Weekend Open Comments

I bet there is a great back-story on the War Orphans in the O.C. Pix.
We’ve made the weekend again, do you realize that it’s almost April? Time’s a flying.
Mornin’ Gang

Katfish

Top-o-tha-marnin Folks!

Slowly suitin up to head north for more new young HEROs.

I bet the bluebonnets are poppin!

Yall enJOY!

Super Dave

Katfish, be careful out there.

Super Dave

Update on TexMo?

Katfish

*update* from later afternoon yesterday –

He is doing better. He did two laps. I’m sure he would have rather had his motorcycle than the walker. 🙂

Here’s the WIP. I posted it early because it attempts to shed more light on the raging question of what is a woman. Gotta get a shower and coffee, then I’ll get around to being nice and saying good morning and all that stuff. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/the-week-in-pictures-womens-question-edition.php

GJT

We’ve made the weekend again, do you realize that it’s almost April? Time’s a flying.

Looking forward to the 1st, where for one day all this can be one big joke.

Super Dave

Thanks Katfish for the update.
GJT, How’d the practice go last night?

Super Dave

From WIP; Trans Am Trans Ma’am
😀

GJT

#8

Practice went well, getting seat time is what it’s all about right now. The fast guys go by he follows to see how they approach the turns, what lines to run etc. He stays with them for a bit then they are gone lol. Bunch of them he runs right with them. Fast guys come in working on their setups, tires and stuff. We don’t know what we don’t know right now so we stay pat, go for more seat time. Having fun, sleeping in the trailer much better after being a little more prepared and not as cold.

GJT

We have next weekend off, son has a guy who is going to install a mini-split on the trailer next week. That will make things nice.

Back from coffee and just brimming with new information from the Table of Knowledge – such information being basically worthless, but new information never the less. Looking like another nice warm day out here, but the dreaded SE winds are supposed to be picking up later today, so whatever I’m going to do I should do early. You all have a great day out there, and if anything good develops, I’ll pass it on. More later.

BTW, glad to hear that TexMo is out there doing laps already and getting back in shape for the spring sports.

It’s already 75 degrees out here, and last night’s low was above 55 or so. The little tomato plants seem to have responded virtually overnight. The stems are looking mess fragile, the leaves are growing, and we’ll see how they respond to the winds even though I’ve sort of got them protected somewhat. The pecan trees have the tiniest buds, but nothing showing on the mesquites yet. The lack of water seems to be the main problem this spring. Last year at this time my bluebonnets were popping out all over the place – this year just one here and one there. I’ve got some travel plans later this week, including the weekend in Dallas, so I’m not going to start any big outdoor projects until I return from that. Won’t be making that trek to Dallas so often any more after this trip.

Bonecrusher

What a lovely day outside. Let the liquid separation commence!

Texpat

The USA attempts to become as litigious as New Jersey. From the Institute for Justice’s Short Circuit newsletter.

Disgruntled fantasy baseball players sue Major League Baseball, the Red Sox, and the Astros, alleging that they would have done better in their fantasy leagues—and won more money—if the Sox and the Astros hadn’t broken the rules on electronic sign-stealing and if MLB hadn’t covered it up. Second Circuit: MLB never claimed that its league was free of cheating—a regrettable reality in sports—which means there was no fraudulent misrepresentation.

and you can file this under “You Can Sue City Hall, But They Won’t Pay”,

After a Louisiana state court awards some $10.5 mil to property owners who claimed a New Orleans flood control project took their property, the city declines to pay. Indeed, the state constitution makes clear that such judgments are just unenforceable IOUs, and state courts have no means to order cities to pay up. Fifth Circuit: Frustrating! But perhaps the city will someday do the right thing. There is no federal right to timely payment of judgments. (Click here for a IJ amicus brief urging the court to reach the opposite conclusion.)

plus I hope they take this to SCOTUS,

Man is kicked out of sex offender treatment program for failing polygraph tests and sent to prison, where he remains for nearly 13 years. Yikes! Polygraphs are not only junk science but also inadmissible as evidence under Texas law, and a state court orders him freed. Can he sue Dallas County over its purported polygraph policy? Fifth Circuit: That depends on whether the Dallas County District Attorney—who may be elected by county voters, may exercise his authority exclusively in the county, and may have “complete dominion” over county policies—was acting on behalf of the county or the state. And since the DA was acting on behalf of the state, no, the man can’t sue.

