09:59 – Barbara is leaving today to drive up to Cape May, New Jersey to spend several days visiting with friends. It’ll be wild women and parties for Colin and me while she’s gone. Or it would be, if I knew any wild women. Unfortunately, Alleghany County and Sparta are really just a big Basket of Deplorables, and wild women are very rare in a BoD.
Another flurry of emails from Jen and Brittany, both of whom independently decided that, with the approach of colder weather, what they’re both shortest of is firewood. Both of them have trees and the means to fell them, but both decided just to order in a good supply of dry firewood. Like me, neither of them expects anything catastrophic to happen with the election but, also like me, both of them think there’s a small but real chance that something will happen. Better to be as prepared as possible against that.
The closer we get to the election, the worse things look for Clinton. A couple months ago, it looked like it’d be a slam-dunk for Clinton. A month ago, Clinton still had what appeared to be an insurmountable lead in the polls, but now things appear to be just about tied. The momentum definitely favors Trump, and that’s even without an October Surprise. And I think we Deplorables are underrepresented in most or all of the polls. I think a lot of mainstream Democrats and Independents are going to end up holding their noses and voting for Trump.
A white police officer in Columbus, Ohio shot and killed a black armed robbery suspect who pulled a gun on him. Based on the reports of the incident, there’s no doubt that it was a good shooting. After the fact, it was determined that the dead suspect, Tyree King, was 13 years old and that the gun he pulled on the cop was a very realistic-looking BB pistol. That cop had to assume that it was an actual Glock, and that he, his colleagues, and innocent bystanders were at risk of being shot. I have no sympathy for the dead suspect. Think of it as evolution in action. One has to be incredibly stupid to pull a gun on a cop, let alone a toy gun. No reports of rioting so far, but it wouldn’t surprise me if riots occur. I’d think that any reasonable person would conclude that this kid deserved to be shot, but BLMers are not reasonable people.
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The BLM thugs know full well it was a reasonable and legal shoot but they’ll use it anyway to foment more tension and unrest. Like they have with other such incidents.
I visited Cape May, NJ, with the first wife a long time ago; nice little town. With Worcester, MA and SF, Kalifornia, it has the highest concentration of Victorian home architecture in the country. Very colorful against the ocean.
Another sunny day with blue skies but no rain.
We’ve had a dramatic increase in heard gunshots here. We used to only hear gunshots on July 4 and New Year’s Eve, which is pretty typical no matter where you live down here. But we never heard gunshots on random nights.
We’ve had gunshots pretty much each of the last 3 or 4 weekends.
About the only VISIBLE change is our surrounding neighborhood is a dramatic increase in black people on the streets and sidewalks. There are more at bus stops, riding bikes, walking on sidewalks, and hanging out drinking and begging than there ever were since I moved here. They are not dressed like lawyers either.
I suspect that a bunch of section 8 housing was opened up in the surrounding areas, based purely on appearance and that they don’t seem to have cars. It’s almost impossible to know where the section 8 is though, but we know that HUD has been beating cities with a funding stick to get more section 8 spread thru affluent communities. Some call this the “magic dirt theory” which seems to hold that the dirt under poor people is somehow responsible for their unfortunate state, and by changing the dirt under them, you will change their lot in life. Based on real world observation, I’d say the opposite is true.
nick
They are not dressed like lawyers either.
Let me guess, pants at the mid thigh. I’ve noticed that the women are doing it now also to which I am very confused about.
I have a friend who calls the area in Houston between I-610 and Beltway 8 the “war zone”. Don’t get any on you.
The traffic out here in the sticks is getting worse by the day, especially since school started. In fact, we are probably no longer the sticks.
