Well, I just couldn’t resist this one.
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I like it! Nothing like a fine,…cigar. Well Fall is here 55 degrees on the front porch. I wonder how many days Fall will last?
Mornin’ Gang -
House Republicans are demanding the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) stop politicizing American heritage, weeks after the Archives slapped a “harmful content” warning on Founding-era documents including the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights.
Texas Rep. Brian Babin and 44 other House Republicans authored a scathing letter to Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero on Tuesday. The letter called on the Archives to remove the warning that is displayed atop all online cataloged documents.
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If you missed it you need to go back and read Shannon’s #76 from yesterday;
The power of the Trump endorsement.
An old campaign adage argued that political endorsements often aren’t worth the paper they are printed on, and until President Donald J. Trump, they were right. Now the most important political asset any Republican candidate could earn is the Trump endorsement, and how he’s using it will continue to reshape the Republican Party and freeze the 2024 field.
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Just think of the irony, as George P. Bush actively worked to earn President Trump’s endorsement for Texas attorney general. George P., son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and grandson of former President George H.W. Bush, stayed very close to President Trump in his public comments, and came to realize that his family connection and own accomplishments as the current Texas land commissioner weren’t enough in the era of Trump. While Trump ultimately backed incumbent AG Ken Paxton (pictured, at left) for reelection, it illustrated that in today’s Republican Party, there is only one lane: the Trump lane.
And my favorite;
That’s why it came as little surprise when news broke late Thursday night that Congressman Anthony Gonzalez — one of the 10 GOP House members who voted to impeach President Trump — announced he would not seek reelection. He was being beaten badly in the polls by Max Miller, his Trump-endorsed challenger, and he recognized there was no viable path to victory.
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From last night when Shannon 86’d the blog:
Shannon says:
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021 AT 11:18 PM
I’m curious, does anyone else around here think it’s okay to cut off little Johnny’s penis and testicles because Mommy and Daddy and their shrink think he’s a girl in a boy’s body?I don’t think it is OK at all. The “parents” (usually a single mother or a vindictive divorcee beyotch who wants to get back at her ex) need to to be beaten severely about the entire body such that they refrain from any further harm to their chirrenzes. The “doctor” who performs such surgery needs to have both his hands cut off.
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It was 60 degrees in my driveway this morning at 0555. Just a bit chilly for short sleeves, but it will warm up once the sun has been up for an hour or so.
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Entertainment in South Alabama, feeding the privet hedge into the wood chipper. I was cleaning up the mess the county made with their tree eater along the right of way. All those stalks are what’s left of the hedge after the tree whacker cleaned off the front side. They’re gone now and chopped into tiny pieces. I pulled out one limb that was about as big as my thumb and it just kept on coming. When I got it out I thought that it had to be 20′ long, nope, stepped it off, exactly 19′ long and spindly.
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I’m curious, does anyone else around here think it’s okay to cut off little Johnny’s penis and testicles because Mommy and Daddy and their shrink think he’s a girl in a boy’s body?
Of course not. These are the same twisted people who enact laws against the practice of female genital mutilation popular among Arab and African immigrants, and yet think this butchery is civilized. What would you expect from a political ideology where killing babies is considered a sacred rite?
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Morning gang. Sun is rising, and my thermometer is showing 44 degree out here in the cactus and brush country. What a gruesome topic to get up to this morning, but my point is that no matter what laws get passed, the judges now think they run the world anyway, so if you are thinking of relying on a government solution to the problem, you are just wasting time and energy. Passing laws are what politicians do for sport these days and no longer really mean anything – look at immigration for example. There are plenty of laws on the books, but what’s being done to enforce them? Nothing.
In other news, it’s Thursday already. After dark last night as I was shutting down the lights and headed for bed I saw a cat at the cat food bowl. It was dark and hard to see, but I’m pretty sure it was Crispytoo. So looks like I’ll have to go through the process of trying to tame him a little bit again if he’s going to be hanging around. There is still some food in the bowl this morning, so the varmits haven’t discovered it yet. We’ll just have to see how that goes.
Off for coffee this morning. More later as it develops.