Texpat

The Wagonburner household.

Texpat

It’s been nice and balmy here the last 10-14 days. As I drove past the plant nurseries, I wondered why they weren’t making signs of opening up.

Now I know. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings are going to be down as low as 23° or 24°.

mharper42

Morning, chickadees. I got up so late that it was almost time for my afternoon nap.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

The Wooden Dummy regurgitates his scripted lines as his fake regime projects what his illegitimate administration and Gestapoed intelligence agencies are to the US.

The pot calls the kettle black and the kettle screams racist.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

Hey unckola
AySay unckola.

Gotta love college baseball. Texas Tech steals home to defeat the Whorns. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CbjTQuflcC3/?utm_medium=copy_link&fbclid=IwAR3i5Y-6WoonPD3eSK_HTZv_eeCZIqe7CqFz1JQp9fG8tLz7tepZKRLiGxg

Dr phil Good-E=1984

Yo Bro Squawko.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

Hey beautiful day.
Say beautiful day.

mharper42

https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/25/why-arent-the-fda-and-cdc-informing-the-public-about-documented-adverse-events-after-mrna-injections/

The best revelation of government malfeasance with Covid vaccine that I have seen.

I’m showing 96 degrees out there right now. I went ahead and watered my little plants again today. They seem to dry out pretty quickly with this hot, dry wind. If it will stay kind of warm overnight I think they will take off growing.

I’ve been out all day. It seems I’m not the only one enjoying this weather.

Coffee & Covid ☙ Saturday, March 26, 2022 ☙ THE NEXT STEP

Good morning, C&C! It’s Saturday, the last day of our Spring Break, which went by lickety-split. My amazing team — for whom I am super grateful — kept things running without a hiccup and without meddling by the boss. Our schedule will be back to normal on Monday.

Enjoy today’s roundup!

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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*

Last week, the Florida Supreme Court refused to hear an emergency appeal by the Collier County School Board, after it was swatted down by Florida’s Second District Court of Appeals over some Sunshine Law violations. The school board relied on a secretive textbook review committee process and the Court called them out on it. (For you non-Floridians, Collier County is down in the Naples area.)

Back in 2017, the school board first encountered turbulence when it organized the original textbook committees. According to folks quoted in a recent Epoch Times article on the story, the school board systematically excluded conservatives from serving on the review committees. That’s their side, but I’m sure you don’t find it too hard to believe after what we’ve been through this past couple years.

Anyway, the school board ultimately approved and purchased a set of new textbooks based on its committees’ advice, over the vociferous objections of parents who complained the review process was a sham and lacked necessary public involvement. The parents sued, and the trial judge in Collier County promptly threw their complaint out, holding that citizen committees aren’t subject to Sunshine laws. The parents appealed to the Second District Court of Appeals, which reversed the trial court, finding that textbook review committees ARE under the Sunshine Laws, as is any “committee” or group providing advice or recommendations to a public body in Florida.

So then the school board appealed, several times, in several ways, and finally appealed to the Florida Supreme Court, which last week turned the school board’s appeal down like a bedspread, as they say. That made the Second DCA’s decision into law, and probably overturned the school board’s latest textbook selection and purchasing process, meaning the school board will now have to start all over from square one, forming new committees, providing proper public notice of each committee meeting, and allowing the public to attend every meeting and provide input.

This quiet case will have enormous impact: Textbook review committees MUST work in the Sunshine, following Florida’s tough transparency laws. And, ANY advisory committee setup by a school board — like a “medical advisory committee” — must operate in public, keep minutes, and allow public comment.

But coincidentally, yesterday the governor signed a new law, also about textbook transparency.

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In unintentionally-related news, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed another parental-rights bill into law on Friday. The new law creates term limits for school board members and helps ensure “curriculum transparency” for parents, promising “education, not indoctrination” in the Sunshine State. Governor DeSantis described the law as being “probably the strongest curriculum transparency legislation in the country.”

