting it isn’t really, and I’m sure it will be just as humid. I was soaked to the skin yesterday before the rain came. And it wasn’t that hot, just humid and stifling.
I got some stuff done. Ordered my trailer for the weekend. Ordered a conversion kit for one of my generators. I really should get the receptacle installed for my NG whole house genny too. I’ve got the stuff, just working in the sun and heat is daunting. When sweat is dripping from your fingers, it’s hard to do fiddly bits.
I moved a bunch of my hobby sale stuff to my shop, and did some more electrical troubleshooting. Now that I have power, but still don’t have half the stuff working, it was time to meter some stuff. After lots of poking around, I’m pretty sure one of the supply legs has a failing fuse. I’ll look at replacing it today or tomorrow. Good voltages coming off the meter, and into the disconnect, but bad coming out of the one fuse.
Did some domestic bliss yesterday too. I’ll have to fold the laundry today, but at least I’ll have clean socks. Oh, and coordinated with the buyer for shipping of the big item I sold. I need to buy straps and get the thing onto a pallet, and stretch wrapped. He’s looking at a pickup next week.
All the while I’ve got more prep to do for my weekend show. Today it will be moving the bins out of my office. I might have a bin or two in the attic too.
Lots to do. A grocery and Costco trip should be in there too. I need to stack another bale or two of Charmin while it’s on sale.
There’s always something to stack, something to learn, or something to repair or replace. Get busy.
n
The $5 month plan to keep what would be otherwise idle hardware busy is actually genius.
“Idle” hardware with power at a known fixed location can provide a lot of useful data to Tony’s minions.
And it is cashflow which will be important in the IPO to Ballie Gifford and the other investors.
Cashflow for Issaquah. Plus they’re clearing out the inventory of that size before shrinking the rolls and or the count again.
Silver is pushing $40/ounce. Something is going to have to give at Costco with TP, either quantity or price.
Plus, they will eventually make money off of the data mining.
The “hordes” don’t concern me nearly as much as the Colonist professional class who originate in a culture where lying and gaming bureacracy comes as naturally as breathing.
The families we see in the US are generally already extremely wealthy, and nothing short of physical violence – that we know of – seems to be off limits when competing for employment opportunities for themselves and educational advantages for the offspring.
Those Sikh truckers making news?
I guarantee that if you dig hard enough, none are from the “wretched huddled masses” demographic.
The ones doing physical labor might be the idiot siblings/cousins, but they are not poor.
I’m almost at retirement age, so my career field being chosen by the Colonists doesn’t directly affect my short term bottom line, but it calls into question how long competency will remain in the 20% of the population who do something useful enough for a living that even the Old School Marm Justice Roberts shied away from enraging that segment of society by enforcing Plugs McKenzie’s vile jab mandate.
The Colonist class willingly rolled up their sleeves — or, again, so it seems — and that lesson was not lost on the real power in Western Europe and the US.
Last time I tried that in Atlanta, TSA would not accept the card in their card scanners. Something about the system could not properly read the card. The TSA guy told me the system could not even read their TSA cards. The veteran ID was also unreadable. If I did not have a driver’s license I would have been manually scanned.
What idiot approved a system that can only read limited ID cards? Oh wait, a stupid question. It was obviously a clueless government worker that was probably a DEI hire.
Your MBBS will see you now.
“What does worry me are the groups that are reproducing, because they are the barbarian hordes.”
Not a problem until the do gooders send them food and medical.
My new Texas Drivers License Real ID already has a big crack from sitting in my wallet so I doubt the RF tag embedded in the plastic will fluoresce for a “tap” reader much less one of the automated checkpoints ICE experiments with here in Texas.
When I flew in April, I had to remove the Passport Card from the ID holder I use and let them scan the barcode on the back.
If they claim that they can’t scan the barcode then they’re messing with you. Unfortunately, it is probably under orders from on high, and they have the advantage that you won’t want to miss the flight.
They let you keep your shoes, citizen. What more do you want?
And we’ve discussed here at length exactly who is in charge in Fulton County, 40% of the population, outnumbering any other demographic in the county.
I know that’s right, girlfriend.
And lest any of you think I’m being rayssssist, I have an old MARTA Breeze card in my stash which I will send you to run a test at ATL.