I have found a nice house outside the Grand Parkway that I would like to buy but the owner is asking too much. I have offered $550K if they get desperate. The house is on 1.2 acres with its own septic system and a common water well. There are 3 bedrooms down and 1 bedroom up. There are 3 full bathrooms down and a full bathroom up. There is a 20 x 20 ft game room down and a 25 x 25 ft game room up. The stairs are hidden behind a book case which is kinda neat. I would add another master suite to the house which would cost $125K. The house has a lot of deferred maintenance since it was built in 2003. And that is not a pond, it is a mosquito generation device that the wife would want to fill in.
http://www.har.com/6302-Bridlewood-Dr/sale_99545314
That “pond” looks like an open cesspool. How can this be on a septic system, there is not proper room for a leech field. A “common water well” is also trouble.
BTW, in my area this would be asking over $1-million, probably $1.5m.
I forgot to mention that there is an awesome 3-D model of the house at
http://search.har.com/engine/harvirtualtour.cfm?mlnum=99545314&leadid=6
BTW, in my area this would be asking over $1-million, probably $1.5m.
This property is out in the sticks. If it was inside I-610, the price would be $1.2 to $1.5 million.
And the Houston real estate market is now overfull. The inventory is up to 4.5 months (it was 1.0 months two years ago). Houses above $350K are becoming hard to sell according to my realtor.
That “pond” looks like an open cesspool. How can this be on a septic system, there is not proper room for a leech field. A “common water well” is also trouble.
That is a three stage aerated septic system with chlorine treatment for the 3rd stage. The cement tank tops are on the right side of the fifth picture. There is a pump and sprinklers at the back of the property. I would not drink the “water” …
The common water wells are 2,000+ ft down at the bottom of the five county aquifer under Fort Bend County. You get much cleaner water down there. There are least three wells and pumps out in this area that are cross tied to each other.
BTW, Houston is going down, IMHO. There are 120+ oil companies in Texas that are desperately hoping for the price of oil to rise from $40 to $60. The banks are holding off on calling their loans as that will force them right into bankruptcy. Many of these companies have over a billion dollars in debt as they were financing operations with loans and making profits at $100+ oil. Those days are long gone and will not come back unless Illary outlaws fracking.
You really need to seriously consider relocating far outside that area.
Run Forrest, RUN!
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You really need to seriously consider relocating far outside that area.
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Can’t get so far out that the wife can’t commute easily. She’s the earner after all….
But I do look. Every time I’m out there, I look. I’m not the only one looking to jump outside the next ring road though, and prices have gone up. Some places I’ve looked went from $1k/acre to 10k/acre for undeveloped land.
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I agree with RBT and also worry about you guys down there and Mr. ech. I get it what your priorities are but wow. I hope not, but it may come to a point someday where your priorities change drastically and suddenly. That stuff about hearing gunshots now all the time and the big increase in BLM types in one’s hood is, and has always been, a cause for major concern and “white flight.”
Not my place to say much, but I’d be seriously discussing options with the spouses about now. Seriously. As I also advise my two married younger brothers, but they’re not hearing gunshots all the time yet.
This has got to stop:
http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/16/all-navy-sailors-must-undergo-transgender-education-by-july-2017/
The banks are holding off on calling their loans as that will force them right into bankruptcy
Same thing happened in the mid to late 80’s. I worked for National Bancshares Corporation, a large bank holding company. In the beginning of the 80’s banks were not allowed to have branch banks. Holding companies were away around the rules except that each bank had to be solvent on it’s own.
With the oil crash in the 80’s many of the smaller banks with large oil loans were going to go under. Texas changed the law and allowed branch banks and thus the smaller banks could be bought (absorbed) by the larger banks. It helped for awhile.
But my company was bleeding money to the tune of several millions of dollars each month being put into loan loss reserves. The bank outsourced IT to save some money. Everyone in IT was terminated and rehired by MTech. It was not enough. I left before the big collapse.
Eventually the holding company could not stand the losses and got bought by some larger company (I don’t remember the name) after being bailed out by the FDIC. All shares of the holding company were now worthless. Many people lost tens, even hundreds, of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile the top brass got hired by the acquiring company and provided golden parachutes. These executives did not suffer at all.
