Cool and wet, but the forecast calls for clear sky. We’ll see about that. It never cleared yesterday, and the breeze was chilly when the bright overcast was less bright. I think we’ll get the same today. Maybe mid 60sF.
I had a leisurely day yesterday but did get a lot of small things done. The biggest thing was getting the Christmas stuff up, which might not sound important, but demonstrates that we are here and consider this place important, and treat it like a home. I did get a chance to catch up with my fisherman buddy. He’s been tired and run down, the followup to the chemo is kicking his @ss. They’re gonna pause that for a month and let him get caught up. I haven’t been up in a while so it was good to see him.
Today I’ll do some more small things, maybe even mow the lawn. It looks ok but would look better mowed. I’ve still got lots to sort and put away.
And I’m making a list of stuff that I somehow missed, like jelly for toast. Time to bulk up the TP stash too. Too many women in this house this year…
Stack stuff, but don’t forget to stack some good times and to maintain real life relationships. The holidays are a perfect excuse to touch base with someone you might have not talked to in a while. These are the good ol days.
nick
Best wishes for your fisherman buddy, Nick!
Serious illness puts – or should put – many other inconveniences and vagaries of life into perspective. The healthy person wears a crown that only the sick can see.
Wishing you all health and happiness this Monday morning!
Following on from yesterday’s discussion quoting Divemedic regarding inheritance taxes…
Inheritance taxes are evil, immoral and unjust. Whoever accumulated the estate paid taxes on it all along their lifetime. It has already been taxed.
The state gets away with inheritance taxes only because prospective inheritors want to get their hands on “free” wealth, and thereby put up with the state wetting its beak because that is the price to pay.
I would immediately support any politician or political party that ran on the single issue of abolishing inheritance taxes. If they achieved that, it would be a major achievement.
The AI generating the articles at Yahoo read Ramsey’s study.
“Recent studies”.
Also from Ramsey’ study but not cited properly.
Passing the EIT 30 years ago required knowing how to work time value of money problems. When I took the test, that section was roughly 25% of the exam. Gen X/Y engineers saw at least one class in any ABET-certified undergraduate engineering cirriculum.
The exception would be “computer” engineers. ABET didn’t certify those programs when I graduated.
+1000000
I’ve told my son one of the big gifts his mom and I are giving him is exiting college with no debt. Granted, he had scholarships that covered all tuition and most of the university incidental costs, but room and board is still at least half. First year dorm and 3 years of an apartment are coming in at just under 50k. Add on food and other life necessities, and it isn’t cheap. But he will graduate in 4 years with roughly a 3.4 gpa in aerospace engineering. I’m proud of the kid, errr, young man.
I had most of the college expense saved in a 529. I purposely left it a little short. I’ve put some in earlier this year and will add some more early next year to fund through the end and save on some state income taxes.
Oh, and the other big gift we are giving him is helping fund his Roth IRA. With his summer jobs, he contributed 15% of his income into it. We funded the rest, up to the max (limited by earning for him). I’ve told him this is his inheritance. I don’t expect to be able to leave anything behind because of healthcare costs.
IIRC, doctors don’t show up until 9 or 10 on the list at Ramsey’s site.
The list should include not spending $10.00 twice a day on a cup coffee, burning money with cigarettes, and a $200.00 a month cell phone bill because a new phone each year is kewl.
beautiful clear sunny day. 43F though…
Breakfast is in ma belly…
Time to do some stuff.
n
I needed to update the online Social Security account for my wife. What a bunch of cr*p.
First it would not take either of her phone numbers because “they are not commonly used”. Where does the SS get the information on the phone numbers? One we have had for 38 years, the home phone, the other is her cell phone that she has used for 15+ years. I had to use my cell phone number which is the newer of the phone numbers.
Next the site wanted pictures of a state or federal ID. I used her passport. Had to take a photograph of the first page, then the bar code. What bar code? Oh, the bar code on the very last page, which the site never explains. Was that good enough? Nope. Now the site wanted her driver’s license, which was one of the options to start. Seems the passport was unnecessary.
Then the site requires that the SSAN be entered, the date of birth (hello, that was on the driver’s license). At which point a special code is provided that must be remembered by copying or printing. I saved it in Bitwarden.