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Oh look – ERCOT is searching for new board members. https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-power-grid-ERCOT-resignations-freeze-16478938.php
Academics seem to lead the way. Lotta good that will do. No new generating facilities, no new infrastructure – just rewrite the rule book and put new players in charge. Yeah, that will fix it. Restores my faith in my little power project here at home. Can’t let that project slide any longer as it looks more likely that I will have to use it than not.
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Y’all got fall before we did up here. It was about 62 and very humid at dawn this morning. We won’t get into the mid-50s until Saturday.
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I don’t think we need new generating facilities. We consume a lot more power in the summer than we do in the winter yet there were no rolling blackouts this summer. They need to figure out how to rapidly bring the ones we have back online during cold snaps. And stop subsidizing 14th century technology to satisfy the smug GreenNudeEelers.
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Morning all 32 degrees right now here. High of 55. 70 tomorrow. If you don’t like the weather wait 10 minutes.
Coffee calls, later.
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Sleepy Joe
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I only have a little time before I must get moving on some errands, but….let the snark begin! As usual, all bolded items are mine or my emphasis.
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Coffee & Covid
Good morning C&C family! In fact it is a GREAT morning. Today’s roundup includes news about the first constitutional anti-vaccine decision in the entire country (apart from religious objections), a tremendous new rule from Florida’s new Surgeon General that is going to make a LOT of parents and kids VERY happy, Biden’s approval slips badly with black Americans, another Sheriff refuses to enforce unconstitutional vaccine ultimatums, experts make more bad decisions with predictable results, and Joe Biden reveals that he is really a poor reflection of a Bond movie villain or something.
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BOOOOM. In a decision that rocked Gainesville, sent tremors throughout Florida, and provided peace and comfort to my 250 plaintiffs and their families, not to mention the many other Gainesville City employees struggling with the decision of whether or not to take the jab by the end of the week, the Court granted our preliminary injunction and restrained the City of Gainesville from enforcing its odious “vaccination ultimatum” policy.[See Tuesday’s C&C for Childers’ closing arument in this case.]You can read the judge’s order here: https://tinyurl.com/bz83ca6d.
If you are a serious Covid legal junkie with a pack-a-day habit, you can read the hearing transcript here: https://tinyurl.com/259cvxae.
The City was hamstrung by its decision not to put on any evidence of a compelling state interest. Both at the hearing and in her order, the judge seemed flabbergasted at the City’s lack of an evidentiary case. At the hearing, the City’s attorneys claimed they’d been surprised, that I’d just raised the privacy arguments and it was the first time they were hearing them. But not only was the right of privacy argument fully set out in my complaint… but it was also described in detail in a brief that I filed…(https://tinyurl.com/ncpu745e). So, I’m not too sure what they were talking about right there.
Anyway, I have seen many tweets and Facebook comments mocking the City attorneys for their decision. But they are competent professionals with good reputations and I assume they made a calculated strategic decision NOT to put on evidence. My best guess is that they were confident they could avoid implicating the constitutional right of privacy using their legal arguments. They made a LOT of legal arguments. Maybe they were thinking that, if they did put on evidence, they’d be conceding that the right to privacy MIGHT be implicated. Or something.
I can’t say too much about the case because it is ongoing. The injunction restrains the City from enforcing its “vaccination ultimatum”[what I call “jab or job”] until further notice, which is generally after the trial resolves the issue. Since the injunction must presume that the employees are “substantially likely to prevail on the merits,” I like our odds. The City Commission will be meeting today and discussing their options, which include seeking an appeal or trying to pull something clever with a new improved policy. Which would be dangerous for them, and would probably constitute contempt of court, which of course is what we’d immediately seek.
The better answer for the City would be to take a deep breath…and think about better ways to encourage and motivate their workforce apart from issuing diktats and ultimatums right and left. Not to mention the disgraceful commissioner Reina Saco, who was shown in a recent video making an obscene gesture at a group of peaceful employee protestors, including firemen and cops and KIDS. (Link: https://tinyurl.com/wvmynzwc). Or, for that matter, mayor Lauren Poe…
It need hardly be said, but public officials who are so scornful and unprofessional toward the people they represent probably shouldn’t be in office to begin with. Know what I mean?/snip
Anyway, there are a lot of other ways to improve workplace Covid safety apart from mandatory vaccine ultimatums. Maybe the City could spend ten minutes talking about some of those other options? Asking for a bunch of friends.
