Yeah, it’s gonna be around 76F this morning, and as humid as the swamp gets. Probably. And later it will get hot, and some parts of Houston will get rained on. Like yesterday. I’m glad it’s boring, and not hurricanes lined up, but it does make this opening segment kinda lame.
Like yesterday. Kinda lame. I did move some stuff around and do some more sorting and cleaning. I also feel like I’m getting the beginning of a scratchy throat, so I’m not ready to push hard. It’s so humid that even though it’s low 90sF, it’s draining to do any physical work. And it has been pretty much the same for months. That is a bit unusual and it’s certainly tedious.
Let’s see if I can go a paragraph without using ‘it’s’… or an ellipsis. FAIL! It’s so hard..
Kidding! I kid. Apparently the kids think the ellipsis is a boomer thing. So is capitalization and spelling, as far as I can tell, or at least it’s not their thing.
This interweb thing is changing us. Like MTV and the quick edit/jump cut, short form content is altering our brains. The “internet arguing style” is showing up in real life too. It’s not an improvement.
Today I hope to do more of the same– cleaning and organizing and moving stuff around. Also, I’ll do a couple of pickups. If I get all that out of the way, I might have time tomorrow for some noisy fun.
Staying current with all the tools is an important prep. So is stacking- both the tools and the time using them. Get some noisy fun time in before the month is over.
nick
0642 (EDT) and no one has left any comments? How can this be? Well…
First post!!!
Up with the chickens.
“so quiet yourself, and stop this fuss, there ain’t nobody here but us…”
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76F and 84%RH
Kid’s lunch is made.
Lions have all been poked in their dens.
Time to internet!
n
Hours before, in fact. I was woken before 0400, probably by yelling or thumping from Grandma or the aide.
I opened the coop at 0610. The eastern horizon was just barely lightening but at least a couple of the chickens were already awake. 100% cloud cover and light rain, which is the forecast for most of the next several days except that the light rain is expected to be heavy for most of them.
When I closed the coop last night, as usual several of the birds were on the roof. About ⅔ of the coop is covered by the tarp atop the run. The peak of the coop’s roof is right about at the edge of the tarp, meaning that the three birds’ butts were all soaking wet. They had a nice, safe, warm, dry, recently cleaned coop but chose to sit on the roof and be rained on. At least three of my chickens are literally too dumb to come in out of the rain. As usual, I clipped the low-powered light to the edge of the roof to shine some light into the coop, lifted the three dumbheads in, and gave them a minute to climb on the roosting rail or otherwise get themselves settled.
So chickens are probably near Democrats on the intelligence scale? But. They make eggs whereas…
R.I.P. OFD, Dave Hardy. Legacy.com says today is the anniversary of his passing.
I have it on my calendar as the 27th..
n
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/telegram/name/david-hardy-obituary?id=10164934
September 27, 2018
Gone but NOT forgotten.
Here’s a prescription for anyone who can’t get through life because Bad Orange Man is still alive and in the White House: take 200 tylenol and call your doctor in the morning.
Seven years already? Egad!
R.I.P, OFD.
Be sure to wash the Tylenol down with the same brand of special juice box that Kamala frequently enjoys in order to maximize the effect.
Today’s Tyler Durden cowardice protecting a mainstream media photojournalist.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trumps-best-troll-ever
“Pricing yourself out of the entertainment market?”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/09/pricing-yourself-out-of-entertainment.html
“That’s what Ted Gioia claims Apple, Disney+ and other streaming entertainment services are doing to themselves by continually raising prices. After detailing just how much more those services are charging today, he notes:”
Yup, the streaming costs are going up quickly as predicted. And the latest Mandalorian fix is coming out as a movie first.
I have it on my calendar as the 27th..
n
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/telegram/name/david-hardy-obituary?id=10164934
September 27, 2018
Gone but NOT forgotten.
I use his “The DNC and the RNC are the two halves of the War Party”. He was incredibly correct about that. Of course, OFD stole it from Eisenhower from his Industrial War Complex speech that few remember.
“CarMax Shares Crash Most Since Dot-Com Bust”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/carmax-shares-crash-most-dot-com-bust
“Shares of CarMax crashed 25% in early New York trading. If the losses hold through the close, it would mark the largest daily decline since the Dot-Com bust. The selloff was sparked by second-quarter earnings that Truist Financial Services analysts described as a “miss across the board,” with “really nothing good to see.” The news also dragged down peers, including Carvana.”