All this to get the new SS statement for the coming year. Yes, there was a 2.8% increase. The Part B premiums increased from $185 to $202. The Part D (prescriptions) changed from $43.00 to $37.70 which was surprising. The overall net increase over last year for my wife was $6.40. $5.30 of that was the drop in the prescription cost. The increase in SS amount, was offset by the increase in Part B premiums. If the cost of prescription coverage had not dropped the net increase would have been $1.10. A whole $13.20 for the entire year. It is little wonder some people cannot survive on SS.
Of course, SS was not meant to be a retirement plan but to augment savings and company retirement plans.
My SS went up a whole $71.00 a month. Yippee! With the 2.8% increase, it was largely offset by the Medicare Part B premiums.
If shirt(-r) were valuable, poor people would be born without a$$holes.
The goobermint is trying to make you feel good by giving you nothing for your years of tax payments.
On the one hand, the joke of a 2.8% COLA for SS is bordering on injury, with the added insult of Medicare premiums that eat most or all of that.
On the other hand, IIRC, SS could become solvent overnight if benefits were cut 30% across-the-board, making outflow match inflow. And that’s with all the existing fraud and waste; imagine when the effect of kicking out illegals kicks in.
So naturally, the communists will propose means testing instead, so those of us who paid for decades will get little-to-nothing if we saved and invested wisely, and frauds, spendthrifts, and freeloaders (Dem constituents) will continue.
There is no fair-and-equitable solution. We’re all involuntary participants in a compulsory Ponzi scheme. There is no solution that doesn’t damage someone’s interest. I paid for 45 years; I’d feel cheated if it stopped. But all that I paid has been spent; there is no trust fund, only a politician’s promise.
Even the 70% solution above is still cheating current workers to pay retirees. There is no investment and growth, only pass-thru of FICA tax directly to retirees.
Muh-ha-ha:
Outrage as Biden’s trans health secretary’s name is quietly changed on portrait hanging in government building
LOL! Nobody is outraged. LGBTQWERTY is over.
still at the BOL, headed home later today
“An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an unbalanced force.” – Newton’s First Law.
Pretty soon, it will be 4 days at the BOL, then 5 days, then a week, then two weeks.
There is no fair-and-equitable solution. We’re all involuntary participants in a compulsory Ponzi scheme. There is no solution that doesn’t damage someone’s interest. I paid for 45 years; I’d feel cheated if it stopped. But all that I paid has been spent; there is no trust fund, only a politician’s promise.
Wait, Al Gore said that there is a lockbox ! He said it was an old fishing tackle box stuffed with tbills.
There is no fair-and-equitable solution. We’re all involuntary participants in a compulsory Ponzi scheme. There is no solution that doesn’t damage someone’s interest. I paid for 45 years; I’d feel cheated if it stopped. But all that I paid has been spent; there is no trust fund, only a politician’s promise.
Even the 70% solution above is still cheating current workers to pay retirees. There is no investment and growth, only pass-thru of FICA tax directly to retirees.
Plus the cashing in of some $200 billion in tbills this year for SS and Medicare EACH. All of those “disabled” Mexican kids who cannot speak English gotta get their money somehow.
Following on from yesterday’s discussion quoting Divemedic regarding inheritance taxes…
Inheritance taxes are evil, immoral and unjust. Whoever accumulated the estate paid taxes on it all along their lifetime. It has already been taxed.
The state gets away with inheritance taxes only because prospective inheritors want to get their hands on “free” wealth, and thereby put up with the state wetting its beak because that is the price to pay.
I would immediately support any politician or political party that ran on the single issue of abolishing inheritance taxes. If they achieved that, it would be a major achievement.
The repuglicans dismissed inheritance taxes for one year back in 2010 A billionaire here in Texas died that year and the newspapers screamed that he did not pay his fair share. His kids have probably spent it all now.
https://www.pennsylvaniafiduciarylitigation.com/2010/06/articles/estate-tax/legacy-for-one-billionaire-death-but-no-taxes/
OK, the local news station, WATE, is going to interview the spousal unit and I about the dog incident, the almost scam, on Wednesday at 1:30. The guy’s name is Don Dare and does stories on such issues for the TV station. I have been on his news story before about NexisLexis showing I owed $500K causing many issues with insurance and loans. I wrote him an email about the dog issue. This is not so much for me, but to warn others about these dog scams.
That means I will have to shower, shave, and put on decent clothes rather than my roam around the house floppy, well used, but comfortable attire.