I had a retirement plan with the holding company. When IT was terminated anyone with less than $3500 in the account was paid directly, everyone else, nothing. I figured the money I had contributed was lost forever.
Then about seven years ago I got a letter from Bank of America asking what I wanted to do with my retirement funds. I never worked for BofA so was confused. Called and as it turned out BofA now had the retirement from NBC. So I applied for my retirement money. Not much, only $118 a month. But not bad for only having worked there six years.
What shocked me was the amount of money in the fund. Several billion dollars. What was more shocking was what the law firm was charging to administer the funds. About 50 million dollars a year. Hell, I was willing to do it for one million dollars a year but my offer was rejected.
You really need to seriously consider relocating far outside that area.
If the 299 Days author and my son are correct about a Mexico civil war brewing and four million refugees running across the border of Texas, Arizona, and Kali, I’m not sure that one can can get far enough away. Maybe the Carolinas.
Although Mr. nick hearing gunshots at night is unnerving at his location. We hear gunshots all the time at our house but the large ranch next to our office has a gun range that is used daily. Sometimes to 10 pm. Different kind of gunshots. One of the guys over there has a bump gun or something like that, tat tat tat tat tat tat tat for 20 to 30 rounds.
This has got to stop
The continued pussification of the military by Odooshnozzle. Soon the troops will all be wearing unisex pink jumpsuits.
I got a #10 can (49.5 oz) Backpacker’s Pantry Red Beans and Rice for $23.
Just soak a serving in boiling water…
Not supposed to consume it beyond 7 days past opening, but even for a solo guy that’s about $3.27 per huge serving each day for a week. (Clearly can adapt leftovers with some of the ideas mentioned here.)
One catch: “Best Before 05/06/41” so I guess it’s World War II surplus !!
“Hell, I was willing to do it for one million dollars a year but my offer was rejected.”
Because you screwed up, kemosabe; you gotta think BIG, amigo. If you’d asked for the $50 million a year you might have got it, them thinking no one would have the NERVE to ask for that much if they weren’t qualified; they’d probably just ASSUME it.
“… a Mexico civil war brewing and four million refugees…”
It would have to ramp up a few levels to get to the civil war stage; and they have a lotta factions; pissed off rural farmers, Roman Catholics, narcotrafficante gangstas, corrupt soldiers and cops (including spec ops personnel), and of course the bankers and gummint people. I’d predict chaotic anarchy instead of an actual civil war down there, and we’re gonna get the millions of refugees from south of the Rio Grande anyway, PLUS from the Middle East and Africa, apparently. Just remember: they do it out of love and it’s the Christian thing to do to welcome them all with open arms and support them even better than our own Deplorable citizens.
I wouldn’t want to live anywhere within several hundred miles of the border with Mexico. And, yes, you could do a lot worse than rural North Carolina. We’re not in the Blue Ridge Mountains because they’re only 60 miles from Winston; we’re here because I decided it was the best location, probably about tied with the Montana/Alberta border area. Better in several respects; worse in several others.
One catch: “Best Before 05/06/41” so I guess it’s World War II surplus !!
Maybe that’s 2041
“Hell, I was willing to do it for one million dollars a year but my offer was rejected.”
Because you screwed up, kemosabe; you gotta think BIG, amigo. If you’d asked for the $50 million a year you might have got it, them thinking no one would have the NERVE to ask for that much if they weren’t qualified; they’d probably just ASSUME it.
All officers of a company have personal fiduciary responsibility for employees tax payments and retirement funds. If you screw those up then the IRS will come looking for you. And it won’t be Revenue Agent Friendly. I am constantly amazed at people who do not understand this and think that they can stiff the IRS without paying the piper.