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It’s already working! Florida’s new Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, issued an emergency Department of Health rule yesterday. It has a lot of good stuff in it, two GIANT things in particular.On the masks. The new emergency rule clarifies the parental opt-out requirement. It NOW says, “Schools may adopt requirements for students to wear masks or facial coverings as a mitigation measure; however, the school must allow for a parent or legal guardian of the student to opt the student out of wearing a face covering or mask at the parent or guardian’s sole discretion.”
See those words, “sole discretion?” They just nuked the whole “doctor’s note” thing. The parent doesn’t need a doctor’s note, and the school doesn’t get to “decide” whether to “approve” the opt-out. It’s within the parents’ SOLE discretion.[LD has been a thorn in her school board’s side over this whole masking issue, herself.]
Florida parents should bring their kids to school maskless today along with a copy of the new emergency rule with paragraph (1)(d) highlighted….
The second major item in the rule is the new quarantine procedures. The emergency order shuts down schools’ witless tactic of sending entire classes of perfectly healthy kids home “just in case.” No mas. If kids don’t have symptoms of illness, they can come to school if their parents choose to send them. Imagine that. We’re going to stop treating the kids as if they were all plague carriers or something, which was the dumbest idea that a pack of clinically depressed scientists ever came up with.
Parents can choose whether to quarantine their kids after receiving a contact-tracing notice if they want to. PARENTS. And anecdotally, I can tell you that a bunch of these contact-tracing calls are super sketchy. Clients have reported numerous cases where contact tracers refused to provide their full names, refused to put things in writing, and refused to identify the allegedly Covid-positive person that initiated the trace in the first place. So now, parents can decide for themselves whether the contact tracing information is credible enough to keep their kids home.
And look at this: the rule says that contact-traced but healthy students MUST be allowed to “attend school, school-sponsored activities, or be on school property, without restrictions or disparate treatment, so long as the student remains asymptomatic.”
Without restrictions or disparate treatment. Hello! Goodbye, teachers who have sick fantasies about bullying children whose parents want them unmasked! No restrictions or disparate treatment. So. Go get ‘em, parents.
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The Morning Consult reported that Joe Biden’s popularity among black Americans is falling fast. Biden’s job performance is down 5% just since he announced the federal vaccine mandate two weeks ago, while his disapproval rating leapt up 7%. Among unvaccinated black voters, Biden’s net approval rating is down 17%. And just over the last few weeks, black Americans’ favorable rating of Biden’s handling of the pandemic has dropped almost 10%. So.
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♂️ Add Manatee County Sheriff Wells to the list of courageous sheriffs who have said they will not enforce unconstitutional vaccine mandates.
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Ruh-roh! The National Review published an article yesterday headlined, “After Mandating Masks Outdoors, Oregon’s Active COVID-19 Cases Increased 73 Percent.” The article reports that “On August 24, Oregon had 49,889 active cases of COVID-19. As of yesterday, Oregon had 86,623 active cases of COVID-19 — an increase of 73 percent from the day the governor announced the outdoor mask requirement.” Oregon’s Covid-19 death rate is also up slightly since the mask mandate was put in place.Seventy-three percent! That’s a lot. Thanks again, experts! What would we do without you?[BUT..BUT…BUT….MASKS!!!!]
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Former Vice-President Joe Biden held a “virtual Covid summit” yesterday. It was scheduled alongside a UN General Assembly meeting, which he did NOT attend. For some reason. And, not many people attended his awesome online summit, either. It’s kind of hard to find any news about it at all, to tell you the truth.But the New York Times did report that Biden’s sense of self-importance has swelled up even bigger than the morbidly obese CDC clown that is crushing the poor medical establishment’s credibility unicycle.ME 😀 😀 😀 Just a couple weeks ago Biden announced that it was his mission to vaccinate the entire U.S. of A. But now, he sees that his mission is even bigger: to vaccinate the ENTIRE WORLD.