Take the card to the MARTA station at the airport and ask for a refund on the deposit for the card from the woman – it will always be a woman — in the booth.
If my card is now obsolete, ask to exchange for a new card for free.
I guarantee hilarity will ensue, but try not to laugh.
I’ve been on MARTA once. I bought my son’s Mustang from a dealer in North Atlanta. I used sky miles to fly to Atlanta and took the MARTA to a stop a couple miles from the dealership, where they picked me up.
The experience wasn’t horrible, but then the expectations in my mind were already there.
While I was waiting on the platform, I was definitely a minority, almost singular. I never felt unsafe, but I was always hyper aware of my surroundings.
Meanwhile, in Chicongo …
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/us-news/chicago-residents-blast-monstrosity-obama-presidential-center-as-displacement-fears-grow/
Didn’t Norman Lear do a one-off “Good Times” reboot episode before he passed?
In the article are the images and video I suggest they use for the new credits reel if someone makes it a streaming series. Same neighborhood as the 70s version of the credits, with Jet/Ebony HQ and the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority’s main office right next to the train station.
Temporary lay offs.
Good Times.
Easy credit rip offs.
Good Times.
Scratchin’ and survivin’.
Good Times.
Hangin’ in and jivin’*
Good Times.
Ain’t we lucky we got ’em
Good Times.
* – Urban legend says that the DVD box set credits reel clearly states it as “Hangin’ in a chow line”, but the producers deny this.
Helo orbiting the neighborhood this am. News 13 getting video of the fire aftermath. 100 out of 389 units affected by water or fire damage. You can smell the burnt buildings.
75F, humid but not dripping, and sun coming out.
n
It was clear when the original story came out that there was more to it than an argument between friends.
n
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15015087/harvard-worker-amc-horror-movie-beaten-gang-teenagers.html
I bet he’s proud of how tolerant and open minded he is.
n
My flight coming up this Sunday I have to use the passport because of it being an international flight. So no issues. My passport is the old style, the wife’s is the new style. Hard plastic ID page and the passport number has what look like laser burn holes of the number on all the pages but ID page.
I now wonder if my DOD military ID is acceptable?
I get pegged for a manual scan and if I am lucky a physical pat down. The metal in my knee causes problems for the scanners. Wife gets it too because of her hip replacements.
Nothing like that time departing Norway. I was already at the gate having passed through two levels of security. A chap comes around and asks me to go with him. I give all my stuff to my wife. I am taken to a private room and told to strip to my underwear. My passport was taken to another room.
My clothes were examined inch by inch by one agent. Another agent had me turn around with my arms extended.
After 5 minutes the person returned with my passport and I was told I could get dressed. I was then escorted out of the room back to the gate.
It was a scary experience. I asked why and was told it was just random. Nope, nope. My name either matched someone they were looking for or my description matched.
When our friends in Atlanta lived close, about 1 mile, from a MARTA stop, we would use MARTA to get from north Atlanta to the airport. It generally worked. One time we went to a Brave’s game. Used MARTA. The A/C was not working in the station at the old Brave’s stadium. Then MARTA apparently broke down and stashed everyone on busses, packed as full as possible. A miserable experience.
Of course you know what MARTA abbreviates. Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta. That last trip the Rapidly did not apply, nor did the Africans.
A different helo orbiting now. The companies get around the N number id requirements by listing the leasing company as the owner. This one doesn’t have any station branding on it, but does have a camera pod under the chin.
Freaking thing orbited for a long time, 15-20 minutes.
It smells like a wet campfire outside.
n
Probably need two:
https://youtu.be/RXJKdh1KZ0w
Messing with you.
How badly do you want to make that flight, boy?
Enough to submit to a strip search?
Remember, they shot “Deliverance” in this part of the country.
The “agents” probably had a higher VA disability rating than you at that time.
Still sunny and hot. I better change that by loading my pickup truck.
n
This occurred in Norway. I doubt they had any VA disability. Besides, at that time I was only at 20%.
I recently got a new passport, having let my old one expire and age out past the 15 year window for renewal. Paying extra for expedited and USPS Express return, my new passprot was delivered a eight days after I submitted the application.
I chose not to get a passport card:
“The U.S. passport card is a wallet-sized identification document that allows U.S. citizens to travel by land and sea to Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and some Caribbean countries, but it cannot be used for air travel.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_passport_card
The same info was on the website.