Ray, I acknowledge the impulse to help your fellow man, but you have to ask yourself: Are they really worth the sacrifice of showering, shaving, and wearing clothes?
It was hard decision. I don’t want to appear like some of the other people he interviews. Missing teeth, house is a dump, shirts on backwards, barefoot with fungus toenails. Besides, if’n I was nekid, there would be a lot of envy from others. Just sayin’.
Cashing Treauries means running the printing press.
No one has ever produced a definitive book on recent Python infrastructure.
O’Reilly isn’t interested in producing “O’Reilly” books anymore, and The Big Nerd Ranch, which had a “Boot Camp” on the subject, gave up their education and publishing activities after the founders sold out and the company became part of Amdocs.
It is not just Python. I am not seeing any new worthwhile computer books in the last ten years.
My latest Craigslist ad:
https://houston.craigslist.org/acc/d/sugar-land-small-business-needs/7900525221.html
I am late, I should have run it two weeks ago. My accountant is retiring Jan 31, 2026. She has done a great job for me over the last 14 ??? years.
Half of the people who responded to my craigslist ad are wanting remote. Are they crazy ? I run a real business.
“Pictures with Santa, $5”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9G5xswLenFDYx0WanMzazS-R3fIcRkUsb-tZ1NxzEkr6K1QEsZtAQQ0c7TETMSBH4RXuuZPAAsDnoVG8Wcj0Dp9FuF5rfz1dED5zi6UpQq4rwQDkvT2L2a_NEwEfQKXAmw-BRkMy_50J7kQjWDAItDU_NUFgiJSIoJDW0hBWM4N7c2LWms2jsj2lDvc0/s689/Meme%20-%20pictures%20with%20Santa.png
From:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/12/memes-that-made-me-laugh-289.html
And I love the plug labels. But I don’t get the Yoda reference. And I did the frozen orange juice many times as a kid, got whippings with that wooden spoon too.
Cashing Treauries means running the printing press.
“Smoke and Mirrors”
https://areaocho.com/smoke-and-mirrors-3/
“I know that I tackled this one 16 years ago, but after eighteen years of running this blog, there are very few topics that I haven’t mentioned. The left loves to claim that Clinton ran a budget surplus when he was President. That is false. The national debt actually went up every single year that he was President. The reason that they can claim this, is the money was moved from one account to the other.”
“Let’s say that your wife is angry that you are spending all of your money on guns and booze, and is afraid that you are maxing out the credit cards. You show her the bank statements from the checking account, and low and behold, your balance is larger now than it was a year ago: “See?” you say, “We have a positive cash flow.””
“But what you didn’t show your wife was that the only reason your checking account is larger is that you borrowed the money from the kids’ college fund. It’s cool, your kids are only 8 and 6 years old. You have more than a decade to pay yourself back. It will be fine. It doesn’t count as debt, because you owe it to yourself.”
Divemedic is correct again. And it is time to pay the piper.
BTW, the Social Security and Medicare lockbox is not a file cabinet, it is an old fishing tackle box.
“Mattress Mack is America’s newest College Football Playoff lobbyist”
https://www.chron.com/sports/college/article/mattress-mack-college-football-playoff-texas-21230063.php
“”The College Football Playoff Committee has officially lost its mind,” McIngvale said. “Texas left out. Notre Dame left out. But James Madison and Tulane in? Stop it! Vegas would’ve favored Texas and Notre Dame over those teams by 20+ points. And the TV ratings won’t just dip, they’ll fall off a cliff. Nobody, I mean nobody, is turning on the TV to watch blowouts disguised as ‘Cinderella stories.’ College Football Playoff Committee, this is the worst decision in playoff history. Do better.””
My Aggies are playing Miami on Dec 20 at home. Should be a rollover. But my Aggies lost to Texas badly so anything goes.
Think yodeling, yoda-lay-he-who.
“Nonsense”
https://areaocho.com/nonsense-2/
“This is what GenZ thinks of economics:”
I agree, utter nonsense.
“Capitalism is when you own two cows, are free to sell one, buy a bull, and multiply your herd.
Socialism is where you have two cows, and the government takes one to give to someone else.
Communism is where you have two cows, but both are owned by the government, who may give you some milk if you wait in line for it.”
We are living in Socialism now in the USA.
I have paid over a half million Dollars into Social Security and Medicare, I doubt that I will get a good return on my money.