Did all of the used car dealers over expand during the Koof nonsense or is something else going on ?
“If NATO Shoots Down A Russian Plane It Would Be War, Ambassador Warns”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/if-nato-shoots-down-russian-plane-it-would-be-war-ambassador-warns
“The below interview exchange between CNN’s warmonger in chief Christiane Amanpour and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is a perfect illustrator of why NATO countries in eastern Europe and the Baltics are now hyping recent Russian drones incursions into European airspace. There is a new dangerous drive to ‘confront’ Russia, potentially sparking WW3, at a moment Ukraine forces continue steadily losing ground along the front lines…”
Russia is not ready for WW III. But neither is Europe.
I still maintain that Trump pulls us out of NATO at that point when the Article 5 yell for help is made.
“Obama Defends Tylenol, Gets Wrecked In Replies”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/obama-defends-tylenol-gets-wrecked-replies
There is nothing like an old fool. Of course, Obummer was a young fool and a middle aged fool too. “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”
“US distillate inventories to end 2025, 2026 at multi-year lows”
https://www.ogj.com/general-interest/economics-markets/news/55319209/us-distillate-inventories-to-end-2025-2026-at-multi-year-lows
“US distillate inventories are projected to be lower in 2025 and 2026 due to a significant draw in 2025, driven by refinery closures, reduced biofuel production, and increased exports, raising concerns over supply stability and price volatility.”
The USA is not ready for WW III either. We are in the middle of shutting down very old refineries (10 in the last five years) and concentrating distillate fuel (gasoline, diesel, kerosene, jet fuel, etc) production in a very few locations. The Houston Ship Channel and the Louisiana Gulf Coast will be high priority targets in WW III.
And yes, Peak Oil is coming again as certain countries (Mexico, Venezuela, etc) cannot run their oil fields and their refineries productively. And some of the worlds largest reservoirs are going dry (China, North Sea (England, Scotland, Norway, Denmark), etc). Today’s oil fields require a lot of high technology (directional drilling, fracking, etc) that all come out the USA. Running a refinery that is not a tea kettle takes incredible experience and expertise just to keep it from blowing up (step 1 is vaporize the crude oil), much less making fuels that are usable and not full of crap that clogs engines.
We are shipping 20+% of our distillate production out of the USA now to Mexico, Caribbean, Europe, Canada, Japan, etc. It may be 30% now, I am not sure. Oh, to be a captain of a gasoline tanker with three million gallons of gasoline on it. No smoking !
Not denying that Obottom was a fool since birth, but that wasn’t foolishness, it was a flat-out lie.
Life imitates art: At least one pregnant woman downed a bottle of tylenol, destroyed her liver, and is in ICU and is probably going to die. The article didn’t mention the state of the foetus but it can’t be good.
I have to say that TDS by proxy (for RFK) was not on my bingo card.
I’m sorry liberal women are so insane that they damage themselves for spite, along with their unborn babies. There is some schadenfreude, however. I’m trying to be nice, but it’s hard.
A book review: https://socialmatter.substack.com/p/kamala-you-ignorant-s?publication_id=1443172
I liked this part:
“I got into my motorcade, but we weren’t pulling out. I asked Max why we weren’t leaving. That was when I learned we were being held up by J. D. Vance. He was out of his car and walking toward Air Force Two, in violation of every rule of security and protocol. I later learned that he told reporters he was there because “I just wanted to check out my future plane.”
Probably made up like “you can keep your doctor” but it made me laugh.
I don’t think she is evil. She’s just too stupid to be President.
That was a very calculated deliberate lie.
I figure that I’m directly responsible for about 10,000 people in three states learning the painful truth about that one since 2010.
The big ethanol plant on the river in Iowa between Kansas City and Council Bluffs no longer shows up in Google Earth.
“Former FBI Director James Comey To Be Indicted ‘In Days’: Reports”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/former-fbi-director-james-comey-be-indicted-days-reports
I’ll believe it when I see it.
“if you like your doctor…” is well documented as having been a frequently repeated lie from The Chosen One and his toadies.
Or was.
