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Mercy!
It must be Friday!….AND, it’s my Flex Friday, what am I doing up so early? Woke up @ 5 and rolled around until 5:30 and just went ahead and got up.
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I noticed that the Cockpit in the picture looks a lot like my Sea Ray, along with the stitching on the seats, a Sundancer, perhaps?….Waiting on Pyro or GJT,….3, 2, 1……
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I have a question, how is the wack-job, left, Lamestream Media going to spin Trump’s talks with the North Korean Midget?
I watched the hews conference live and the Fox shows, later but before I turned in, I checked on a couple of the usual suspects, a both were talking about some guy going to the Seychelles in January 2017, prostitutes and of course RUSSIA! So, they’ll pretend that it didn’t happen? I’ll have to make it a point to look in on them when I have time. -
If China is not an active, helpful, participant in the negotiations with the NORKS, nothing lasting and meaningful will happen. If China chooses to screw with us, then there will be only negative developments. IMHO, the only way to “fix” the NORK problem is for the Kim dynasty to end in death, the whole family plus the top 3 layers of the current regime. Then and only then can any genuine reform have a chance at success. Absent the real fix, everything else is virtue signalling and window dressing.
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Good morning Hamsters. Enjoyed another delightfully chilly 45 and a gorgeous red and pink sunrise in a layer-cake form with blue sky peeking through. What’s not to like about a day that starts out like this?
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I like the seat cover on the boat as well. SD says he has one just like it. SD has been holding out on us!!
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For the second day in a row we have announcements from machine manufacturers we are dealers for giving notice as of May 1, that due to rising steel costs since October, a 4.5% steel surcharge will be added to new machine orders. The notice also says they will “continue to monitor costs along with any implications resulting from from the recent tariff announcements.”
Both announcements are almost the exact same verbiage, what is going on here?
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I don’t think there is any politics being played but I can’t help but wonder if it was an Obama tax increase that caused price increases, would it be highlighted as a separate line item on the invoice?
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#8 GJT: Prolly not. How much do you think your suppliers would like OSHA, EPA, IRS, etc climbing up their nether regions as punishment for exposing wrong doing?
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Both announcements are almost the exact same verbiage, what is going on here?
The same thing is happening to everybody, so they are responding the same way?
There’s not too many ways that one can say “The price is going up and here’s why. If they go down we’ll let you know, if they go up, we’ll let you know that, too.” Our client is sending out the same notices to their customers, too. Its happening to aluminum consumers as well.I don’t think there is any politics being played but I can’t help but wonder if it was an Obama tax increase that caused price increases, would it be highlighted as a separate line item on the invoice?
Nope. It happened immediately after the tariffs were imposed. It was the tarriffs, just like everybody said would happen.
I mean, its not like there haven’t been people telling you this was going to happen.
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SD says he has one just like it. SD has been holding out on us!!
Well, mine is a blonde and somewhat older, but yes, I have one. 😉
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OleTimerLin, posted over yonder, about REA in Texas and had a picture of a lady reading her meter, isn’t that a neat picture? For years, we had to read our meter for Wiregrass REA Alabama. Every so often, an auditor could stop by and read it, but we never witnessed that.
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When I say almost exact same verbiage, I mean almost like a form letter.
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Morning gang. Woke up under my new roof today after sleeping under it all night. Couldn’t tell a bit of difference though. I need to get outside and pick up a little, power wash the concrete surfaces, and mow the weeds in my lawn, so we’ll see what happens toward those ends today. And then there’s the painting project. Shouldn’t have any problem at all finding something to do today. You all have a great one.
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#3 – If Trump announced today that he could cure cancer the media would ignore it and show us pictures of polar bears floating on ice cubes or something. If he is able to just hold a meeting with the little twerp, that will be a monumental breakthrough. If they actually accomplish something, that will be gravy. Just opening the door is a huge step forward.
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SD😆
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Woke up to a happy guest cat, friendly and ready for his breakfast. I have an old carpeted cat tree in my room, and Matsuo has taken its top bed as his nighttime spot. He has learned already that I don’t get up when the rocking horse alarm clock begins to gallop. That just means I’ll start trying to get up. If it got cold in the house overnight, I’m much more likely to pull the covers up and snooze a little longer. Such a luxury after 30 years of Houston daybreak commute.
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#3 – If Trump announced today that he could cure cancer the media would ignore it
I think the headlines would be “Trump puts doctors out of work”.