Passing the EIT 30 years ago required knowing how to work time value of money problems. When I took the test, that section was roughly 25% of the exam. Gen X/Y engineers saw at least one class in any ABET-certified undergraduate engineering cirriculum.
Huh, I do not remember any time value of money problems on the EIT when I took and passed it in 1981.
On 12/8/2025 1:17 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
Zero for five here, including my cousin’s book.
Baen reprinted a lot of Heinlein’s works back in the 2000s. But they are generally not series.
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Beast-Robert-Heinlein/dp/1451638078
“Investor letter reveals skyrocketing growth of Waymo’s robotaxi rides”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/investor-letter-reveals-skyrocketing-growth-215813370.html
“In the letter, Tiger disclosed that Waymo is now providing 450,000 robotaxi rides per week — nearly double the amount it disclosed this spring.”
“That number will rise as the company continues its aggressive rollout strategy, too. Waymo, which provides commercial robotaxi service in five cities, has announced plans to launch in 12 additional cities in 2026, including Dallas, Denver, Houston, Nashville, and San Diego.”
Looks like Tesla got beat so far for the Robotaxi business. I did not know that Waymo was owned by Alphabet.
I took the EIT in 1991.
82%.
I lucked out with time value of money being such a big part of the exam. Fluids was ~ 15% of the test that year, and I had to Christmas tree that section.
Passing was somewhere in the upper 60s. Most of my friends scored in the low 70s.
The delicious irony is that the professor who flunked me and about half of our graduating class that year from his course couldn’t get a passing score on the EIT no matter how many times he took the test.
He was in the test session with us trying once again.
Miami wants to recapture the glory days from back when The Rock and Warren Sapp were on the payroll.
The Case Against Judge Dugan is Coming Into Focus
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/12/08/the-case-against-judge-dugan-is-coming-into-focus-n3809669
She is guilty based on her own words.
There is not much slack left in our system to tolerate different standards based on politics. A guilty verdict here would be a correction, but letting her off would take us further down the path to a truly ugly denouement.
At this point, they will probably let us keep the 401(k)s and IRAs. Seizing them wouldn’t matter.
At this point, they will probably let us keep the 401(k)s and IRAs. Seizing them wouldn’t matter.
Desperate government officials do desperate things. Greece and Cyprus took everything including priest pensions from the churches.
Yeah, I know, I’m the one who points out that the Tribune is not a real newspaper, but this story about the US Senate election in Texas has relevant factoids, including Colin Zachary’s exit from the race.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/08/jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-democratic-primary-2026/
“New York’s climate law will ration fossil fuels and tax the rations”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/08/new-yorks-climate-law-will-ration-fossil-fuels-and-tax-the-rations/
“The regulatory program has two very different mechanisms. First, they ration your fossil fuels. Then, they tax you heavily on the ration you get. The rationing is infeasible; the tax is ruinous.
The program is called “cap and invest,” which sounds good. Note the missing word: “tax.” You need the tax to get the money to “invest.” An honest name is “cap, tax, and spend.”
The cap is the amount of each type of fossil fuel that can be sold to consumers during a given period. Permissions to sell this amount are called allowances and they cost money.”
Who gave New York State the right to do this ?
They are going to run the rest of their industry out of the state. One of my ex customers has two 300 ton metal forges in the state. Those forges will not run on electricity.
Once he’s working professionally, if the employer has a decent 401(k) plan, that should take precedence up to the percentage that the company matches.
By “decent” I mean a cash match and either immediate vesting or a reasonable time period.
I wasn’t paying attention to the plan at work. The match is still up to 6% thanks to the Mormon management at the last big acquisition, but my employer now caps the match amount at $7500.
The cap wasn’t a big deal to me since my income is not high enough for that to matter, but a couple of co-workers were upset.
Home. Uneventful drive. Got a few more things done. Did the thing I needed to be home for. Ate dinner.
Now for some internet!
———
wrt the list of books- he HAD to put in the nonbinary witch books, even though they are new and break his rule. Because the woke is strong in this one… note also the “fallen woman” in regency england, who is going to break all the gender norms and fight the power by becoming a ……… dick. (harumph, I mean ‘detective.’)
And since when did the early to mid 2000s become “old”?
Oh, and the feisty steampunk woman series.
FFS, I bet even the angel series has woke nonsense like female angels in charge.
And the McGuire, it’s one volume, not a series.