Ok. Whew. As much as I loathe The Poynter Institute, they have quite a page about that lie on PolitiFact.
https://www.politifact.com/obama-like-health-care-keep/
“$2.2B green dream fizzles: Obama admin-backed solar plant to close after incinerating birds, missing energy targets”
https://www.theblaze.com/politics/ivanpah-solar-power-plant-shut-down-birds-update
“Ivanpah Solar Power Facility — which at one time was the largest solar plant in the world — is set to be shut down after it lasted only a third of its expected life span and reportedly killed tens of thousands of birds.”
“The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is located in San Bernardino County, California, and spans “approximately 3,471 acres of [Bureau of Land Management]-managed public land and incorporates three 459-foot tall power towers and 173,500 heliostat mirrors,” according to the U.S. Department of the Interior.”
At least this crazy idea had some basis in science and engineering. But even the addition of natural gas burners to preheat the steam generators and continue the steam generation after the sun went down could not make the plant work economically. The Laws of Thermodynamics are not very forgiving.
“BREAKING: DOJ files lawsuit against six states for refusing to reveal voter registration”
https://therightscoop.com/breaking-doj-files-lawsuit-against-six-states-for-refusing-to-reveal-voter-registration/
“Today the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced the filing of federal lawsuits against six states — California, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania — for failure to produce their statewide voter registration lists upon request.”
Surely, the states would not have hundreds of millions of dead people on their voter roles, right ?
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Corporate America caught: How Instacart may be breaking the law to avoid hiring Americans”
https://www.wnd.com/2025/09/corporate-america-caught-how-instacart-may-be-breaking/
“Company’s attorneys threaten job-listing website for publicizing its job listings”
“Most Americans assume that when a company posts a job opening, it actually wants someone to apply. That’s how the labor market is supposed to work.”
“But in the world of immigration sponsorship, job postings sometimes serve a very different purpose: checking a box for the government, while keeping American workers in the dark.”
“Under the Department of Labor’s PERM process (Program Electronic Review Management), employers seeking to sponsor foreign workers for green cards must first prove they tried to hire Americans. The law requires them to place ads, review resumes and certify that no qualified U.S. worker was available before moving forward with sponsorship.”
“Yet most Americans have never seen these ads – because employers often place them where no one is likely to look. They thus satisfy the letter of the law while ensuring the jobs are already earmarked for someone else. That’s where Jobs.Now, a U.S. worker advocacy group, stepped in. By republishing these hidden ads online, Jobs.Now gave them the visibility the law intended, visibility that many employers have quietly worked to avoid.”
Sounds illegal to me.
Now that Comey is indicted, what will happen? Comey will probably get no punishment and get a new book “How I was Indicted By Hitler” funded by Soros.
The
briberoyalties for Comey’s book will be paid by mid-tier authors getting smaller advances and lower royalty rates. The only expense that Soros might incur would be taking an editor to lunch in a nice restaurant and maybe not even that, as the liberal women in charge of the major NYC publishers are already on board.Ivanpah Solar … wasn’t there was a joke at one point about the combined cycle plant that it was either the most efficient gas plant or least efficient solar?
I don’t mourn it but I’m glad I got to see it in operation from the freeway a few months ago.
Co-eds with degrees like Art History granted by Ivy League universities have a certain moral flexibility and ability to keep their mouths shut which the Fortune 500 C-suites find desirable among new hires.
New hire co-eds are probably writing the book right now.
This game has been running for 30 years. Wake me when one of the C-suites pays a dime in penalties.
Who knows. One may eventually become CEO of Cracker Barrel … assuming the chain survives.
This game has been running for 30 years. Wake me when one of the C-suites pays a dime in penalties.
https://www.wnd.com/2025/09/corporate-america-caught-how-instacart-may-be-breaking/
“The Department of Justice has already gone after companies for similar practices. Facebook paid $14 million and Apple paid $25 million in settlements for requiring mailed resumes and reserving jobs for foreign workers through the PERM process.”
“take 200 tylenol and call your doctor in the morning.”
No half measures: slam a twelve of Bud Light, then do the Tylenol. Skip the doctor and go right to the funeral planner to make that video about how you hate the Orange Man so much.
And make sure the spouse hires a publicist.
Out: Saint Comey
In: Two-count Comey
What they need is a tip about him erasing all his electronics, followed by a 4am raid and armed resistance with illegally modded AK-47’s.