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The one and only cat that I ever had really didn’t belong to me. My little 4 year old buddy Christopher wanted a cat, so a kitten named Crispy showed up at my house, but he belonged to Chris. I moved around a few times, and Crispy moved with me. I had to make it clear to a number of people from time to time that Crispy was Christopher’s cat, but he lived with me. So I guess I was sort of a foster parent to Crispy much like mh refers to herself from time to time. Crispy moved out one morning shortly after Christopher turned 19 and did not come back. So I called Christopher and told him that his cat was gone. If I ever get another cat I think I will name him Crispy Too – not as Crispy #2, but Crispy also too.
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That’s odd, I am sometimes called Tim the Tool.
Maybe cause the way I fill out my skin tight blue jeans. No??
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Another Trump failure,….Nonfarm payrolls increase by 313,000 in February vs. 200,000 est.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by 313,000 in February while the unemployment rate remained at 4.1 percent, the lowest since December 2000.
Wage growth was muted, however, with average hourly earnings up 2.6 percent on an annualized basis, 0.2 percentage points below expectations.
Stock market futures surged following the Bureau of Labor Statistics report. -
And, of course Trump and all us deplorable’s are pure racists.
Black unemployment falls to second-lowest level on record in February.Just 6.9 percent of black adults were unemployed in February, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the second-lowest such ratio since the agency has been keeping track.
The low mark was set in December, at 6.8 percent. Then, the rate spiked to 7.7 percent, but that increase proved short-lived.
President Trump has touted the fact that black unemployment has dipped so low on his watch, including during his State of the Union address.
When the black jobless rate hit the record low in January, though, the NAACP gave credit to the long-running recovery that began under former President Barack Obama, rather than to Trump specifically, and noted that blacks still suffer much higher rates of unemployment than whites.
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7 GJT
I suspect a memo went out to members of the Association of Equipment Manufacturers with suggested content for a notice to be sent all dealers and service companies. Many of them just cut and pasted most of it or altered it slightly. I’ve seen this kind of thing before. Obviously, they are playing the political angle with a whopping 4.5% surcharge intended to get the attention of the press and politicians.
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If you’re buying a dragline, bulldozer, crane or workover rig, 4.5% is a helluva lot of money.
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This will light up the fall election if it really happens.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will retire this coming summer, according to Sen. Dean Heller (R., Nev.).
Heller made the comments in audio Politico obtained from an event. Heller said that he believes a vacancy in the Supreme Court will bolster enthusiasm for voters. He is running for reelection this year in a state Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential election.
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Just sold some picture frames from MIL’s house. We finally have items being prepped for consignment and others I’ve put up for sale on Nextdoor, for starters.
One picture is being donated to our church in memory of MIL. Fr. Cobos says he loves it, so now I have to figure out how to get the 4′ diameter, plywood based image of a madonna and child to the church.
It’s really hitting home, now that things are finally moving. Aunt D is at the house now, doing some cleaning and she’s prepping our consignment items, which need to be showroom ready when we drop them off. Heaven help her, she’s going to have to find room for all the stuff that MIL stuffed inside the armoires. The place looks like a hurricane hit it right now.
And the buyer and I were scandalized when we found a male nude picture in the stack of frames and pictures. Erect. Aunt D just responded with “That’s something she would do.”
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#7 Re: Letters about volatile pricing
what is going on here?
It’s called pointy-headed politicians picking winners and losers.
Now, very carefully, with your index finger and thumb, form a letter ‘L’ and hold it up to your forehead. And leave there until further notice.
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Artificially jacking with commodity prices always turns out badly.
Conservatives used to be against such stupidity.
There just aren’t many of us around anymore.
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And the buyer and I were scandalized when we found a male nude picture in the stack of frames and pictures. Erect. Aunt D just responded with “That’s something she would do.”
Did it change your mind about who’s ‘big man on campus?’
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Perhaps we should be open to price controls again, a la Nixon.
And a Universal Basic Income.
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And a Luxury Tax.
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And by all means, free healthcare for all.
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President announces tariffs on imported steel and aluminum and the price of products made with steel and aluminum goes up???? What the hell is going on? I just don’t get it! I need to go up to Austin and talk to Gretchen Gardner. Maybe she’s figured it out by now.
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So I had to make my 4th or 5th 20 mile trip in 24 hours up into the mountains to take the Princessa’s dog back home and return all the food I took out of the freezer and refrigerator when the power was out.