Is this the same guy with the lists that ignore most of printed scifi?
n
wife’s feeds are all full of stories of poor, hardworking, law abiding illegals hiding in their homes to avoid ICE…
Yeah, for every story like that, I can post one like this.
n
So much vibrancy.
– I’m guessing these are organs for eating or witchcraft and not transplant. Maybe we can let Catholic Charities turn Fargo into Nigeria? I’m sure we’ll love the cultural enrichment and exotic flavors.
n
wrt the list of books- he HAD to put in the nonbinary witch books, even though they are new and break his rule. Because the woke is strong in this one… note also the “fallen woman” in regency england, who is going to break all the gender norms and fight the power by becoming a ……… dick. (harumph, I mean ‘detective.’)
And since when did the early to mid 2000s become “old”?
Oh, and the feisty steampunk woman series.
FFS, I bet even the angel series has woke nonsense like female angels in charge.
And the McGuire, it’s one volume, not a series.
James is Canadian and woke beyond belief. About 60% of the scifi books that he reviews are written by women. Or men who think that they are women. I have no idea how he finds all of these women scifi authors, the real money is in romance for anyone.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
Is this the same guy with the lists that ignore most of printed scifi?
That is Dan Livingston I believe.
https://best-sci-fi-books.com/
“For once, Medicare is trying something that actually saves money”
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/for-once-medicare-is-trying-something-that-actually-saves-money
“Medicare is the second-largest program in the federal budget, topping $1 trillion last year. In 2023, it accounted for 14% of federal spending — a share projected to reach 18% by 2032. After years of ballooning costs, something is finally being done to slow the growth. A new Medicare pilot program, the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction model, borrows a successful private-sector tool: prior authorization. And that’s good news.”
Oh crap, Medicare will probably just use the United Healthcare model, deny everything. This is not good.
At this point, they will probably let us keep the 401(k)s and IRAs. Seizing them wouldn’t matter.
I’d take the other side of that bet.
Is this the same guy with the lists that ignore most of printed scifi?
yup
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/for-once-medicare-is-trying-something-that-actually-saves-money
“Of course, the system must be designed responsibly. A well-functioning PA process should be transparent, fast, and grounded in strong clinical evidence. Decisions should be made in close coordination with the patient’s treating provider. The appeals process must be straightforward. And both public and private payers should be held accountable for improper denials or harmful delays.”
A government program that is well functioning and responsible ? Really ? This author is naive.
Get ready to sit on hold for days trying to get permission to take an antibiotic for your bronchitis.
wife’s feeds are all full of stories of poor, hardworking, law abiding illegals hiding in their homes to avoid ICE…
“law abiding illegals” is a certifiable oxymoron which can only be written by someone morally and intellectually bankrupt. If we can’t pith such like a frog and hang it on the fence for the crows I’d suggest revoking citizenship and deporting so they can get the real immigrant experience.
– I’m guessing these are organs for eating or witchcraft and not transplant. Maybe we can let Catholic Charities turn Fargo into Nigeria? I’m sure we’ll love the cultural enrichment and exotic flavors.
Or we could just declare CC a foreign terrorist organization and deport them to The Vatican with a few thousand of their best efforts, purely to give the Pope that authentic immigrant experience that he so hypocritically avoids by not accepting immigrants.
I don’t recall any “time value of money” problems in the EIT exam when I passed it in Kansas in 1979. But 1979 was a busy year for me, and I really don’t remember ANY details about the test.
Sounds like practicing medicine without a license by controlling the purse strings.
The flip side is practicing medicine without responsibility, as in disregarding cost benefit analysis.
Neither is good.
Worse is supporting a system that produces drugs that cost five figures per year. Applications for government approval of prohibitively expensive drugs should be rejected with a note that says “Resubmit when the cost is reasonable.”
There is no EIT test per se. The EIT is a designation earned in some states for 1) completing an educational requirement and 2) passing the Fundamentals of Engineering exam.
The second step is the Professional Engineering license, which requires 1) completion of an engineering degree program, 2) passing the FE, 3) experience under the supervision of a PE, and 4) passing the Professional Engineering* exam.
The whole process has some justification if the engineer is going to be involved in civic works .
For most engineering disciplines such as chemical, petroleum, mechanical, biomedical, electrical, computer, ceramic, materials, and many others, it is useless credentialism.