The old “capacitive diractants” trick again.
It can be used for domestic travel as a federally issued photo ID. It cannot be used for foreign air travel. It can be used for land transportation to and from Mexico and Canada.
There’s an Infuriating Update on the Illegal Alien Crash in Florida
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2025/08/20/theres-an-infuriating-update-on-the-illegal-alien-crash-in-florida-n2662091
So no less than three woke states conspired to put this p.o.s. (apologies to innocent meadow muffins) on the road so he could kill people in Florida.
I’d LMAO if DeSantis immediately suspended honoring CDL’s from these states pending a full review.
And I hope that one of the comments earlier was correct and that this murderer is part of a large wealthy family with deep pockets that some pipe-hitting attorneys legally savage until they pick up and run back to their subcontinent hellhole.
Walking through a TSA checkpoint is land travel. The rest of the airport falls under the jurisdiction of the local authority in charge of the facility and their designated law enforcement.
The TSA Federalized screening and replaced the rentacops running the x-ray machines and metal detectors. In theory, TSA does not have authority outside of the checkpoints, but the Geheimstadtpolezei (sp?) is always testing the lines.
Near the end of “Hogan’s Heroes”, Howard Caine as Major Hochstetter drops an unbelievable line which still resonates today, “I’m the Gestapo. I don’t need to know the law.
I hear that line in my head every time enter one of those checkpoints.
Americans were afraid and did something stupid in demanding the Gestapo in airports. They wimped out again 20 years later with the masks/jabs and nearly opened Ze Kampfs for Ze Skippy, ja.
Achtung!
Nobody demanded it other than the .gov parasites.
They saw a huge expansion of their agencies and a bigger place at the trough.
What more knowledgeable people WERE demanding, was breaking down the info sharing silos and jealous hoarding of intelligence that led to the plot continuing and succeeding. Also that the incompetence displayed by various three letter agencies be punished- which didn’t happen.
No one asked for naked scanners. Or liquid bans. Or shoe removal. That came as reactionary policies from above.
n
People stopped flying. Cold. They trusted Shrub and the Bush family cabal to solve the problem.
Now, with 1 in 19 people on VA Healthcare, many of whom work at TSA jobs or other Vet quota hire positions inside and outside FedGov, it is obvious that we have a Warrior Caste in this country who aren’t going give up their rice/soup bowls easily.
BTW, the Bush Cabal isn’t dead. Merely pining for Ze Old days, ja.
https://www.newsweek.com/jonathan-bush-family-maine-governor-dynasty-2114101
Vas ist los? Ach du Lieber! Ze Old Days are back!
I was in the middle of a national tour, actually at the Meadowlands across the river in Jersey on 9-11. After flights started back up, we completed the tour.
We went out on the next tour only a short time later. People were flying. Volumes might have been down, but we flew.
Sure, there were sheep bleating, and the piggies heard the bleats and bellied up to the trough, and the bleats sounded like “do something” so the PTB DID SOMETHING. They chose the somethings though, and I can almost guarantee that the loudest bleats were not even coming from people who fly.
Nobody on the receiving end asked for what we got though.
n
The 20% of the population who actually do something productive for society knew the score, but the rest of the population were clueless about inviting the Gestapo to take over the airport.
The 20% did step up and put an end to the jab mandate by threatening to “shrug”.
I don’t believe Control is 10% or even 20%. I’d put it much higher.
I was IN D.C. on 9/11, close enough to hear the explosion at the Pentagon. The mayor called for the city to be evacuated — and then closed the subway. A colleague and I walked from the center of DC to Alexandria, where our hotel was; about 4 miles. He was worried that his ANG unit would be called up. Lots of panicky people whenever a fighter would fly over the city, and they were low enough to see the missiles on the wings.
When I read all of the proposed travel restrictions, like “no bags checked at curbside”, I wrote a letter to my congressman complaining that this wasn’t a war against terrorists, it was a war on First Class travel.
And the TSA never did ANYTHING productive, never prevented a single terrorist attack or caught a terrorists. If I had been a terrorist, setting off a bomb in the TSA screening line would have been easy. It should never have been established, and should be abolished now.
About 4 years later, I changed jobs and never flew again.