The new law also applies to library books, a contentious subject in Florida recently, as motivated parents have been poring over school library selections and finding some surprisingly dark and disturbing material that apparently doesn’t bother school librarians at all. You may have overlooked the controversy, but the usual leftist groups are outraged over parents asking questions about some of these books. These activist groups fret that is parents are allowed to be involved in library book selection, it is JUST LIKE a modern-day witch hunt. It’s book burning! It’s censorship! It’s literally the worst thing since the French Revolution, and we all know how THAT shameful contretemps turned out.

Anyway, once again, the Florida Legislature and our governor are leading the way for parents’ rights.
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In case you were worried, CNN’s plummeting ratings have pivoted. Its rating and its prospects are rising again, after nosediving to record lows late last year as the pandemic waned. The reason for all the new eyes? The War, of course. Wars are good for the news business. And CNN’s ratings are up a LOT, over 200% according to some surveys. Ditto for MSNBC and Fox.

I have a crazy question. Remember how the federal government paid corporate media and influencers billions for secret advertising contracts related to Covid and the vaccines? Payments which basically bribed all the news networks to broadcast uniform Covid pabulum for two years? There’s no chance, is there, that the government is doing it again, buying “advertising” from all the news networks and paying influencers, this time about The War?

I only ask because it is SO ODD how completely homogeneous and consistent the news reporting about The War is, regardless which corporate news networks you choose. Not one of them is asking any hard questions or challenging the war narrative. And there’s a lot to ask questions about, like Joe Biden’s recent comment on food shortages. Could somebody maybe ask, what are they DOING to stop the food shortages that they can clearly see coming? How about questions like THAT?

Call me crazy, but I’m starting to think the government shouldn’t be allowed to buy issue ads. Or really, ANY kind of ads. Or pay influencers for anything. Don’t sell us stuff. Don’t influence us. Just put out the reports. Let US figure out what to think about the facts. Stop spinning!

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Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died suddenly last week while on tour in Columbia. Local media reported he’d been complaining of chest pains at his hotel before they called an ambulance. Hawkins, 50, leaves a wife and three young children, who are all in our prayers this morning.

You may recall the Foo Fighters made news last summer by being one of the first bands to require all their fans to show proof of vaccination in order to buy a concert ticket on their tour “Live in the USA.”

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*THE MINORITY REPORT*

The loopy social media engineers at the World Economic Forum, which I assume needs no introduction these days, have been tweeting up a tweet storm lately. One standout featured a promo picture of Klaus Schwab, who lately appears to be auditioning full time for the role of Antichrist in the movie version of the Book of the Revelation.

Schwab, who in the attached promo picture looks like a man enjoying a post-prandial brandy after eating a baby, is quoted saying it’s time to “reform” the Internet because “there is too much misinformation out there.” In case you weren’t paying attention, Schwab even added, “this will be the next step for the Great Reset.”

It’s like he’s rubbing his stupid plan in our faces. He’s practically bragging about it.

I bet you feel vexed that Schwab — who’s never accomplished anything memorable or been elected to any office by anybody — somehow thinks he’s in charge of the internet or something. But I kind of sympathize with the man. If anybody has a reason to complain about the internet, it’s Klaus Schwab, who — thanks to Al Gore’s brainchild — might now be the most hated man alive, making maniacal dictator Vladimir Putin look like a scratched-at-the-post non-starter in the race to the bottom.

I mean, just look at the facts. On one hand, corporate media has spent weeks making clumsy comparisons between president Putin and literal nazi Adolph Hitler. But Schwab is a much closer comparison to Hitler, if you think about it. Schwab and Hitler were both eugenicists; and eugenics informs both of their core hateful passions and ideologies. In other words, Schwab and Hitler both share the view that humans are like farm animals and the human race can be improved by selective breeding and culling. Also, Schwab and Hitler are both German. Schwab, a mechanical engineer turned economist, has not really accomplished anything noteworthy in or out of government — much like failed artist and part-time writer Hitler, when he got his start.

Finally, like Hitler, Schwab has a breathtakingly narcissistic notion of global domination with himself at the head, and of remaking the world in his own image. Even Putin’s not dreaming THAT big; not even close, he just wants Ukraine.