I have a defined benefit pension starting when I turn 65 from TU Electric, then TXU, now Energy Future Holdings. Before they filed bankruptcy in April 2014, EFH moved the $4 billion pension fund over to Fidelity. $265 /month when I turn 65, who hoo!
http://www.bankruptcylawinsights.com/2016/05/energy-future-holdings-chapter-11-case-the-largest-game-ever-of-texas-holdem/
BTW, EFH is still in bankruptcy after two years. I am wondering if they are going to move to Chapter 7 (dissolution). EFH makes over 30% of the electricity used in Texas today. We made 40% of the electricity back when I was there in the 1980s.
“”One catch: “Best Before 05/06/41” so I guess it’s World War II surplus !!
Maybe that’s 2041″”
Uh, yeah. I was kidding.
Outstanding price but they only had the one flavor, and one deal per day.
Guess I’ll get another one or two… Feel good about two or three weeks
between now and 2041. Incremental improvements…
Not that I don’t have rather a lot of other stuff stored, but that item is
particularly comforting in how solid it is for the price.
And, yeah, I’m giving in to the #10 can arguments, some.
Yeah I was being flippant myself. Did anyone even use the term backpacker before 1968?
“PC market ‘broken,’ vendors must innovate or die by 2020”
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/pc-market-broken-vendors-must-innovate-or-die-by-2020/
“The PC market is failing, and vendors have until 2020 to either change their approach or get out, according to research firm Gartner. The market is oversaturated and, as we know it now, is “broken,” said Gartner research vice president Tracy Tsai in a report.”
Here come the price increases.
If the 299 Days author and my son are correct about a Mexico civil war brewing and four million refugees running across the border of Texas, Arizona, and Kali, I’m not sure that one can can get far enough away. Maybe the Carolinas.
Forget Mexico. What about the ongoing invasion of Californian refugess? They have established serious beachheads in Travis county and North Dallas in a swath stretching from Alliance to Plano. Anywhere you see In-n-Out Burger is a sign of the infestation.
Forget Mexico. What about the ongoing invasion of Californian refugess? They have established serious beachheads in Travis county and North Dallas in a swath stretching from Alliance to Plano. Anywhere you see In-n-Out Burger is a sign of the infestation.
^Anywhere you see In-n-Out Burger is a sign of the infestation^Anywhere you see In-n-Out Burger or a Carl’s Jr is a sign of the infestation
Fixed that for you.
And we have them here in the Land of Sugar also. Zipping around at 90 mph in parking lots in their Beemers.
We have a serious refugee problem from all 57 states here in The Great State of Texas.
I put in a bid on a state contract to convert 20,000 pages of “Oracles Forms and Reports” application to a Java web app. I was going to do it through a program to read the existing pages and generate the Java code. The other vendors were going to hire teams of dozens of developers, plus business analysts, project managers, admin assistants, etc. My bid came it at less than 1% of the price of the next-lower bid, and was rejected for not being serious.
If I’d put in a bid at 80% of the next lower bid, I could have hired a bunch of drunken hillbillies or my kin (redundancy alert) and paid them peanuts (or booze) and made a huge profit. Live and learn.
The moronic thing is, a savvy and honest state manager could have put me on contract to do a proof of concept at very low cost. They would have risked very little money and had the possibility of getting their job done for a fraction of the expected cost. So far as I know, that was not even considered; they certainly never spoke to me about such a thing. One might almost suspect they intended to steer money to a favored and connected vendor, if one didn’t have faith in the probity of the custodians of public wealth.
Oh Steve, department heads never reduce size or money. Not in government. More money, more people, I’m important. a real BSD. I need 20% more budget next year. Oh and a raise too.
Trump is giving a speech in Miami and has a big sign up behind him, “Les Deplorables”:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/les-deplorables-trump-took-the-stage-in-miami-in-the-most-over-the-top-way-possible/
I approve of this.