On my way up the steep winding main road (with 6′ snow drifts), a new white Ford pickup with a fancy snowplow coming out of gate in the middle of nowhere. In big block letters on the side of truck it said, Texas Eastern Transmission Pipeline. I had to do a double take and almost honked. They own and operate the old Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines Brown & Root ended up with for WWII to get oil for the war effort to the naval yards and refineries in the northeast.
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Do I smell BACON!? Why, yes,…yes, I do. I’ve been cooking a lot lately and got to where I couldn’t figger out what to fix next, last Sunday I wanted Poke Ribs but wound up with T-Bones, (that I found on sale). This morning, I saw something from Tabasco about fish tacos and since I’ve never fixed them, maybe I’d try that. Later, in Kroger’s I saw some Wright applewood smoked, thick sliced bacon, 1 1/2 Lb, $12 bucks, on sale for $8 bucks and the Kroger brand was $8 bucks a pound! So now, it’ll be BLT’s. I put a little less than a pound in the oven and to tell you how good the bacon is, that equals 11 slices, thick and good. And, I have a 1/4 cup of bacon drippin’s to use later. The last time I did this I made refried beans with the drippin’s,…Dayaam, they were good!
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33 Hamous
Thanks for posting that. I saved it and had forgotten all about it. It’s golden.
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Oh and I got a fryer to cook in the Crock pot in the morning, Tilapia, fish tacos on Sunday,…Maybe?
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Well, since it’s Friday and I’m a good Catholic boy, I’m taking a page out of SD’s repertoire and throwing together a Nicoise Salad for supper. I don’t have any King Oscar Mediterranean mackerel but I do have some Crown Prince Mediterranean sardines.
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And while we’re at it, I think we need to tax beef exports. We need to keep those American cows at home so the Forgotten Man like me can afford to eat them.
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Ive been buying a lot of that Wright Bacon in the last year.
But finding any decently lean bacon has been a challenge in the last 90 days.
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Hannity said there’s a hot rumor that Sessions will appoint a Special Prosecutor for Clinton Foundation crimes.
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I wonder if Trump will slap tariffs on the American uranium that Obama and Clinton sold to the Russians before we buy it back?
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This is a good obituary for a guy who deserved a lot more more recognition than he ever sought. One of those stalwart conservatives in the Northeast long before being conservative was the least bit cool.
Two years later, Dusty worked as an advance man in Nixon’s reelection campaign. One day, he was in charge of the confetti for a parade down LaSalle Street in Chicago. Big problem: He discovered some confetti-makers using copies of Penthouse magazine. He had a nightmare vision of a big flake landing on Mrs. Nixon’s shoulder, as the TV cameras zoomed in. Dusty was able to prevent that.
In the mid 1980s, Dusty joined the National Review board. “I want to defeat socialism,” he told WFB. WFB valued him highly. He would make him president of the magazine, a post for which Dusty accepted no salary. NR was in sore need of sound fiscal management. This, Dusty provided.
He had a hand in any number of pots. The International Rescue Committee. GOPAC. Educational reform, especially school choice. The National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise. The Bradley Foundation, the Manhattan Institute, and the Heritage Foundation. The Club for Growth. Everyone leaned on him, everyone relied on him. He responded with verve.
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Ed Driscoll on his first meeting with the legendary Les Paul, when he was 87, back in 2002. It’s a classic.
“Is my amp flat”? He asks. “It’s flat, Les.” Comes the reply from his soundman.
“On the dot?” “On the dot, Les.”
“It should be 4 decibels clean,” Paul replies. “In other words, when I hit this note” — Paul bangs the high E-string of his signature guitar — “it should be minus-four on the meter. On the tape machine, it should be zero. But I know this guitar is like a minesweeper, sometimes!”
Hard to believe this slight looking, but authoritative man is about to celebrate his 87th birthday next week. And even harder for me, as a part-time guitarist myself, to believe I was about to be interviewing him.
Who Is Les Paul?
To baby boomers, he’s the name on their, or their favorite guitarist’s instrument (as his recent commercial for Coors Beer made light of). To the previous generation, he’s a musician with a string of pop hits in the 1950s. And there are lots of older folks around who still remember his days from the 1930s, playing in Fred Waring’s Orchestra, and backing up Bing Crosby.
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#41 Shannon
How about Trey Gowdy for Special Prosecutor? That would be marvelous.
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I don’t have any King Oscar Mediterranean mackerel but I do have some Crown Prince Mediterranean sardines.
There is little difference between them, Crown Prince is about as good as King Oscar, and I enjoy them both.