So, all in all, I don’t blame secretive conspirator Klaus Schwab for wanting to tidy the Internet a little; you know, to pare down all that online “misinformation,” especially the stuff about what Klaus been up to lately. And in that spirit of sympathy, allow me to briefly discuss the WEF conspiracy theory.

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Having just considered Klaus’ tweet about reforming the Internet, I next randomly came upon Dr. Robert Malone’s recent Substack post, where he describes what he thinks is really going on between the World Economic Forum, the pandemic, and The War. It’s a conspiracy theory by definition because he has no direct evidence, but is supported by what Robert sees going on in the world.

I usually stick to facts I can prove, but hey, Schwab started it. Plus, conspiracy theories have been having a good run lately. In short, to summarize Robert’s excellent and well-written essay, he thinks:

1) The WEF is working with its agents and co-conspirators to create a global crisis — including intentionally-manufactured hyperinflation.

2) The global crisis and the inflation are meant to crash the world’s currencies.

3) Once the world’s currencies have crashed, the World Bank will “save the world” by rolling out its two favorite projects: a universal digital currency (UDC) and a universal basic income (UBI).

4) The UDC and UBI are intended to provide the new one-world government with a direct and immediate way to control everybody, minute by minute. Like a social credit system on steroids.

Malone notes that if they can pull it off, it would accomplish two very important objectives. First, it would rescue the banksters from certain destruction, a doom arising from the real estate crash of 2008, which has been forestalled ever since by a series of increasingly massive bailout packages and artificial interest rates so low they’ve gone negative. In other words, they’ve been paying the banks to lend money. Since bailouts and negative interest rates are unsustainable, and only make the ultimate reckoning worse, the banksters think they NEED a great reset to deal with the inevitable collapse.

Second, UBI and UDC would theoretically advance the globalist goal of achieving a de-facto one world government by providing a mechanism of individual control and enforcement through financial incentives and punishments, and through microscopic management of every purchase we make, or don’t make, when and how much.

You can crawl down this rabbit hole as far as you like. The pandemic and the response to the pandemic coincidentally resolved or at least alleviated another huge financial crisis facing the world governments: the demographic problem of there being too many old people to support and too few young people to pay the taxes to support them with. But you don’t hear much about that problem lately, do you? Just like you don’t hear much about overcrowding in nursing homes anymore. I’m not accusing anyone of anything; I’m just saying. Silver linings and so forth. Glass half full, old boy, stiff upper lip.

Anyway, Malone has a point, doesn’t he? Let’s just consider one obvious example: inflation. If you look at how governments are responding to surging inflation rates, it looks a lot more like they are intentionally trying to make the problem worse rather than make anything better. For example, Canada just announced another stimulus to fix the problems created by previous stimuluses. They are sending $500 to everyone who makes less than $100K a year, to “help offset inflation.”

Before you roll your eyes at the marvelous stupidity of showering more stimulus money during an inflationary period and expecting it to do anything but drive prices even higher, consider yesterday’s CBS News article, headlined: “Stimulus Checks for Inflation: Here Are the States Planning to Send Money to Residents.”

That’s right! We’re stupidly doing marvelous money showers here too. CBS’s article reported that about a dozen states are considering sending tax rebate checks to their residents “to offset the highest inflation in four decades.”

How do you fix inflation? More money! For everybody! Wheeeeee!

Basic economics says that when you increase the supply of money, you also increase demand, because people will generally spend their windfall money on goods and services that they wouldn’t have otherwise purchased. And higher demand for goods and services drives increased prices for those goods and services. It’s called the LAW of supply and demand for a reason.

But that’s just the tip of the inflationary iceberg. If the government was honestly trying to curb inflation, as it claims, then it would already have increased interest rates, a lot. Dialing up the prime rate is about the only tool the government has to combat inflationary pressures. Well, apart from stopping doing stupid stuff, of course. But let’s not get carried away.

Yet the government is NOT meaningfully increasing interest rates, although people are constantly talking about it, since it is the obvious thing to do.

Just yesterday, CNN ran a story headlined, “Inflation Is So Hot the Fed May Have to Hike Interest Rates Like It’s 1994.” In a sane world, CNN would be reporting that the fed had ALREADY announced a series of rapid interest rate hikes. Instead, there’s not one single quote in the article from the fed about any plans, of any kind. Instead it’s just quotes from private money managers and low-level banksters predicting that the fed WILL raise interest rates, someday, of course they will, because that would be the only rational thing to do.