*actually it’s Principles and Practice of Engineering–I had to look it up.
Time for me to call it a night. I’ve caught up on the intarwebs.
Tomorrow is a busy day, chicks to hatch and eggs to lay.
n
I can see the need for a PE to supervise electrical power systems because of the public impact when those surprisingly complex systems go bad. PE for consumer electronics? Credentialism, and my one former boss can fold his credentials until they’re all sharp corners and cram them.
Tuesday. So dark. So early. Bad, bad alarm clock… no rest for the witless – an all-day meeting at work. Time to get up. Meh.
This article is more charitable about meetings than I.
Have a good Tuesday!
Louis Jordan is buried in St. Louis. Oddly enough, he wasn’t born there, wasn’t raised there, and so far as I know didn’t die there.
His final marriage and thus his widow was a St. Louis girl, and she had him buried there.
Tuesday. So dark. So early. Bad, bad alarm clock… no rest for the witless – an all-day meeting at work. Time to get up. Meh.
This article is more charitable about meetings than I.
“Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable…About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business (J-B Lencioni Series)”
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Meeting-Leadership-Solving-Business/dp/0787968056?tag=ttgnet-20
I can see the need for a PE to supervise electrical power systems because of the public impact when those surprisingly complex systems go bad. PE for consumer electronics? Credentialism, and my one former boss can fold his credentials until they’re all sharp corners and cram them.
Any public works needs to have a PE involved. And even so, things still get royally fouled up.
Just about 10 or 12 miles from my office, in Missouri City, Texas, five men died one day because a PE did not validate the lifting bar calculations for the antenna for a new 1,800 ft (600 m) high pole . The falling antenna snapped the guy wires and the three guys on the antenna and two guys on the pole fell to their deaths.
https://onlineethics.org/cases/engineering-ethics-cases-texas-am/tv-antenna-collapse
There is a video of the tower falling and the five men dying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5pkXq3zMf0
There is no EIT test per se. The EIT is a designation earned in some states for 1) completing an educational requirement and 2) passing the Fundamentals of Engineering exam.
The second step is the Professional Engineering license, which requires 1) completion of an engineering degree program, 2) passing the FE, 3) experience under the supervision of a PE, and 4) passing the Professional Engineering* exam.
The whole process has some justification if the engineer is going to be involved in civic works .
For most engineering disciplines such as chemical, petroleum, mechanical, biomedical, electrical, computer, ceramic, materials, and many others, it is useless credentialism.
*actually it’s Principles and Practice of Engineering–I had to look it up.
I took and passed the Fundamentals test in 1981 while I was a senior at TAMU. I never took the Principals and Practices test since neither test was required in Texas until 2000 or so. I filed for my PE License in 1989 at the encouragement of the TU Electric vice presidents who I worked for and received it in 1990 after I left TU Electric. My application was almost 20 pages long of projects that I worked on for TU Electric from 1982 to 1989.
I have maintained my PE License all of these years by paying the annual fee ($50 now, was $300 a few years ago) and meeting the continuing education requirements since 2000 or so of 15 hours per year.
The Fundamentals test is not discipline specific, all engineers take the same test. The Principals and Practices test is discipline specific for Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, etc.
All public works projects in most, if not all 50 states, have to be signed by a PE. That includes highways, chemical plants, power plants, buildings above three stories, dams, etc.
You will own nothing and like it.
Ho, hum. Another day, another activist judge:
Tilting FOR Windmills? Leftist Judge Demands Trump Grant Permits for Green New Scam
This, of course, will be over turned. The Dumbo’s know it will be overturned, the whole idea is to delay anything tRump does until he leaves office. The Redumblicans continue to sit on their asses and do nothing. These nut root judges need to be impeached instead of being allowed to run the FUSA.
There’s a reason that the would-be tyrants want to disarm the people.
Every time a judge’s ruling or holding is overturned or enjoined by a higher court, he should be suspended from office. One week for the first occurrence, two for the second, four for the third, and so on.
We are all going to die:
Deadly ‘super’ flu surge forces schools to close and triggers mask mandates across the US
Bust out the kabuki masks. It is not the flu. It is not the deadly flu. It is the deadly super flu this time. Calling BillyG!
Oh, yeah, only black masks allowed this time to emphasize “deadly super flu”. White masks are only for the flu or deadly flu or super flu, but not deadly super flu.
White masks are raycess.