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We need fewer special prosecutors and more respectable elected public officials. Dems in congress this time around have been more irresponsible than ever, and the eReps are glad that they are acting that way. Those weasels never want to tackle a tough task but would rather argue about social programs that overall don’t amount to squat. Trump is keeping his eye on the ball – just the fact that he is considering opening up the Norks is an accomplishment. If it happens, even better. If they ever actually accomplish anything, even better than that. But arguing with yourself never seems to do much good. And to you people concerned about tariffs, why not wait and see what happens before running around all crazy. Let the story play out. Prices going up since October – he only signed the thing 2 days ago, and when I made fun of the sky falling, I was told that the effect would not be felt immediately. Now you guys are saying that it took 2 days rather than just 1. Get a grip. Would you rather drive a Cat or a Komatsu? What goes in to the price of each? It’s much more complicated than just a tariff. So relax.
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Perhaps Sleepy hasn’t been asleep?
https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/heres-why-jeff-sessions-may-be-washingtons-slyest-fox/
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Chicks on the Right did a li’l ditty about International Woman’s Day, and here is one of the MSM analyses they featured…
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This isn’t the 1960’s – companies that use these products don’t keep a year’s worth of raw materials in inventory laying around. Ever heard of Just-In-Time manufacturing and inventory systems? They’ve only been all the rage for forty frigging years.
That the President of The United States could announce a substantial increase in the price of these imported commodities and it not have an immediate effect is simply ridiculous.
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I’m deferring to #44 from yesterday.
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Call the guys at TexFab, or two thousand other fabricators in Houston and ask them how their week went.
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Come on Shannon. Slabs and sheets of steel are stored in warehouses all over, as are copper, aluminum, and other forged materials. They do not send the miners out every day to harvest that day’s need of ores. Miners (including O&G producers) work 24/7. They are completely different than Walmart retail stores. Car manufacturers keep their supply chain loaded to the hilt all the time, but when it gets full, they will slow down or stop the assembly line for a while. I certainly don’t know the full extent of how the world wide economy works, but I do know that all countries control their trading activities through tariffs, currency manipulation, foreign exchange positions, managing their natural resources, subsidies to preferred companies, agricultural subsidies, managing their labor in many cases, and other political activities. It’s just not that simple, that’s all I’m trying to say. When Government Motors has more retirees receiving benefits than it does employees manufacturing the product, the only way to stay afloat is to add the non-productive worker costs into the product. That has absolutely nothing to do with the price of steel in Timbucktoo or anywhere else. And that’s just one example.
Here’s a 2 year old CNN article about steel: https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/opinions/american-steel-industry-gibson-schmitt/index.html -
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Oh, everything will be fine. There’s been entirely too much consuming going on in this country, anyway.
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Cabcentric wine consuming is always a good thing.
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I just now found out that Ted Poe did not run for reelection. Not one of my favorite pols, but I have long enjoyed his chats on the Sam Malone show on 1070AM.
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Oh and
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I just now found out that Ted Poe did not run for reelection.
You haven’t been paying attention. Adee and I have been talking about the Pirate Navy Seal for a few weeks. He’s in the runoff to replace Poe.
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#59 Hamous
Yes, I was so delighted to see our Pirate Navy Seal make the runoff, though I’m not in his district. He’d make a good replacement for Ted Poe I think.
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Come on Shannon. Slabs and sheets of steel are stored in warehouses all over, as are copper, aluminum, and other forged materials.
Ummmmm–
No.
Shannon’s mention of “Just in time delivery.” describes the central dilemma of my professional life since the early 1980s.
It was discovered back then that if you had your raw materials delivered at exactly the right moment, you could take space you used to use for warehousing that material and turn it in to production space. The very first thing we do on a project is determine the amounts and types of steel required and order them—because all of our warehouse space was converted to production space decades ago. I quit my last job because they were low folks on the totem pole as far as delivery and the pressure to get those pre-purchases out was insane. The main client for the folks I work for now is a vertically integrated company that makes a lot of the steel coil that other manufacturers (even the competition) uses to fabricate the various steel shapes used in the buildings we make. IOW, they are at the top of the totem pole as far as delivery is concerned.
One of the reasons most of the structural steel and pre-engineered steel manufacturers n this country are concentrated in the South is the proximity to port cities. The only real warehousing done these days is on the docks. A good deal of the steel we use comes to us directly from the Port of Houston–or to one of the component companies our client owns. It would likely take about a week for any steel in warehouses waiting on delivery to empty out and be filled with new, higher priced steel—and it would be higher priced because it comes off the docks where the tariff is imposed.
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