I am not making that up.
The Times described that Biden has “set out ambitious goals on Wednesday for ending the pandemic and urged world leaders, drug companies, philanthropies and nonprofit groups to embrace a target of vaccinating 70 percent of the world by next year.”
Of the WORLD. Biden thinks his mission is to save the WORLD by jabbing everybody. Well, when I say “thinks,” I mean, you know.ME 😀 😀 😀
Vaccinating the entire world will be super expensive. That’s a problem. But don’t worry. He’s going to use YOUR money to do it: “Mr. Biden announced a series of actions, including the purchase of an additional 500 million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine at a not-for-profit price to donate overseas and $370 million to administer the shots. Vice President Kamala Harris announced that the United States would donate $250 million to a new global fund that aims to raise $10 billion to prevent future pandemics.”“Put another way, for every one shot we’ve administered to pay in America, we have now committed to do three shots to the rest of the world,” Mr. Biden said. Seems fair.
Is it just me, or is it kind of weird that the NYT is referring to Biden as “Mister” Biden instead of the other thing? Just saying.
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There were procedural (human) failures during the the big Freeze Out. The management should cleaned out and they need to drill constantly on their system reactions to power crises and have a new communications protocol.
Secondly, I want them to spend the money to go back and change all the natgas lift stations’ power to gas compressor and generator again and eliminate reliance on generated electricity for gas delivery. Anything else is just stupid.
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Anything else is just stupid.
Which happens to be the specialty of bureaucracies everywhere.
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I like cigars.
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Well, the cat is still hanging around and I got a better look this morning. While it looks a lot like Crispytoo, I think it’s a different cat. The facial markings are very similar, but looking back at the photos of Crispytoo, I think this cat does not have as much white showing on the sides as CT did. May be a relative though. I’ll keep working with this one and hopefully finally get close enough to get a really good look. This one is very shy but does not just scat when it sees me, but it does leave slinking away in the brush and hiding. I’ll keep you all updated with any new developments.
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Morning, denizens of The Couch. I’m looking forward to confirmation from EG whether his disappeared cat has come home. Speaking of runaways, I almost lost JoJo again last night. I was making final rounds downstairs to turn off lights and be sure everything was secure. The foyer seemed very dark and I expected more light to be coming in through the frosted glass panel in the front door. Occurred to me that maybe the bulb had burned out in the lantern fixture right outside the door. So I unlocked the door, opened it a bit and peeped out. Simultaneously with seeing that light was Ok, I felt fur touching my ankles. I got the door closed and the inside light turned on, and there she was, obviously disappointed that she hadn’t made it outside. Lesson learned: I can never open that door, day or night, without being sure that JoJo isn’t in, or can’t get to, the foyer.
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If there were ever any doubts as to the real existence of “The Deep State” this article should dispel those doubts forthwith.
HEADLINE: Lawmakers Demand National Archives Remove ‘Harmful Content’ Warnings On Founding Documents
House Republicans are demanding the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) stop politicizing American heritage, weeks after the Archives slapped a “harmful content” warning on Founding-era documents including the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights.The NARA decided that the 3 most important foundational documents of our country have “harmful content”?!? REALLY
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Stupid rooster …
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These Haitians have been living in Brazil for years, but they are coming to the US for an even better deal. Claiming asylum from Brazil is different than claiming asylum from Haiti, but what’s a little technicality here and there. Someone has organized this fiasco, someone is feeding these people, someone is providing supplies to these people, they must be just dropping trou and crapping where ever they feel like just like dogs or horses. Our government tells us they are being shipped back to Haiti, but they are actually being relocated into the US without shots, court dates, nothing. Daily Mail always has good pictures. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10015947/Haitian-migrants-released-US-large-scale.html
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Mharper42’s house is like a feline Gitmo.
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JoJo is the only Chez Gitmo — errr, HARP — cat in this century that ever wanted to get outside. Now when we moved in back in 1995, bringing 5 or 6 cats that we’d already had for years, one would occasionally get out the back door. Either be terrified and want back in, or get bored and want back in. Considering JoJo’s shady adventures when she got out in May, I’m not willing to risk her running into the nutcase who gave her a new green tattoo.