But in the only statement by a fed official that CNN quoted for the article, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, speaking in a dialect of bureaucratic gobbledygook, said the need to do SOMETHING was obvious: “there is an obvious need to move expeditiously to return the stance of monetary policy to a more neutral level.” Assuming that means we need to do something fast, just what does the fed plan to do about it? Powell’s quote is just word salad, circular gibberish, going nowhere.

What kind of worthless Fed chairman admits we need to so something “expeditiously” but doesn’t say what?

And to Malone’s point, historically-high levels of inflation combined with irrational monetary policy seem to be cropping up in lot of WEF-influenced countries at the same time, which looks a lot like circumstantial evidence of coordination. It doesn’t prove anything, but it’s convinced Dr. Malone, and he’s pretty smart.

Like me, Malone remains optimistic. He feels that the great resetters have bitten off more than they can safely swallow, and worse, have awoken the public, which isn’t going to just sit by quietly and be happy owning nothing and letting the WEF own everything. There’s a lot more to Malone’s essay, I’ve only scratched the surface, but I agree with his hopeful conclusion.

If there IS a great reset conspiracy, it is bound to fail. Malone explains it much more eloquently, but the bottom line is the resetters are not actually very smart. Sure, they THINK they are smart. They call themselves “elites” and “experts” and hold expensive conferences in ritzy destinations in alpine countries. They train “global leaders” and give TED Talks. But at the end of the day, they are high on drugs if they think they can pull this off.

Central planning has never worked, not ever, not one time. Impressive economists like Friedrich Hayek have written detailed economic proofs showing that central planning CANNOT POSSIBLY work. If you read the WEF’s website, and the details of its awesome reset, you will see right away that the plan is rife with childlike magical thinking. All the practical questions like how it will work, how will consensus be achieved, and how will it all be governed — those details have been left to be worked out later or described in flowery generalities.

For instance, much of the great reset’s agenda completely relies on the existence wonderful new technologies that don’t really quite exist yet, like artificial intelligence. AI wasn’t too smart during the pandemic, was it? Remember all those awesome AI-based predictions about what a highly-predictable seasonal virus would do next? As I recall, they were ALL WRONG. Every time. If AI can’t predict a pandemic or the weather, how exactly is it going to run a worldwide economy and social credit system?

Finally, to the extent there IS a great reset conspiracy, it sure looks like the schedule was drastically pushed up on the calendar for one reason or another, and they had to start it all up in a rush before they were completely ready. It’s a big project to just suddenly advance on the timeline. TOO big.

There’s more to say about the WEF “great reset” conspiracy theory, but I’m already long, so it will have to wait for another post. The bottom line is, while I’m positive we are in for a wild ride, there is no way these morons can pull off something like this great reset they are always bragging about. The “next step” on the great reset. Please. They’re not going to reset anything, except themselves.

That yard work is taking its toll on the old fat boy today. I really didn’t do much, but I’m paying the price for being so out of shape with muscle soreness. That’s probably a good thing overall – no pain, no gain. It’s down right hot out there this evening. Oh well, I should keep it up so I can get moving around a little better and a little more.

And talk about mental decline, I went ahead and set the trash out since Monday is trash day – except today is not Sunday I discovered. That’s one less thing I have to do tomorrow i guess.

Texpat

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This Jeff Childers guy is a maniac. He goes off to Tennessee for a vacation, blows up his laptop, still posts Friday’s column by cellphone and then posts this huge rant today.

He must have a patient wife because you have to do a lot of reading to put this post together today. Her Highness sympathizes with her. Unfortunately, understanding is short order most days around here.

Her Highness has started watching Jesse Watters and Tucker each evening and realizing how totally f****d up the US/state/local governments are now. Some sympathy has started to seep through for my years long frustrations.

Now she comes home from our favorite market/deli to tell me they are going to provide none, zero, not one plastic or paper bag for any customer starting in May. It is apparently a new state law slipped in under everyone’s noses. It is stupid and absurd and counterproductive. It’s infuriating.