Tonight’s movie was Mortal. Pretty good flick, I never had the urge to eject the disc. I’ll watch it again.
It’s a Norwegian movie. About all I know about Norway is they call it Norge and they are next to where ABBA came from and they once had a lot of Vikings. The soundtrack is suppose to be in English. Maybe sorta. Turn the sub titles on.
The scenery is beautiful.
Good movie. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H6QDKRM?tag=ttgnet-20
Dunno. The morons eating a bunch of Tylenol because Trump said the stuff is bad for unborn babies, which the Tylenol makers actually said 10 or so years ago….
Meh. Whatever. You were gonna have an abortion anyway, right?
Food is mostly white.
Don’t mess with people that eat lutefisk.
Slartibartfast designed the fjords.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/09/25/msnbc-reaction-to-comey-news-n2194397
DOJ Sues Six States for Not Providing Voter Registration Rolls
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2025/09/25/doj-sues-six-states-for-failure-to-provide-voter-registration-rolls-n2663979
2020 Census Undercounts in Six States, Overcounts in Eight
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/2020-census-undercount-overcount-rates-by-state.html
Census Bureau Releases Estimates of Undercount and Overcount in the 2010 Census
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https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/2010_census/cb12-95.html
Delaware’s 2020 population was about 990,000.
A +5.45% overcount is about 54,000 people, or 150% more than the entire net overcount for the 2010 Census.
2010 was done with paper when the electronics were not delivered on time.
2020 was done with software running on iPhone 8’s.
Is it a coincidence that Blue State’s dominate the overcount list?
Is it a coincidence that two of the largest overcounted states don’t want the feds snooping in their voter registrations?
Is it a coincidence that the change to electronic census taking coincided with the largest, and TOTALLY UNPRECEDENTED overcounts in the history of the modern U.S. Census.
I know there have been bigger fish to fry, but I cannot emphasize enough that something smells to high heaven and it needs a full congressional investigation with full authority to crack the 70-year non-release of census records and find out WTAF went on.
Final question: If collecting 2020 Census data electonically had such a high error rate, how good are the accuracy claims of electronic voting? (And are any of the actors involved in both?)
What some of them did not plan was retroactively aborting themselves.
Frantic Woman: “I took 200 Tylenol and now I feel bad!!!”
ER intake nurse: “All of our doctors are treating thinking people with real emergencies. Take two aspirin and call us back next month to let us know how you’re doing.”
Did all of the used car dealers over expand during the Koof nonsense or is something else going on ?
– I think they’re worried about another Tricolor revelation or bankruptcy so used cars in general take a hit.
Carvana TRIED to change the sales model. Dunno if the giant ‘vending machine’ theater was needed or not.
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Data point, Girl Scout branded chocolate and toffee candies do not last a year without refrigeration. The fats have gone bad.
REAL toffee won’t spoil, because it’s mainly sugar. Dunno what’s in the toffee like stuff, but you can smell the fats.
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gateway pundit was looking for independent confirmation of the pregnant woman’s tylenol OD this morning when they published the story with a lot of caveats. Haven’t had a chance to check if they got any.
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n
gateway pundit was looking for independent confirmation of the pregnant woman’s tylenol OD this morning when they published the story with a lot of caveats. Haven’t had a chance to check if they got any.
“Pregnant Liberal Fighting for Life After Overdosing on Tylenol to ‘Prove Trump Wrong’: ‘Baby May Not Survive’”
https://slaynews.com/news/pregnant-liberal-fighting-life-overdosing-tylenol-prove-trump-wrong-baby-not-survive/
“Nicole Sirotek, founder of American Frontline Nurses, has revealed that a pregnant liberal is in the hospital fighting for her life after she took a lethal dose of Tylenol to protest against President Donald Trump.”
“Sirotek says she received a frantic 4 a.m. call from a distraught husband whose pregnant wife is now on a ventilator after overdosing on Tylenol in what she described as a political stunt gone horribly wrong.”
Sadly, it looks very real. Or else this woman just bet her career.
@lynn, that’s all the same detail GWP had, and it’s just too pat for me to go all in yet.
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Time for bed. past time really, but whatcha gonna do?
n
“Think of it as evolution in action.” – Niven & Pournelle