Dirty Harry Reid is also on TV calling tRump every name in the book but murderer. It just shows how the MSM is in the bag for the Dumbocrats that a “journalist” would just sit there and let Reid be suck a dick. Just like Biden during the VP debates. Reid and Biden should team up as the Bi-Polar Express. What a couple of scumbags. I now wish Reid wasn’t retiring. There is no telling what he’ll do to screw up Nevada locally. I wish he would go home to Searchlight and diiiiiiiiiiiie. At least the Union Thugs should finish him off after his gym equipment “malfunction”.
Anywhere you see In-n-Out Burger or a Carl’s Jr is a sign of the infestation.
How could I forget. Jack in the Box too.
The terminal phase of the infestation is Round Table Pizza. I haven’t seen any of those near us, but there is a lonely Papa Murphy’s across from HEB — a Portland favorite since they can take food stamps.
That’s a nice house Lynn. Still too close to Houston for me, but…
I do wonder where the drain field is… I’m guessing behind the garage. The patches in the the concrete driveway are a question. The pond, hey, if it has fish the skeeters won’t be a big deal. Get a few ducks and geese. And some peafowl. And a few chickens. Eggs. It will be great. Trust me.
And then, down the rabbit hole for a couple of hours…. I have a Jim Walter house. Yes, I know, I hear everyone screaming “ICK!!!” White Trash”.
Built in 1983. The county knows there is a house here. Beyond looking at the deed, I know by the date prints on the back of sheetrock scraps and the bottom of the bathtubs.
Uh, because we have done things to the house. I’m not removing chunks of sheetrock like some insane methhead. Eh, what is meth, anyway? House was built in Spring into Summer of 1983. How much, I don’t know…. I’m guessing 90%. At 90% the new owner gets to install light fixtures and paint the walls…. and flooring.
Good for him and her. I mean it. I remember when painting a room was my max skill level.
The rabbit hole part was weird. There are websites that have my name with a phone number that I don’t recall. I remember my phone number in Austin 835-1266 and that was 23+ years ago. I remember the license plate for my first car, AKN-729. Paint code ky9. AKA, Bug Gut Yellow. 1975 Cordoba. Rich Corinthian Leather. Sold it in 1985. I don’t remember this phone number.
My dad’s name is attached to the mystery phone number. How? He never lived here. He died 08/09/10. They found him at lunch time… so, 11 AM ish. I found out my mom is living in Mobile and she’s 128 years old. I’m all good for mommy living forever. She’s also living in Brenham, Texas and I know she has never been to Brenham. Tho she does like her some Blue Bell ice cream. Milk chocolate only.
I know where mom is living. Not in Brenham, not in Mobile.
Weird stuff.
The pisser part is that to even try to correct any of the crap, you have to register and sign-up. And some sites want you to pay them.
No, no, no, no!
Anyway, it’s the Presidential floor plan. I rabbit holed while looking for the floor plan. Because I have a part of my website with pics of “home improvements”. No luck. The Presidential II, yeah, found that. Not the same house inside… it looks real effed-up if you are thinking of plumbing.
Oh, well. I can draw a picture and scan it.
…but I like Round Table pizza.
Oh, I am also from California.
I used to go to the original (first) Shakey’s Pizza. Back when they had Dixieland Jazz bands on weekends.
Old, I am.
Based on the Klinton Krime Foundation IRS filings, how can it possibly be tax exempt? Of $91 million in 2014, only 5.7% went to charitable grants? $34 million on salaries and the rest on “other expenses”. They must have bought their good rating.
Shakey’s pizza had all the long tables and you sat family style. They used to play old black and white movies too, Laurel and Hardy iirc….
Regarding the gunshots, it’s not shots in anger. More like some idiot getting drunk and blasting a mag into the air. Like a holiday every weekend. Still, not my idea of a good time. My actual subdivision is still one of the safest and lowest crime of any precinct in Houston. The surrounding area is getting better, but before it can, there is always an increase in crime.
And if we have new imported criminals, that changes everything. White flight here I come.
nick
My actual subdivision is still one of the safest and lowest crime of any precinct in Houston. The surrounding area is getting better, but before it can, there is always an increase in crime.