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I read somewhere very recently that the Kung Flu should not be considered a pandemic, but is actually now endemic. What this means, especially in the case of a rapidly mutating virus is that “wiping it out” is not an even wishful option. We need to learn how to live with it.
This means finding treatments that work, e.g., monoclonal antibodies, etc. and realistic strategies to avoid infection (NOT masks or lockdowns or anything like that) such as what people will figure out on their own (viz. Sweden).
If we stop messing with leaky vaccines, the virus will tend to mutate into something weaker over time and will turn into a flu-like illness that the population at large will be able to tolerate.
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bringing 5 or 6 cats that we’d already had for years
Hoarding cats since before it was stylish.
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Former President George W. Bush will be featured in a fundraiser event scheduled in October for Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) as her reelection race is facing a tough challenge by Harriet Hageman, who former President Donald Trump is endorsing to replace her.
Bush is named as a guest speaker at an October 18 event in Dallas endorsing Cheney’s reelection campaign. The official announcement, however, has not yet been made public.
Cheney, a daughter of Bush’s Vice President, Dick Cheney, is one of the 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach Trump back in January when the Capitol riots happened.
Since then, Cheney has been one of Trump’s most prominent Republican critics, blaming him for the January 6 riot.
It’s on, people !
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Cheney hasn’t appeared publicly in her home state since she voted for impeachment.
Maybe she’s going run from a DC bunker since it worked for Biden.
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Ha!
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There is a civil war brewing in the D party as well as the Rs. I really think that 2/3 + of what is currently being spent by government has no rational Constitutional basis – this needs to be fixed and there needs to be massive layoffs in the federal government.
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This is a very clear explanation of the situation doctors find themselves in today.
From retired physician Dr. Ted Noel at American Thinker:
The second leg of the fraud is less visible to the naked eye but much more powerful. If I wrote this before I retired, I would be called before the Board of my group and told in no uncertain terms to shut up. I might even be assessed a financial penalty with several zeroes after the one. That’s a serious impairment of my pursuit of happiness. The reason for my group’s dislike is more than the fact that I might be an irritant. They may actually agree with what I have to say. But they simply cannot afford for me to say it. That’s right: as a practicing physician in a group, my freedom of speech can become very expensive…to the group.
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So let us suppose that you use ivermectin to treat a COVID patient as he arrives in the hospital. Ivermectin isn’t on the Medicare/Medicaid approved list of medications for COVID. Your hospital pharmacy will call you up and give you grief. After wasting a lot of time getting them to finally let you have it, you’ve had to cancel half of your office day. The next day, you’ll get a visit from a coder, who will tell you that you didn’t use the approved treatment protocol and put the hospital in jeopardy because you flunked P-f-P. By the way, that “coder” is the person who “helps” you use the proper ICD (billing) code for whatever the patient has in order for the hospital to make the most money. But that’s not the worst of it.
These doctors failed to organize and unite decades ago in order to have some power to influence the direction of American medical care. Into the power vacuum stepped governments and it has been nothing but downhill ever since. The free, unfettered relationship between doctor and patient has been forever corrupted.
I’ve noticed a pronounced difference in the primary medical care group I use since they sold out to one of the regional healthcare conglomerates. They were independent physicians before and now they’re just a bunch of employees going through the motions. Of the 10 doctors, most are nearing retirement age and you can almost feel them watching the clock.
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Texpat
The whole time CHI (Catholic Health Initiatives) was
runningrunning Bellville General into the ground and sucking out everything they could, the local doctors were also employed by them. And to a man (or woman), miserable.Now that they are gone, BGH is back to running independently with my doc as Chief Of Staff. It’s a tough go for rural hospitals these days – but everyone (staff and patients) are much happier.
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These huge healthcare corporations remind me of how megabanks will go out and swallow up small independent bankers across a region and then use their deposits to feed the central banks coffers all the while starving the locals out of lending capital and resources.