NOTE: Some of the beach towns in NJ have banned shopping bags because the litter problems on the beaches became too much. Fine, I get that. Punish the people actually using and littering the beaches. Maybe they should make people pass moral/ethical tests before they’re allowed on the damned beach. It is the People’s Republic of New Jersey, after all.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

The always insightful Dr Malone is right on target about Klaus Schwabcreature.

Weimer Republic 2.0 is his totalitarian globalist wet dream.

Dr phil Good-E=1984

Blood Money Sucking Vampyre Inc in song.

Well, this is one reason why I don’t ride with Hubby on trips.

He took his pride and joy VW to Nacogdoches for a car show. He broke down on I-59 near downtown Houston.

And yes, he’s on my AAA account. They are on the way. Well worth the money.

Texpat

Gerard Vanderleun calls them little gangsters, like protection racketeers, who will stare sad-eyed at you on the street or cry in front of your house. It’s the guilt racket, Vinnie.

Six boxes of those Girl Scout cookies from Ashley and Lilly who live side by side in houses across the street. I’m surrounded by the Peanut Butter Sandwich street dealers.

I do love those cookies.

Super Dave

Thirty five?! I guess that everyone was enjoying the fine weather, I sure was. I didn’t get a lot done but I worked on a couple of things that I’ve been putting off. So it was a fine day.

Super Dave

#34 Texpat I feel your pain. 😀

I’m canning green beans for the first time, and I do love the sound of popping lids as they seal. I needed to can ’em to make room in the freezer for the 30 pound bag of meat I got for $60 today. I was in Alvin, just south of Houston, and I noticed a sign for Stanton’s that caught my eye.

Stanton’s grocery isn’t just a grocery store – they process deer meat, and their meat department also carries exotic meats. I know I’ve seen signs for zebra before, and today I saw kangaroo on the shelf. They also have a hardware store and a few other stores next to the grocery store. It’s an interesting place, under a rather well-kept but non-flashy metal roof.

Anyway, I saw the sign and doubled back. They also have freezer packs for $125 and $250, with more beef. My bag today contains chicken, pork, some beef…and we’ll see what else. But I had to make room in the freezer, so canning my bags of green beans became necessary. I’m also drying several bags of riced cauliflower, to store in a jar.

Because at that price, I just couldn’t pass it up.

Trump just used the f-bomb in his speech: “The sea level will rise one one-hundredth of one percent over the next 300 [expletive deleted] years.”

The crowd laughed and cheered.

I opened the bag, and I was mistaken. No beef, but I do have a variety of:
pork cutlets, pork steaks, pork sausage, pork ribs, chicken legs, and leg quarters.

Still not bad. And I got it all to fit in the freezer.

Talked to BFF friend tonight for quite a while. She’s not going to be able to make it to the wake this coming weekend, but we got to tell a few Mary stories between us. I’m tired this evening, but I’m still staying up until at least 10 so I’m not up early in the AM with nothing to do.

I know that there are some things that I should be doing, but I just can’t seem to keep my mind on my business. I can still work an Absolutely Nasty Sudoku Level 4 though. Maybe I’ll figure out what I came in here for in a little while.

OK, more later as it develops.

Every jar of green beans has sealed.
Two whole chickens cooked and deboned.
Chicken carcasses and my freezer stored chicken bones & veggies in the crock pot, to make stock.
Big bag ‘a meat in freezer.

All done.

Tomorrow, I’m going to vacuum seal some of the chicken to put in the freezer. Or I’ll can it. I haven’t made up my mind yet. I may can some of the chicken I bought today. We’ve been eating a lot of chicken lately, and are ready for a change.

I now have a lot of pork on which to draw. I’ve never cooked a “pork steak” before, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

And I turned on the a/c for the night. I’ve had windows open all day, but the house was getting muggy and was still relatively hot. If I sleep hot, well, it’s not good for the head. So, air conditioning is on.

I went by the shop today and saw Handyman there (he lives there, in a travel trailer). One of his buddies was there. This is the son of our electrician friend, who never took the time to learn the business of running a business, nor made the effort to get his official bona fides.

He’s been offered jobs, but never seems to make it to the first day on time. Probably because he’s got a drug habit and a crazy girlfriend. I have no idea how he’s surviving. His girlfriend is well supported by her father, so maybe she’s taking care of him.