And if we have new imported criminals, that changes everything. White flight here I come.
Get out before the Houston real estate market crashes. Again.
And be careful about flooding if you do move. Some of those Katy subdivisions are a little low. But you already know that …
http://www.emergencymgmt.com/disaster/Lessons-learned-from-Katy-area-floods.html
Not. Like. Us.
Pastor is arrested after he ‘dated an 8-year-old girl, married her at 10 and got her pregnant three years later’
Jose Morales, 49, arrested after he allegedly molested several children
Was apprehended after one of the accuser’s mother’s alerted the police
Her daughter had been self-harming because of the abuse she suffered
Investigation is ongoing but police have so far found the pastor molested at least five girls over a 30-year period
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3793021/Pastor-arrested-married-10-year-old-girl-got-pregnant-three-years-later.html
Busted gasoline pipeline in Alabama.
Shortages and price increases pending,
all over the southeast…
Busted gasoline pipeline in Alabama.
Shortages and price increases pending,
all over the southeast…
Not in the southcentral (TEXAS !). We make that stuff here. Around 30,000,000 gallons per day. Maybe 40,000,000 gallons per day. Tough to quantify.
I’ve been buying 20 gallons, twice per week, since my daughter has been “borrowing” my truck.
Shortages and price increases pending,
Yep. Prices jumped $0.10 a gallon today even though the distributor is using fuel that was purchased at a lower price. Only one distributor in the area and anytime something happens they jack the rates immediately. However, prices drops are not immediate because the distributor says “the more expensive fuel must migrate out of the system”.
Just added it up and I burned 13 gallons per _month_ first half of year.
Will be using less since some situations have changed now.
Well…THAT was an interesting and entertaining series of posts. Informative, too. And Mr. paul wins the innernet for today! Makes ME wanna slide down a rabbit-hole and then later use it as a verb. I approve!
In other nooz, Princess is home! Back in etats-unis, briefly. Staying at Grandma’s tonight and then coming tomorrow to take Mommy’s Saab for the week. Why? Because Princess’s Matrix has an expired MA registration (could have been taken care of months ago, like I told them, but it’s like pissing in the wind here). So to move her stuff back up to Moh-ree-all for her last (better be last) year of college, she is taking Mommy’s car, which we….just…got…back…from…the…shop. Again.
Then next weekend, me and Mommy get to drive up to Moh-ree-all so Mommy can get her car back. This will cut into my NFL-viewing time but not as regards the Patriots, who are playing back-to-back games this Sunday and again on Thursday night.
Meanwhile I’m taking Mommy to the airport tomorrow early afternoon for her flight to Charleston via Newark. After which I’ll attempt some more work on our back porch stairs and new railing, having made a bit of progress today until my back went into some nice pain spasms. And then I’ll install CentOS and Nethserver on another desktop here and get it set up with the firearms sites, Toob vids, and bank biz connection via gnucash.
Mrs. OFD will be gone for a week, home for a day, and then gone for another three days before getting more free time here at home. And next month on the 9th we’ll be flying up on a puddle jumper to northern Noveau Brunswick for a week to close out great-grandma’s cottage for the winta. I’ll do some SHTF recon, too.
Full moon tonight (Harvest Moon), kids. Be careful out there.
They must have bought their good rating.
Actually, the Clinton Foundation has either no rating or a poor rating from charity watchers because of how poorly it is run.
“Did anyone even use the term backpacker before 1968?” Yes, I was familiar with the term in 1962 – ‘course I was using a surplus army plywood pack frame at the time, the first year I heard about Kelty.
…but I like Round Table pizza.
Oh, I am also from California.
I like In-N-Out and Round Table … and I was born in Anaheim. I guess I’m part of the problem.
I never acquired a taste for Papa Murphy’s. It took me about a year to figure out why that chain dominated the market in and around the HQ in the Portland suburb of Vantucky (Vancouver, WA).