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They lured a top notch orthopedic surgeon to practice at the resurrected BGH. She spent three tours patching up our guys in the Middle East wars for the US Army. She just happens to be black.
Did a fine job taking care of Fay this last go around.
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CHI had to buy out the practices of the local docs to make them employees.
I hope they lost all of that money.
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If you follow the linkage in TexPat’s #32 above, you can get to a downloadable PDF of A Guide to Home-Based COVID Treatment. I have downloaded and printed it, now to read the 26 pages.
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Go Wisconsin! Beat the Papists!
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#10 ERCOT board selection process. Did you notice that with the exception of the Buc’EEs CEO that the only other names on the selection committee come from academia? We needs some people with Electrical Engineering degrees and preferably licensed professional engineers to help select people for ERCOT’S board as well as to actually serve on the board.
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Texanadian, I give you credit for Houston’s fall temperatures. I received a package the other day. It came with a bunch of bubble wrap. I saw a strange sticker on the bubble wrap. I pulled it out and it was a label from the bubble wrap manufacturer and it said Made in Canada. 😉
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#40: Popping bubble wrap is a winter sport up here. 🙂
You’re welcome.
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Did you know that bubble wrap was originally conceived as a wall covering?
https://www.thepackagingcompany.us/knowledge-sharing/bubble-wrap-short-history/
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I use bubble wrap to wrap my pipes outside.
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#40: Popping bubble wrap is a winter sport up here.
Doesn’t it break up in thousands of pieces?
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I use bubble wrap to wrap my pipes outside.
Not the best choice. Eventually, the air inside reaches ambient temperature, and does it a lot faster than closed cell foam, giving you the same insulation value as a plastic bag.
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A type of bubble wrap with aluminum on one side has been touted as a floor insulation for houses with radiant heat. At least at the few conferences that Hubby and I went to when we were designing our home.
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Here at Hamous’s couch we not only explore and debate the philosophical differences around the world, but we also explore the banality of navel lint and bubble wrap. 🙂
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It scary that a Canadian premier (govenor) would even ask the question.
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Wimminz just don’t understand the serious nature of keeping the male navel free and clear of lint.
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Texpat
CHI had also run off our family (and Fay’s family) ophthalmologist from Brenham – who had done all of her surgeries at Bellville for years (rather than at any Brenham hospital).
BGH somehow managed to lure her back.
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Wait.
Y’all haven’t kicked out Ontario and Quebec yet?
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A type of bubble wrap with aluminum on one side has been touted as a floor insulation for houses with radiant heat. At least at the few conferences that Hubby and I went to when we were designing our home.
That’s called reflectix and ir has a thoysand and one uses. In eclased areas like your floor system it will retain the heat generated by the system better than the floor framing or underlayment. Its also useful as a windshield reflector. Its also used in backpacking as insulation for cooking dried foods in freezer bags. Love that stuff, but without a heat source, it will eventually reach ambient temperature, albeit a bit slower than plain bubble wrap.
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#52 Sarge: Reflectix website.
Have you had “hands on” experience with this stuff?
Is it easy to cut and form/
How well does it hold its shape if you bend it?
I just found the website, but did not stay long enough to see a spec sheet, do you have an idea of the max temp it can handle?In my short 61 laps around the sun, I have frequently found it easier to query someone who has actually used the product in question to learn about its capabilities. Care to share insight/experience?
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Wait.
Y’all haven’t kicked out Ontario and Quebec yet?
Substitute California for Ontario and Quebec and that’s likely what the sane folks to the north are asking about us.
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Shiner has a tasty lager out now
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#56 Hamous: Nice table, it looks robust. I am betting that what is visible is just a tiny slice of your vinyl collection.
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I am betting that what is visible is just a tiny slice of your vinyl collection.
About 1200 total
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#51: We would if we could, I think we’ll just leave Canada and join Montana. Or I will. I am fed up.
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59. I’d wait until OSHA’s “emergency temporary standard” makes it to the SCOTUS before you secede. The legislation behind their ETS powers requires that workers must be in “grave danger”. It will be hard to argue that given the low fatality rate if you’re under 65. But Roberts, Kavanagh, and Barrett have proven to be unreliable constitutionalists.