What I saw today shocked me. His hair is so long, he is so scraggly, and he just looks like he’s losing at life in general. So sad.

mharper42

I was making green salads — my new method where I chop up 4 or 5 bowls of lettuce, cucumber, green onions, and carrot shreds — then cover the bowls and refrigerate till I need a salad with my supper. Then I just need to add chopped tomato and any other more fragile salad ingredient such as avocado. That salad prep takes a while so I was listening to a talk radio interview with James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. He was discussing the surveillance and harassment he’s experienced from the Feds.

This was the only hit I found on the subject. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/project-veritas-feds-secretly-accessed-emails-00019247

Russian Brigade Commander ‘Killed Deliberately By His Own Troops’ Over Staggering Losses In Ukraine: Report

A Russian brigade commander was allegedly killed by his own troops in response to the staggering number of losses the unit had suffered during its invasion of Ukraine under his leadership.

“A Russian brigade commander has been killed deliberately by his own troops after his unit suffered many losses in Ukraine,” Sky News reporter Deborah Haynes reported. “Colonel Medvechek, commander of 37 Motor Rifle Brigade, was run over by his soldiers.”

If this is true, things are going worse for the Russians than I thought. I’ve been taking all of these reports of the spunky Ukrainians fighting the Russians with middle finger extended.

But if the Russian troops are actually so fed up with the situation that they’re turning on their own…

Texpat

Follow this list of links on the same subject. It’s pretty long.

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James O’Keefe of Project Veritas. He was discussing the surveillance and harassment he’s experienced from the Feds.

This was the only hit I found on the subject.

#44

The PV story has been out for several days so far. I saw his first video release of the story, and he’s been on Hannity. Probably more outlets.

But I think it’s being suppressed. Color me shocked.

Texpat

Official Statement from the ACLU website:

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This is certainly the most shocking response from any organization regarding the latest Project Veritas situation involving secret, illegal subpoenas by the Dept. of Justice.

MARCH 22, 2022

NEW YORK — The following is a statement from Brian Hauss, senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, in response to allegations from Project Veritas that prosecutors misled a federal court and sought unwarranted gag orders during a federal investigation of the group’s ties to the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley:

“We deplore Project Veritas’ deceptions, and we don’t have a full picture of the government’s investigation. But we’re concerned that the precedent set by this case could have serious consequences for press freedom. We’re deeply troubled by reports that the Department of Justice obtained secret electronic surveillance orders requiring sweeping disclosure of “all content” of communications associated with Project Veritas email accounts, including attorney-client communications.

“Compounding these concerns, the government suppressed information about the existence of the electronic surveillance orders even after the investigation became public knowledge and the district court appointed a special master to supervise prosecutors’ access to Project Veritas’ sensitive materials. The government must immediately suspend its review of the materials obtained pursuant to its electronic surveillance orders and fully disclose the extent of its actions, so that the court can consider appropriate relief.”

Texpat

I have no idea how much most of this is true or verifiable.

The documents uncover a sixteen-month clandestine campaign against journalists in which the DOJ obtained 7 secret orders, warrants and subpoenas from six magistrates within the Southern District of New York.

There you go! Windows 10 in a nutshell. If you want to operate such a system then operate it OFFLINE, never connect it to the internet if you have sensitive data on it. Otherwise use either Linux or older Windows Vista or Windows 7 with a firewall such as ESET or AVAST installed on it. Set up the firewall on interactive mode instead of auto mode and when it asks do you want Windows component X to access the internet? Choose NO and remember.

NATO laptops have been confiscated by Russia in Ukraine. On these laptops, NATO provided Ukraine with military intelligence against the Russians. Guess what Windows that laptop had…. Windows Vista! Yup, you think NATO is stupid? They know Windows 10’s backdoors are firstly a SPY software and only secondly an operating system.

So Project Veritas? Never use Windows 10 again. While they did not mention what exactly from Microsoft spied on them, chances are 100% that it was Windows 10 itself. Windows 10 spies on all computers, sends the data you have in your computer automatically to Microsoft. These functions can be blocked by tweaking the settings here and there and simply blocking everything related to Microsoft with the help of a firewall but its still a risky business. You are better off simply not using Windows 10.

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