And I am one of those people. I still have Medicare and supplemental. The VA healthcare is not fully trustworthy or expedient when an issue arises. If a VA hospital were closer, I might have a different perspective.
By my math 98% of my income is coming from the federal coffers. 50% of that money is completely tax free at all levels.
Although SS was ripped from my paycheck monthly without my consent. That accounts for half the funds. The other half I signed a contract with the government in June of 1969 where I became government property, with a serial number, and if the government so desired, I could be placed in an environment where I would die. I am a Vietnam veteran, one of the lucky ones.
I am giving serious thought to getting a burner phone that will take an eSIM. Take that with me on the trip to Europe so that none of my personal information is on the phone. If TSA or immigration decide to search my phone, they will find nothing.
I don’t subsidize the practice of medicine at my house since my wife went to work at the VA.
We live too far from the hospitals in Temple and San Antonio to hear much about the quality of care, but Haley and Bay Pines in Tampa and St. Petersburg, respectively, have bad reputations.
“People”.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15018773/mass-brawl-carnival-cruise-ship-chicken-tenders.html
The video is pretty clear.
n
Hammil is a whiny b!tch.
Drama queen Star Wars actor makes vile analogy in his latest rant about Trump
A famous Star Wars actor made an exaggerated reference to slitting their wrists when discussing Donald Trump winning the 2024 election in a recent interview.
n
Not to be raysist, but …..
He’s been that way for a while.
Post settlement, Gina Carano is most likely the highest paid “Star Wars” actor ever, possibly eclipsing Alec Guiness.
Gotta wonder if that is grating on Hamill right now.
Kamala’s bestie was supposed to take The Weatherman’s job as CEO of Disney.
The UK just tried to strongarm Apple into creating a backdoor that would have let them into any iPhone anywhere in the world. It didn’t happen–do you think Biden would have said no?
I have no intention of ever traveling OUS again. If that changes, I will add another line to my cell phone plan, acquire a -2 model iPhone, and populate the contact list with a hundred or so U.S. numbers–among the auto dealer, local pizza and other delivery numbers will be my personal attorney, a law office in DC, the local SAIC of the FBI, one of my two senators, several other numbers of local and state government, and some unlisted numbers with interesting area codes.
The only email will be a Gmail account of long standing with no records of any kind, excepting a daily itinerary update to another Gmail account.
The only way into the phone will be entering a manual password of extended length.
We are talking about “Corvette Summer” Ham-mill?
Cook Is Cooked. Real Estate Fraud Gets a Federal Reserve Governor a Federal Investigation.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/08/20/cook-is-cooked-real-estate-fraud-claims-a-federal-reserve-governor-n2193036
Multiple mortgage fraud à la Schiff and James, plagiarism, and possible failure to report rental income on a $500k condo.
“What is ‘Another Democrat got caught today’, Alex?”
Appeals Court backs Trump
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/08/appeals-court-backs-trump.php
Welcomed as guests in need of a temporary hand, leaving as thieves who tried to claim a perpetual grift on the American taxpayer.
If we could trace the funds being used to pay the attorneys advocating for these leeches, it is almost certain that it’s hard-earned dollars from U.S taxpayers funneled to a far-left NGO for the purpose of destroying our society.
We need a radical transparency movement that demands that every taxpayer dollar be accounted for from enabling legislation to disbursement outside the government to actual expenditure. Only I strongly suspect our Founders would not consider it radical at all, and would be shocked to find that it isn’t the norm.
I can almost hear my bed calling me.
n
Nick… nick… nighty night nick…
I’m beat and I hardly broke a sweat today.
n
>>So no less than three woke states conspired to put this p.o.s. (apologies to innocent meadow muffins) on the road so he could kill people in Florida.
Was the p.o.s. driver driving the truck to deliver a load or did he just steal the truck or the like? If the former, has his employer been arrested yet? Accomplice after the fact?
This. After TSA was established, anytime I went through their asinine security, I thought up ways to get stuff past them. Pretty trivial.
I always have a pocketknife with me (and not a tiny one). Normally, I would stuff it into my checked luggage at the last minute. At least once, I forgot and carried it through the checkpoint. No problem.
They did catch me out once, after I cleaned out my mother’s house, and was returning home with a bunch of metal knickknacks in my carry-on. They made me check the bag, because the knickknacks lit up the x-ray machine like a Christmas tree.
Security theater.