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Of course, you’re retired 😉
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#56 #57 What he said, I’m liking the table. BUTT 1200 total LP records?! Dayaam. I guess that you just never let them go? I think that there are quite a few folks that wished that they hadn’t trashed theirs.
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Well, I’ve been mowing today and hitting all the areas that I might have missed the last time, especially the right of way corner that has the steep sides. I usually cut 90% of it with the big zero turn mower but that’s not fun and damn scary, so I left a 15′ section that I cut with the old push mower and I’ll just say that I’m getting too old to toss a push mower off the side of a cliff and then drag it back up. BUTT I got R Done and now the corner looks as pretty as the rest of the place.
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I guess that y’all heard that the Clown In Chief has ordered the Border Patrol to NOT use horses for crowd control……SMDH!!!!!
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Soon big metropolitan police departments will not be able to use mounted police because… it’s waycist!
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Yup, 1200. And the last vinyl album I bought was 1985. Heck, the last CD I bought was probably 10 years ago. Everything is digital now. I have some albums with scratches on them where they skip. The weird thing is, after 40+ years, even when listening to the digital version of those same albums, I know exactly where those skips were on the vinyl.
I’ve wondered what I could get for them but don’t really have any desire to sell them.
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Of course, you’re retired
Semi, but lately more retired than semi. TW’s mother is having some problems with her health and she is in Ontario, a pox on that place, so I am batching and dealing with all the fall work… and lack of motivation.
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My dad dumped all my LPs into the trash when they moved from their house back into their townhouse in Alief while I was in college. I dumped all my cassettes about 6 – 7 years ago. I have about 500 CDs that are stored in a non-climate controlled “attic” above my back porch. No telling what condition they are in now. Today I am 100% digital via Spotify.
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When Dad died, I was tasked with taking his albums to Half Price Bookstore. I picked a few for myself before handing them over.
Wish I’d kept them.
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I’ll bet Phil can find a track that explains the Magically Disappearing Illegal Hatian Immigrants.
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Have you had “hands on” experience with this stuff?
Is it easy to cut and form/
How well does it hold its shape if you bend it?
I just found the website, but did not stay long enough to see a spec sheet, do you have an idea of the max temp it can handle?Yes, lots of experience, especially in camping/backpacking applications. I recently got finished using it to cover my 12 volt fridge to give it some additional insulation and ability to reflect sunlight.
As an insulation, there’s better. Its principal advantage is the shiny outer layers that reflect heat. Its utility as a windshield reflector is limited, but that’s because most people put it on the inside of their windshield. The problem there is that it allows heat from the sun into the car through the window, and then reflects it back to the window, which traps a good deal of it. But if you rig it so that its on the outside of the window it works very well. I use it in that application when I park my vehicle at a campsite as the possibility of theft is minimal in those locations.
Its very easy to work with, use a good pair of scissors and an X-acto knife for detail areas. It doesn’t fray at the cut edges, but its good to seal them. There’s a reflective tape that is usually sold in the same bins as the reflectix (I get goth a Home Depot). You can draw patterns on it with a sharpie, but pencil won’t take and most pens will cut the surface.
Like regular bubble wrap, its insulative value is limited as there’s nothing really that keeps the air chambers from reaching ambient temperature except the reflective surface. If you’re looking for actual cheap insulation for DIY, closed cell foam (Evazote) is a better insulation.
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I should add:
As to bending to shape. Its as easy to bend as cardboard, but will not hold its shape unless taped.
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Well folks, it’s time for me to turn in again for the evening. Tomorrow sometime I should get my new disposable masonry 2″ hole saw and start cutting on some brick. Maybe I can cut 2 holes out there without the whole house falling down. Winter will be here soon, and I for sure do not trust ERCOT even with the eReps running things – especially seeing as how they selected no actual expertise to sit on the new board. And most likely the PUC, which selects ERCOT board is probably no better – in fact likely worse. So I’m counting on powering down before it’s over.
Anyway, you all have a good evening, and more later as it develops. Nite all.
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I’ll bet Phil can find a track that explains the Magically Disappearing Illegal Hatian Immigrants.
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